New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-06
THE YORS MESSAGE.


factory appointments on Wednesday, II ne
had selected for the offices in his gift citizens
of sterling character who might be expcctcd
10 devote their energies to the benefit OF tho
| community, then the recommendations OF the
Mayor as to public questions would carry more
weight and be received with more respect than
can be looked for now. Mr.. Croker and Mayor
Gilrov have declared that the municipal gov
eminent as administered by Tammany Hall Is
not TO be a government of business men, They
have announced that professional politicians
are TO fill the Offices hereafter The ridiculous
pretext given for pursuing this policy is that
business men will not give to the public SCI
vice sufficient amount OF Their time. But Is
it not clear that business man of ability and
experience can accomplish more in one hour in
public Office than professional politician OF
the class that is dearest to the affections OF
Mr.. Croker and Mayor Gilroy is likely TO ac-
complish in six hours? Moreover, the pro-
fossional politicians of the sort whom Mayor
| Gilroy is appointing to public offices do not
devote all their time or even large part OF 1t
TO the public service. They spend most of the
hours during which they ought to be hard at
work in their Offices in the pursuit OF inobne'y
!
bling on the races in the city poolroonla, and
in amusing themselves in various ways. The
| theory that professional politician Of the ordi-
nary Tammany type is likely to do more WORK
in the public service than successful business
man would be likely to do is preposterou..
| How much time as a rule do our Ponce Jus
tees give to their work? On an average only
few hours a week How many hours day
are most of the municipal commissioners, heads
of bureaus. deputies and the like busily en-
Gagged at their desks in public officesP The
great majority of them do not spend three
hours daily in that way OF course there are
exceptions Even Tammany Hall has supplied
the CITY with some Woodworking officials, but
careful scrutiny of the public offices through
out Manhattan Island will reveal to any OBJ
server the truth that most of these Offices arc
infested by hordes of idle and insolent Tam
MANY heelers and parasites, who give the com
munty no fair equivalent for the money winch
they draw from the public funds. Mayor Gil
row by his appointments shows disposition
TO add to the numbers of the loungers and
loafers rather than to the force OF intelligent
workers. The utterances Of Mr.. Croker and
Mayor Gilroy in regard to Ncw-Yorh business
be construed in no other light than a an in
suit to the mercantile classes in this community.
| MAYOR Gilroy's message shows that during the
last twelve months S9Gs9,9l9 were issued IN
bonds for public purposes. Adding this huge
sum to the S37 600 900 OF the budget TO be
raised by taxation and from the revenues OF
the general fund, we get total outlay OF not
much less than $50 10000 in this city in
single year. Is it surprising that since Tam
many Hall has the handling of nearly $50
| coo. 900 a year Tammany leaders and Tam
many followers grow rich rapidly? Mayor
Gilroy desires to make an appalling addition
to the annual Outl2S for many years TO come,
since he is strongly In favor of the prompt
| erection Of an enormous new City Hall. lie
saws that structure should be raised without
delay, whose architectural proportions will be
| worthy of the greatest city on the continent.
He insists that the proper site for this colossal
ediice is in the City Hall Park. In the opin-
ion of many wel-informed NcwYorkers Mayor
Gilroy in taking this position does not repre-
sont intelligent public sentiment. The City
Hall Park ought not to be further cncroached
upon. Lofty buildings arc arising now on all
sides of it. gigantic City Hall will give to
budded appearance, and the present advantages
of the City Hall Park will be entirely lost.
| Tho Tammany views Of quarantine are ex
pressed in the message, and the Tammany
Quarantine Department gets some colnmenda-
ton which is undcservcd. Mr. Giroy, like
Governor Flower, is opposed TO National
quarantine He is also hostile to total sus-
pension Of immigration. 30 many men in all
parts of the county, far ADLER ard far better
known than Mayor Groy, have advocated Il
| National quarantine and a total suspension Of
immigration while the cholera menace is 50
serious, that our new Mayors suggestions are
not likely to carry much weight at Washington.
The message does not outline any practical
plan of rapid transit, but expresses regret over
the failure Of the work of the Rapid Transit
| Commission. II remarks Justly that the delay
! in plans for a comprehensive system OF rapid
| transit has been borne by the people with eX
J tla0 binary patience. That patience has been
! sorcly tried The most formidable enemy Of
q practical and comprehensive plan Of rapid
transit in this city is Tammany Hall itself,
, and there is no reason to believe that the lead
ers Of that faction have any intention Of
aGording adequate relief to the community.
| II is Tammany's hope and desire that the peo-
pie of New-Yorl may be given over entirely
TO the tender mercies of the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railway unless Tammany itself can get
control of building rapid-transit system which
will cost scores of millions of dollars and which
will give the largest opportunities to Tammany
contractors, Tammany inspectors and Tammany
officials for filling their own pockets.
In conclusion, Mayor Gilroy says to the Al
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administration efficient, economical and pro-
grcssive, we yindcate the value OF popular in
situations" As this message is addressed to one
of tha worst b, ards of Aldermen ever assembled
in this city, and as the message is written by