H. M. SMITH MAKES ADDRESS
Says Richmond Has Police Force
Which Would Be Credit to City of
Twice Its Size? Police Board Goes
Out of Office.
Resplendent in brand-new uniforms
and keyed up to the spirit of the occasion by words of commendation from
superior officers, members of the Richmond Police Department, led by the
Mayor, Chief Werner, and the complaints of the three precincts, yesterday afternoon marched proudly up Broad Street from the place of the
Inspection on the north side of the City Hall to the corner of Smith and Marshall Streets, to witness in a body the laying of the corner-stone of the new Second Precinct police station.
Special significance was attached to the occasion by reason of the fact that the force was being inspected for the last time by the Board of Police Commissioners, which, by legislative act went out of existence last night, and by the further fact that the men would assemble together for Masonic ceremonies incident to the beginnings of a building around which in the future would cling many memories of association in police work. Every branch of the department was represented.
The men made a fine appearance, justifying in full degree the words of Harry M. Smith, Jr., at the new station site ceremonies that "the Police force of Richmond would be a credit to any city twice its size." Enormous crowds gathered both sides of the street as the procession passed its way to the marching strains of Kessnich's.  Municipal Band. Richmond's military spirit exulted in the fine physique and the martial tread of the city's guardians. 