The sun., 1919-02-25
ENRIGHT REMAINS
IN CYCLONE CELLAR
Police Commissioner Refuses
to Talk Of Raid on Radicals
in Delmonico's.
rs SILENT ON GOFF ALSO
Allan A. Ryan, Deputy, Dis
appears After Attack on
New York Newspapers.

Police Commissioner Enright held an
other OF his "not-at- homes" at head
quarters yesterday. There were two
and possibly three matters which the
Commissioner was very anxious not to
discuss. One was the breaking up of
the radicals party at Delmonico's the
night before by Allan A. Ryan. special
Deputy Commissioner. and tho breaking
up OF the raiding party by Commissioner
Enrisht himself.
Did Ryan make this raid without
the Commissioners knowledge. and II
20, wasn't IL going rather far. even for
Ryan, a reporter asked ]. C. Hackett,
the Commissioners secretary.
Nothing doing" said Mr.. Hackett.
And IL not what induced the Com
missioner to countermand Ryan's order
to break up the meeting?" asked an
other reporter.
Nothing doing" said Mr.. IIackett.
How about the publication OF that
letter from Mayor Hylan to Deputy
Commissioner Goff and the Implication
that Commissioner Enright forced COTS
resignation at Hylans order?"
Nothing doing" said Mr.. Hackett,
and he retreated. adding THE Commits
sioner absolutely refuses to discuss
either matter"
Ryan Also Under Cover.
Allan A. Ryan was equally uncom-
municative. He declined to see any
representatives OF the press. which the
night before he had termed "a set of
literary prostitutes" at his downtown
business office, and he did not visit his
office at headquarters at all.
Both the Enright-Ryan clash and the
new developments in the case OF Cor
were the subjects OF much gossip in
police circles yesterday. Interest In the
Con- case was revived by the publication
in the New York American in the course
OF an editorial article which attempted
TO Justify the demotion OF Inspector
Honest Dan" Costigan OF the following
letter. alleged TO have been written De-
cember II by Hylan to Con-. two months
before Cons resignation as Third Dep
uty Police Commissioner:
Your letter OF December 8 received.
I have had many complaints, both writ
ten and verbal. about your conduct since
your appointment to office. I was, there
fore, compelled to call, this to the atten-
ton OF Commissioner Leach.
Il find also that you have little inter-
est in your work. coming to your ONCE
late and leaving early, and doing less
work than any other deputy. and that
police officers submitting TO you matters
upon which you should give advice have
received little satisfaction, for the reason
that You seem TO have no interest in or
give no attention TO such matters.
The explanation you make in your
letter is not at all satisfactory. and un-
less your conduct officially and publicly
improves / shall be obliged to ask the
Police Commissioner TO request your
resignation"
GoH Reserves His Bolt.
The publication OF the letter was ac-
companied by the assertion that Dep
uty Commissioner Con was forced to
resign because his conduct did not i'm
prove and because his conduct was not
the kind to warrant his retention in an
important position under this conscien-
tious city government II had been de-
clared previously that Goff quit because
of Costigan's demotion and his own gem
eral dissatisfaction with the conduct OF
the police administration.
Mr.. Cor declined last night to discuss
the AFFAIR but intimated that he would
have something to say later. 1t was re-
ported around Headquarters that GoT
has in his possession letters from Hy-
Ian written between December II and
February II. when the Deputy Commits
siouer resigned, which are highly lauda-
tory OF Mr.. COTS work. Mr. COTS
friends say it all proves that Mayor Hy-
Ian is Police Commissioner as we'll
nh ~ aa.NlN Nref
sioner. chairman of the legislative COM
mittee of the department, announced
yesterday that the committee had pre-
pared bills which II enacted will put
the police inspectors under civil service
and take away the power OF removal
and demotion from the Police Commits
sioner.
Under the new bills, which are being
examined by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Goldrick. the inspectors would
be called majors and have definite rank,
Technically there is now no such rank
as inspector" all the men holding such
assignments being in reality captains
detailed to supervisory work over other
captains
Under the provisions Of the bill all
tho present inspectors would be placed
on the same footing as all the captairs
ard forced to compete with all the eau
tains for the maJorIties.
The police bills also propose several
other changes. including mandatory re-
tlrement after twenty-five years ser
vice and putting first grade detectives
under civil service
The action OF the Police Department
In at first refusing to permit the social
!stic fnre Ing of the GiG' LibertIs- Bn
read at Delmonico's Sunday yesterday
elected an attack upon Commissioner
Enright ly Algernon Lee. leader Of the
Socialist delegation in the Board OF
Aldermen.
Calls Enright n Gar.
Despite all Commissioner Enri1ht's
protestatlons to the contrary" said n
statement issued by Alderman Lee, the
Police Department placed itself on rec
ord Sunday as deliberately having issued
orders In violation of the rights OF free