The New York herald., 1921-10-19
CITY PERFECTLY SAFE
Force Appreciated by All
Except Fusion Fakers
and Albany Raiders
ENRIGHT LAUDS MAYOR
Wallis Calls the Meyer Quiz
Into His Administration
a Sacrilege.

Mayor Hylan in an address to the
members OF the Police Reserve gath
cred in the Waldorf Astoria last night
al dinner given the organization s
stair and officers by Rodman Wana-
maker Special Deputy Police Commits
sioner, praised the work of the Police
Department during his administration
and said the criticism directed against
1t has been unmerited. He reviewed
the work OF the reserves during the
war and since the armistice, compi-
menting them for their willingness to
aid the police. The value of the re-
serve to the city, the Mayor added,
Will be acknowledged by "every in
habitant Of this city except fusion
takers, Albany raiders, increased fare
gougers and the plunderers and ex-
ploiters OF the people,"
At the speakers table in addition to
Mr.. Wanamaker. who presided. and the
Mayor. were Police Commissioner En-
right and many Of the Mayors official
family, deputy commissioners Of the
Police Department, and men prominent
in the affairs of Tammany Hall. Seated
there also were Major-Gen. Robert Lee
| Bullard, U. S. A., commander of the
Second Corps Area Capt. c. T. vogel-
gesang, u. S. N, commandant of the
New York Navy Yard; Aiming S. Prall,
president. Of the Board Of Education ::
10, TaLv r
uel s. Koenig, Republican chairman Of
New York county.
Mr.. Wanamaker read messages from
Gov. Miller and others unable to attend
and then introduced the Mayor. He
referred to him as John Faithful
Hylan."
Mayor Hylan quickly got under way
with his praise of the police-reserves
and regulars-and told the 900 men
present that they had freed the city of
all sorts of vice. He told them he ap-
pointed Richard Z. Enright Commits
sioner because he had decided a civilian
couldn't successfully hold down the job.
AS result of the cooperation between
the policemen and their Commissioner
and Deputies he said, "the disorderly
characters who once made our streets
public reproach have been driven from
them and decent women to-day walk the
length and breadth of New York by day
or night in perfect security" He said
New York made such favorable Inn
preston on the delegates to the recent
Christian Endeavor Society that the
organizations president expressed his
commentator.
This administration has not been
wholly free from mistakes" he said
I'VE make no claim in its behalf to per-
NJ Il 1t
sincerity of purpose In all our acts and
a decent and sober regard for the public
good.
"Show me virulent critic of this Ad-
ministration and I will show you one
who. consciously or unconsciously. is the
tool OF a gang Of heartless traction job
bers and underworld interests who con-
stitute the greatest menace to the con-
tinued prosperity Of our city,
Police Commissioner Enright. after de-
claring that 'the press of this city and
the interests never have forgiven Hylan
for being elected Mayor in 1917" said:
"They have crucified this man. who
said to the interests that sought to in
wade the City Hall: Thou shalt not
pass He stands to-day triumphant as
the most steadfast and the best Mayor
New York has ever had. When the full
STORY OF tne war mayor OIL ENeW iorh
is written 1t will be seen he has had to
fight more organized and brutal inter-
ests than our forces ever contended with
in France"
Frederick A. Wallis. campaign man.
ager for Hylan. said 1t was "a sacrilege
for q legislative committee to come
down from Albany and investigate the
administration Of q man like this" He
said:
plans for low street car fares and
gas and light rates came out of the
heart Of this great man, and when
others appropriate them they are taking
things which are not their own"