The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-04-25
CITY OFFICE FOR BINGHAM
GOOD, SAYS THE DEFENDANT
~ BINGHAM vs.. GAYNOR.
chief Engineer ~ the Bureau NJ High.
ways al 1000 the New Post Bureau
10 he shaken IN McAncny Hopes
for Better street Conditions soon.

Gen. Theodore 4. Bingham is again to
, McAneny of Manhattan has appointed
him chief engineer of the Bureau of High
ways AT 81. 900 u year. He got 1900 as
Police Commissioner He will succeed
| George W. Tillson. who will be shifted
TO the head of the Brooklyn bureau.
| When Mr.. McAneny made known yes-
! terday his intention to appoint Gen.
Bingham the first question at the city
Hall was how Mayor Gaynor would take
| il. Ii was the Mayor who when he was
on the supreme Court bench gave Mayor
Mcclellan the opportunity to remove Gen.
Bingham a. head of the Police Depart
! men'.
Gen Bingham subsequently. brought
suit against Judge Gaynor for 100000
for libel. and this suit is now pending
against Mayor Gaynor and is before the
Court Of Appeals on the Mayors appeal
from decision striking out large part
of the answer.
! Mayor Gaynor said yesterday that he
had no hard feelings against him and that
he thought MIR. McAnenys appointment
was a good one The Mayor issued this
official statement;
Il should think il ia n good appoint
ment, as I understand Gen. Bin CHAM to
be an eminent civil engineer. Last year
when President McAneny contemplated
employing him as a consulting engineer
he asked me about il and ] told him |
thought il would be an excellent appoint
ment."
Earlier in the day. before MIR. McAneny
made it known that Gen. Bingham was
TO take charge of the highways bureau,
the Bureau of Municipal Research had
issued a statement in which il charged
naladministration and lax methods in
the bureau. In reply to this MIR. McAneny
gave out this statement
The borough officers have been At work for
some weeks upon a plan for the thorough
reorganization of the Bureau OF Highways.
A great deal in the way OF improvement
has been accomplished in the last fifteen
months as "A comparison OF results VIII
readily show. We have thus far. however.
worked with the old force. | have been
convinced that considerably better result
can be secured through general shaking
up OF the personnel ana through o,he'
changes of administrative methods. This
process will commence on May l. This
work. to be as effective as ] want II to he
calls for big man have offered the post
OF chief engineer in charge to Gen. Bing-
ham and am very glad to say that he has
agreed to take it. He will take hold very
shortly after the frst and will have prac-
tically carte blanche in the further re-
orga aniyation to he undertaken both in the
matter of personnel and of methods
The difficulties with the pavement durlna
| the last winter have been attributable
| chiefly to the wornout condition OF the
eIeaier part of the asphalt area. the lack
of a municipal repair plant with resultant
, dependence on private contractors. and the
unusual condition of the weather itself
II there have been difficulties attributable
, also TO defective administrative methods
, inherited with the old system and as YET
uncorrected these ! trust Will disappcai
before ten Bingham has gone very for.
MIR Tilson. the present chief OF the
bureau. who roes to Brooklyn. IL a high
ways engineer of high standing am glao
to say, however. that the city will continue
to have the benefit of his advice through
, the board of consulting engineers. of which
he Will be, "A member.