New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-18

OTHERS Al liit. lHI'bf"
Other men al the table were eX-Mayor Grace zen
eral Horace Porter exMayor Hewitt, Pohc" ConniS
sIoner Roosevelt. Cults Guild. ir. Of Boston; Re
cordsr COT Warner Miller. Stewart l. Woodford
Park Commissioner :. V. r. Cruger, Louis stern
General Butterfed. Murat Halstead. Joseph now
ard IT, J. W. Keller, G G. Shayne, Commissioners
7 c Kelley Distrlct-Attorney Backus and Corpora
lion Counsel Mcdonald. cf Brooklyn; AieNanue'
Campbell David J. Fuller. F. l. hlng' foS'ei
Coates william Leary, Il. J. Farrell James a.
sperry Dr. j. :. White Surrogate Arnold mares
r yerkes of Chicago: Asa \. Alling Colonel DAVID
s Brown General Arson g. McCook, Judge Co"ihe
Colonel F. NJ Knox. VI ". Cooper. }. W. Nrooiiiai
r b Roosevelt ". H. Howes, Darwin H. James
General W c. Wallace Or. d. A Fuller arthur
r Rowers r e A. Dorr Bradford Merrill 'hesle'
: Lord. Robert Macay, General f. A McAipln
police Commissioner F. D. Grant, William berrA
9 y T Coils George Wheatland. Samuel P Train
: Brown Dr. w F Campbell. Lloyd Coils
Charles E Hasbrook F. c. Hodges, Charles r.
sprague. George H. Lyman and F. H. wilson
The menu card was ornamented with engravngs
Of the New-York City Hail. the brooklyn Muilc'pa'
puiIding ana the Boston City Hall. Choice viands
ard rare old wines occupied the attention OF the
guests from : o'clock until nearly 10 o'clock. while
music was furnished by Tyroean mandolin players
After coffee and cigars had been served MI hiiis
said he had overheard man say IN suee'car ia
the afternoon. Why they will have Mayors 10 Durh
at the Waldorf tonight III LoHuoH' H' 7o'N 49,
Lord Mayors banquet was the feature OF the year
MAYOR STRONG INTRODUCED.
Then he introduced Mayor Strong as the nrst
sneaker of the evening with joke abous the tea
drnkine habit Mayor Strong said in par, as to his
6rst years experience as Mayor OF New-fork:
Nv exnerience as Mayor OF New-York city has
been LITTLE different from that OF eX-Mayor heWaI.
or Grace Neither Of those TWO Mayors had elous !
removal Of everybody in office. as mad II t OIL
they had had those friends those men noun 10 -
Snne tn same things | have done. But nelth Fl
eyNavor Hewitt nor Grace knew eXactE no" ue-
,iebtfIl the feeling is to have every office in the
CITY OF New-YorI at ones disposal
After referring to the successful efforts OF Com
missioner Waring to keep the streets clean ana
of,ar several humorous references TO the Police
commissioners whom he said he had tried in vain
~ make Purtans he proceeded 10 refer to the re-
con, crusade against the milk dealers, saying:
There are two things thar never had m ,ba u h
for-milk and water. daughter. louhd that w w
no.ice nagstrates were entirely Wiling 10 OBEY the
law as laid down in the statute DOORS. Mlhu yV t
am one Of the men who believe that IN ne -
esr,b n we only enforce them. daughter and ap,
nanseD II we have anything. II is an excess OF g0od
laws (Renewed la1ghierl rerh4ps me sI U IN
commissioners about the Only bTalhN men VIZ
could see best how the laws coui ne ehloICru IiSnt
nm IN the hit We have raised the ciVil service
syster, in New-York TO as hign a snahldru is ~
90 in any mace in this country To-day there Is
NJ mar who can get place In the government
Of the city in an position. under that or commits
~, ci,ii ssrvico examination Well that IS the posi-
,ion I understand | to bring about Whtn was
elected TO the Mayoralty by the people In 1871 ana
| want to say now that in every department OF tne
ci,v ~ New-York where IL has been possible TO
ralse tn standard by the civil service methods'
1t has been done.