New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-07
OLCOTT JUMPS ON WAXING
ACCUSES HIM OF MORAL BLAckMAih i'
THE EIGHTY-NINTH-sT STABLE
BROADWAY & 10TH 81.
% MAIDEN LANE.

$780,, ,,, s,reet Cleaning Commissioner
was iguratiyelv stripped OF his yei'o" 49,,
cock feather and mandarin's button !" III" -,
office Yesterday at meeting OF the pun y,,.,o
mate nv District Attorney Olcott Coio"e' .a'
as n tho Office lust before the fun began out, see
We, w. ,.r,o and influential body OF indignant west
sders present. he seemed TO get d '"'
was coming and quickly departed - T., that
Mr. O.cott was there as property " ..
part Of the city where Colohei ""ii',e IT, "a
Mace a stable The site the Department ',' , -. ,
an, ia IN West Eighty -ninth-st.. between COLUMBUS
and Amsterdam ayes $1,000, r,rrer
o, orortinp that ne and President Jeroiona"
had Visited Eighty-ninth-st the District-Ateo'"e'
arose 70 his feet ready for the tray' MI
said that he and Mr. Jeroloman had cohciu'e. Va
Colonel Warning could rent private stap'e ane"uy
in that street. OF which the citizens couiu ''' '
complain Then Mr.. Olcott said: A..
or, g. ,rorifes,Iv absurd for Colonel Waring 10
ooroo here and say that his stable VIII not rum
nronerty or be more of a nuisance thah the P'i'",
or livery stables now In Eighty nnth-s any G,s
knows that the value OF b pro lcS stable. why
does Colonel Warlng insist on going INTO t rs nnse
respectable WITH bf hs afS other places less
vauable for his stables don't want 10 oaa P 6nt
tics mere p ~ the propertyrowners in the district
that is threatened by this stree-ceans e VAR
voted for the administration that put S9lone rors in
Ing in power They are reformers ana beleve go,
the reform that has followed in municipal AFFAIRS
RiIt they protest against being blackfnalieu.
"They object sir, and object TO beng .0bv
maled-if not legal, at least moral bIackmah ~,
being serve1 with notice by Colonel Warlns ma
~ we don't compel the West End ASSOCIATION oHei
which we have no control to compel the
over which IL has no control. TO enact certan esis
iation he would not remove our ashes 5uGn
notice was served I am informed. by C0ionei W.
ing and our ashes were not removed why uiueI
the Tammany regime. never had to remove our
own ashes and Your Honor. | think VIII aonle
that Tammany at its worst never brought US ~
this
The Mayor here interrupted the speaker to say;
"I have also had to pay for the removal OF my
ashes have paid for the last thirty years. .or,,
Then" replied Mr. Olcott. you are less lor tu-
nate man than l. My objection is not to the mere
expense | object because ii comes after threa,
that such step would be taken unless we drr
certain legislation / say, therefore. that Is FORM
Of blackmail when people are punished Tor not 90
ing something they would not do Of their own aC-
cord After the discrimination against us. IL Is PIT
ing Peon upon Ossa to infict this stable upon us:
Mr. Jerolornan was about to make some comments
Indicating his approval OF the District ATTORNEY
sentiments when the Mayor. forgetting that the re-
port of Mr.. Turner carried with II resoiutlon'
hastily brought the session to an end. -.
Colonel Warning being asked yesterday what
he wished TO say In reply TO Mr.. Olcott. wrote;
Nothing Olcott is the paid attorney OF the
and he has to say funny things In their interest