New-York tribune., 1921-10-19
Mayors Failure to Keep
Pledge to Build City.
Owned Garbage Plants
Adds to Tax, He Charges
Markets Another
Broken Promise
Coalition Candidate Tells
Voters How He Baked
Big Fees to Architects

Hylan the candidate and Hylan as
Mayor, the sad story of four years of
broken promises and dereliction of
duty in office, was the theme on which
Henry H. Curran, coalition candidate
for Mayor, continued to speak to his
audiences in his speechmaking tour last
night. Borough President Curran
added two more black marks to his
list Of cases of "the broken word in
the Hylan administration. With four
counts Of the Hylan Indictment drawn
the night before, that makes six serious
allegations to date.
Glow many times must man break
his word before you refuse to trust him
to be Mayor of New York" Mr.. Curran
asked his hearers. Last night gave
you four cases where Mr.. Hylan as
Mayor broke promise he made to you
when he was d candidate for Mayor
Tonight have given two more That
makes six, and I am not through yet
How many more must we have? Where
shall we draw the line 7"
The coalition Mayoralty candidate
made six speeches Yesterday. He
spoke at the joint MONDAY meeting OF
the National Republican Club and tho
Young Republican Club; before the
New York Wells College Club, at Hotel
Astor; at the Flatbush congregational
Church parish house, and at three
meetings in Republican clubhouses in
lower Manhattan in the evening. The
night meetings were large and enthu-
siastic, and it was there that the can
ddate again put Mayor Hylan or
the grill for his broken campaign
promises.
Millions in Tax Burden
Mr.. Curran dealt vigorously with tht
garbage disposal problem in the city
which has been smelly and unsolvec
throughout the Hylan administration
costing the taxpayers millions Of un
necessary dollars because Of the lacE
of any definite program on the par
of Mayor Hylan TO deal with this I'M
portant matter. The speaker also dis
cussed the Mayors unkept promise t(
provide the city with publicly owned
Wholesale markets, storehouscs and re
frigerating plants, to reduce the cos
Of nving.
+. I
posal of Commissioner O'Malley of tn
Department of Public Markets to EN-
ploy architects for fees aggregatinl
more than s1,0oo,00o to draw plan
for a terminal market in the Bronx
the onlv real attempt Of the admins
tration to carry out the Mayors caT;
paign promise in that respect. borougi
| President Curran, az member OF TN
Board of Estimate, fought this propose
and finally convinced the Mayor or II
absurdity The whole thing was turhe'
over to the Department OF Plant AM
! Structures to prepare plans, and ther'
! the matter hes.
Evidence in Public Records
Mr.. Currans speech follows:
an opening the case against Johl
r. Hvlan last night | took up the ques
! ton OF the glittering promises mad
bv uylan- the -candidate in 1917,
connared with the cold facts of per
formance of Hvlan-the- Mayor. | CAV
vou' in each case, Mr.. Hylan's ow'
words. and | answered them by fact
taken from the public records.
eve saw how Hylan promised sea
for every child in school IN 1916 an
vet in 1921 more than 10000 scboo
| children are being denied the equa
! OPPORTUNITIES lOI tUuS"NtNl oH'J
! entitled to because he failed utter
to keep that promise. We saw how n
promised to keep the tax bills dowr
and how property owners to-day ar
having 1865 in taxes where, beforj
| thew paid but 500. We saw how tn
oxtravagance and incompetence Of tn
Hvlan administration are far worse tha'
ANYTHING Candidate 1Iylan complaine
against in the preceding administra
ton.
"To-night I am going to take u
two more Of those 1917 promises tina
Uylnn made and did rot keep. Agai
we arc going to dig into the publ
records for the evidence III the case
1t is not what l say 1t IS what the roc
ord says:
S2o,o0O,0oO Spent on Garbage
an his campaign paper, The Peo
ple's Advocate in October, 1917, Can
didate Hylan was quoted: My fight l
to create municipality ly-owned garbag
reduction and waste distribution plant
50 that the profit Of more Shan 81 900
600 a year may accrue to the city.
"Instcad of more than %l0OO,oVO
wear accruing to the city, il has bee
stated publicly, and ncver denied b
the Mayor, that $50 900 900 Of the pee
pies money has been spent to get II
Of the city's garbage during the ycaI
this administration mas been III o'ilc'
"In the face Of this calnnaign pledr
CONTINUED on paue three)