New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-01
CLERGY TO AID MAYOR
IN IMPROVING POLICE
Conference of Church Fedora
ton Sends Committee to City
Hall with Resolutions.
RECEIVED WITH COURTESY
Glad They Don't Ask Waldo's
Dismissal, Gaynor Says; with
Their Help and Gods
He'll End Graft.


He'll End Graft.
What might have served as an oppor-
tunity TO arouse anew Mayor Gaynor
wrath and lead him to utter in Droader
way than usual his oft repeated I'll opih-
ion regarding certain fault findins MINIS
ters for whom he has no liking, turheu
into almost a love feast In his honor
office Yesterday. when a committee OF
c,ergymen appointed at the recent Clerical
Conference OF the New York Federation
of Churches. waited on him ana espresso"
in sympathetic terms their Willingness 10
co operate with him and the police IN
every way in their power in enforcing 'he
laws.
The Mavor was ready for them, FUZZY
expecting that they were going to ADVISE
him TO throw Commissioner Waldo out OF
the Police Department But they did no
such thing. In language diplomatic
enough 10 suit even the sometimes irascl-
BILE Nayor, they told him they came to
help and not to find fault.
There were several members on the
committee" said DR.. Remensnyder, chair
man of the committee. after the meeting
with Mayor Gaynor who wanted to rec
ommend Waldo's dismissal. But We more
conservative members would hear OF no
such thing.
Even so, there were members who dis
liked the Mayor very much when they
went into the conference. But he received
us with the utmost courtesy. We were
deeplv impressed by his frankness and
apparent manly sincerity. and those who
came sntagonized against him went away
feeling very favorably disposed toward
him. We found him TO be a digniied gen
tleman"
The committee was headed by the Rev.
Junius b. Remensnyder, Of St Jamess
Lutheran Church, Madison avenue and 13d
street In an address TO the Mayor Or.
Remensnyder pledged him their combined
and individual support, and then laid be-
fore him a resolution, presented at the d.
rection of the clerical conference held last
Monday afternoon In the assembly hail
at the Metropolitan Building.
Effect OF DriscolPs Address.
This meeting was addressed by Clement
c. Driscoll. Deputy Police Commissioner
under former Commissioner Cropsey' IN
words that were taken at the time as
severe arraignment Of Waldo, and as a
result of which the movement to demand
that he be ousted was started.
Resolutions along this line were quashed.
however, and a milder resolution adopted,
which was laid before the Mayor yester-
day as follows:
I The clerical conference Of the New York
Federation OF Churches, with a member
ship of about four hundred and NIFTY Clei-
gylnen, OF forty-fye different denomina-
lions, over three hundred and nifty being In
attendance at their meeting, and having
IN mind the present conditions In the Po-
lice Department, assures the members OF
the force Of It's appreciation OF the dif-
ficulties with which the police contend,
and also offers hearty help to them In any
earnest effort they may make toward
enforcing the laws; and, moreover. We
promise to tho Mayor and TO the Police
Commissioner our constant cooperation
IN every honest endeavor 10 improve the
police situation in this city.
81 am glad to see by the resolution
which you have presented 10 me- the
Mayor remarked dryly, that you do not
recommend the appointment OF Police
Commissioner in place OF Mr.. Waldo, as
some newspapers falsely reported
Helped by Clersymen.
lie went OF 10 say that the clergymen
Of the city had assisted him greatly In
his work, with the exception Of few
" hose aim seemed only TO be critical and
uncharitable. He assured the assembled
clergymen that the police force was In
good condition, and said he did not need
10 tell them that because lieutenant OF
police had become the associ 'e OF Grim
irals and had betrayed the Police Com
missioner the whole force was not 10 be
condemned
he declared that he had come into Of
fee determined to cut off al raft IN the
Police Depa p .ent, in VIII b .n had two
thirds succeeded already. and that with
Gods help ana their help he would sue
coed entirely by the time his term of
Office was ...
Then he went on to remind lem that
keeping down vice was a matter which
required cons ant work Oh the part OF ali,
especially Of he clergymen, and couII
not be accomplished all at once. He was
exceedingly glad. he said, that they had
confidence in Mr.. Wo'Io, because Mr..
Waldo was worthy Of confidence.
The members Of o.. committee besides
the chairman, DR.. Il nsnyd der, were the
Rev. Father DAILY, Bishop Frederick Court
ney the Rev l.. J.. Henson, the Rev. n.
y. Mclaughlin. the Rev. Ferdinand q.
Iglehart. Bishop Leibert, the Rev S. Ed
ward Young, Rabbi Alexander Lyons. me
Rev Thomas r. Bridges and the Rev.
Walter Laidlaw secretary OF the com
mittee.
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