New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-02
PLAIN FACTS ABOUT TAMMANY.
ITS MAYOR HELD UP 10 PUBLIC sCoRN.
THINGS HE HAS DONE AND HAS NOT DONE
CONDITION OF SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS
HIGH CITY EXPENSES.


HIGH CITY EXPENSES.
The Peoples Municipal League sent out last night
the following eview of Tammanys misrue
To the voters OF New-York City:
secret political club has put forward as its cand
date for Mayor Hugh ]. Grant and il seeks TO conceal
itself behind the name of great political party
Hugh J. Grant is not the candidate OF the Democratic
party: he Is the candidate OF Tammany Hall AZ
every point where the rule Of Tammany Hall has
touched the daily life Of the citizen it has done nm
injury Many of the Primary Schools in the poorer
parts of the city have been allowed t. fall into such
condition of decay that 1t is doubtful whether some
Of the 10000 children fOr whom there now no school
accommodation not better OF in the streets The
Medical society of the County Of New-York, found in
School No. 3d. in Seventy ninth-st. between second
and Third ayes. 100 children seated together and with
out desks In room in which the air was 50 BAD a. 10
endanger their health. In Of the rooms contain
ing sixty children the Hight insufficient that gas
was necessary. To this school 4iO children were
waiting for admission. In school No. :, in Chystie
ST., 100 children packed into an old tenenen,
house and factory. on the ngtest day eleven Of the
stufy rooms were lighted by gas and the rooms were
filed Iy the smells from the closets in the narrow
back yards. This is only mentioned In the
report of the Medical Society OF the County OF New
York among many equally deporabe and dlscourag-
ing. While this condition prevailed, 100000 were
spent for new quarters for the Board CT Education at
Fifty ninth-st. and Park-ave.
THE hospitals under the charge Of the city, and
particularly the hospitals connected with the prisons.
have been conducted in the manner Of the last cen
fury In the Elackwels Island penentiary hospitals
no trained nurses are employed The sick are left 10
the mercy OF fellow criminals, employed nurses, who
administer improper medicines and steal the food OF
the patients. The sanitary condition OF TINS prison
was such that IT has recently been swept by scourge
of scurvy. 1t was visited and condemned by The
Grand Jury. But neither scurvy nor Grand Jury has
been enough to induce the city officials to take any
steps toward improving it. The reports OF these rep
resentative public and political bodies, the Grand
Jury and the Medical society OF the County Of New
York, demonstrate the importance Of united action
against that olgarchy Ofiiceholders styling them
selves Tammany Hall, who dare TO msmanage the
public schools that basis of free government and the
public hospitals that noble public philanthropy.
s.Water-taxes have been increased from year TO
year-a thing which the rich gr7lmble, but for which
the poor suffer. In many Of the tenement houses
downtown, the water has been cut Oft by the land
lord in closets where year it allowed to run
Is il for this that the city debt has been increased By
$50 900 O00l
Mayor Grant also points to large increase in the
number Of piers without increase in the cost OF ad-
ministraton. He made a substantial error in his
figures, and forgot to state that the piers paid
for by bonds which have increased the city debt
follows: 1856, 5376.O0O; 1e57. S3oO.OOo: 1855,
81 ,o69 900; 1859, 81 21s.OOo; total. s3.o52,OOO
mayor Grant also boasts OF the fact that city bonds
bearing IL per cent sold at a premium during his
administration. The fact IS that this sale OF bonds
occurred within months after Mayor Grant came
into Office and while the credit Of the previous ad-
ministratOn still prevailed. The really significant
part Of the that no such sale Of bonds
ever since been made.
"For the purpose Of making the citizens believe that
the cost of Is less than IL las BEEN the
means Of adding Sl42.oOO,O0O 10 city valuations IN
two years. the normal rate of increase In previous
years being $40 100000 year. This is Boss Vweeds
trick. lie did the same thing. and under him
jOyed at the time the lowest tax rate aud th-
largest expenditure The effect Of reducing the tax
is TO lower the taxes Of every man the valuation
Of whose property has not been increased In making
this increase of valuation and Tammany Hall
afraid TO offend the rich it laid the increased
upon the poorer portions OF the CITY, In the section OF
the city bounded by the BOwery, Fourteenthst. the
East River and East Broadway tile home Of the work
ngman, ST., 100000 were added 10 the valuation of
property
"This disagreement has been at enormous and
wasteful cost In 1ss0 the city's administrative
penses S1745O 900. They are now, in 1890,
ga 1000, an increase Of S6,7OO,OOO. The annual
salaries aggregate more than $4,000, 900, which is
nearly twice much the entire cost of the Brook
yn city government. The number of unnecessary
Offices and the excessive salaries shown clearly in
the pay roll OF the Registers Office. In 1so6 the
Registers Office netted to It's Register sol 600 1t
costs the city 10000 Then the number OF employees
sixteen; now ii is sixty-four Some of these
necessary officials have even attended at the Office
but have continued 10 ply their trades as bartenders
and pawnbrokers In this Office system Of extra
pay has been in force and copysts have received
much Sl07 page, and 81 cents line for their
extra work. The system Of extra pay has pre-
vailed In the County Clerks Office. where a bOokkeepsr
drew In four years $3.50 Of extra paw beside his
salary Lookkeeper. These only samples of the
practices In vogue In the city departments II Is this
waste that explains the excessive cost OF government
here compared with that of other leading American
cities
Per
DODUlafl0D Evp Head