New-York tribune., 1906-09-11
BUSY DAY WITH MAYOR.
Picks Up Reins of Office Again-
Some Guarded Opinions.

Mayor Mcclellan put In a long and busy day at
the City Hall yesterday hts first since hts vacation
in Europe. lie saw many OF the department heads
and tried 10 get IN touch with the present condition
Of all the activities Of the city administration He
was at his desk at 3 O'Clock before any of The
other city officials were around
The request for the resignation of Park Cor,r,is
sioner Walsrove. OF The Bronx was the only borob
he had 10 explode. He said he did not know OF anv
other Ofiiceholder who had used his department as
Commissioners Walgrove had and therefore did not
know OF any other officials he would ASK IN retire
at this time. lie said he would flI all the vacap-
cies' which include the president of the Tax
Board in place or Frank O'Donnel who died and
a commissioner in place Of Samuel Strashoureer
Regarding the large increase i'm the new budget
the Mayor was told that Controller Metz was in
FAVOR OF giving departments enough money TO OBJ
Viate the Issuance Of special revenue bends To
make up deficiencies. The Mayor said.
The city of New York is I'm the position Of a re-
spectacle family skmping to keep up appear
ances We can't give every department an il
wants If we had 5000 0O0. .OOO budget We could
give the city magnificent administration in every
neld. But we haven't that much money to spend
We do II we could give, for instance. the Health
1JSP ' bay 40 H5une' i iI iIhs TINS with laugh
asks. '
Alderman Meyers's statement that the budge,
was not honest. as II created fictitious tax rate
and that special revenue bonds az a high rate of
interest were issued after the budget was made
up which ought 70 have been provided for was
quoted tn the Mayor. who said the actual needs
Of all departments could not be foreseen
The plight Of the new Board % Water Supply the
first issue OF $4,000 bonds for which brought only
bid for soo worth when Sl61 OOoGop is 10 be sDant
was another subject brought the Mayors atten-
ton. and he said II an unfortunate condition
lie had NOT seen tho Controller. and lid not know
what would be done about the affair He said ba
had a vague recollection that ar amendment 10 the
act creating TIE commission had been PASSED r,at
ing the bonds long term issues. bur he could not
remember He said he would take IL ND as soon as
he possibly could.
Il shall read the report as soon as can" v,as
ell the Mayor would say regarding the work OF the
committee OF the Board Of Aldermen which lnvesti-
gated the management OF the Street Cleaning De-
partment by Commissioner Woodbury.
Regarding the political situation the Mayor was
asked
"Wn you support the Democratic ticket ~ Mr.
Hearst should he nominated by the Democratic con.
VentiOn?' 0''i-
lie replied
That Is hypothetical question. am not deal
ing IN the hypotheucal Just now, the condi-
tionaI nor the suoJunctive- The present indicative
The HaYs Sro re'eTe9 o9 hi his opinion that Dsrrct
Governor on the Democratic ticket. He said ne had
10 cause him to change his opinion j" Faris
He was asked il Ne though District Attorney
The Mayor quickly asked in Yankee fashion
convention the business OF his ONCE would nor
permit him. He said. significantly
1t looks as n there would be too much TO do
20 GO
Asked II he would take sides against Charles p
Murphy IN the primary fights. the Mayor said:
The primaries are FOR electing delegates 10 the
convention. hope they'll be for Judge Jerome %
The Mayor said he might make statement about
the general political situation later.
Mayor Mcclellan asked II the guillotine
which had been set working by him early In the
morning would BE- kept in action. He said Il Ger
tainly would " he saw any other like that OF
Commis ssiOner WalgrOve. He saw no reason why n
should now, however. as he had heard nothing