The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-02
Mayor to Cut Out "Waste
and Frills'' in City
Work.
BANS SALARY RAISES
Demands Every City Elm.
ployee Be at Desk
From Q to ).
MURPHY STAYS AWAY
Women Are Given Two Places
on Reorganized Board Of
Education
MURPHY STAYS AWAY

John F. Hyian began his term Of
Mayor Of New York Yesterday by
pleasing Tammany az we'll ~ himself
In the appointment Of thirty seven
subordinates and reading to them a
remarkable address charging them to
begin at home in helping the admins.
tration to cut out waste and frills and
make democracy a concrete thing"
Mayor Mitchell surrendered his ONCE
with a speech Of n!nety-two words and
Mayor Hylan compressed his acceptance
into an even shorter utterance-such
was the unheard OF brevity OF the formal
ceremony OF transfer.
The greeting Of the two men was cool,
but as polite as etiquette demanded.
In the spirits OF the Democratic horda
that nssailed City Hall the temperature
was as high as the mercury outside was
low. It was Happy New Year. all
around ami then around again. and per-
hars the old boys and the young boys
Of the Organization didn't mean it.
At that it was more Of a Brooklyn
than Tammany affair. Two out Of
three in the crowd crossed the East
River to salute their freshly exalted
townsman. John H. McCooey led them.
Everybody was there except the difIident
Charles +. Murphy who from his own
vantage point looked upon his work an1
called it good.
SILK Topper bloom, shyly.
1t 10 small thing to note. OF cour.c.
but the silk topper hat is being spurned
from It's last refuge. the dome of the pol
itician. Not one in ten OF yesterday va
cclebrants was so distinguished Tyr.
amy passes. simplicity IL the fashion.
tne dear old one gallon tile has got not
the cato but the uplift. go paeseth \
Taaition %! politics. but probably the
cartoonists will not hear about +:
After the installation exercises and a
lew moments In tine Mayors Office now
/ hls. Judge lIyian crossed the corridor to
, 'ne reception room, and standing in front
or the onGrossed resolutions presented
by the brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, Division 40. Brooklyn, caused to
ee read of the names OF the thirty-ffve
men and two women--Education Board
, inembers--"hom he had selected for city
ONCE.
I Lieut. Bill Kennel. stationed as ever
, outside the door. shouted tie names, and
one by one the designated persoAs
w.dged through the t!lrong and into tho
Mayors presence.
Dcma nds Practical Efftciency,
After swearing them in lie read long
address (his short speech had been ex.
tempore) with Deliberate emphasis and
70 good effect. lie said that tie admin
isuation had entered office 70 serve the
people. and these were some OF the
things the members Of the adn,inistra-
ton mus. do o' not do:
There will be no salary increases for
employees now getting moro than
slSoo a year, for public employees
must share with the public the sacr..
tlces OF tie war.
There must be ~ .avoritisn, 10
Juggling with efficiency records aud
every person must DO "A dollars worth
Of work for dollar.
Spacious offices fitted up for d splay
must give way 10 real working guar.
ters
City automobiles must be used ,or
city business only.
Baseball PIensurcs Hanued.
"T do not wan, this Democratic ad-
. ministration +" leave in :he minds OF the
people" Mayor Hylan said. the pic
paid subordinates who lnll in automo-
I biles with hiG cigars in their mouths as
they ride through the parks or sit COW
! spcuOusly IN the grand stand OF the
baseball game when they ought to be at
tending 10 their departmental work
The praciNe OF having city automo-
hiles calling at the homes of commits
/ s!oners must cease Another objection.
able practice We shall abolish is that
of having commissioners or subordinstes
spend TWO hours at luncheon.
office hours Will he from, . to 8.
which means that everybody must work
durins those hours.
: Commissioners must not advertise
! themselves or lct thriy sIhord.nates DO
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Text OF Mayor H.Ian's Address.
. Judge Hylan said
We enter public Office 10 serve the
+, people. This is very clear, ] assume, in
S the minds of all of us. Our RESPONSE
= bil!ty Is singular In the history Of New
York IT measures up to the size of the
hour in which we live.
"Democracy expresses itself no less
in the administration Of a mun' i?ality
than in the administration of a state or
i "A nation. The American example Of
democratic government j. right. III
every instance where there mas been
c failure tho failure has been caused by
Y violation of the principle and not by
Q conformity TO IL
j The city % New York in population
IL greater than many kingdoms IN wealth
Il and commercial, and industrial activity
o inmea surably greater. Its ';oNrlnneht
y IL "A real test of democracy
at happens IN tn. course OF event
that In this most tremendous hour 81
IA. worlds progress an ADMINISTRATOR
lakes office in the greatest city III tn
+ world stamped by the social and polt'i-
1 cal divisions in the precedent election
+ with an imprcss or democracy SD d'S'
,,'uc. as to be unlniSiakable throushou'
y the who'e world
ic "We behold as W" look to the o!'
iWorld, ON one hand, despotisnl, mon'