New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-27
SPECIAL POLICE WILL CO.
May0r Asks Waldo to Issue Order
Revolving Licenses.
GEN. GRANT COMPLAINED
Interborough Officials Say That
Move Will Affect Three
Hundred Employees.

Mayor Gaynor has sent letter to Police
Commissioner Waldo asking him to revoke
all the licenses of special policemen and
recall all the special badges they have been
permitted TO wear.
The Mayors attention was called to the
fact that some Of these specials were
still i'm existence through complaint made
by Major General Grant that two privates
in the United States army We're excluded
from a dancing pavilion at Coney Island on
July T.
Mayor Gaynor straightway wrote 10 COM
missioner Waldo. In giving out this letter
for publication Yesterday Mayor Gaynor
said: There are some people who would
like to have d Mayor in their employ as
well as a special policeman to do their
bidding"
The Mayor would not say whom he had
in mind. but declared that that person
would understand when he read the state
, ment
The order would affect not only men en-
ployed by the Interborough Rapid Transit
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit companies,
but also men in banks, amusement resorts
and other public places.
said that inasmuch as no official notifica-
ton had as yet been received regarding the
matter no provision had been made 10
meet it 1t would affect three hundred men
in the corporations employ, il was main
tanned, whose services the company would
be very sorry TO lose. II was said at the
office Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany that there were only fifteen men hold
| ing special police badges.
In his letter to the Police Commissioned
the Mayor said in part:
| note that General Grant says I'm his let
ter that Special Policeman g. Clark, IN
accordance with the instructions of the pro
| prietor, excluded the soldiers. ! had sup
posed that all these special policemen
| hired out by the Police Department 10 pri-
| Vate individuals to do their bidding, ano
who often commit the grossest Cutrages
| at the command of their employers, had
| been called in and their badges taken from
! them. If any have been allowed 10 remain
| through oversight please have them re-
moved at once.
II is contrary to the first principles OF
government to put puolic officers in tn,
| employ Of private individuals, to be paid
| by them and directed In the performance
OF their duty by them. II they do not dc
what these private individuals tell them e
do then they are DISCHARGED. The result Is
| that many wrongs are perpetrated by these
| special officers AT the command of the pri-
vate individuals who employ them. Such d
condition is intolerable Let private indi-
vtduals and corporations hire their owl
watChmen and servants as best they can
| We cannot create policemen 10 he hired out
| to them and put under their orders.
Ernie r. Sulzer. the proprietor Of Suffers
| Hall. at Coney Island. was formerly tho
proprietor OF Suffers Harlem River Casino
| He said last night that on the evening OF
| July a reception was held under the
auspices OF the Coney Island Athletic club
"A good many people came here without
invitations. and those that did not have
them were put out he said. but ! do
not remember any soldiers being elected
However. if they did not have invitations
they could not get in. don't employ any
special policemen, in the sense that they
are deputled by the city Of New York
have two men I'm gray uniforms, who have
deputy sheriffs shields