New-York tribune., 1921-06-08
Hylal's Attack
On AL Smith
Sti1.s Conflict
Tammany Friends of For
n,er Governor Indignant
at Slur Made by Mayor
in Jamaica Bay Speech
Denlagogue, Says Pounds
Charges of Alliance With
New Jersey Interests i'll
Port Project Denounced

Former Governor Alfred F.. Smiths
friends in Tammany Hall were indig-
nant yesterday because Of Mayor Hy-
lan's vicious attack on SAL" when he
charged that the Port. Authority
Commission, of which the former Gov
ernor is member, was working against
the welfare of New York City and in
the interest of the New Jersey raif>
roads and real estate owners.
The former Governor was out of
town and could not be reached. Lewis
II. Pounds, former President Of the
Borough of Brooklyn, denounced Hylan
as an ignoramus and demagogue.
Relations between the friends Of the
former Governor and Mayor Hylan are
becoming strained to the swapping
point on account of the repeated slurs
against Smith that Hylan INDUCES in.
In his address at the exercises mark
ing the opening of the Jamaica Bay
development work on Monday the
Mayor, referring to the Port Authori-
ties Commission and it's plans, said: :
The new Port Authority will have
little to do. l am at a loss to see the
necessity for its creation. In fact,
its policies have nothing to do with
Jamaica Bay or the development of the
New York waterfront, but are concerned
Jersey. The purpose of it is to mort
gage New York to develop the fats in
New Jersey. / understand they are in
sympathy with the railroads. We are
not interested in the development of
the New Jersey meadows by certain
powerful interests that want them de-
veloped."
Pounds Denounces Hylan Attack
-
ties Commission, charging in effect
that we have sold out to the railroads
and that we purpose to mortgage New
York to develop the fats in New Jer-
sey, is an exhibition of colossal ignor-
ance and demogogy, both in one," said
Commissioner Pounds.
"Why should Eugene H. Outerbridge,
Ex-Governor AL Smith and myself de-
sire to sell out New York City in the
interests of Jersey railroads or realty
interests in New Jersey? The sugges-
tion on its face is an absurdity. Ex-
Governor Smith never lost his stand
ried it in the last election by some
thing like 100000. Did he suddenly
become traitor to his city and a
CRATER when Governor Miller ap-
pointed him as member of the
Port Authority Commission? 1t will be
interesting to hear what Governor
Smith has to say about Hylan's charge
when it is called to his attention.
"Hylan has had little or nothing to
do with the recent passage of the
Smith bill for the tunnels connecting
Senator Smith and the Richmond peo-
pie deserve the credit for that very
largely. Nor is Hylan entitled to any
credit for the general plan to develop
Jamaica Bay. He never heard of il
until some one told him that he might
make votes with it in a demagogic
| speech.
Deprecates "Claptrap"
He seems to be obsessed with an
| idea that the way to cheaper the cost
of distributing foodstuffs in the Bor-
ough OF Manhattan is to run the food
stuffs from New Jersey under the
nnarrows, to Jamaica Bay, to the
Bronx and into Manhattan from the
east or north side. Personally am
heartily in favor of the fullest deyel-
opment of Jamaica Bay, and ALWAYS
| have been. At the same time I want
| to see the entire Port of New York
developed along scientific lines, with
an absence of graft and devoid OF
campaign claptrap to be interpreted in
only one way"
When E. Fl. outerbridge, chairman
of the Port Authorities Commission
was asked about Mayor Hylans attack
he said:
The commission has plenty of work
to do without giving any time to an
sWering attacks of this sort"
"Hylan will keep on saying scurri.
ious things like that about 'Al' Smith
until some fine morning SAP will sail
INTO nm and make him look like a
plugged quarter" said a man close +S
] Charles T. MurphY. ~