New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-26
.TAMMANY CRITIC
ATTACKS MAYOR
Calls Police Inefficient III
Solving Many Recent
Murder Problems.
SNEERS AT HEALTH
TRAFFIC CRUSADE
peplies TO Mitchers Accounting
of Stewardshlp-Alleges
Waste and Inefficiency.

A an answer to Mayor Mitchets re-
cent accounting Of his stewardship !"
oa,ce durinc the last fifteen months "
,bo Committee of lO7, william bunoeN'
1,roctor Of the Tammany supported bu-
roam Of CITY Inquiry, yesterday sent a
1o,,or 70 Norman Hapgood, chairman o.
,ho committee. taking many exceptions
70 the Mayors statements.
Referring to the Police Department
on which Mayor Mitchell bestowed MS
chief praise, at the dinner Of the com
mittee of 1O7 on April r. Mr. bu'Io'"
said: -,...,or.irg the
ool;co on the arrest Of the anarchists 81.
wben about 10 explode a DomO III ~
Patrick's Cathedral, The Mayor nts
Iected 10 mention the biggest p1l'0'
nroblcm of the last fifteen months
namely. the Barnett Ban mu, GeI. ~ :"
.ho eoiv;nC of this crime the romeo re
nartment has signally failed. IN thil lS
failure the department manlie'Is us
a,rootor failure to relieve tHe Guy o.
gunner and gangsters. f.,,o,.i,o q,
Wr Bullock submitted the following
lie. Of murders which have occurred
since January / and remain uhSo''eu'
- ror- poiy n Rufus Durham. ooi
49, f,iri IN the West Meadows al il.y ,,1 =.
TeIrriary g. l9lj-Nne1a Iu''I l,uI t.f,rirct AMI
death IN her room Al 81 E'' ''''
IFahy,,ry X lqis-Antoulo Cincotta shot 10 DEAN
IN 'front.' OF % Union street. R ,le, ni.bt clerk O;
Hotel Allan. killed az post % dH,l. ro,,o-o Cohn
March 49, l3i5-Flgeyear Oh LN"'o'0
io.ul Wu' i9iS 0,to ZInu anl two employees chopped
~, 6.afh An cellar ~ Zun's restaurant % lN""
q aye %se.'' 10
The notice are called upon to act IN
too many irrelevant capacities to give
tho pronor time to straight ponce
work according to the letter. They are
turned into lamp lighters. taXicao IN
spectors, gatherers of statistics on the
eelIers and consumers OF meats ana
groceries. and on the prices OF meat
sugar. tea. coffee, -four, butter eggs,
milk. fresh vegetables, potatoes ana
fish" wrote Mr.. Bullock.
Tho Tammany critic objects 10 the
campaign Of the Health Department
against "overcrowding on the transit
lines and the regulation of dogs ana
ROSTERS" while the death rate from
tuberculosis has increased.
Concerning the Street Cleaning De
partment Mr. Bullock declared that IN
all the records Of snow removal IN the
city's history there has been nothing
approaching the waste and inethciency
of last years snow removal under this
administration"
Referring to the Mayors pet prof
set" the construction of the South
Brooklyn marginal railroad, the writer
points 70 "only a few reasons for doubt
and misgivings as 70 the whole propo-
ston."
The statement Of the Mayor that fire
prevention has been carried forward
and improved, with the result that the
FIRE loss has been kept TO figure lower
than that Of any year since 1907. with
the exception Of two years, Is not
based upon facts. according to Mr. Bull
lock. The test Of fire prevention is the
reduction Of fires, he declared, and in
stead of going down the figures have
gone up. The number Of fires IN 1913
was l2.95S and i'm 1914 was 14,425
The payroll OF the Charities Depart
ment has been swelling without cor
responding increase IN the service to
the poor. and Commissioner John A..
Kingsbury and other officials in the
department have too many automobiles
at their service, Mr. Bullock pointed
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