New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-25
THE CITYS HIGHER PLANE
DR.. Parkhurst's Praise of the Loo
administration.

Dr Charlie, n Parkhurst preached his farcT'ey
sermon before his usual sumner trip aoroad III
the Madison Square Presbyterian Ch'Irch ia.t hls!.
His subject was What Ought the Christian Giu-
zens of New-York To re Thinking About Between
Now and Next November and he took for MS
text: "By the blessing Of the upright the CITY Is
exalted but it is overthrcwn by the mouth oil the
wicked" proverbs. M, H. Or. Parkhurst SAID
among other things:
We are already beginning 10 observe the pre-
mopltory symptoms Of the biennial struggle WHICH
moral status and general respectability
municipality for the tive years ngn ss n5d amt
can contemplate without anxious seriousness the
CRISIS nVoos 50 far we can be Of but one mind
If had not recently escaped from four years
eylsceration it would not seem 50 strange that
there should be lacking that intensity OF desire and
aseous and elective aeht But that after all we
been suffered in body. mind and estate ali the
seIf-respect have forfeited among ourselves and
the estimation Of those oNtside-that after ali we
n0Sa na s s So aee nex election With
any first tinge Of Indifference and don't care Is
And Yet that is the popular attitude of mind to-
day ness totay hsc se Sqas ansd
expectation that all the magnificent gains that nave
renounced. splendid beginnings abandoned and tho
metropois Of America slump back once more n %
hlsd US and polluted US from 1888 o til af Ang
out OF any necessities of the situation. but from
certain comatose condition on the part OF who
think We can. and It viii be easy enough to think
we can if We are integently and morally alive n 70
collective debaseulent that would follow in the
ennobeme aTT secu ra BY victory
The supreme mistake that is being made: ana
difference is the eHaggsrated apprscaton OF what hat
s sre inadeGuate appreciaticn Of What it has
done Shortcomings get a hundred times as much
an ADMINISTRATION does not do makes larger fig:
g ese the oee % TITS t9@
and tells discouraengly upon those who are doing
times they are going TO make mistakes IN their
This is not the place to enter into the details OF
what has been accomplished in the several depart
SAMPLE q The e eteri in hand that il waitins 10 be
widely and effectively exploited.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
The work of this department was inaugurated
of commissioner fitted for his responsibilities by
to a commissioner that had been schooled only in
small politics. nursed on partisan spois His first
hundred and fifty lazy supernumeraries. who
nnaa 9ss s coy of f the eifys money
His further exercise of economy is shown IN the
tcie Of Wheh costs the city not more than half
OF what has been paid previously. For instance,
alum. The present commission pays two cents a
pC PRACTICAL o6 ed Of nqu G into When the
mission has entered. and which Immediately con-
supply of the city. 1902 722 were made
for the sale Of adutterated milk; in 1889 only 1873
More than three times much money col
lected for violation Of the Sanitary Code in 1902 than
in 1901. Two and a half million pounds more of
injurious food products were condemned in 1902
than in 1900.
AS final illustration of the great deliverance
wrought by the present administration. ! want
10 make brief reference to the Police Department
I have il hand quantity of details which per
haps it is not necessary to enter into. showing
the methods by which the Commissioner has
operated the way in which he has thwarted the
schemes of the depraved members of the force by
breaking old connections. fencing off those who
have been wardmen FROM the pastures where they
had been wont to Craze, giving permanent leave
of absence from the city to $50 crooks and conf
dence and pickpoekets; dealing with the gam
bling business in way that there is less of the
vice in town to-day than has been the case for
long term OF years. impressing The patrolman
with of discipline such that there is some
thing beside his uniform 70 distinguish him from
the ordinary loafer; pursuing system of trans
sderations. and system of promotion man
aged that preferment has ceased absolutely to be
a marketable commodity.
DR.. Parkhurst also discussed the other depart
ments. giving praise to ALL In referring to the
cent dismissal OF Perez NJ. Stewart Superintendent
of Buildings, he said that President Cantor had
stated to him the reasons for the dismissal. and
st would, in my judgment, exceedingly relieve the
present tension IL he would state these grounds to
the general public In the same fulness."