The record-union., 1898-03-13
NOT SO POPULAR.
BOURKE COCHRAN HAD A VERY
COOL RECEPTION.
On the Wrong Side of the Immi-
grafton Question-New
York Gossip.

Especial Correspondence Record Union.)
NEW YORK, March 6.-Brooklyn
Life" inquiries as to the reason of the
recent and unwonted silence of the
press concerning matters relative to
Mayor Van Wyck and his temper. It
asks: rs it possible that the papers
got tired of showing up the childish
boorishness of our Chief Magistrate, or
cid Mr. Croker command them to stop
criticising?'
Our Brooklyn friend does not mean
the last question. 1t is not sincere
about it's second hypothesis. for Brook
lyn Life" is edited by parties gener-
ally credited with substantial head
pieces, and then again they like the
balance of the Borough of Kings. are
piqued and can't help showing it I'M
agine Croker, the Boss, the political
Nero, the wire-puller;" imagine this
parsonage approaching certain journal
istic circles and commanding" them
to moderate their views with regard TO
Mr.. Van Wyck. Shades of the depart
cd Tweed! We have editors who would
willingly lie awake eight nights in q
week, were this possible devising
schemes whereby Mr. Croker could be
induced to give such commands .
Next TO war, a theme of this kind would
be second to nothing in the opinions of
just those editors who formerly de-
lighted TO review the Mayors little
official pleasantries with his depart
ment heads.
The fact is, however, that Mr.. Van
mates do not occupy as many inches in
the columns of our metropolitan press
as they once did, but being not resi-
dent of the Borough of Kings the writ
| er can offer less prejudiced views on
the subject. In the first place, inter-
national complications have recently,
and Of necessity, crowded out much
| matter that month ago was very in
| teresting to the New Yorker. and the
| ldiosyncracies of our Mayor have paled
/ INTO lnsienihcance beside matters which
affect the people of two great nations.
| Then again, occasions for the display
| of the childish boorishness'' have be-
| come much less frequent; there We're
| appropriations to be made and asked
for, whether of man or bear it NAV.
tiers not, but these could not last for
ever. Like most things, they have an
end, even though it be but temporary.
and it was appropriations that the
Mayor didn't like the idea of-they
were as the flint against which tbs
| pledged policy of Tammany rushed into
sparks.
The fact is, the new administration
| is trying hard to scrimp and economic
at the hub and meanwhile foolishly ig-
more the rim. Tammany, before the
election, made ironclad promises to
lessen the taxes; it was the most con-
| spicuous plank in the platform. this
| tax-reducing feature; it afforded an ex-
cuse for campaign advertisements and
literature of all kinds, and now the Jog
ical desire is to keep down expenses at
all hazards. Croker realizes this Van
Wyck is made to feel it, all good Tam
many leaders are forced to recognize
the overwhelming necessity of keeping
running expenses modest. Naturally.
| therefore, when the Mayor encounters
| unforeseen difficulties in the great plan
why there's nothing or little left to do
but 70 etherialize the surrounding at
mosphere.
So far this winter, the best friend of
the new administration has been old
Boreas himself, ana it is to him that it
should feel deeply grateful. There has
been comparatively little snow. and
proportionately much rain, Street
Commissioners ideal winter conditions.
AS it is, however, the streets, because
of insufficient appropriations. are any,
thing but clean and protests are going
up all over. AS the warm weather ap-
proaches, the need of sanitary thor
oughfares will become more crying. and
then Tammany had better look out for
breakers in the way of mass Something's.