New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-01

sane financial policy .s fundamental IN
genuine public service. For what he has
done and for what he has refused to do
Mr.. Prendergast deserves TO be re-
elected. IN him the voters have true,
well tried official. He has not gone
wrong, and they cannot 90 wrong in sup
porting him again.
No man deserves better Of this city than
Mr.. Robert Adamson, Fusion candidate
for President of the Board of Aldermen,
which office is equivalent to that OF Vice
Mayor Four years Mr.. Adamson has
served as Fire Commissioner, making
record never equalled in that difficult post.
Four years before that he was secretary
to Mayor Gaynor, in intimate daily touch
with city affairs in their broadest aspect.
He knows the city business from the
ground up. He has proved his admins
trative ability under the most trying cir
cumstances. 1t has fallen to his lot to be
responsible for protecting the lives and
property of the residents and business men
of this great city under especially diff
cult conditions, when traitors and enemy
aliens have been seeking to serve the
enemy by bomb and arson. His success
has been one of the outstanding achieve
ments in municipal government in the ma
ton. No fire department in any other city
has had such a record.
Under Commissioner Adamson there has
been no graft. There has been no inef-
ficiency. Without blare of trumpets he has
reorganized his department, installing
hundreds of pieces of modern machinery,
obtaining a new fire alarm system in Man
haitian representing added safety to every
building and life on the island. He has i'm
proved the morale Of his men. He estab-
lished a school for them, educating them
in the most scientific methods of conquer
ing the dread enemy. To meet war condi-
tons he built up an emergency freight
ing force of five thousand men and fleet
of 14S tugboats equipped for battling
waterfront and warehouse blazes. He has
made factories safe for workers. His rec
ord may be epitomized by saying that he
reduced the number of fires by three thou
sand and the fire loss by S6,000,000 within
three years, and did all this at cost to
the city considerably over a million dollars
less than if the rate of expenditure for the
sixteen previous years had continued.
These are vital facts, affecting every
person who lives or does business within
the confines of the greater city. Mr.. Adam
son desires to continue to serve the city
and fight Tammany in an office which
Tammany particularly seeks. 1t would be
rank ingratitude for what ne has already
done, and the sheerest folly, for the voters
to refuse to back him up in the continu-
ance of his splendid public service.
The Fusion candidates for Borough
Presidents, Messrs. Marks, of Manhattan;
Pounds, of Brooklyn; Whittle, Of The
Bronx; Higbie, of Queens, and Cannon, of
Richmond, are men chosen for their per-
sonal integrity and business attainments.
Messrs. Marks and Pounds have been
tried in that office and have filled it ad-
mirably, administering the borough affairs
WIFI honesty anu eA!SicHCS' CHuSi '"Ni'
there. have been no graft contracts and no
misspent city funds. Mr.. White has
served The Bronx as Commissioner OF
Public Works and Park Commissioner, two
important places which he has handled
with credit to himself and satisfaction to
the taxpayers. Among the five there is not
an Ahearn nor Haffen, who had to be re-
moved by Governor Hughes from the Office
where Tammany had placed them.
If Murphy could win the Board Of Es-
innate and Apportionment he would have
a strange hold on New York City, even
if he didn't elect his man Hylan. He could
control appropriations, salaries, the work
ing of city departments. He could nullify
the efforts Of good department heads whose
appointment by an anti-Tammany Mayor
he was unable to prevent. To do this he
would need only nine votes-a bare ma
jority of the board.
The only safety for this metropolis lies
in electing an entire anti-Tammany ticket.
Every man who votes for Mayor Mitchell
because he approves Of what he has done
for New York should also vote for every
Fusion candidate for the Board Of Esti-
mate ard Apportionment That Is the only
sure way to balk the Tiger.