Cagney And Lacey On Sherman Street

In doing research for my Windsor Terrace history site "Bell Of Confusion" I came across this fascinating story from the 1918 Brooklyn Standard Union: TO INSTRUCT WOMEN OF POLICE RESERVES More than 400 recruits of the Women's Police Training Corps met in the gymnasium of Police Headquarters last night and were addressed by Special Deputy Commissioner Rodman WANNAMAKER and Inspector John F. DWYER, commander of the Police Reserves.Classes are to be established in convenient centres, where the women will be instructed two nights a week in civics, history, geography, and other civil service subjects. They also will be made physically efficient by means of gymnasium work. The ferreting out of German spies and the counteracting of German propaganda are among the duties the women will be asked to perform. There are at present 600 vacancies in the Police Department. Women applicants must be from 18 to 35 years old. Announcements will be made when the schools of instruction will be opened. The women members of the Police Reserves in Brooklyn are:
78th precinct
Julia A. ALLEN, 425 36th st
Mrs. Alvino P. BENNETT, 62 Sherman st.
Mrs. Nettie BLOOM, 427 16th st.
Mrs. Teresa DENHAM, 423 16th st.
Mrs. Antoinette B. FICKEN, 270 9th st.
Mrs. Jay FERRALL, 276 20th st.
Miss Elizabeth GRIFFING, 293 18th st.
Mrs. Sarah GRIFFING, 293 18th st.
Mrs Johanna GOLLUBER, 48 Fulton pl.
Mrs. Jeannette HARING, 457 15th st.
Mrs. Agnes I. HURLEY, 235 15th st.
Mrs. Florence Doodell HOAGLUND, 56 Sherman st.
Mrs. Mary HURLEY, 360 14th st.
Mrs. Florence Grace HIGGINS, 47 Fuller pl.
Mrs. Margaret JOHNSON, 229 15th st.
Miss Mary M. KEOGH, 666 6th av.
Mrs. Anna M. KATHMEYER, 60 Sherman st.
Mrs. Josephine I. LARKIN, 210 22nd st
Mrs. Jeannette LEIPMAN, 46 Sherman st.
Mrs. Solly LYONS, 1014 11th av.
Mrs. MAE LYMAN, 65 Sherman st.
Mrs. Anna M. MONAHAN, 210 22nd st.
Miss Anna T. O'MELIA, 284 18th st.
Miss Frances V. PATERNO, 248 18th st.
Mrs Lena J. RUNSDORF, 70 Sherman st.
Mrs. Albert RASOFT, 330 12th st.
Miss Ottillie F. SEROCKE, 197 17th st.
Mrs. Katherine F. SIMMONS, 304 10th st.
Miss Elizabeth TURNER, 233 23d st.
Mrs. Elizabeth TURNER, 233 23d st.
Mrs. Elizabeth VAN ALST, 181 Prospect Park West
A further search for info on the Women Police Reserve came up empty, but I did run across some interesting stuff on police history from the NYPD Police Museum. I put together a slide show with some of the images there with the theme music from "Policewoman" (Angie Dickinson was hot!) and the well done "Cagney and Lacey" (great music by Bill Conti too)