The New York herald., 1921-10-27

fields report on the Day charges. In a
speech at Bath Beach Major La Guards
said:
why must $500 Commissioner have
four deputies. at total of S2loo0 more,
10 help him run a paper department
the total personnel of which, includins
laborers and per diem EMPLOYEES. IS
seventy-five? This. mark you. includes
charwomen, messengers and janitors.
Charles F. Murphy and Tammary
Hall have an inside track in the rum
ming OF the department. for two Murphy
men hold jobs that the Commissioner
and the Board of Estimate consider
ranking and calling for internal CON.
troll"
Hirshfield's report concerning the Day
charges. by the way. was not made pub
tic until the Citizens Union got hold
of It,
Despite Deputy Commissioner Smiths
supposedly bombproof Tammany in
trenchments Commissioner Day sum-
marily removed him in December, 1919,
and within less than one week there
after Mayor Hylan ousted Commissioner
Day, who had served nearly two tufbu-
lent years as head OF the Department
OF Markets. Commenting upon that
event THE. SUN of December 3, 1913,
said:
THE Mayors action followed so
closely the removal last Monday by DR..
Day of William w. Smith from his job
of Deputy Commissioner of Markets as
to set the political tongues in the five
boroughs wagging. Deputy Commissioner
Smith is Tammany stalwart. a dis
trict man of reputed influence In the
organization and an intimate friend OF
Charles +. Murphy. 1t is a fact that
the Tammany leader and the deposed
Deputy Commissioner dine frequently
at an oyster house in Third avenue
operated by the former deputy"
Day Charged Profiteering.
DR. Day. when he was ousted. as.
serted that. with OMalley, he had dis
cussed the question OF meeting over
head charges with officials of the army
and navy and that il had been decided
to add charge of 2 cents an item
every pound or package of foodstuffs--
to meet this cost. Instead" said DIR.
Day. lin some instances cents had
been add ed. making a profit in some
cases of 60 to 70 per cent. This was
the grossest kind of profiteering"
Thereupon. DR.. Day said. he demanded
OMalley's resignation. 1t was not
forthcoming and his summary removal
followed on October IA. To all OF this
O'Malley retorted that DR.. Day had abb
solved him of any charges of dishonesty
in conversation in the office of the
Corporation Counsel just prior to his re-
noval by the Commission.
In the Meyer committees investiga-
tion last August into charges of favorit-
ism and graft in the allotting of stalls
and stands in Washington Market, in adj
dition to many new charges laid at the
door of the Department of Markets. 1t
was disclosed that in the scandal which
followed the departments handling OF
army and navy food and supplies in 1919
and 1920 David Hirshfield, Hylan's Com
missioner of Accounts. had reported to
the Mayor that S3S.000 Of the fund never
had been satisfactorily accounted for
and that O'Maley and other officials
who had volunteered their services had
drawn salaries and big expense bills out
of the food fund.
When the Meyer committee sifted ac-
cusations of bribery and graft in con-
rect on with the rental Of Washington
Market stands witnesses were produced
who swore:
That Charles A. Winter, a general in
spector of the Department of Markets.
had accepted payment of S400 from
Christian Haslob, one OF $500 from
James r. Turner and that he had de-
manded $1,000 from Joseph Heineman