The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-11
COLER BULLETINS BROOKLYN
IGNORANCE OF HIS CONSTITUENTS
STIRS HIS ALTRUISM.
If Any thlng's Wrong Out Your Way, Even
With the Plumbing. Tell the Borough
President and Hell SHIFT the ReSp0n-
slbIlity In n Special Extra Poster.

Sibllty In n SDeclal ENtra roster.
Bird Coler is going to bill Brooklyn.
Finding that his carols stuck up along
Fulton street and Flatbush avenue for
people TO run into before they read nave
met the approval Of at least two men, Mr..
Coler has launched a more ambitious
scheme.
Hereafter Brooklyn is to be told what
it ought to know in bulletins hot from the
hand Of the Borough President, bulletins
that will make the Board OF Estimate,
Comptroller Metz and some other officials
turn pale. Even though they may block
the highways and the byways Of Brooklyn
the passing public ia bound 10 know Of
the sufferings of it's president without it
costing them the few cents that they used
TO pay to read of them in the newspapers.
Mr.. Coler is through with newspapers,
even the City Record. Who reads the
City Record, as compared with the thou
sands that must OF necessity read signs
stuck on posts in the market place or on
pillars of the Borough Hall?
Mr.. Coler started his little scheme yes
terday. He got out two editions Of Coler's
daily bulletin, one for the Borough Hall
and the other for Wallabout Market. These
we're just as a starter.
The Borough Hall edition of the bulletin
appeared early yesterday forenoon stuck
outside OF a window on the ground floor
of the Hall. 1t was in red and black, beauti-
fully engrossed by some one. Mr.. Coler
wrote the piece in his best style and then
put a head on it and had it set up. 1t read;
RECORD FACTS.
Upon recommendation of Comptroller Metz
the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
allows for the maintenance of paved streets:
In the Bronx, $40. 100 a mile.
In Manhattan. 1910 a mile.
In Brooklyn. sl,ila a mile.
They that have done this decd are honor.
able and will. no doubt, with reasons answer
you.
Through a mistake OF the printer. Mr..
Coler said. this last sentence was not
credited TO Shakespeare. as it should have
been.
This bulletin was in a neat frame, which
will have to do until Mr.. Coler completes
his plans for a real billboard.
The special Wallabout edition OF the
bulletin naturally contained news Of inter
est TO that hustling section OF Brooklyn.
Mr.. Coler's circulation manager got IL over
to the market in quick time yesterday, go
that both editions appeared almost sim
u~ltaneously and those who read both were
struck with the enterprise thus displayed.
The WallabOut extra was stuck on a post
and the post stuck in the middle Of one OF
the streets in the market. 1t also con-
tanned a beat" and the other Brooklynt
papers did not have it until their later
editions came out. This is what the Wall
about extra said:
Upon recommendation OF the Comptroller
the Board OF Estimate AZ n meeting on June ?
refused my request for money to repave
the streets of this market. Bird S CoLFK,
Mr.. Golfer tried hard yesterday afternoon
10 get copy for a night extra II is likely
that there will he more editions to-day,
with special editions for Brownsville,
Coney Island and Gowanus.
The editorial rooms in the Borough Hall
were busy last night and it was rumored
that they had another sensational beat"
all bottled up and ready to spring this
morning.
OF course, owing to obvious difficulties
not every place can he favored with n
special edition OF Mr., ,Coler's bulletin. Any
one who is really DESTROYS of ha wing a
special edition for his locality is advised
that the best thing TO do is TO write TO the
Borough President and complain that his
is dirty or the plumbing in his house
is bad. Be careful to find out before you !
does not come within Mr.. Coler's juris-
diction or is something for which he can
justly he held to blame. because in that case
you would not get q special. II it's bad
lluilDllk you Sl'llu II ROOu chance OIL /
getting u special extra reading something
like this:
The plumbing in this house ia up to your
plumber and am not responsible for 1t.
BIRD s. CoLER.
This could be stuck in your front yard. |
In addition you stand a chance of getting
Shakespeare thrown in for nothing.
Tit special Borough Hall bulletin did
not seem to attract much attention yes
terday, Perhaps this was because it was
rather inoonspicuously placed. The police
man on post didn't spot it until late in the
afternoon. As the bulletin in it's neat frame
rested on the outside Of the window near
the lawn, the policeman got quite excited
and hunted up Complaint Clerk Rooney.
That's on my post and l want TO know
what TO do II any one tries to hook It," he
said.
Mr.. Rooney took a walk outside. looked
at the bulletin meditatively and then said;
Let EN- hook
The policeman was still watching it at
dusk.
Mr., Coler apologized for the character
the fret edition, OF his bulletins when
that he intended in a few days to rig up a
billboard on one Of the pillars that make
up the majestic porch OF the Borough Hall,
and when that was done the bulletins would
be displayed there. This will be right
Beeeher. Mr.; Coler said that he meant
TO increase the circulation as fast as he
could, and probably would ask for an APP
pr preparation for a bill poster.
The trouble Is that people in Brooklyn
don't know the Charter" said Mr.. Coler,
the reporters got him TO stop reading.
for a minute, They don't know
who Ia responsible for things. These
bulletins will tell them. People are calling
up here with all sorts Of complaints and I
get the blame. or course, we are doing
This for nothing. II lie real altruism.
Take those sigma on Fulton street. About
weeks z eI-MAyor Sohieren asked me
why the street wasn't repaired. When
he was surprised. I thought II a man like
Mr.. schieren didn't know that | wasn't
responsible for what the Rapid Transit
Board did that a lot Of other folks didn't
know II and that II q time I informed
lbAfu. They won't road HthgA ahtnHa u ebA