New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-02-04
MAYOR GAYNOR GOES
AFTER HEARST AGAIN
4Death Avenue" Affords the
Chance for Remarks on
"Rag-Bag Newspaper"
LAUGH FOR WORLD PEACE
piscursive Speech at Dinner of
Maritime Association Covers
Both National and
Local Policies.


his mind. and when he allows his mind
,,hertv Tor an excursion where II lists II
-, cover some ground. For instance-com-
rnerce. the merchant marine, the Panama
consI RAILWAYS trusts, war and peace in
Indie. China and Europe; Governor DiX
and Cardinal Farley the New York Gen.
t,al Railroad and Eleventh avenue, habits
NJ dinner committees in arranging dinner
nrogrammes. W. r. Hearst, subways, An
drew Carnegie. Henry Clews, the South
Drooklvn waterfront, pier extension and
New York's facilities for handling freight
They all came up in the course of al
hour talk before the Maritime Associa-
to, Of the Port of New York, at that asso-
cis tIon.s annual dinner. held at the Wal
dorf last night. One OF his choicest hits
was AZ w r. Hearst. II was brought out
in connection with a few minutes discus
sion Of the railway tracks in Eleventh ave
nul
you know that now for several years"
said the Mayor. you have seen pill each
vesr IN the Legislature TO take the tracks
from what they call Death avenue coming
aoyn the West Side. and, indeed, the Board
" Estimate and Apportionment tried to
~ s d resolution for me to call out the
D. Ice and tear up all the tracks and put
2 cars in the pound. and the engines and
O.. that sort of thing. But IT didn't pass
Rough I believe it got six votes cut Of
teen That was as far as it got.
These bills have generally been fatherod
-, introduced by some ragbag newspaper
in fact. ny the same ragbag newspaper
each year The proprietor of that news
paper happens to be worth $1O,WO,OD him
self But he is bent on destroying The prop
arty and fortune of everybody except his
own. He has not started in on that yet.
And he has his business concerns, mines
and hotels all over this country, wherever
you 60 And men work for MIN In the
bowels of the earth and strike once or
twice a year for higher wages But his
bitterness is against other people Who have
anything. 1t begins and ends there
Wars to Go on as Before.
4 little while uefore that Andrew Car
negie had come in for 4 few remarks the
Mayor saying:
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clews and some
other people say we will have peace here
after. That's consideration hardly worth
mentioning. We will go on having our
wars lust the same. Unrighteous desires
will breed war as long as the world lasts.
Europe is the continent of conquest. See
what has become of India and China, ana
when they have got all Of Asia they nave
TO start in again nearer home. There VIII
be no peace until the last port is looted.
Eventually he got around to the subwayS.
That question was Introduced by refer
ence to a remark of the POSTMASTER that
the Mayor had the greatest problems on
this earth to solve. lie said:
Well, l have in my twcnty-SiX depart
ments. But ] disclaim 1t in the Board OF
Estimate and AppCrtionment / haven't
the subway business to solve as Mayor.
The Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
in which / am minority Of one has II.
III l had the power In that board | would
solve the question 50 quick 1t would make
your head swim.
And ! would do the same with this mat
ter of the New York Central tracks, and
tbs elevated track for handling your freight
IRON your ships and from the railroads
that come TO the Hudson River on the
Jersey side, as well as those that come in
IN the land side. But hope II will he
solved. do rot know. II is an irksome
thing TO keep nudging officials all the time,
nut IL I were to advise YOU, / think you
ought to have "a committee up to the
Board of Estimate 10 know If this thing
Easn't slept long enough. You will have
at least one vote with YOU BY the way, |
nave three votes, so YOU will have three,
and we will try to get II out and do if.
The great difficulty in official matters Is to
get thing started. once you get II start
ca you can do 1t. II then gets into the
GdnG6 OF the engineers ana practical people
and they go ahead; they do something.
In Defence Of Central.
BU, that was not the end Of what he had
20 say about the New York Central and
:,eventh avenue There was good deal
u defence of the railroad before he got
through. saying:
Las. year they had bill up in Albany
that IL the New York Central did not take
~ heir tracks in six months and get out.
then the tracks were TO be pulled up and
the company was to be put out. Just think
York when the city needed them badly
tbs railroad did. IL got its tracks legitl-
mately, and more than that: II the tracks
very torn up in the City of New York this
p. the commerce Of this city would
most come TO a standstill tomorrow.
ut that sort Of business is called states
snip by some people. My own notion
rat when the votes are counted that
IF craftsmanship will be found at a
ling discount all the time He finds
Z, what is the law of the case? The
the case is that they have a right
but the law goes further and says
when their location becomes incon-
It or dangerous the city has right
SIS law TO give them a substitute
to put them in another place where
won't do harm. Well, Tomkins and
our heads together last winter and
i:ew a bill up TO this effect-that we
"a give that railroad substitute route
te places Underground anu some pldCeS
'.Sead, but nowhere on the ground any
~ the ragbag bill went through flying.
ut statesmen at Albany picked Ii up ahead
g our bill and put 1t right through. or
GOOSE every sensible person-not to say
every sensible lawyer-knew that il was not
worth the paper 1t was written on, and
suppose the man who was back OF IL knew
II perfectly well. But once you try TO get
"a i've on claptrap you never get over IL.
CCleptrap then becomes tho diet that you
HSe on. You swell out and puff UP in the
r-' of the groundllngs and look so i'm
mt when you deal IN claptrap.
! I had, OF course. TO veto that bill
IT came to the City Hall. And then
by lain force and with no help except
City Hall-Mr. Tomkins did get the bill
thrcllgh at Albany, and II was approved by
myself as Mayor and by the Governor and
that bill was that before October / the
New York Central should file with the
Board OF Estimate and Apportionment a
plan taking all these tracks and showing
thsia either underground or overhead. out
Of harms way; and before the time was
w they had their plans filed-I want to tell
Sou to-night-they had them filed. =,
They did not lose any time about II at all,
and they are anxious to do II. And, what
Is more. we put in the bill that they mao
ara at no cost 10 the city whatever, and
they didn't complain about that either
rainly because II wouldn't have done them
any good II they did
Before he got around to subways and
Eleventh avenue the Mayor disposed or
trust problems and such things The trusts
we're the easiest things he had to handle
~ was all very simple. Corporations were
organized under statute. Repeal the stat
ute and there would be no more trusts
; Dust Ike that.
As for the .railroads-their tracks were