New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-21
THE COUNTY COMMITTEES NEW BANNER.
1T FLAPS IN THE BREEZE CLOSE TO THE HOTEL
NORMANDrE AND AROUsEs THE RESENT
MENT, OF THE PROPRIETOR


NORMANDIE AND AROUsEs THE RESENT
MENT OF THE PROPRIETOR.
The Republican County Committees new McKn-
lev banner, which is suspended over Broadway at
Thir,yeighth-st directly in front of the Hotel Nor
mandie is close to the room which Senator David
B. Hill usually occupies when he Is In the city, that
# the Senator had slept in the room last night he
might have heard the Tapping Of the banners folds
and might have dreamed that he was being borne
away on angel wings from the Populists and free
siverites Possibly the nearness of the banner 10
the room in which the Democratic Senator Is wont
to seek repose occasions was one reason for the
violent opposition TO the banner which has been
manifested by Mr. Newell. the representative Of
General Ferdinand P. Earle In the management of
the hotel
When the poles which support the banner were be-
ing set In place on Saturday evening Mr. Newell pro-
tested. and went to the trouble OF calling on the po-
lice for aid In resisting the work. The police could
do nothing because they learned that regular per-
NIT for the erection of the poles and the banner had
been conveyed to the Republican County Committee
by the Board Of Aldermen and the Commissioner OF
Public Works. The permit had been authorized by
the following special resolution of the Board Of
Aldermen:
Resolved. That permission be and the same is here
by given TO the Republican County Committee TO
erect poles and suspend Ia tha snabess
corner Of Thirty-eighth-st. and Broadway and the
and Broadway. provided the said Republican county
Committee shall restore the pavement or tagging TO
its present condition upon the removal OF said Poles
the work TO be done at It's own expense under the
direction of the Commissioner of Public works such
permission to continue only until December |. 1870
The sum Of $l2 was paid by the Republican County
Committee into the public treasury for the permit
which the Commissioner of Public Works issued for
tearing I'D the pavement and digging the holes for
the poles Everything rad been done according to
law the police said, and they could not interfere
Mr. Newell went to the headquarters of the Re-
publican County Committee. the fifth floor OF the
building No 1l3 West Thirty eighh-st.. yesterday
morning and asked why the banner could not be re-
moved to another part Of Broadway. Assistant
Secretary Anderson replied that the banner had been
put up under a permit and could not be moved TO
another part of Broadway without another permit
Mr. Newell said that General Earle was coming to
that the poles and the banner would have 10 Dc
After Mr. Newell had departed, Mr.. Anderson
talked on the telephone with Edward Lauterbach'
h anrbd OF ana rne F there was no 70
worry When General Earle arrlXe sd IN tme cy
ner. he said things; and then went downtown, ne re
told mr. Sss on s R Way he %
make inquiries and ascertain II there was iro some
Moy IN of W hs Hoe could be
injunction or had been on ihs
Secretary andersen said .n, that M, no
minds of the officers Of the committee when the
sss t s. % Tss Pn'sS
position il can be seen from the windows OF the
Telephone Building, in which the committee mas , us
pole on the northeast corner Of Broadway rev
Yards south Of Thirty-eghth-s st. Mr. Newell said
he objected to the poles which supported the ban
ner simply because the poles were unsighly ana an
~ ,r,nion IN tho street The fact that Senator
I'M makes the hotel his home sometimes had moth
Ing 10 do with the case. he said. and there was no
oIiticai sgnifcan in the objection to the pres
ence of the banner in front Of the hotel ne ex-
nrsssed the opinion that General Earle would be
hle 70 cause the removal OF the banner TO another
nart of broadway before many days; AT the head
rters of the Republican County Committee MI
Anderson said that he willing to bet that the
banner would stay where 1t Is until after eectlon'