New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-03
TO, QUIET ANVIL CHORUS.
Mayor Opens Budget Exhibit,
Arraigning PartiSans and Bigots.
CROWDS VISIT ClTYS SHOW
Civil Service Commission Pro-
vides New Feature, and There
Are Moving Pictures, Too.

In order ito enlist the attention of the
citizens who hammer on the anvil and pay
the bills" as Mayor Gaynor put 1t, the
second annual budget exhibition was opened
Yesterday at No. 800 Broadway, and crowds
began to pour into the city's free show.
advertised for some weeks in advance by
the great banner hung on that other budget
exhibition, the Municipal Building.
The Mayor was there with other city
officials and after getting safely through
the crowd on the outside. he made a
speech opening the exhibition. Part OF MS
talk he devoted TO advising people not TO
be partisans and bigots, and to divorce ma
tional and state politics from municipal
matters when they went TO the polls. lie
said:
The intelligence of the people and the
observing citizens are what keeps the gov
eminent moving. If they speak out honest-
". not as par'isans or bigots, they can
help the government very much. l have
been preaching that for quarter OF a
century. / think we have great body
Of voters in New York who know that
they ought in municipal matters TO vote on
municipal issues and for municipal men
only and not persist in hauling in national
and state politics by the heels in every
thing. They ought to see that IT Is pest
TO vote for municipal issues and men With
out regard TO national or state questions.
That is why you came here to-day 10 see
what is being done in the city govern
ment. Ny belief Is that throughout TINS
city government there is nobody in Office
whose purpose is not to do right. To do
that you get blamed. There IS certain
set who do not want to have honest gov
eminent: those who make lot or noise as
over in Queens; they can make moro out
of it than out Of honest government.
The Mayor said there should be no sur
prise If last years budget Of A74,OoOc0
was increased. Borough President Nc
Aneny and Controller Prendergast we're
two Of the speakers, the latter saying:
The budget has been most carefully
scanned in order that the necessary IN
crease may be kept down as far as pos
sible. 100000 being cut out The city Dor
rowed in years past against taxes tHat
were never collected. leaving heritage OF
debt TO the present Board Of Estimate ana
ApDOrtiOnment, which has decided not 10
run away from the question as It's pre-
decessors have done.
There are many new exhibits this year.
one includes the charts and data prepared
by James Creelman, president OF the ClVil
Service Commission, showing the WORKING
of his service. Maps show the development
Of the water supply from the first pubic
well on the site of the Custom House u
the new Catskill Aqueduct.
Figures on births, deaths and marriages.
details about the streets, ~aterirohts'
public schools. Fire Department men TO
show citizens how TO get 'two-thirds more
gas illumination at one-half of what II
costs YOU now" as the sign reads moving
pictures Of the Police. Fire and other de-
partments, and concerts by the police band
are only a few of the things to be found
in the exhibition.