The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-13
ALDERMEN MADE
NO PROGRESS
investigation Of Police Conditions Re-
suited In Absolutely Nothing E.
ceptIn1 Insults to the
Committee.
EVERYBODY DOING IT
From the Mayor on Down, no Atten-
ton Was Paid to the Purpose Of
the Probe Being
Tried.
UNITED Press Special Service. !

NEW YORK, October 1.-THE al |
dermanic graft probe, which was
started with the appointment of a
committee of aldermen, after Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler had been muir
dered in the center of the white light
district, had for its purpose the dis
covery Of existing police conditions,
To attain that result Mayor Gaynor,
Police Commissioner Waldo, the mem
Der of the police civil service board.
and ex.police commissioners and Of
ficials were called to testify.
From the first day, when Mayor
Gaynor eased his slight frame into
the witness chair, alongside the In
vestigators, there was continuous
display Of verbal pyrotechnics. Mayor
Gaynor, in between perfectly nom
committal remarks and homilies on
virtue. managed to impart his by no
means flattering opinion Of the in
vestigators, collectively and in body.
He pursued Attorney Emory Buckner,
/ the luckless Cross examiner, with
running ironical comment that caused
| that youthful interrogation to wipe his
heated brow. Finally, with comfort
able sigh, he told the investigators
that if they desired to find out why
| certain men, known to be larcenists,
bigamists and other things like that,
were on the police force, they should
I call his police commissioner, Rhine
lander Waldo.
/ So Waldo was called He answered
all questions in a gramophonic voice,
A except when asked questions that
needed an opinion. Then he would
reply:
II am not here to think. Ask me
questions and I'll answer"
i He told the investigators that the
policemen in question had been GER
titled to him by the police civil ser
vice commission So the investiga-
tors hurriedly called the members OF
the commission. James r. Creelman
an ex-war correspondent, the presl
dent, was the second member called
to the stand. He answered whatever
questions he liked, until he lost his
temper When he did, he turned
loose some exquisitely worded barbs
that expressed in flaming words, just
what he thought of aldermen In gen
eral He called them petty politi
clans" and he turned to Buckner, the
cross examiner, and called him 6
: liar Buckner asked him to repeat
it, and Creelman, obligingly did, ad
: ding few titles like "upstart," ant
"pettifogger."
Then the investigators again called
: Commissioner Waldo, in an effort t.
find out how the officers with jai
records got on the force Waldo, al
communicative as before, added /;
tew touches to the general abuse which
, the investigators had undergone, anc
left the stand.
In the meantime the investigators
! reading continually about what thei
plans were. with the information at
tributed to Chairman Curran, begal
: to get FESTIVE, and Alderman Bowling
member of the committee announ
$ ced that the chairman reminded hin
of "bungstarter in saloon whel
he pounded his gavel. He added a
: an afterthought that he was able Il
y take care of himself there or an,
: place else. Curran, still rapping, pai
: no heed to the implied invitation.