New-York tribune., 1913-12-30
WALDO RECALLS
TRANSFER ORDER
Bureau Heads Will Remain
Where They Are by
Kline'S Direction.
mitchell BACK OF
ACTION, 1T is SAID
New Mayor Viewed Commission
er's Action as a Hit at Sue
cessOr Is Belief.

After talk with Mayor Kline yester-
day Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo re-
scinded his order of Saturday sending
back 10 routine work ten ieutenants, one
sergeant and forty-nine patrolmen as
signed TO special duty. The order would
have left the administrative bureaus OF
the department in the hands OF civilian
employees after December 81 until the
Mayor appointed some one to take charge
OF the department.
Waldo called on the Mayor about noon
in response to a letter, and he was with
the Mayor only a few minutes. On reach
ing Headquarters he Immediately sent out
notices by telephone for the men TO re-
turn TO their old positions and await or
ders Mayor Kline said he had ordered
the men sent back so that the new Corr
missioner might not be handicapped
through having no bureau chefs, nor be
forced TO devote TO building up an organ
ization time he might wish for other
purposes in the early days of his ad-
minstration.
"The men have been transferred back
at the request of Mayor Kline SAID
Waldo. They were transferred in the
first place because l wished 10 give my
successor a free hand TO build up an or
ganization after his own ideas and Ideals.
The Mayor however, wished the men sent
back TO their old positions, and that has
been done"
Waldo was insistent that there was no
desire on the part OF any one to handicap
the new Commissioner, whomever he may
be. City Hall and police circles held TO
the belief that Mr.. Mitchel took another
view OF the matter. 1t was declared At
the City Hall that he viewed the move
as distinctly hostile TO the man he VIII
appoint to succeed Waldo. and that he
inspired the action Of Mayor Kline. As
ne viewed il, his nominee should be free
10 make such changes as he might think
necessary. but that he should not be left
without the skeleton of an organization
10 work upon.
BY Saturdays order Lieutenant Cos
tlgan. who. with his men, was assigned
TO the Detective Bureau, and Lieutenant
Henry Scherbe, with his staff, sent TO the
traffic squad, the enforcement OF the laws
against gambling and other forms OF vice
was left entirely TO precinct commanders,
a state OF affairs OF which some Tender
loin gamblers were preparing 10 take ad-
vantage.
Other changes sent Lieutenant Richard
E. Enright, in charge OF the Bureau OF
Repairs and Supplies, TO Sheepshead Bay
10 desk duty, and Lieutenant Thomas h.
o Brien, the practical builder OF the de-
partment, TO Bronx Park. Lieutenant
William ]. Davis, the Department. horse
expert. was sent TO Bath Beach, and
Lieutenant James ]. McCann went TO the
West l52d street station.
Chief Inspector Max SchmittberSer.
who has not been popular recently with
Commissioner Waldo lost the services OF
his right hand man, Lieutenant Isaac
Mulhauser, who was sent TO desk duty,
and Patrolman John J. Creamer, whom
Schmittberger carried with him on his
gum shoeing" tours after patrolmen OF
post was assigned TO a beat.
Creamers position was the most un-
fortunate OF the lot, for as he had been
forced TO give evidence against many
men in the department II was felt that ne
would find life anything but pleasant ss
a patrolman.
Lieutenant Charles Zanes, who was sent
from the Bureau OF Complaints TO Pros
pect Park, was in charge OF the discipli-
nary records, a position in which expert
ence is OF prime Importance.
Last night the men who had begun 10
move back to their old places were won
dering if they were back to stay.