Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-28

The report of the present controller of New
York city and county, Mr. Andrew H. Green
shows that he is successful economist, and
Illustrates in a very striking way the enormous
profigacy of the administration which preceded
him. As examples of the improved manage.
ment which he has introduced, it appears that
the printing for the executive and legislative
departments for the year ending with August
1877, cost more than S275, 900, while for the fol
lowing year this expense was reduced to about
$4,000. In the matter of stationery, blank
books, and other articles of that character, he
saved to the city S12O,000. His most remarka-
bic feat, however, torwhich we have the author
ity of the Evening Post, was his saving thirteen
hundred per cent in the matter of heating and
lighting the county offices. Previous to this
achievement the most sanguine economist
could not have hoped to make a re-
duction equal to one hundred per cent,
which latter figure has been regarded
as the extreme limit which absolute
perfection Of parsimony could not exceed. Mr..
Green was not satisfied with saving all that has
hitherto been spent in that way, but must have
contrived, if the Reinstatement is accurate. to
obtain for the city a handsome income from the
warming and lighting Of its buildings. Aegreat
many householders would be glad to learn his
secret, as a family could be quite comfortably
supported on the saving thus made. The only
parallel case we can think of is that Of the new
stove so admirably conuived that!the purchaser
of one OF them saves half his fuel the man who
buys two saves the whole, and he who is shrewd
enough to get three has coal to sell.
The unaduterated democrats, determined to
obtain from Mr.. O'Conor a more direct appro-
val Of their purpose, besiegcd him with letters
until they have at last probably received his
lttmdtum. Even the great decliner was not
altogether proof against their persistency, al
though he held out longer than any one could
have expected. Mr.. Thomas b. Carroll is the
man who has the honor Of extracting from him
what must serve for an assent TO the nomina-
ton. An extract containing the material part
of the letter was published among our dis
patches yesterday, but as Mr.. OConor's letters
are literary as well as political curosities, we
publish the whole of it:
NEW York, Sept. 25, 1872.
MY Dear Slr-l am only one among our great
forty millions. My consent or approval is not
necessary to any public act of many, a few or
one.
Of course your courtesy in asking whether
your proposed use of my name would involve
anything personally disagrecable to me demands
my thanks, yet it would seem TO have been need,
less. You must yourself have seen that whether
or not | concurred in your views, there was in
them nothing that, as a man Of ordinary COM
mon sense, could regard rs personally often
sive.
It may not be amss to say that differed with
you as to the position Of Gen. Grant in popular
esteem prior to the Baltimore convention, and
believed that Il sagacouS nomination at Balti-
more might have led 10 his defeat. In justice to
the wire pulers, ought to say that | thought
little and did nothing in reference to the presi-
dental nomination prior to the Baltimore affair.
Yours, &C., CHAs. OCoNoR.
Mr.. Carroll.