New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-10
Eirenlen on Similar Pay
Make . Poor Showing
-@o by Comparison.

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10 Tlr2t certain high officials of The Police De-
pertinent l:ave mysterious sources OF wealth IS
SleaTiy shown by the luxury in which they 1--we.
Gut Of comparatively small salaries they have
been able 10 "save" fortunes. Many of them
tivc IN houses which are sumptuously furnished
aand which are situated in high priced residential
4sisiicts Not feEy, also. have their summer
homes thcir stock farms. their automobiles,
--fheir yachts. And some of them have been
sknoWE To freq"ent the Tacetrack and bet a
whole years SALARY on a single race.
- The homes of most OF the police inspectors
Who are now fighting the "anti-graft' bill of
Commissioner Bingham. at Albany, and who
have been accused of contributing $4,000 of
sthe Sl090g0 corruption fund raised to XIII this
measure, offer instructive contrast to the
humble abodes Of The higher officials Of the Fire
Department The battalion chiefs Of the Fire
Department receive Il salary of $500 a year,
and nearly all Of them live in fat or tenement
houses. The few who have homes in private
houses rent them and cut down the rent by
-subletting some of the rooms. on The other
nand, nearly all Of the police inspectors. vino
paid only 5000 year more than the fire
battalion chiefs. ike in private houses. some OF
which are valued as high $4,000
Take the homes OF Police Inspector George W.
AcCluslzy ard Battalion Chief Edward ].
North. Tor example Although Mr.. McClusky
receives from the city only - cents day more
than Nr. Worth lie is able 10 live as if he had
"a SALARY which was S54 day greater. The Nc
Clusky house is situated In West 10Th street,
bbetween Columbus and Amsterdam avenues.
II is No. 223. The building is fye stories high.
faced with white stone. with marble entrance
embowered with ported palms and eyergreens.
at is of the latest American basement type and
SITS appointments are of the most expensive
kind. The curtains which hang III the windows
are of costly lace The floors are covered with
fine rugs The house is furnished sumptuously
NeighbOrs say that some nights there is a
constant string OF automobiles rolling up to
no. :,33 and that their occupants who alight
and 10 whom the NcClusky footman opens the
heavy plate glass front door richly dressed
as for some social entertainment. Mr.. McClus-
ky does all this a salary Of $3.50 year.
MODEST HOME OF WORTH.
If YOU would visit Battalion Chief Worth you
need not look for his house where Inspec-
1or McClusly lives. You must needs go down
TO Greenwich Village part of the city which
astin seems 10 slumber as it did in the old days
when money came slower and was spent more
carefully Mr.. Worth lives at No. PA West
Houston street an old two story brick house,
with few steep steps Up TO the front door. To
the left of these steps there descends a still
sleeper fight To a basement floor. where. after
lie fashion Of the dwelling houses in this part
of the city, are situated The kitchen and dining
room. The street which was once in a select
residence district. is being filled up with imHi-
grants who crowd the adjoining houses TO over
flowing Opposite the Worth home are situated
q blacksmiths shop, a box factory and an es-
Establishment which manufactures wagons and
trucks. Mr.. Worth rents this house He says
that he has not been able 10 save enough out OF
his salary to invest in New York real estate
And yet his salary is only "a cents a day less
than that Of Tie lUEury loving McClusky.
When a Tribune reporter called the Nc
t,lusky home he learned from the footman OF
the establishment that his master at Police
Headquarters. moment later, however. MI.
MCClusl1y rolled up 10 his house in autOmo-
bile Of the latest limousine pattern and entered
quickly that he could not be spoken 10. When
inquiry made at 40. 217 West Houston
street for Mr.. Worth A member Of the family
came 10 the door and said that the chief would
not be home that night. as there a big fire
where he must work until next morning, if not
later.
Another illuminating comparison Of the way
The police outdistance the firemen in being able
70 save IS iulllished ny the homes or Police
Inspector Adam \. Cross ana Battalion Chief
John f. DeVamny. The inspector lives at No. 1913
West 10th street, and although n lacks a story
OF being high as Inspector McClusky's house.
yet IL Is fully roOmy, having a frontage of
twenty feet, whereas the McCusky house is
fifteen feet wide. II also is extensively fur
nished, its appointments showing considerable
disregard Of cost.
II IS on the second floor Of fathouse in 43d
street between Ninth and Tenth avenues that
Mr. Dsvanny lives. The house is No. 4l9 The
chiefs home, OF seven rooms. is furnished COM
DeVannV receives from the city only - cents a
Cay less than the sumptuOusly housed Mr..
E Cross.
Although some 81 the other inspectors do not
live in as high priced districts as Mr.. McClusky
and Mr.. Cross, yet nearly all of their homes
show large incomes from some source or other.
( Inspector Max Schmttbergcr lives at No 231
Fast 6st street 2 three story house, with a 20
foot frontage. Inspector Walsh lives at No. 3
East l2Sth street which Is in Of the most
select residential districts of Harlem. II il a
brOwnstone three story house, and IS furnished
fn costly style Inspector Flood also lives in
Harlem, IN private house. No. 2,J6 West l27th
street Inspector Nally lives in three story
house Of the most modern type. at No. POI
EdgecOmbe avenue. Inspector Titus has his
home in expensive apartments at the Abbots-
ford. a fashionable apartment house at West
End and SOth street. Inspector Nc
I.auRhlin, who receives a salary Of $1,000 a year
or $1,000 more than the other inspectors with the
exception of Inspector COrtright. vino also re-
G celges A3.OOb, lives in costly home at No. 90
East So street II IS four stored house, and the
8 furnishings said 10 have cost S1SObO or
nearly much MI. McI.aughlin's salary
would amount 10 in three years
HOW THEY EXPLAIN IT.
Yet, If you should ask a police inspector who
e living in an extensive private house Nshatrer