New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-14
mitchell PASSES LIE
TO THE MAYOR
Stirred to Wrath by Gaynor'S
Criticism of LIST of Houses
Sent to Baker.
WAS HIS OWN WORK, He SAYS
Thinks Way to Check Vice Is to
Investigate, Not to Write Let
tiers to Sister Mary, Little
Dog Spot and james
Creelman.

Dog Spot and james
Creelman.
E-fg,1-ariveIv speaking. a bomb ex-
,loded in the City Hall late yesterday
,s,erroon SCATTERING beyond much hope
81 raDair the amicabIe relations that
once existed between Mayor Gaynor anu
President Mitchell Of the Board OF Alder
men
President Mitchell used the shorter
and ugser'' word in charaeterlzlng m
situations. made by the Mayor N ct
ter to Police Commissioner Baker II re-
gard 20 the list OF alleged garnoIins
places and disorderIy houses that NJ
Mitchell. as acting Mayor. had sent 20
him The Mayor wrote 70 the Ponce
Commissioner that he had found the nst
TO be like or compiled from the hsl
made I'D in a wholly untrustwort1y
newspap per Office for scandal and sensa-
ton and sent TO US last winter
III is a lie that any list OF addresses
forwarded by me to the Police COrTlrr1is-
sioner was made up in any newspaper
office declared President Mitchell AFTER
the newspaper men had shown 70 him a
couv OF the letter to Police COnnls-
sfoner Baker gwen out at the Mayors
Office.
President Mitchell made no further az
| +enpt to conceal his feelings toward the
Mayor. saving with much emphasis
The way 70 control prostitution ana
eliminate gambling in New York CITY -
NOT 10 write letters 70 Sister Mary
/ LITTLE Dog Spot and James Creelman.'
but TO investigate conditions and take
action"
In his letter 10 the Commissioner me
/ Mavor did not mention the name OF
President Mitchell. but he refers 70 at
/ tennis made 70 create sensation and
/ ..baeoul this city" His letter followed
the lines Of the one 70 Chief Magtstrate
NcAdOo several lays ago winch were
/ generally taken 70 be indirect slaps AT
the man who was acting Mayor during
I the Mayors tncapacity-
List Antique, Says Mayor.
The Mayor declares that proof Of the
antiquity OF the list is found IN the fact
/ that A number of the addresses are now
embraced in the new Pennsylvania STA
tion. He orders the Police COMMISSIONS
IN withdraw his notices 70 number OF
persons that then property IS being USED
TOR Illegal purposes. and asks that apol-
ogies be made TO them
I Copies Of this letter we're given TO the
newspaper men after the Mayor had
gone home. President Mitchell was IN
he old Council Chamber upstairs az the
hearing Of the committee Of the Board %
Estimate on the 1911 budget A copy OF
the letter was handed 10 him He read
If carefully. thought for a moment or
two and then said slowly. weighing each
word:
If the Police Commissioner sent
collation. notices 20 any address TO-
warded BY me on List b which had
rot been verified. he violated orders. and
it is another proof Of his inefhciency ami
his unhtness for the Office which he
nol6s-
There were two lists. as stated be
fore-one. Schedule a made 10 q adj
dresses which had been verified by my
men The second. Schedule B vas
made I'D Of addresses. the complaints
against which the Commissioner was
instructed 20 verify before notifying
owners or fling violations
TT is deliberate lie, a lie. lie
and Mr.. Mitchell raised his voice and
Srr1,ct. his hands together TO lend en-
nbasis 70 his remarks-"that any one OF
the addresses which I sent % the Com
missioner was not based on complaints
received by me through the mails
Some OF these were. OF course. anOny-
,oous. Anybody can send an anonymous
communication when such an investiga-
tion is going on do not know whether
they originated in a newspaper Office.
II Police Headquarters or St James
Still Has Many Complaints
IT have in my Office to-day largs
number OF these complaints others
were turned over by me for the files OF
The Mayors Office I do not know
whether they are in existence now. OF
course"
Then President Mitchell made his ref
ererse 70 the right way 20 control vice
Icing not in writing letters
Any attempt TO make IL appear that
there was any nnisundersta nding IN the
matter" he added. is disinsenuOus and
/ q deliberate attempt 70 create a puolic
isconCeptiOn.
They cannot get away from the fact
that twenty-five indictments have al
/ ready been returned as to addresses IN
my verified list. nor from the fact that
the other list of complaints received was
sent 10 the Police Commissioner with
instruction 70 investigate before sending
vi~Iations or making the addresses pub
lie
Finally 7 want 20 repeat that u Is
lie that any Hsr OF addresses forwarded
by ne 20 the Police Commissioner was
made up in any newspaper Office"
In his letter 20 Police Commissioner
Baker the Mayor wrote.
/ have examined the list OF places
which YOU sent 20 me. at my request. as
the one from which you have been mott
I fyinE the owners OF such places since
!, september 10 that gambling or other
: Illegal doings are carried on there. In
stead OF il being a list made up OF cur
! rent complaints OF citizens. as I was in
I formed before communicating with YOU.
/ 1 fina IL 10 be an old one like or com
piled from the list made up IN wholly
, untrustworthy newspaper ONCE for scan
: [ daY and sensation and sent % ldSr