The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-22

The Comptroller In the Ninrkct-A Pleas
ing Declaration from MIR. Green.
Comptroller Green yesterday paid visit to
Washington Market in company with the new
Superintendent, and held levee among the
butchers, poulterers, buttermen and produce
men Of that interesting locality. These deal
ers, who have been 80 long the victims Of
official plunderers and have been so con-
stantly compelled to submit to the most out
rageous extortions from the officials connected
with that department Of the city government
that like cells, they may be said to have be-
coma accustomed to skinning. No wonder,
therefore, that they extended hearty greet
ing to the officer who has at last thrown
around them the protecting mantle of official
integrity, and who no longer suffers them to
be backmailed out of a good percentage Of
their profits. No wonder that the butchers
presented to the Comptroller their friendly
knnckles; that the poulterers crowed over his
visit; that the buttermen were oily in their
compliments, and that the produce dealers pro-
nounced him the pink-eye of perfection. His
presence created such an excitement as has
not been witnessed in Washington Market in
the memory Of its oldest butcher and the Wis.,
itOr was welcomed 10 speech by market
man, who, we are informed, sis also hard
shell Baptist clergyman in regular standing"
and who thus unites the feeding of the body
with the nourishment of the SOUL
In reply to the welcome of the sturdy Wash
iunt M
speech, in which he expressed some very
gratifying sentiments. Reform and improve
ment are synonymous terms, said the Comp
troller. ''Reform means Improvement in all
directions. 1t means Improvement in our
parks; it means Improvement in our build
ings; it means improvements in our boule-
Yards; 1t means clean streets and rapid COM
municaton between one end of the island and
the other. All these improvements must be
made with view to economy and permanent
benefit to our citizens. The era has passed
when nine dollars out Of every ten could be
stolen with impunity and dishonest men fatten
upon pilferings from the poor. / am for
progress-.progress in all directions -progress
in markets-progress in everything" The
people of New York will read this profession
Of principle on the part Of their chief financial
officer with lively satisfaction. They will now
hope to see Comptroller Green championing
and urging those broad and liberal schemes
of public improvements so much needed in
the metropolis and, above all, they
will hail him as an advocate of
two splendid viaduct railways along the
rivers on both sides Of the city, TO be built and
managed by the government in the interest of
the people. There has been an impression
abroad that the Comptroller was disposed to
be parsimonious in his policy and might lose
sight of those great works demanded by a
wise economy and by the future prospects OF
the city. This popular error will now be re-
moved, and Comptroller Green will be recog-
nized as valuable ally in the cause OF pro-
gress as well as of honesty. The taxpayers
of New York are intelligent, enterprising citi-
zens, and they will not complain of taxation
for desirable objects. provided. In the words