New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

fesas they print and put And Of all things
They know that possibly if Mayor was elected in
this city who would get up and ask the LEGISLATURE
done BY hook or crook. 20 pass law preventing
them from reorganiZing until they shall first pay
have been maimed and msnged the damages that
sy entitled III s Dd s fF e4 o6 saI
ganize until they had Justly paid these people out
The Publir Service Commission about two years
ago undertook 10 investigate this matter tnat AZ
hgures iust pu es an giving them to you they
hired a ,aWyer-I won't mention his name y.
that be gave out an interview, to-nigAt say Ing
that am only goig 70 tag s ssS word about
him-the Public Service Commissioners went or. on
they started with that little road running down 70
Cortlandt Street Ferry. and they bronshL ouI I trs
there loose and somebody over here named Flynn mn
s2 @s ana what do You think they aid with Il?
Why. they took il the next day and turned II over
Which tbeg eontroiIed for 81 600 and they sat
down ana drew cheeks to each other all around for
LEARNED LAWYER PULLED Off"
Now they had been doing that in all these leases
that am telling you about. only they DID It there
BY the nyes and tens OF millions. and the receiver
they took SIC 6oO0oo out OF that in one lick; but
Ferry route. ana the learned lawyer did bring out
the evidence. oh. beautifully. But he tust
over with the traction people and going about This
city cheek by jowl with Mr.: William Hearst-Wih-
bly bad man am and how really IL am mt too ST much
They stopped right there. No more investigation
ana na' IT'S sS miiiiohs,ust think Of ieompared to
that S70OOo0OO that told you about is like throw
Isn't that so, my old friend, Mr.. Smith. there
o TeeOq b. ss s tb SsuI Wo yIu 0oo
since. do not charge IL to the PUBLIC service
board Ny friends, do not begin to criticise them
too Soon. They have done some good things. !
ernor Hughes took considerable care in the per
sonnet Of that board. Possibly II Hearsts s690O9-
900 can't prevent IT, may have to serve four years
And / don't propose that they be slandered and
knocked down in the city OF New York without
"a good hearing. have firm faith IN Mr., VII
one Is a Republican and the other. Democrat
but between the bad Democrat and good Re
and between a Republican scoundrei and a Demo-
cratic scoundTel there is no difference whatever
vestigation into these things
DREAD TAAIMANY OFFICIALS.
who was that-Ivins?" a man in the audi
ence asked. After the laughter and applause
Judge Gaynor continued:
You can mention all the names you want to, but
] mention none l suppose everybody knows who
| the traction trust, cheek by jowI and Mr. w r.
earth than that Mr. Moore. Mr.. Calvin and myself
should be elected into that Board of Estimate and
II
Parsons and my respected friend Mr. Timothy |.
Woodruff. whom ! have never said an unkind thing
stand no bsbin6 the chair Of two men and sit there
l snd obec+nHatS f,,s rest ~ I,S at everV move I
| have that more at heart. gentlemen than can
DO you think that any who has respect for
! himself wants 70 be Mayor simply TO be Mayor?
utaton and ability have. to be Mayor would not
stili Feeble Of body and feeble of intellect. II
you will. but with some integrity and some hon
Eee mo oe 40 oS n.y. 0o bo ,iftls the sre until
they get there. Now and then some get into Office
who show if not how great they are. at all events
friends and neirhbors and to the people who put
them there. And it all ended in nothing.
Judge Gaynor announced that he coined the
phrase municipal ownership and control before
William r Hearst came to New York" and add
ed: yet this fall he and those around him sent
me categorical questions whether I believed in
municipal ownership and control of public fran
ohises before they would have anything to 90
with me"
BUILDING NEW SIDEWAYS.
Subway building had been held UP for six
years he said. and then went on:
It goes against me TO say anything unkind of the
but win confne myself to the simple fact that alb
goIately nothing has been done. Six long years!
We had before this six years Of Mr.. Low. Did he
70 have good looking Mayor. but still you want
something done. no matter how good looking he is
ing except that the city had no credit and coudnt
build subways; that the city was bankrupt and the
and am sorry TO say that even the chief fiscal
thai the 10 per cent limit Of the ctys inGbedess
was exhausted, and that the city could issue
L! me tel you there is nothing short in the eitys
Gte1 NJ me city mas o9rTIw!ng capacdty within
but i i is thirty or htty millions it is ample in
forthwith not Wait and gabbie over IT, to go at Il
Up we prcbaby S %oud not spend more enc Shan
he course OF four years would amount to si' sxtV
millions. wouldn't it, and build two or three sub.
have ali the suhways that we immediately need
built that could build it on the present credit
Now. gentlemen, that covers the entire case. and
nnI;, 70 LEI So,, know NJ III rc ~ b On IL was
was only TO let you know why the Legislature
build the suBWsys ensbng the city f to s es
The building Of them from the contract OF letting
Service Commission would do il. Think OF two
Taps stng IN tae 6o3f6 OF E t wao wou,c
and embarrass the whole thing. There is more
the Stump my pdP can hs eu
very fair front in doing things which they had
made IN their mind; that the growth Of this city
ways be now built and built forthwith. and can
only say 10 you, without making any distinct
Two associates absolutely 10 hold togeter to stic
as fast as we can stick u the accomplishment Of
Board OF Estimate and Apportionnent.
JOHN F. cLARKE's DEFENCE.
Mr.. Clarke was evidently favorite. for wher
he was introduced there were many calls OF
greeting. His speech was mainly defence OF
the Tannnany candidate for Mayor but he
answered none Of the charges He said: