New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-18
mitchell TIRED
OF DINNER TALKS
Will EscheW Post-Prandial
Oratory Till Deem
Der 80, He Says.
WILL BE BUSY
PICKING CABINET
Has 1000 Applications for Jobs
to Pass On, He Tells
Harlem Diners.

John Purroy Mitchell told citizens OF
! Harlem at a dinner which they gave MIN
last night in Pabsts Harlem Restaurant
that he had decided 10 fulfil no more
dinner engagements for the rest Of the
| year. except that for the night Of De-
cember 30. He said he would devote him
self TO the task of preparing his municipal
cabinet
Mr. Mitchell reached the Harlem dinner
at II O'Clock. an hour after he was sched-
ued to appear. He should not have come
at all, he told his listeners. He was suf-
fering from severe nervous headache,
such as was largely responsible for send
ing him off to southern waters a month
ago.
Il find that the fruits Of victory" said
Mr.. Mitchell ARE sometimes somewhat
hard to digest. New York ought to have
two mayors-one an after-dinner mayor,
to entertain and be entertained, and the
other an after-breakfast mayor, to attend
to the work Of the city.
"Since my return from Panama have
been trying TO play the role or both, but.
I am afraid, without success. l have
found that | could not accept all the fat
tering invitations / have received and at
the same time cooperate with my COL
leagues in preparing for the work which
we are to do during the next four years.
There are now before me upward OF
1000 applications and recommendations for
appointments to publ, office In the city.
1t is only Just TO those who have applied
and who have sent in recommendations
that should give my personal attention,
as much as ] ran, to their applications
and recommendations.
81 am struggling at present with this
problem and l hope to complete the ex-
tremey difficult task before January l.
In the stress OF this work 1 am not able
TO discuss as l should like the problems
Of government which our administration
will face during the years to come
This is an appropriate occasion for
me TO decide whether | shall play the
part OF the after breakfast Mayor or the
after dinner Mayor. whether l shall &C
cept your kind invitations or apply my
self to the onerous task in hand AS
much as | should like TO do the former.
my duty 10 do the latter, and therefore
announce that l shall be unable to full
I'll any OF the engagements which | have
accepted between now and January l.
save only that last dinner on the night OF
December 81.
IF | do this l may come TO the begin
ming Of the year with a full municipal
Cabinet, and this is primarily what you
and all the people of this city want me
to do"
Applause at Mr.. MitcheIs announce.
ment mingled with murmurs OF sympathy
for his impaired health. The dinner to
which he referred was that organized by
citizens committee TO be given at the
Hotel Astor.
other speakers were George McAneny
and Marcus NJ. Marks. President and
President-elect OF the Borough Of Man
haitian; District Attorney Charles ;.
Whitman and oscar S. Straus. Mr.. Straus
pointed out that the fusion victories OF
the past had not been permanent because
the men whom they elected TO Office had
generally used the non-partisan move
ment for the advancement OF their own
pOntlcal aims. lie expressed MS nifn De
lief that the present fusion victory would
be permanent.
District Attorney Whitman promised the
support of his Office to the coming admin
istration, sincerely and fearlessly. There
is nothing that can be done by the Dis
trict Attorneys office TO aid Mayor Mitch
el which will not DE done honestly. cheer
fully and without the slightest question"
he declared.
President McAneny declared that tho
coming administration would not be
government by national parties. but a
nom partisan government which would run
the city on business principles, as direc-
tors in a corporation, in which the citi-
zens were the stockholders. Among 9th
ers present were DR.. Abraham Jacob.
Max Grifenhasen. William F. Schneider,
J. NJ. Horton, John j. Hopper, E. Won der
Horst Koch and Albert S. Nichols, toast
master.