Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-11
WALDO IS UNFIT
 SAYS COMMITTEE Board of Aldermen Vote to Remove Police Com
 missioner. ROCKEFELLER AIDS
ROCKEFELLER Al
Charges Grew Out of Murder of Gam bier ROsentha1-WaldO's
 Career Interesting.

New York, June 1O.-The question of fitness of Rhinelander Waldo to continue as police commissioner Of New York City was passed on by the full board of aldermen today the all dermanic committee. which for nearly year has been Investigating police conditions. The committee has recom- mended that Mayor Gaynor be called ] upon immediately to remove Con- missioner Waldo as having temper ament and conduct shown himself un- it to occupy his office.'
 Ry the ordinary rules the report, as it reaches the board of aldermen, will be automa .ically laid on the ta board stands practically tied at pres ent on the bill, but those who insist upon the removal of the commissioners are so determined upon the matter that they have perfected plans for an i immediate appeal to Governor Sulzer if the committee recommendation; are not adopted.
 This appeal would be taken by the bureau of municipal research, which has co-operated with the committee and which made possible greatly increased scope Of inquiry by obta,n- ing from John D. Rockefeller Jr.. gift of $25,000. The governor iras authority to go over the head of ti,e mayor in the removal of a city com- missioner
 Subject of Criticism.
 Rhinelander Waldo, has been the subject of much criticism, almost from the start of his regime as Police Commissioner of New York City. Sev- eral times during tn past two years there has been talk of deposing him from his office. but the agitation against him did not reach critical point until the Aldermanic Investigat- l ing Committee under the leadershi ? Of Alderman Curran began it's worK 1 after the spectacular murder of the gambler Herman Rosenthal. The trial and conviction of Lieutenant I Becker and the gunmen in connection with this murder threw an odium oil of graft in connection with the vice situation iE New York, added to he general disfavor into which the de- partment had fallen and the report of the Curran committee to Governor Sulzer, charging Waldo with incom- potency and laxity in governing he police department followed.
 Rhielander Waldo was born in New York; B years ago, the son of veal thy parents, both members sof old Knickerbocker families. He was edu- cated under the guidance of private tutors and finally entered Columbia University. In 1899, when but 21 years of age, he left the university and went to the Philippines as second lieutenant in the 17th infantry Dur ing his six years in the islands, he I served under Hell Roaring Jake" Smith and General McArthur in the campaigns agains. the Moros and when he left in 1905, to return to New York he had attained the rank of captain.
 He had scarcely been back in New York year when he was appointed first deputy commissioner of police by Mayor Mcclellan. The story of how he came to receive the appointment is interesting. Waldo was standing before Delmonico's one afternoon shortly after his return from the Phil ippines, when parade of policemen escorting the body of dead comrade to the grave, passed up Fifth avenue Waldo was struck with the idea that he would like to be deputy commits sioner and applied to General Bing- ham, then Commissioner, for the job He had no political friends, and knew neither the Commissioner or the May or, but Bingham was so much i'm pressed by the young man that he wrote letter to Mayor Mcclellan, in
 .roducing Waldo. The Mayor was al so impressed. The best that Waldo l had hoped for. was an appointment