New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-26
GAYNOR FRIEND OF BOYS
Sly Rebuke for Man with EIeC-
ton Night Reform Idea.
HIS VIEWS OF WASHINGTON
Mayor Shows His Oldtime Vigor
in Commenting on Topics
of the Day.

Mayor Gaynor showed his Oldtime vigor
and keenness of expression yesterday in
commenting on several matters that came
to his attention. He decided that it would
be hard task to try to keep boys from
building election bonfires, and suggested to
the man who wanted him to try it that he
might act as a special deputy himself
He decided that, while election bonfires
We're all right in their way, yet alI-night
Grated. He is going to do what he can to
prevent it He has decided not to grant
any all-night liquor licenses for election
night, although tremendous pressure is be
ing brought to bear on him.
In commenting on his recent trip to Wash
ington he intimated that the city was not
much cleaner than New York. He had
warm praise for President Taft
To haCkmen, the Mayor said they could
not expect any favor if they insisted or
charging more than the legal rates. and re
lated an instance where a hackman charged
him s. to go from the Manhattan end Of
the Brooklyn Bridge over to the HOboken
docks on the day he was to sail for Europe.
Mayor Calls 1t Boys Privilege.
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wrote to the Mayor requesting his assist
ance in abolshing the custom of celebrat
ing election night with bonffres. To him
the Mayor wrote:
Your letter of October 20 is at hand; but
ii has been the immemOrial privilege of the
small boy to burn barrels on election night,
however little he may know about who is
elected, and we may have some difficulty
in stopping him Are you willing to be
sworn in as deputy to stop him in your
neighbOrhOOd? What will the small boy
say or do to YOU when he sees you coming?
Are you prepared for that moment?"
For years hundreds of drinking estab-
lishmentS and restaurants have taken out
all-night liquor licenses on election night
and the revelry has lasted Until well toward
sunrise In most of them. Some two hun
dred applications for such licenses have al
ready been received. but the Mayor an
nOunced that he would not grant a single
one. Not even the few places that are in
the habit of getting such licenses through
the week will have them for election night
Statisticians were busy last night tigur-
ing up the quarts OF wine and the gallons
of booze" of various kinds that have been
laid in for that occasion but will go I'M
consumed-at least at that time.
Saw Washington After Dark.
When the newspaper men asked the
Mayor what he thought of Washington
whether or not il was more orderly than
this city, he replied:
Dear me! Dear me! Tell il not IN
Gath; publish it not in the streets OF Aske-
Ion; but I fear that Washington from what
| saw in a, three-mile walk after dark Sun
day evening. is no better than New York
Now, do not press me to say whether 1t
appears to be any worse than New York
But there is no one over there who tries
to bsfoul the city and scandalizes its name
constantly"
Asked how he was impressed by Presi-
dent Taft the Mayor said:
He is a broad minded, progressive and
prudent man. 1t Is always fortunate for
the American people to have such a man
for President"
The Mayor gave expression tc his views
about hackmen when n representative of
the Public Hack Owners Union appeared
at a hearing on the codifcatlon of city
ordinances to say how they Were injured
by the growth OF the big companies
When Alderman Bowling wanted to put
in the code an ordinance not now enforced
that no vehicles may go faster than eight
miles an hour in the city. the Mayor OBJ
jected, saying he thought the ordinance
was ridiculous The alderman said there
was a prejudice against having vehicles go
faster than that
Never mind prejudice said the Mayor,
sharply; the thing is to get things right,
no matter what people say