New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-01
Phi|ippics of W. J. Gaynor,
Chrono|ogiCaIIy Arranged, to
Play Part in Campaign.
PEOPLE THAT PURR GROUND
Have Not an Honest Hair in
Their Heads" the Mayor
Once Wrote to SulZer-
Off Press "wednesday

! including several magazine articles.
have been collected in book form, and
10 an announcement made yesterday.
W. B. Northrop, who collected, selected
and compiled the volume, says in his
introduction that the number published
in the book lis not one-tenth Of the
letters of Mayor Gaynor which should
be published"
The volume contains approximately
$50 letters. in addition to several mes
sages to the Board Of Aldermen, few
magazine articles. and number or
speeches. At this rate. according 70
Mr.. Northrop's figures. it appears that
the Mayor since he has been I'm office
has written something more than two
thousand letters which should be
published" or that he has written
letters falling into that classification
at the rate Of forty-five a month or
one and one-half day.
No mention is made of the number OF
letters falling into some other classi-
fcation of which several examples
have been published through the
activity OF the Curran aldermanic
committee and other bodies or indi-
vduals.
"r sometimes write letter just Tor
fun" is the quotation from Mayor Gay
nor. used to adorn the fy-leaf OF the
new book. and beneath that is given d
Inc from Shakespeare. His letters
bear his mind
The volume consists Of 800 pages
with a frontispiece Of an autographed
photograph Of Mayor Gaynor and VIII
sell for 81 -.
THE compiler had TO make his selec-
tion by going over the books ana COT
roenordence in the evenings says the
pubusher's announcement The Mayor
Poems FIVE ,stenogra piers busy. and all
81 tho letters were dictated right OF
tho reol' Mayor Gaynor is the greatest
letter writer and speechmaker VINO mas
ever filed the office Of Mayor oi '''''
city, ,,.--,,.
uavor Gaynor's well known philippi's
ON 'ragbag J. wspapers. ms Ee'ol's "
,bose who criticised the police toroe'
as well as his quaint philosophical let
ters are all to be found in the volume
which will be viewed from some quar-
,.rs &c a not inconsiderable part ot the
c,yror denomination and re-elecu9h
campaign. Under the polilcal CH0"'"
etances AMID which the volume Is pun
uebed the reader will be struck by the
Latter 10 Miss Juliet Shelby, Manh''-
tan entitled How To 9e Happy. IL Is
dated March .. 1911, and reads as ioi-
| lows:
NV Dear Little Friend: l should he
most glad to go and see you pay ou'
,.o,, know | have so many things TO DO
that cannot go everywhere. am
glad that you are happy. as you say
| Everybody ought TO be happy IL doe'
no good 10 be any other way.
when anything discouragng or ao-
moving happens just say to yourself
Well it is all right The next time
something good will happen. and then
YOU will feel bully.
4 biographical sketch Of Mayor Cay
nor precedos the letters. "hich arc
nrinted i'm chronological order, the hrsl
one being the letter OF January w.
,o1o in which he directed Park Com
r,;esioner Stover TO [ der the resump-
tion of the Riverside Drive stage uai-
6c north Of 72d street. Another oHl-
cial communication, 10 Street Cleah'1e
Commissioner Edwards. dated January
10 1910 follows. in which the Mayor
describes his brief but pointed con-
,,ereation IN the driver Of snow
| wagon. t reads:
sir: As | walked down Flatbush
ovenue BROOKLYN, on my way over this
morning. ! noticed that all Of the drlV-
crs of a long line Of snow wagons
which were being filed by the shovel
lers were standing about doing nothing
or sitting on their wagons. | called
one Of them TO me and asked MIN II
the drivers did not help to load tho
wagons. He answered: No, not when
the city removes the snow, but when
contractors remove it. then we Io.'
How about this. please? Should they
not take a shovel and help? They may
freeze 10 death"
The rat catcher" letter, to Charles
NJ. Frey, who also confessed liking
for Epictetus, in which the Mayor in
vited Nr. Frey TO the City Hall to dis
cuss expert rat catching In its rela-
tion to jury service, and the "singed
cat" letter TO the chairman Of the Civil
Service Commission, in which he asked
| if there was not some way to get lit
tie men, even hunchbacks and 'singed
cats on the police force, to make de-
tectives out Of them, preceded the ia
nous and more serious letter 10 his Sis
ter. Miss Mary +. Gaynor, in which he
gave his own impressions Of the at
tempt to assassinate him.
One OF the last in the book is that in
| which the Mayor strongly warned Gov
ernor Sulzer against ;he people that
purr around" 1t was in answer to a
letter from Sulzer in which the Gov
ernor inclosed his speeches and other
| literature with regard TO direct pri-