The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-15
SAYS SETH Low is
A SUPERB FAILURE
John MarthoI Doesn'tT Much
Of His Administration.
TAMMANY's GANG is AT WORK
How Partridge Reformed the New York
Police - DISCONTINUED Democrats.
Among Men of Enterprise.
Gossip of Gotham.
TAMMANY'S GANG is AT WORK
By John Marthoi.

of the people in The streets. Elevated
railroad engines, UnproEided with smoke
consumers travel ten miles on each of
the four routes and into the windows of
the houses facing these forty miles of
rail-. puff their smoke Complaints thick
and fast pour into the Health Depart
mcnt that soft coal is being used, but
the officials know it well enough But
what is it to do? Shall it enforce the
law? II SO so-called rapid transit on the
IL rail must stop. factories must close
down. elevators in big office buildings
must remain at the bottom of the shafts.
in a word. the wheels of industry will
be blocked. There is little anthracite
coal in the market and such as there is
fetches between 81 and SIS a ton. This in
crease in Goals, coming as it does imme-
diately on top of the high price of beef.
mutton and ham, bacon and pork, adds
to the woe of the householder.
From this contemplation of domestic
and personal difficulties. the citizen al
most daily has occasion TO come face to
face with nuisances arising from the in
efficiency of the city government Never
before have so many policemen been seen
drunk While patroling their posts; indeed
no less than three. in stages of maudlin
and obstreperous drunkenness. appeared
before Deputy Commissioner Thurston to
answer charges. Commissioner Partridge
only comment was: well. I wonder
what the boys were celebrating. Crooks.
badger game workers. sneak thieves. no.
tel thieves. confidence men. gamblers with
trick faro layouts and roulette wheels
infest the city. No thoroushfare is too
public for the hishwayman; no hotel too
exclusive or we'll guarded for the hotel
thief The slung-shot and the sand-bas
fells the victim on Broadway and the
sneak thief practices his art III the Wal
I,.-rav- Il
OF daily and the confidence men" OPP
crate in every section. Shooting ARRAYS
take place in saloons with the regularity
OF a mining camp, and murders done by
persons unknown would I'll! a column
Gambling houses. dives and houses OF
il-fane are doing a 1ourislling business
ana the Eiftuou civic organizations like
the City Club send committees TO adj
wise" the Mayor His Honor, Seth Low.
declares that in Partridge, his old min
compoop of g Commissioner, he is Well
pleased
The vanity Of Seth Low is only equalled
by his complaceney. Surrounded by faw-
ners and iiattcrers he has deceived him
self Into believing that he is Just about
tho most h>gil-mnded and incorruptible
Nayar this city has ever had. and conse-
ouently the most efficient. In point of
fact he IS daily proving himself incapa-
BE and justifying the assertion of those
who pointed out that he had nothing TO
guarantee his efficiency u Mayor but
his lamentahle inefficency rs the prest-
dent of Columbia. The mission entrusted
to him NJ the polls was clean-cut and
rnmistakable The police force was to
be reorganized. The infamous connection
between the paid guardians OF the city
and the criminal classes was to have
come to an end. All evil resorts were to
have been closed His Police Commission
,-T- fl9et Jnt1n 1f
the force" indicates its Generalization
No drunken patrolrnan in the days of
Murray Byrnes or DeVery would have
dared TO appear in Mulberry Street under
the influence of liquor; but under Part
ridge they so to the trial room in a
beastly condition. And Low says Of
Partridge, what Van Wyck said of Dew
cry: HE is the very best New York has
ever had"
Jerome, the sincere and the peculiar,
finds Low weak and lax in enforcing the
law, and conducts himself in court in
remarkable way. For six months he has
been in his big office and nothing has
come out of it but howl 1t has moth
ing to its credit. He jumped into the tun-
mel when it was filed with smoke and
heard with his own ears the groans of
the MANNED. He waXed savage when de-
claring the guilty directors would be in
dictea Nothing came of It. When a few
weeks later the explosion of dynamite
wrecked several hotels, killing a man in
his bed. Jerome appeared to pose on the
debris amid the ruins. Once more he
promised 10 bring to book the responsible
ones. Nothing came of it. Murders have
been committed, but murderers are not
convicted: gamblers are arrested in raids
and he moves for their dismissal with a
fine. In his executive capacity he did but
one thing. namely. bounded the young
Burns girl charged with killing lover
who BETRAYED her. District Attorney
Jerome with his Ratchet in the pursuit
of gamblers reminds one of tho Rev.
Parkhurst with his Sunbeam playing
leap frog in disreputable resorts while in
the pursuit of the evidence" Of viola
tons of the act against disorderiy houses.
Both sincere, honest rnen, but great bags
of sensational natural gas.
Then there is the dear chaprie" picked
out Of Seth Lows Union Club friends to
clean the streets. Dr.. Woodbury.. a doc
tor without patients n military man from
the sanitary squad al Porto Rico. He got
through the storms of winter by the I'M
stinted use of money. raised a ructon in
the broom brigade by calling upon them
TO parade finally called it off. and Is now
engaged in fitting up section headquarters
:, L
SOAP The gallant commissioner in max
ing his tour of the sections observed that
the atmosphere of the apartments was
unlike those of his club. and he deter
mined that q street cleaner should cul-
tivate the sense of cleanliness If he We're
TO be entrusted with removing garbage.
ashes and sweeping the streets. be con-
cluded first TO cleanse his cleaners and
then to clean the streets. When swill
stands many hours. doing overtime In the
hot June SUM- the householder knows
woodbury's White Wings are refresh
ing themselves with a plunge or shower
bath BY next summer the Commissioners
IS hopeful of introducing lavender water
and cologne.
Every department is run in about the
same way. Little men who have been
ipconsequential In the various lines they
they have followed are playing heads
of departments" Comptroller Gront Is
actively engaged In playing to the sal-
Iery. He took enc Of Jerome's bills foI
= star performance. It was for liquor