New-York tribune., 1902-06-23

The Low administration is keeping its pre-
election pledges. It's five months record IS hlgh-
ly creditable not only to the hard working occu-
pant of the Mayors chair but to all OF his caol-
net as we'll. The people are getting dollar $
worth of service for every dollar expended
When this is not the case II Is an abuse that Is
corrected as soon 1t comes 10 the surface
The CRATER that fiourished a green Day
tree under the Van wyck administration has
been sidetracHed Deveryisrn the Police De-
partment evils of the last administration got to
be called. is largely thing of the past. The
dives are gradually but surely being wiped out.
and the poolroom men are having the hardest
experiences of their lives.
Reporters of The Tribune in the last ten days
have been the rounds of the precincts Where
dives" and gamblers formerly had almost un-
disputed sway. What with the combined actlv-
ity OF the State excise authorities and the Po-
lice they are now working with the minimum
of damage to public morals. They are not en-
tireIy banished. There are many places in the
Tenderloln where gambling of nearly all kinds
is carried on. 1t is almost as hard for stran-
ger 10 break into" these places, however. as 1t
would be to break into the Metropolitan Club
Not all has been accomplished in reform and
retrenchment that was expected aby Mayor Low.
Controller Grout. Borough President Cantor and
Colonel Partridge but a vast amount OF hon
est toll has been performed. and the results
many of them, enduring
BOWERY RESORTS NEARLY ALL CLOSED
The proprietors of nearly every one of the
more notorious resorts in the BoWeTy have Deeh
deprived of their licenses. and are hShtlnS III
the courts for their recovery The infamous
cadet" system has been completely abol-
ished as it we'll be- The fake museums IN
the Bowery and the lower East ana west
sides have been cleaned out or closed Ihe dls-
orderly, resorts in First Second Third. Fourth,
East Ninth, East Tenth. Stuyvesant, Allen
FIdrfdce Orchard Delaney. Chrystie. Riving-
ton and Stanton SITS. either have been totaIiS
cleaned out or their propretors have been so
thoroughly cowed as TO make their traffic Of
comparati tivey little harm
The prisoners discharged for violations OF the
law have been fewer in number The dlsoroerly
women who used 10 f1aunt themselves amid the
honest laboring families of the East SIDE nave
been driven to other places or out or the CITY
Some of them have taken up their abode IN
precincts where clean up methods nave not as
vet been vigorously employed
In a word. New York City is good deal near
er what it ought to be as result OF the eiloi -
Of Mayor Low and his colleagues
In a brief article it is not possible TO eiuiiie'- :
a+a tho n1aces where the official screws have
boen +{ehtened with highly satisfactory results
Controller Grout in the Department of Finance;
Roroueh President Cantor, in the departments
over which he has jurisdictions: supervisor
Cowen of THE City Record: commissioner
Woodbury.. in the Street Cleaning Department.
commissioners Lederle and Folks; the CoInInls-
sio,ers of Accounts: Commissioners WILCOX
Eustis Young and DOugherty, ana all tne
vsv down the line, one and all. nave trled 10
,i.. their denartment work out of the old rutS
and produce results so that it could De Demon
strated that the taxpayers are getting tne
worth of their money and what they voted for
FINANCE DEPARTMENT-The record OF
reform and Improvement in the Finance Depart
r,ent under Controller Grout is one that is at
+roctine more and more attention as Mr. Grout
becomes more familiar with the duties OF his
grest office Mr. Grout has earned for hlmseIT
the title that made Congressman Holman, OF
Indiana famous namely, the watchdog OF the
Treasury" Through his Independent action and
co-operation with the Mayor the city has taken
q long stride toward the standard wished for
nv polittcal economists with reference to public
ownership of public utilities The Mayor, the
Controller and Rapid Transit Commissioners
Z, handling the Pennsylvania franchise matter
have fought from the beginning for the most