The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-14
Mitchell SAYS GAYNOU LIES
RENEHED PREDICTIONN ~ I
ma nm az ESTIH arr M STIP.
MaNor Orders NPOIOGIe> is FSrIy NSrr
Pieces oG real Estate Imprsperiy
SlurTrd says ThAt Nlichel'S ILsI
ISSks Lite . Newspaper AniIaur

OF the Bnard 81 Aldermen have spill,
Mr. Gavhor wrute yesterday Ia Police
Commissioner Raker directing him Ia
apologize Ia several II the property
owners whose names appeared on list
81 llle gal resorts that MIR Mitchell sent
90 the Police Department while he was
acting Mayor. for the reason that the list
was like or COMPLIED from a compilation
made in a newspaper once already found
Ca be- valneless
When the letter written by the Mayor
to Commissioner Baker was shown 10 Mr..
Mitchell he said that any statement that
the addresses did not come To him through
the mails was "a deliberate lie
The Mayors letter was sent in reply to
a communicates he had received from
Commissioner Baker enclosing the list
which Mitchell handed to him as being a
list II disorderly places Mr. Baker said
that as a result 81 his investi cations he
had found that the Mitchell list was un-
justified and that most Of the addresses
on the list were those 10 either business
or manufacturing premises or 81 places
against which there was no basis for COM
plant The Mayors reply to Mr.. Baker
was.
| have examined the list ~ places which
Won sent to the a. INV request a. the one
from which YOU have been notifying the
owners OF such places since September 10
that gambling or other illegal doIngs are
carried on there Instead Of " being a
hat TnaHR n pnlatuta az a. l.
Iens as was informed before communicat
ing with you I find u 10 be an old one like
or complied from the list made NJ in a
wholly untrustworihy newspaper once
for scandal and s.nsa ion and sent 90 Ne
last winter and found TO he 50 trumped
up And ina ccurate that ~ could not he used
basis for ofticisl action. Proof Of tho
antiquity Of the present list. instead OF II
being made ~ Of current compla ints, -
found IN the one fact alone that eleven
of the houses u complains of are embra ced
in the Pennsylvsnia Railroad station and |
terminal In Manhattan. having been taken
for that u-e about Ave yea r. ago. not 20 men |
ton other similar facts.
Please make a full apology to the Jordan |
y Mott Iron Works for having served |
such NOTICE on them IN respect 81 their |
property Isl Past i3:th street. and with !
drAS ~ Also take the same cour~e ~ 1
once in respect 1T any Of the OWn~t- Of The /
follOwins 'hiriy-nine properties on the |
said list Who have been served with such /
notice, unless You can show me reason /
10 the contrary. namely ~ and I.s Wee, 1
Third street. ~ tr-enNich avenue. iN0 West
Thirty second street ia2 West Thirty
second street ISs West Thirty second /
street. rs West Thfty-HeCond street 80
Ns-' rh,T'V- second street la West Thlrty.
SECOND street ~ West TVrnty ninth street
- aud ~ West Iwrnty eighth street ia2 |
MsSi Thirty second street. -. 80 -. in
elusive, West Thiftv-'lIrd street $50 IVES,
Thir'y-ihIrd street. Ias Nest Thirty third
street corners 81 Fortv-thifd street and
SiNth avenue. southwest corner I's'h street
and Third avenue. iO1 IsnoN avenue. SEA
eutral ParA West a. aud =; Nest lISfh
street 81 Past I3;th street corners itsth
street and Third avenue. CORNERS i2Sth
street aud Willis avenue. corners BERGEN
street ipd Ralph avenue. Isa1 FULTON street
corner ~ Troy avenue 80 snd 80 Myrtle
avenue m" notice VA thrS- cs-~s ~--ms
regret iha' you should lave gwen
{ redrn'r 10 such q It, AM SCI, 81 accusing
no',r-s on the uW n-r- uu irt o. Tor van snow
how great NV vI-L has ne. ant b. ma ~" !
pOll,s proceed IN regular. pe-sIs'"u. an
.tr',' Cours. 20 minimry" wee "a rms 'iiv
ami ~ con uunct .on vtth tue District N'i"I.
nov. instead of NUh noise gui s"usafiuu
ant scan ialor~ aC"usa't"n~ asaIn~i ru-
NV ~ a refuge 81 wee hprra- ~ tIs ~
more than - -harn. tu -av he worst 'uu-
pared Ni'h other cifi"- an lo'Aiiti-- ~"
injury done - the ,t,N pN the prr'uut,e a.
piIbl.,l' ion 81 such sru-t 'fpusli-m - very
r--at ani O. must he -'orp-d N 'h" pol,r"
petAum.nf No other city - ~. 80 ru
such treatment bv o.. or''tal- or ary e. -
citizens an ! no on over v,r lp' q dl' t,.,lI
but Of attempting To -'a.'G.ts' or hrfuGl
hl- cry " 6NhN"E, Ma,nr
IN. Lew-pap"r "ffic. referred :, ~
Mr. Gavnnr'z letter ~ the ONO, IT IA"
Hearst newspapers
When the Maynr> letter was sh WI 3
10 Mr. Mitchell he read II carefully ami
hen pounding h., fists togcrher he sad
~ is y deliberate lc l. I ,. he. 4, Won
10 sav that any ~ the al. !
irs-s.s which I ssnt - the Police Com
missioner were not basel uppn compliant
-cceiyed by me through he mails Some !
= these were ~ cpursr ANONYMOUS q
INV one could send gIch anonymnIs
when our Investigations
we're going on and I would no' b. able
% tell wh.iher they came from n news
PAPER once. Police Hesdqua rters or ~
lanes ! have in my ONCE TO-DAY =
A rye number 81 these complaints Oth..rs Z
we're turned over nv me for the files - I
he Mayors ONCE but | am not 81 course }
n a position - know nov II they are stilI !
n existence
The way 10 control prostitution ard :
.hminate gambling IN New York j. not .
q write letters To Sister Mary. Iutl" ;
D-z Spot "r James Creelman. but T." y
nv~Stiz gate the real conditions A. they !
ris' and i1k" summary action ANY Z
ttempt to make " appear that there was =
Inr Misunderstanding IN this matter b
, q snRenuoua and = deliberai" attempt a
% create a public mIscoDceptiOn They |,
a mot get away from the fact that
twenty-five indictments have already
cen returned a. ~ the addresses ~ my
erifisd list, nor from the fact that IN"
4 her list - complaints was sent - tho
'olice Commissioner with instructions
. investigate before making the lists
,IbIic Finally ! want Ia say that - IL
Ito that any list nt addresses forwarded '
" me - the Police Commissioner Was q
made up ~ any Newspaper Office "
The Mayor had left the city Hall wher q,
o. Mitchell made this statement
The CITY Hall philosophers ar" more =
han ever determined now that the Board q
4 Estimate shall bust up. with Mitchell. {
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