New-York tribune., 1895-10-28
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UNJUST ATTACKS ON MAYOR SCHlEkEN'
MISLEADING INTERPRETATIONS OF THE IN
CREASED TAX RATE-pENEFITs TO THE CITY
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Your attention is respectfully directed TO the
article on page of The New-York Times OF this
morning as example of uncandd and mendacious
criticism Near Its beginning II asserts that the a'
minstration of Mayor Schieren "has been FOUND
wanting in every element OF economy and reform
from which moderate statement the tone OF 'he
rest Of the article may be inferred. II then taxes
up the present tax rate proof Of the above as
seron, closing this part of its subject thus' mere
Is no longer any ground on which the iriehns oi
Mayor Sch.eren can champion him as the dispenser
Of either a businesslike or an economical aofn''S
tration."
II is fact that the rate OF the city OF Brook
lyn has Increased in the current year nearly fifteen
points but THE Times omits 10 state what II wen
knows that the larger part OF tbs is caused p eae
s invited to state the exact facts in this connection
and Is asked also TO say whether.f w-aOok r nnu
20 On t the other hand The Times" KNOWS or shS%d
1ens administration Brooklyn has received i'm
provements on scale unknown before ana @ unpa Sst
hands Of Commissioner White our Department Of
City Works has been carrying on pnohs Saa nI,a
ity, and OF this the columns Of The Times. are
s. ts; whs GeN sS
pavements and their quality and their cost, ana
then repeat its assertion relative &c ousinesshke
and economical administration II IL can 90 -
Let 4, also refer the record OF buiIdin2 se~ers
in the present year. greater than mas ever pen h,
shown in a single year in any other city IN llis
land and at the low scale of cost, and then repeat
the same assertion. II able. .. .onox
THE Times knows or may know, Una the IiVii.' ~
Rrook,yn has spent in 1895 has been well ana non
estly spent and that the city has received doIiar
for dollar in value for IL. and Ia vastly lmproNe1t
thereby. II 1t cares to take up the subject OF
brooklyn has done more for herself n the curIen.
wear IN providing school a1litics than mas Deeh
the case with the city of New York. and ii is re-
epectfully suggested when IL crttcises the mater
OF parks that Of the great new parks OF New
York City was purchased when II lay OUTSIDE tne
CITY limits and that recent legal proceedings have
not as yet successfully demonstrated Comn1is-
sioner SQuier's alleged extravagance.
Passing that portion OF "The Times ar
tcle where IL speaks of the city debt, further err
rors appear 1t is not true. for instance that whsn
Mayor Sch.eren went into Office there was already
a margin OF 81. COCO the debt limit This estl-
mate is conveniently obtained hv omiitIng the tax
certificates then The fact Is that official state
ments show the debt margin then 10 have been
SN56Si and therefore The 'rimess' own hg-
ures quoted from City Treasurer Kelley, the debt
limit now s a little more than twice ss far away
tax certificates outstanding, and the three or four
million dollars OF old contracts that Mayor Scheren
found on entering office have been all paid. and
the improvements specified above are under way or
competed.
10 mendacity IN public criticism when the facts
clear and easy Of access . -
Brooklyn Oct %. 1895