The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-05
BAKER And DEPUTIES AT OUTS
CALLS BUGHER SMALL: FAD
TO SPANK REYNOLDS.


MARKS were Printed. Thsugh ne
Gave No Hma They WereaT % ne.
The trouble between COMMISSIONS
Baker and his First Deputy Commissioner.
Frederick X. Bugher. which has been
brewing for months. boiled over yester-
day. He is a small man mentally and
physically said COmmissioOer Baker Of
Bughsr. lie also mentioned Deputy
Commissions Reynolds. who IL in charge
In Brooklyn. referring to a snub given
Reynolds in the presence Of most Of the
inspectors a. a spanking. Later he said
that ha remarks about trouble In the
police family he supposed had been made
In confidence.
When the reporters went up to see the
Commissioned yesterday q painter was
at work on the door of the ONCE which
formerly had been occupied by Deputy
Commissioner Bugher. The new sign
read Thomas Carroll. secretary to the
Commissioner lnquirers found Com
missioner Bugher seated At . table desk
In q small oifice adjoining his old one
Yes. I have been moved said the First
Deputy Commissioner. that's all care
90 say about it
-Commissioner BuEher has Loaf his
Office was the first remark made to-
Commissioner Baker when the news-
papermen entered.
Yes said Commissioner Baker. and
added that Mr.. Carroll needed more room.
as his office was a small one.
i told Commissioner BuRher. said
Mr.. Baker. that he was welcome to
take any other Office in the suite that
he wished. All he had to do was TO SEQ
Commissioner Kirby and have him fur
nish u for him. II he chose a small ONCE
that = up TO him
But the Office Of Commissioner Bugher
some one.
MIR Bugher 10 a small man and doesnt
ned much room said the Commissioner.
DO you mean small physically or
mentally the Commissioner Was asked.
Both shouted the Commissioner
He brought hia tis; down with a slam.
There has been trouble for a long time
between you and Commissioner Bugher.'
some one sad.
There's no trouble on my end 81 IT,
replied the Commissioner.
Well NJ anv rate Commissioner Bugh-
er's work has heen greatly curtailed.-
1 am a pretty busy man Said the
Com missIon eni gtna'iCally i can al
ways Tina sonnet hing tn do.
III j. also said that YOU and Commits
sicner REYNOLDS arVn Z IN the t.-st ot terms
and that YOU Gales him down The other
dAy before tho INSPECTORS
II" VAS Just sTaNE"t. sad ''rnn's.
aIonsr Baker 'in'stleCtuallv 10 IL not
big enough ~ uial,s t-oItl" for me.
There ism anv one here thar An MAKE
trouble foi mo and Won can ret vo'Ir
life on IT, no concluded
In the sftefnoon IN" Commissioner
saw the reporter. again lie said NJ
had Just heard t',A' his remarks ~ the
forenoon were IN the newspapers He
was astonish~d a. he hadn't meant them
Tor publication
That IL the Last interview the news
pasDeT men will have with me he said
The idea ~ SEEING any news IN the fact
that one II the reputy commissioners
has changed hrs ofiioe''
II vas pointed Out 20 the Comm sntoner
that IN making his comments be had not
KaId that they we're not for publication
which has been his custom when he wanted
20 keen cut ~ print and thai bis stenog
rapher had taken complete notes Of the
interview winch was not done except
when ne expected 70 see u IN the papers
He replied that he talk had been jocular
all the way through
1T came from a man who ~ IN right. :
he saId. hut had no idea that YOU would
publish such stun l have no idea OF
removing kugher II did hav" wouldn Z
20 about II through the newspapers
When Baker hogan his term he and
his FIRST Deputy used 10 go out together
for lunch every day Now Commissioner
Baker goes - lunch With Second Deputy
Comm isSioneT kirby According TO gos-
alp all communication betNs~n Mr. Baker
AMI Nlr BuEner - Iurried On through
their -yspet tive secretaries. Commits
-ioner Bugher's work has he,n c,it down
hi; bv bu he - no longer regarded a.
the di~ClplinarIan Of the force. Much
Of his work has been turned over 10 Kirby.
who ~ N charge % the department %
rrtsairs and supplies
Commissioner liigher n he feels any
resentment. has not shown y. IL was
noticeable however. that when Commits
sionsr Paker took his vacation ~ February
Commissioner Bugher. as acting Police
Commissioner. waG by no means the
figIrchead that tho acting Commissioner
has been IN former years. Almost i'm
meiiately Inspector Schmtttherger's
rai'prs went through the Fast Side and
when tN..y had finished their work In
Sp..Ctor Hogan ant CAPT Morris were
served with charges accusing them Of
permitting gambling IN their district.
When their case came up for trial Com
missioner Ba;<er had returned. He acted
A. fTiAA 7 tfFtNlrrt ~ - NArfFVsAIN
when an Inspector II IN trial The charges
were dismissed.
Cornrnis-ionsr Rs'ynclds was appointed
the first Cf me wear When he announced
tbs. aI,r Cintn. .nt 20 the new Heru'y Com
missioner for Brooklyn COn'missInoer
Baker said tl.at he did not know hun AZ
al. but that hs was god .r'"nd 20 Mayor
Csaynor II = rJ,'1 that t.,.. recent shake
Ip, in wh'ch Capt Miles O'Reillv lost
his detail "a inspector. came as a surprise
70 the brooklyn deputy Commissioner
REYNOLDS vas present few weeks ago
hen Con IN isHionsr Baker was advising
With his insy ectors a. 10 the hest way %
providing more policemen for the day-
light tours For sop'~ 1IsgeStion made
nv the Fourth Deputy he MAS spanked
by the Commissioner IN the presence Of
tbs inspectors.
CommI--iOneT Baker called az the City
Hall in the eft ,rnoOn G. talk to the Mayor
hut Mr. Gayn, r was - tied up with visitors
that he asked Mr. Baker "a call this morn
the report which Mr. GaynoT asked for
tw0 weeks ago concerning the nature
Of the ASST gni nenta 81 plain clothes men.
The Mayor has known that Commits
sioners Baker and Bugher have not been
on particularly friendly terms with each
other Of late. He doesn't know the reason
for IL and he doesn't care Both men
in his opinion are doing good work and
"a long a. they continue Co do 20 he will
take no he'd % any private differences.
providing 81 course that the friction dos
not affect discipline. The Mayor. despite