The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-24

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NOT INTERESTED u The MUNICIPAL CRIB
The reporters alluded to the dispatches
from San Francisco yesterday TO the effect
that the Grand Jury had evidence TO show
that Schmitz and Rnef derive revenu lie
from the -municipsl crib, = a crowded house
Of prostitution which yields a revenue
estimated at $500 a day. The Mayor is
said 30 be represented among the stock
holders OF the dive by his brother, Herbert
schmitz. and Ruef by an attorney named
Henry Aeh.
Il am not my brothers keeper said
Schmitz, his voice breaking as he spoke.
Il do not believe my brother capable OF
being mixed up in such vile business. But
this l can say and with all the truth that is
in me: No man has ever acted as a stock
holder for me in the municipal crib or in
any other house OF such character snd |
defy N mar 10 prove assertions TO the
contrary. Those who say that I live on
the earnings OF fallen women stoop too low
in their abuse TO merit my consider alton.
Il had known OF the existence Of this
| place before the fire and Of its reestablish-
ment after the fire. l did try to shut it
up, but the courts gave an injunction TO
INV taoA u WIZ n IA III Wv
front OF the place and we could not get
around that. No one can accuse me Of
winking at the existence OF this place
BELIEVES II HIS FRIEND RUFF.
The recent stories from San Francisco
to the effect that upon Ruef and his grasp
OF all the municipal departments rested
and the haunting Of vice Mayor schmitz
denounced as false. He denied that Ruet
was anything more than his political ad-
wiser. He reiterated his faith in Ruef
many times repeated by him during his
Francisco.
@Ruef is my friend. When | rave a
friend l do not throw him down beoa use
another man says he is dishonest. | have
to know myself That he u dishonest. The
minute that ] find that Ruef IL not a straight
forward man Of integrity and unimPeach-
able honesty | will cut loose from him.
~Rues has helped me TO be elected three
times to the Office l hold, He has spent his
money and devoted his time TO this end. |
will not desert him just because people say
| should. Ruef and | stand indicted to-
Rether. We will fight IL out together Just
as we have fought out my political battles.
And we will win. because we are innocent:
The Mayor was told OF an Investigation
which was made into the handling OF the
relief funds and which disclosed that after
the earthquake q package OF currency
amounting to about 81 600, which had been
4 sent from oeaTCnHRnJ, sNcN,, through an
express company, was unaccounted for in
the receipts. Shortly after the fact OF its
disappearance had been published the money
in a dummy wrapping was tardily delivered
TO the chairman OF the finance committee OF
the relief forces.
Il know nothing about the details OF the
financial management OF relief, " replied the
Mayor. Thope that no shadow is cast upon
the men who had the receipt and disburse-
ment Of the funds in charge, for San Fran
I -...o .,o. kha HannGnsar, ~ tho uvhOla m
tons bounty and it would be unjust to have
any untrue report OF mishandiing OF n
/ circulated.
James ID. Phelan was made chairman Of
| the nance committee Of the general COM
mittee ~ fifty by my own appointment.
II was through his hands that all the money
passed | had nothing to do with it,"
Before the reporters had finished inter
viewing Schmitz the Patricia was being
warped into her dOcl; at fioboken. As the
passengers prepared to leave the ship there
we're many who came up to give the Mayor
ahearty handolasp and express their regret
| over the embarrassment that clouded his
return to America. The big man stood
with tears glistening in his eyes al he shook
the preferred hands Of his fellow passengers.
NOT ARRESTED ON THE
Schmit2 vas not arrested when he stepped
on the gangplank. Chief Hayes OF the
boke en- police force was on hand to see
that no warrant was served on the accused
4 m4N NlN0Out Lnc NOAlfClll vi NUC uNdN ~ tIlt
| Hoboken police. Then there was Dudley
p. Malone, a New York lawyer, who had
been engaged by chmltZ friends pre-
sumably to protect the Mayors interests.
lie stood at the foot Of the gangplank with
a copy Of the statutes under his Arm and a
finger marking a place in the book.
Detective Sergeants Weinthall and Quinn
OF the Hoboken force closed about Mr.. and
Mrs. Schmitz the minute they set foot to the
wharf and escorted them to an automobile
shiloh UaifaA in tho aiFRAf
Reports from San Francisco had said
that ex-Chief Of the United States Secret
Service William j. Burns, who has been I'M
eaTthing the violence against the San
Francisco grafters, would have detectives
at the wharf to keep Schmitz in sight and
ride with him on the train to the West. 1t
was said that because OF the presence OF
Mrs. Schmitz he would have the courtesy
OF freedom. while be ing kept under the
s~trictest surveillance.
Though Burns's men were probably at
the lock 10 take up the trail they did not
make their presence conspicuous by any
ha wkshaw demonstrations.
Col. Kowalsky, who il a Californian and
a friend OF Schmitz; NJ. J. Wslheim, George
Keene, the Mayors private secretary; Her
! bert Schmitz, his brother, and a dozen other
friends from the Coast were IN the wharf
to greet Mr.. and Mrs. Schmitz. The men
patted the broad back OF the Mayor and
the women Rugged Mrs. Schmitz with en-
| thusiasm.
Herbert SchmitZ, who-came to town two
days ago and stopped at the Hotel Belmont.
had evidently arranged everything for q
Ouick transfer. Within five minutes after
| their landing Mr.. and Mrs. Schmitz we're
in an auto and whining down to the Ho-
boken terminus OF the Twenty-third street
ferry. Two men who followed trantically
in a cab and who arrived Just in time to see
| the ferry boat out from the slip may have
been Hoboken sleuths. II they had come
from San Francisco they would probably
ave had an auto.
Herbert Schmitz had engaged apartments
i'm advance At the Waldorf-Astoria Thither
the Schmitz party was taken, after a detour
had been made to shake on the reporters.
| According to Mayor Schmitz's announce
ment. he will leave for the Coast some time
to-day.
q. II. Hilbert, OF the Hilbert Mercantile