The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-25
Inspector Denoted to Cap
tain After 81 Raids Is Made
Detective Head.
DEyERl OK. FOR ENRIGHT
Mayor Reappoints Him as Full
Commissioner to Comply
With Charter.

The city charter does not permit him to
.sppoin. an acting Police Commissioner.
n. therefore raised. Richard 5nriHhts
tie acting
Enr.ght, surrounded by horal horse
shoes with which police friends had
l.aded hts Office at Headquarters. pro-
cseded to duplicate the appointments
and transfers that he had made. by d.
lection OF the Mayor. on the previous
day. He appointed two more deputies.
making the present number three, with
two moro to be selected.
In charge Of tho Detective Bureau,
which under previous Commissioners
ras been managed by a civilian, he put
capt. William J. I.ahey, formerly In
-per,or in charge If the old Tenderlon
district. but shifted 10 another district
.,,tcr the District Attorneys office made
thirty -oiie raids on gambling and disor-
aerly houses over his head. He was re-
dnced To- captaincy by Commissioner
Woods. I.ahcy Is now made Second
Deputy Commissioners.
A. trial commissioner. with the title
~ Third Deputy. Enright appointed
.iohn ". Con, Jr, n veteran Captain OF
the seventh Regiment and for ten years
sn Assistant Corporation Counsel. lie
- son Of SupAeme Court Justice Con
The First Deputy. named on Wednes-
nay. ia ex-Masistrate John A. Leach
Who will look after the police affairs in
Srooklyn and Queens.
Uniformed Men IN saddle.
In addition to giving further prSpf. by
the elevation Of I.ahey. Of the exaltation
of the uniformed men in the new ad-
,r,nistration. the Commissioner made
several transfers that observers Of po-
lice matters found interest'raA Capt
oscar Himme,. whom Commissioners
Woods sent to the Bergen street station
20 clean up" that precinct. which en-
loses territory fondly known to Brook
lyn as its Tendeyloin, was shifted to the
Old slip police station IN Manhattan.
succeeding Capt. I-ahey there The Old
Slip police deal largely with waterfront
,ondltiQns. ...-
raptN Bernard J. Hayes, who at one
IN. commanded the Bergen street pre-
met. was sent back there from Park
vile. In innocent Flatbush.
Lieut. Edward Dobson. who was Com
missioner Woods's handy man at Head
quarters. was transferred TO Traffic
squad r. and Lieut.. John Ayers was
sent from the East 104th street station
% Commissioner Enrights ONCE. John
=. Hackett, a magazine writer. was
made executive clerk Of the Police De
cartment. Having done all this and
rsad as many as possible Of the many
ronEratulatory kilograms that poured In
Ipon him, and having announced that
his sole purpose was to, make good,'
Commissioner Enright called 1t day
and went to his home In Brooklyn.
The only individual who publicly
"eprimanded Mayor Hylan yesterday
'or the exile Of Commissioner BuEher
and the appointment Of Enright was
county Clerk william F. Schneider. Mr.
schneider, some time organiser Of the
Cleveland Democracy, trained with Tam
many Hall in the recent campaign. In
fact he was chairman OF the Democratic
Fusion committee.
Schneider Calls 1t Mistake.
II was said that the Mayor has moi
'aken kindly to some OF the patronage
suggestions Schneider has made since
election. Anyway. the County Clerl
thinks tho Mayors Police Department,
action IL a great mistake. He says
Bugher's appointment amounted to tax.
ing the department out OF politics. bu'
hat now the Mayor has taken back
ward step which lessons the chances Of
The Democrats capturing the state in
November and the special Congress elec.
lions in MarchA
Sun reporters talked with good
many policemen In various parts OF the
r'ty last night. What the policemen said
amounts to this Most OF the old timers
--rnen who have been In uniform ter
wears or more--the station houss
"rowd"--are rejoiced by the appointment,
of Enright. They say he is their abies,
comrade or officer. thatshe was discrimi.
mated against for years In the matter OF
promotion. that II Is fine to see the
under dog scramble to the top Of thu
PACK" and that because they have con.
hdence In Enright and know him h<
can count on their absolute loyalty,
Tho younger men--types Of the spruce
ronns copper especially developed b,
Arthur Woods and taught by him tina
me OILY way TO gain favor was 10 d,
good police work, and that political ia
fnr was liability rather than an asse
viewed the situation differently. The,
were plainly uneasy. They were wonder
lsE II they would be expected to curr,
'avor with the saloonkeeper or mercha n
ON 'he'r beat, and with the little pOliti
can In order to stand III with Headqiar
,ers and avoid being sent to the Eras
lots
'ouns-r Men PIsinIy Worried.
They said they had received no hin
one way or the other as yet. They ad
lnitied the possibility OF Commissions
.:nright following the same rule a
Woods and Bugher and letting them tall
N him as man to man, and not throug
n superior Intermediary, when they ha,
anything to say. But the younger me-
we're worried. that was plain.
William J. LAhey's appointment 4
Second Deputy in charge Of the Detec
live Bureau---a Job unfilled since the res
lsnation OF Guy Scull. who was Woods
NTH deputy---was the most interestin
ovelopment Of the day. II apparentl
surprised him A. much ~ anybody.
Lahsy Joined the force In 1883. II
became a detective sergeant In 1901. tn
appointment being vainly contested b.
The C!tlzsns Union because thers ha
been no competitive examination. In 100
ne was made 4 Lieutenant, In 1908
captain and III 1914 an inspector by Com
missioner Waldo. An inspector he IA
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