New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-24
State Civil Service Officials
VIII Investigate City
Commission.
ELIGIBLE LIST WAS
IGNORED, THEY SAY
Seven Patients Leave Kings
County Hospital Alleging
Food IS Unfit.

Albany, Aug. 23.-That the State
Civil Service Commission is going to
subject the New York Municipal Civil
Service Commission 10 a general in
vestiEation, as told in the columns Of
The Tribune a few days ago, was made
apparent tonight by statement issued
at the Capitol. The statement says that
the state commission has asked the New
York City commission TO explain why
il permitted the appointment without
examination Of forty-seven examiners
of charitable institutions when there
was an eligible list from which these
appointments could have been made.
These appointments, it is alleged,
run for six months, and the appointees
receive a salary of 500 a month. At
the expiration of this period there is
nothing 20 prevent an application be-
ing made for the re-cntiou of these
employees for an additional period Of
six months or more.
The state COMM ssion announces
that il has instituted an investigation
of the action Of the municipal COM
mission in eXempting from eXamina-
tion this large number of appointees.
The rules of the civil service Of the
City Of New York provide that when
the compensation does not exceed $3.50
in any one year the approval of the
Mayor and the state commission is
not required. This privilege is not
possessed by any other municipality in
the state.
City Ignores State Request.
Recently the state commission re-
quested the local commission TO advise
Il whenever applications for eXemp-
tons from examination were pending
or whenever the compensation Of $3.50
was TO be exceeded. The first notice
the state commission received pursu-
ant 10 its request related to the APP
plication Of Commissioner kingsbury
Of the Charities Department for eXemp-
ton from examination of forty-seven
investigators and eight supervising in
vestigators. As the state commission
had but one days notice 10 was un-
able 20 be represented at the hearing.
The municipal commission lost no time
i'm granting the request for the forty
seven Investigators. Il has not acted
upon the application for the eight SUI
pervising Investigators because the
Commissioner Of Charities has not as
yet submitted the names Of the pro-
posed appointees.
The state commission has protested
10 the municipal commission against
its action in this connection, il ap-
pearing that there is an eligible list
containing more than one hundred
names for the position of examiner of
charitable institutions, which list, i'm
the judgment of the state commission,
should have been used as far as pos
sible.
The announcement Of the action
taken by the State Civil Service Com
mission I'm instituting an investiga-
ton of the municipal commission IS
the sequence 10 the charges made
few DAYS ago by DR.. Meyer Wolf, Of
the state commission. against Dr.
Henry Moskowitz, chairman of the
municipal body, and John 4. Kings
bury. Charities Commissioner. Or.
Wolf charged in effect that the local
civil service authorities and the pres
cnt charities administration had made
deal for the distribution OF Jobs
through the evasion Of civil service
regulations.
Patients on Hunger Strike.
Seven male patients left the Kings
County Hospital Brooklyn, Yesterday
declaring that the food furnished was
unfit for consumption. The seven
strikers" we're Daniel j. Mcnamara,
Of SIS Gates av.; Harry Venus, Of
22q saith St; Nicholas Flynn, of 3S3
Warren st.; Morris Cohen, Of $50
sheffield av.; Carl Minderman, OF All
Atlantic av.; John a. Clark, Of 32l
5qth ST.. and Y. VI. Dennison, Of 300
Schcrmcrhorn 81.
According 70 Mcnamara and Cohen.
they and their companions demanded
their discharge on Friday, hut were
told that they would not be permitted
TO 20 until they signed "a release 20 the
effect that they were leaving of their
own accord They refused 70 do so.
and were detained until Saturday. On
the previous day four additional pa
ticnts demanded their discharge and
left the hospital. They were Bert Or
lando. of 635 Rockaway av.; James
Murphy. Of 96l Hancock ST.; Antonio
Dclsiguore, of 36l Fulton st.. Jamaica.
and Frank Harris, of PTS West 18th
ST.. Coney Island. Earlier in the week
three patients named Nathan, Shepard
and McKleesc Struck and left the
hospital
Deputy Superintendent Poleglaise Of
the hospital denied that the aggrieved
patients had any cause for complaint.
lie insisted that the food was up 10
the standard prescribed and denied
that patients had been compelled 20
pay 10 cents for n raw egg or "A glass
Of milk