New-York tribune., 1910-03-09
CITY NOT SO BAD
50 SAYS THE MAYOR.
Thinks New York Could Teach
Rest of State Something.

wsvar Gaynor won the hearts ol Us.
,,eeter numbers assembled yesle'oas ~
-, .e+or I'm state convention, when,
,rterrupted by salvos Of applause each %
-. to-,,ed as the signal for the brayins
~" ..o.,t,rous band. lie said New York
- Itself better than the cities up
s,o,s The plumbers thought this was
-. b,,+ the Mayor didn't Ills remarks
10 f=-st he had made since taking
r.. could be considered as in any
,o,,cl,ipr upon the question OF lifting
tho lid.'' .,,,,-,,.,,
- erecting the Mayor called him first
,,-,r,;er, +. Gayuor. and them correcting
,;.,eolf said: Il mean William j.
,,-.ei5c,,. FIiII Of the New York branch
s..,.o5 The Mayor, and. after congratu-
-, him on making the administration
&C ncssitie q business one, gave him
n. ,sme Of the convention silver
'i nc, Of a woman holding the seal o.
r,o 1savnr began by saying that some OF
5.rora,ss we're from villages where the
god people came from.
an, glad 10 see that the employers ard
,-o-l-e-s sre organizing and can come
.e,l,er on a business footing. This means
80 l., tbe industries. a man as unit
IN little and I found out when |
,.,-sn,a Mayor how weak ] was without the
lin Of @. hers Everybody is learning, and
.sr reaple Lelieve that the man who
links he knows it all generally accom-
,,ii.res nothing. while the man who learns
one thing well can accomplish good
5esi.
-Tcopia know Eov," he continued. that
ne know-it-aH amounts 10 nothing. ana
,,st Won have TO learn TO be plumber or
=. blacksmith You are like the doctors
sna lawyers now The doctor feels your
iulse and looks wise. and the lawyer tries
look as If he knew great deal which
,ru could not understand The plumber is
also inscrutable. and rips UP things I'm the
eo1se and crauls under flooring, while YOU
cannot tell what he is doing. The next
ling is a bill. Plumbers. however. as Il
.cIs are honest
To rUu a city government. said the
,Iavor. one had to realize that it had
rothing whatever to do with the tariff, or
t'sto or national politics.
The sooner you get that into your pates
he better" he said. TO run the city you
must study politics and read up history.
II is not as easy as You think, but I do
could not learn to do it if he tried Every
oue who thinks he could do il, however,
would not be z success"
Then he came 10 the wickedness of New
York
New York" he said lis better than
Roc ester. Syracuse. Buffalo. or any of
iIose cities which have been calling II bad
TIE people there should come here and
ind that New York could give their cities
E lesson in moranty anI order"
There was a general laugh at this, min
Cd with applause The Mayor continued:
The people are better watched on Sun
6avs in New York than in any Of the
towns ] named. ] live I'm Suffolk County.
aul there. or sundays. though it is a pro
rihition place. the side doors of the sa-
looms are swinging all the time. from morn
,rE To night and you can see clear through
The windows. as the shades are always
Co7n. all that is going on. even to the
Iftchen But in New York. on Sunday,
What fuss is made about the side doors
and how the people are watched, You in
the cities UP the state can do no better
.-an take a lesson from New York and con-
r---l - its exquisite morality and order
The apprenticeship question came up at
i..e afternoon session. and al night the
members had \ smoker AT the Lexington
oVera House. 5sth street, near Third ave
T.s
When the Mayor was asked last night
+ his remarks as TO side doors in saloons
meant that he favored A lenient enforce
nent Of the excise laws, he replied that
10 such inference should he drawn. Il said
thst Ne would have 10 be better here
than in other places" he declared; so
VIII be