The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-17
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ON TAN.M'|.A.NY N l. n TIGER
Has Had No Nourish-
ment But Kind Words
From Gaynor.
OFFICES GOING
TO OUTSIDERS
With Clock-like Precision Muir
ply Submits His Candidates
and Mayor Turns Them
Down-Fcw Plums Are
Still to Be Handed
Out.

New York, January 16.-LkcS other
domestic animals, the Tammany Tiger
must be fed.j but since William J. Gay
nor was elected Mayor Of Greater Nav
York the tigers diet has been almost
exclusively kind words. Charles f..
Murphy. the leader of Tammany. has
paid three visits to the Gaynor house
In Brooklyn and three to City Hall, but
he has brought away hardly more than
cheerful smile. Nevertheless, every
Tammany office-seeker continues to be
told lyon must gee Murphy first"
The sages OF the organization have
anomaly which is both ingenious and
Instructive. The Mayor is reported to
have said to Murphy:
II am grateful to you for your sup
port in the campaign. Any names you
submit shall have preference. But
they must be good names,
Works Perfectly.
Under this agreement, which thus
far has worked with automatic, pre-
clsion, Murphy submits the names and
the Mayor rejects them. In the first
two weeks Of his administration, the
Mayor has distributed nearly 100000
WORTH of patronage and issued orders
that will affect the distribution OF
hundreds OF Thousands more without
giving Tammany so much as "a look
in.r
Out of thirty-five Tammany district
lenders. just one has got Job. Out
OF a long list of new commissioners
appointed. at salaries ranging from
$1,000 to $500, just one Is a Tammany
man-Rhinelander Waldo. the new
Fire Commissioner. And the first
thing Waldo did was TO abolish the
private stable the city has been nlain-
tanning for the commissioner.
So elsewhere. rssamntrolIsr Prender-
sgast slIinounced .s9n his ays Of Of
( fee that the subway was good enough
for him. Tie Mayor walks If the
city automobiles do not demonstrate
their usefulness they and their chauf-
feurs and the chauffeurs, 10y rides
are all to go. Park Commissioner
Higgins. of the Bronx, laid off $50 men
in the firstsweek- Water Commission
er Thompson has done away with
overtime and Sunday pay. 1t looks
very lean for the small fry.
One bright spot, however, the Tam
many men still see. There is no sign
that the Mayor will attempt to build
up rival political machine. Thus
far he has not played politics.
There remain two positions to fill
which in the public eye bulk larger
than any of the others-the Commits
| sioner of Police and the Commissions
of Street Cleaning. Both are now held
| by Mcclellan appointees. William T.
Baker has the Police Department, and
| big Bill" Edwards the Street Clean.
| Ing Department.
| Indications are that Baker will go
l n =, ii
| rest a large share of the success o,
failure OF the administratio No ad
4 minis tration is without enemies, ant
these find 1t easiest to criticize th,
] enforcement of the excise laws ant
i the morals Of the streets and tene
ments.
4 Open or Closeds
Thus far the question OF whcthe
4 this is to be a wide-open or a closet
town for four more years has not becI
Indicated The Mayor said in his cam,
paign speeches that he favored a lib
\ eral Interpretation of existing laws
4 The side doors were open on Sunda,
i in the closing days of the NTcClelln,
\ administration, and they are opel
i now. Will they stay open?
I Commissioner Edwards has bee,
given two heavy tasks by two Of th
,|Sworst snowstorms New York II ,a
4 known in years. The Mayor has ap
/ proved OF his work in handling then
and may reconsider his early decision
i to name his own commissioner, Un
i ldoubtedly he has been hampered b,
i difficulty in getting the men he wants
a.swhen men of high standards ar
A asked to accept the leaderships o
4 departments" he says, "they sgivc.thei
own private business. as an excuse
EThere is n. lack Of civic obligation."