New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-16
Bruere Forecasts Brilliant
Future for This City's
Government.
WANTS WASHINGTON
TO SET NEW PACE
Chamberlain and Mayor Visf
President to Suggest Capital
Be Made Model.

An optimistic forecast of the future
OF city governments IN general and that
Of New York in particular was made by
city Chamberlain Henry ". Bruere be
fore the eth Assembly District Repub-
lican Club last night Mr. Bruere de-
clared there WAS a growing intelligent
interest in municipal problems.
one instance he explained. was the
commission form OF government; an
other. the city management plan.
Il believe the time is coming. he
said. when New York City Will have the
commission form OF government"
Incidentally Mr.. Bruere told the pur-
pose OF a Washington trip he made WITH
Mayor Mitchell last year. IL was 10 lay
before President Wilson a suggestion
that Washington should take the leader
ship in solving municipal problems by
working out standard plan for the va
rious city departments which other
cities could observe and profit by.
II hoped" he said. that. had Presl-
dent Wilson's time not been so monop-
olized by the recent developments IN
Mexico. he would have given serious
consideration to our suggestion. At
present, IN spite OF the growing 81 ic in
telligence. many of US are working OUT
these problems by rule Of thumb on by
recollection Of how somebody else used
to do IT,"
Mr.. Bruere's descriptive term for tho
movement for the betterment of munic-
ipal affairs is the humanzing OF city
government" Following the line OF this
movement. ne said. he had suggested 10
the Mayor the organization of a con
ference group" of city employees.
The purpose OF this suggestion he
said. is to see il we can't get a trained
have a plan of promotion and training
that will make the city service one Of the
most interesting and highly regarded
careers | would much rather have the
cumulative and average thought OF a
group OF men than the casual thought OF
the genuses who now and then arise as
reformers and devote their efforts 10 one
particular end
New York. NJ. Bruere declared. IS FAR
from being the hindmost In the national
movement toward municipal betterment.
The time r. coming. he said. when Euro
pean experts i'm city government will come
10 this city for advice and example 4
The reputation New York had ten years '
ago OF being the horrible example OF
government by a political ring for graft
is a thing Of the past he said. Already
intensive methods have been applied With
gratifying results and tho plans of the
administration for the next four years
can De carried out without adding
penny TO the tax rate \ premium would
be put on the taxpayers dollar. as the
City Chamberlain expressed d.
The city employment exchange. which
exclusive Of snow shovelling jobs, found
work for 100 men the first month OF its
existence and for more than 400 the
second. was cited by Mr.. Brucre as evi-
dence Of the humanzng of New Yorks
government
There are II 600 men and women sitting
tonight i'm the almshouse on Blackwell 5
Island" he said waiting for the clock
to tick off their days. simply because
something outside of Blackwells Island
went wrong. We spend four or five mill
lions every year to take care of them
Now we are seeking to find out what II
was that went wrong.