South Plainfield Police Have
Arranged to Handle Large Crowd
South Plainfield, July 1 [1925]. --
Arrangements have been
completed by the local police
department for handling the
crowds that is expected to attend
the ceremonies which will mark
the formal dedication of the new
Government air-mail station at
Hadley Field tonight.
Special parking places for
automobiles have been laid out and
a force of thirty-eight police, under
Chief C.J. McCarthy, has been
assigned to handle the traffic.
Officers will be stationed at
different points on the roads
adjacent to the field and
automobile drivers will be directed
to the different parking places.
As it is expected that the
heavier portion of the vehicular
traffic will use the New Market
and Stelton roads mainly as arteries
of travel to reach Hadley Field,
Chief McCarthy points out
that Plainfield Avenue, by way of
South Plainfield, offers a means of
relieving the congestion, and that
users of the highways in this
section of the township will be able
to park on the North side of the
field without in any way interfering
with the direction and operation of
traffic from the New Market end.
Fully five hundred
invitations have been sent out to
various officials from the
surrounding districts, and together
with Postmaster General Harry
New, Governor George S. Silzer,
Mayor John F. Hylan and other
notables, are expected to be on
hand when the first plane is
dispatched at 10:30 p.m.. Those
not having invitations to the
function will be held outside of the
restricted area, and will have to
take up their stand according to the
regulations laid down by the police.