The evening world., 1910-12-30
HERE'S A $4,000
REASON WHY HYDE
SHOULD GET BACK
$780, 900 of City Funds in
Robins Bank, With Only
$4,000 Bond for 1t.

Winnie our absent City Chamberlain.
Charles II. Hyde. II lost TO the world In
the general direction OF the Florida
Everglades, the complications begotten
Of his months absence thicken hourly.
The Legislative Commission still waits
with a most admirable patience for Mr..
Hyde to come back from Ids duck-hunt-
ing trtp-or his uucklng trip. IL you
favor that phrase more-and either con-
seD or deny his alleged connection with
the half million dollar purse that Is said
to ave been raised at a dinner In Del
monico's to defeat the Hughes-Hart-
Agnew Anti-Racing laws before the
General Assembly In 1905.
To-day 1t developed that the city is In
. fair way to lose $4,000 or more BY the
suspension of Mr.. Robins ain per-
forming financial institution. the North
ern Bank, because before he went away
and lost himself so completely Mir. Hyde
deposited upward OF s2OO,OO In the
Northern and only secured In return a
bond for $4,000.
Law Partner Also Not Here.
Moreover. Mr.. Hyde's law partner.
Samuel *. Kellock, appears to have
caught the going-away contagion from
his senior, for he-who might possibly
know something about the disbursement
OF that mighty sluSh fund-has not been
at his office for days. and there are con-
iiicting reports as to whether he Is IN
Europe or touring the state in an auto
mobile. Meanwhile. the only certain
sure thing about the whole situation is
that NJ, IINsl.F, 81. - q nAa .-..t
is being paid to him with most COM
mendable regularity.
Mayor Gaynor. VINO has persistently
refused to be questioned regarding the
long continued absence OF his political
favorite and closest personal friend. was
not at his desk to-day. He had gone.
his office staff said, 10 mis- country nome
at st. James, where he was ont OF relrh
OF telephone or telegraphlc commun'sa-
ton. Until the Mayor has spoken
neither the Corporation Counsel nor the
Comprehensive two officials most dl-
rectly and personally interested in the
growing scandal OF Mr.. Hydc's duck
hunt-will have anything to say on the
subject.
Nor can former observation-disclosures
NJ. Lynn Bruce. the patience-on-a-mon-
umsnt counsel 10 the Legislative Com
mittee, add anything to his former as
sertions that Mr.. HYDE was not for
mally subpoenasd because he was n
public servant with an office almost un-
der The caves OF the building, where the
committee has been sitting since early
last fall. Mr.. Bruce still entertains the
optimistic view that in due season Mr..
Hyde will come back to New York and
appear on the witness chair.
Mayor Stirred to Action.
There was a rumor about the city Hail
to-day that the Mayor has been stirred
into undertaking to get into cOmmunica-
ton with Mr.. Hyde's housoboat. the
VIVID Duck, which, at last accounts. was
gliding swiftly down the Southern coast
with the City Chamberlain and a party
of his friends aboard. II was even said
that the Mayor had urged Mr.. Hyde to
come back to town at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Mr.. Hyde's secretary went SO far as
TO Intimate his BELIEF that MIR. Hyde
would be home again shortly. although
he professed to have had no direct word
from his chief since Dec. -. But the
legislative committee is to adjourn. sine
die. on Jan. IL.
While its members are awaiting the
opportunity of listening to Mr.. Hyde
there Is an added element of Interest
in the part which the Robin financial
muddle plays In the affairs OF the city
Chamberlain's Office. II appears that
when the Northern Bank was closed
last Monday the city had on deposit
with " 500, 2ls.75 in tax receipts from
the Bronx.
But the face value OF the bond given
by the National Security Company on
behalf of the bank amounts to only
$4,000. an oversight which Mr.. Hyde. as
custodian of the city funds, might read
lily explain II he We're only here. The
difference, $780, ls, IS. Is VIVA the tax
payers may lose IL tie Northern Bank
hasn't enough resources to meet it's de-
posits. and in any event the whole
amount must be tied up Indefinitely
. while Mr.. Hyde blithely whangs away
~ the elusive mallard and the diving
red-head.
Prendergast Protests Salary Payment
A protest has actually been lodged
with Comptroller Prendergast againsi
the payment by him OF Mr.. Hyde's
salary for the month of December. The
protest came from "A prominent Brook
lyn man, who Is a large aXpayer ano
who declared to the Comptroller to-day
In the presence of other persons, that IN
Justice to the taxpayers Hyde's SALARY
should be held up or not paid at all.
When the Comptroller was questioned
regarding the incident he said
Il am not at liberty 10. nor do | d..
sire TO discuss the question whether o.
not I was asked to Withhold Mr.
Hyde's salary. Anyway, because Of
very intimate relations between the
Mayor and Mr.. Hyde | do not wish "a
he drawn into the controversy"