The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-07
LEATHER MEDAL TO WOODBURY
4NDT % BINGHAM AND FREELAND,
roo, FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
in Allowing and AbettIns snow to hump
Itself on Church street TO The annoy
ance or Grocer Callahan VINO He says,
Believes in ReWardlng ineftcienc|'

In Allowing and Abettlng snow 10 trump
Itself on Church street TO the Annoy
ance or Grocer Callahan. VINO He Says
Relieves in ReWardIng inefticiency'
Police Commissioner Bingham, Street
! Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury. ana
President Vreeland OF the New YORK Clty
Railway Company will receive thism morning
if the mails aren't interrupted, neat httie
packages bearing sixteen cents worth Oh
stamps and the inscription, Compliments
I of L. j. Callahan, 4l-A9 Vesey street win
each pac 70 there will be a letter.
It's A shame to spoil the surprise, but
yvhan commissioner Woodbury. opens his
ia ckag e he'll find a lot of tissue paper
Srapped around a heavy piece OF leather
even inches in diameter. The leather has
A half inch border done in gold, bearing
these words in red:
This leather medal is presented 70 he
Street Cleaning Department.
On a black background in the centre,
also in letters of red, the inscription con-
tinues:
For the efficient service to the city dis
PLAYED In its failure TO remove the dirt and
snow from Church street. between Nesey
and Barclay.
In the letter Commissioner Woodbury. Is
thanked for the jealous way in which the
Street Cleaning Department allowed a big
bank of snow to lie untouched in Church
street for q week after the street car COM
pany's snowploughs had scooped it there.
81 trust there are other citizens who will
follow my example and reward you with
medals of the same material, showing their
appreciation of the manner in which you
fail to perform your duties" concludes Mr..
Callanan's letter.
Commissioner Bingham's medal is OF the
same design, but is only six inches in
diameter. 1t is inscribed;
This leather medal is awarded to the Police
Department for permitting the dirt and snow
to be piled on the outside Of the walk in Church
street.
The Police COMMISSIONS Is told that he
gets his medal "as a token of my apprecia-
ton OF the efficient manner in which the
policemen under you command neglected
to compel the occupants OF the stores IN
Church street to clean the cutters and
sidewalks after the last fall Of snow, as
well az permitting the City Railroad Com
pany to sweep the snow into the gutter
OH Iu6 tdbl6IlN bllC Vi llS lCV
President Vreeland's medal. only five
inches in diameter, is inscribed:
This leather medal is presented 10 the City
Railway Company for its public spirit dis
, played in sweeping the snow on the walk
in Church street.
Mr.. Callahan thanks President Vreeland
for the public spirit and care Tor the in
terests of the public in sweeping two feet OF
snow into the gutter and leaving 1t there
for a week until the city removed II.
This is not the first time, writes Mr..
Callahan, that the City Railroad Com
PAW manifested it's care for the comfort
and convenience of the citizens OF New York
bv sweeping the snow into the gutter and
leaving il there, in one Of the most congested
blocks i'll the city:
while | do not know of any other citizen
of New York has ever appreciated the
effort of the City Railroad Company by
sending YOU n leather medal, | trust that
many more Of them wilemnlate my example
in the future
MIR. Callahan, who keeps a wholesale
grocery store a block away from Church
street. said last night that he sent Presi-
dent Vreeland the smallest medal because
he was merely allowed to heap the snow
into the gutter by Commits ioner Woodbury.
and Bingham.
The medals have been on exhibition in
Mr.. C%allanan's windows for over a week,
and would have been sent out before if Mr..
Callahan hadn't been busy taking stock;
"A lot Of policemen who saw Commits
sioner Bingham's medal, in the window
came in and asked for one" said Mr., Gala