The sun., 1918-01-26
ENRIGHT SAYS
He WILLCLAMP
LID0N TIGHTER
New Police Head Flatly
Nails Rumor That City
Is to Be "Open."
BACKED BY +. A. WALLIS
"Going to Stop Gambling,
Graft and Vice." Asserts
Fourth Deputy.
4. D. PORTER SECRETARY
Chief Asserts He Has q Free
Hand and Politics Will
Play No Part.
A. D. PORTER SECRETARY

Richard EnriSht. the new Police Com
missioner. was asked yesterday II he
had anything to say - to the possibility
Of the lid flying of New York becspss
Bugher is out and he = in.
Yes, I have" he answered instantly.
81 say without qualification that the lid
will be screwed down tighter during my
administration than ever before, and II
anybody In or out Of tho department
thinks the contrary he is making great
mistake"
With this should he paired an avowal
made last night by FREDERICK A. Wallis.
Hcw York and New Jersey manager of
r'lc Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of Philadelphia and an elder Of the
Ffih Avenue Presbyterian Church.
uhrln Enright yesterday made Fourth
Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of
Iopairs and supplies and other depart
III 'ntal business matters.
Wallis told Of seeing Mayor Hylan and
Commissioner Enright yesterday and
ided:
Those two men mean business They
aie going to stop gambling, graft and
vice in this town. and I'd give my last
drop Of blood TO see vice. stamped out.
While i was at headquarters to-day
somebody said, You know tho Police
Department has been q graveyard for
many men, Yes. I replied, but this Is
going to be the resurrection morn.'". q
says He Has Free Hana.
In view OF Bugher's assertion that eon.
s'ant interference by Mayor Hylan made
his job intolerable this question was put
10 Enright in ysetseday's interview:
.,..u1f Ia -yo4 consider thak you have tree
hand IN i1hnine the AspartmsAt!'' aa@"
Yes ! do" he said emphatically. $50
That Is your understanding with the
Mayor" - 4.e
1T is. But I am part OF the adminis-
ration and will cooperate In carrying
out its policies like any other depart
ment head
And there has been no interference
thue fsrw
None. And furthermore, I don't think
the Mayor tried to interfere with any
body"
To an inquiry as to the status of
James f. Dillon. who was chief inspec-
TOR under Commissioners Woods and
Bugher. but has been at home i'll Of
OS
II has been rumored. will not be chIsf In
spector when he returns to duty, En-.
right replied
"Dillon is chief inspector on sick leave
aud Inspector Daily twhom Enright
transferred from the new Tenderloin,
putting Capt. Dominick Henry in his
place as acting inspectorl is temporarily
'illins Dillon's position. That IL all I
know or want to know"
Borough Direction Not Diseased.
In Bugher's letter to the Mayor.
written the day before the formers
resignation. he said that Mr. Hylan had
wanted to have q deputy Police Com.
missioner appointed from each borough.
although the Mayor did not care so
much about having one from Queens.
Two Of the deputies appointed by En.
rieht-Leach and Lahey-live In
Queens. and two-Goff and Wallis-in
Manhattan.
Has the idea of appointing the depu-
lies by boroughs been abandoned?" En-.
right was asked. ~
81 never heard that It was under dis.
cussion,' he said. and 1t has not been
suggested to me-"
The new Commissioner said that all
reports that police politics were involved
from the "rumor factory" or the com.
hittee on rumors." II was . Brooklyn
reporter who inquired II the transfer Of
capt, Bernard J. Hayes back to his old
quarters, the Bergen street station. In
brooklyn's more or less white light dis.
'r'ct, was political measure.
i don't zee how anybody can say
mat flashed EnrighA. who answered
an questions readily and with good
numor. though some Of them might .bs
deemed irritating. Hayes 10 not of
The party that is In power, a. I under
stand it. When you see politics here
X Will he time enough to talk about
H. The fact Is that We wanted =
'oung and energetic man for the old
sup station In Manhattan. which guards
art OF the waterfront. and we settled
on Capt. Oscar Himmsl. who was In
sersen street. Then We had to all the
nersen street vacancy. considered
mo names OF several captains. and
einct Wv
oaiy t. Fiil vaes.eies.
AN the transfers have been mada IA
MI vacancies. Experienced men have
oeen put into important positions. No
It." NV"
II Is no secret tp the new Commis-
sloner that a. . lieutenant ne was rated
AZ the ablest politician on the force.
ne was asked II II was because he led
me night against the so-called 0oethals
o,ls depriving . dismissed policeman
OK his right Of review BY the Appellate
division OF the supreme C0urt that he
had been accused Of playing politics.
Yes. ] understand that was H." h.
sa'd: But that hght was open. We
vent to Albany opsnly and the bills
we're defeated. We were ahuoluteIy
justified, and ! would DO the same thing
The Goethah bills we're introduced at
the request Of Mayor Mitchell when the
.ayor vas trying 70 set Gen. 0osthals
ior Police Commissioher and the latter
conditioned hts acceptance on hsvins
CoStinucd on ruth Pues.