The New York herald., 1921-10-19
CURRAN Says HYLAN
BREAKS SIX PLEDGES
Borough Chief Tells Four
Audiences of Ante-ElectiOn
1917 Promises Broken.
MORE STILL TO COME
Markets Missing and Gar
bage Reduction Plant Is
Still Only a Plan.
'FARE ISSUE RAISED AGAIN
Insists Mayor Plotted With
Shonts for Z Cent Rate, In
stead Of 5 Cents.
FARE ISSUE RAISED AGAIN

ing to enter into deal with the late
Theodore p. Shonts for seven cent
fare on the subway. elevated and sur
| face traction lines, and ridiculed the
Mayors frequent assertions that he
would fight to the last ditch for five
cent fare.
"Hylan is not for five cent fare"
said Mr.. Curran. IF he Is why did
he try to enter into deal with Shonts
for seven cent fare? 1t is true that
he did that, because have sworn
testimony to prove 1t. l am Ave cent
fare man and always have been. This
is not an eight cent or ten cent town,
and nobody would ever be able to put
over an eight or ten cent fare. I
can do more for five cent fare than
Hylan ever will be able to- do"
| Mr.. Curran spoke durin, the evening
at the Third Assembly District Club in
| 269 Eighth avenue, in the district where
he ran for Congress eleven years ago; (;
the Sixteenth District Club. 30S East
Seventy street; the Fourteenth As
sembly District Club. 324 East Seventy
second street. and the Flatbush Congre-
gational Church. at East Eighteenth
street and Dorchester road.
Two Afternoon Speeches.
During the afternoon he spoke before
the Young Republican Club at $50
Broadway and the New York Welles
College Cub in the Hotel Astor. He
was well received wherever he went, and
in many places the crowd was so large
that not all could enter. Other candi-
dates, including Charles c. Lockwood,
for Comptroller: Vincent Gilroy, for
President of the Board of Aldermen. and
Miss Helen varick Boswell. candidate
for Register, also spoke.
In his evening speeches Mr.. Curran.
after speaking briefly Of Mr.. Hylan and
the five cenc fare. dealt principally
with the promises that Candidate Hylan
made when he was trying to be elected
Mayor and that Mayor Hylan had
broken. He continued along the same
lines as in his speeches Monday night,
except that last night he confined his
attack to the garbage and terminal mar
ket promises. He produced quotations
made by the then Candidate Hylan In
his own campaign paper. the Peoples
Advocate, to show that Candidate Hylan
had promised municipality owned gar
bage reduction plants and solution OF
the garbage problems, and he pointed to
the record OF the administration as proof
that this promise had been broken.
He also quoted the Mayor as having
said. before election, that his fight was
to create publicly owned wholesale ter
minal markets and other similar facili-
ties. and he pointed to the record of the
Administration to show that this prom
ise also had been broken. He closed his
address with an offer and an invitation
to Mr.. Hylan to meet him on the plat
form and debate any of the broken
promises, the record Of the Administra-
ton, or anything else pertaining to the
misgovernment OF the city during the
last four years.
Tonight" said Mr.. Curran, II am
going to take up two more OF those 1917
promises that Hylan made and did not
keep. Again we are going to dig deep
into the public records for the evidence
in the case. In his campaign paper, the
Peoples Advocate, Candidate Hylan Is
quoted in October. 1917: my fight Is to
create municipality owned garbage reduc-
tions and waste distribution plants, 80
that the profit Of more than million
dollars a year may accrue to the city,
Instead of more than million dol
lars O year accruing to the city, It has
been stated publicly. and never denied
by the Mayor, that $50, 100000 of the
peoples money has been spent to get rid
Of the city's garbage during the years
this Administration has been In office.
Inactive for Two whole Years.
I'm the face of this campaign pledge
Mr.. Hylan took no steps at all in the
matter Of garbage disposal for the first
| two years after his election. He de-
| pended entirely on scows that the Street
Cleaning Department hired from con-
tractors to carry 1t out to sea. Many
Of you after your garbage can stood in
| front Of your home for many days. filled
| to overflowing. have Indignantly called
tip the Street Cleaning Department on
| the telephone to compain. You probably
remember how you were told that the
department was doing Its best. but that
1t could not get scows enough to dispose
of the refuse OF the city.
Those Of you who live In Brooklyn
near some of the city's beaches. prob
ably remember how you have awakened
morning after morning during the last
three and half years to find that, like
chickens coming home to roost, this
garbage which you had finally shipped
out to sea had returned on the waves
70 plague you. In addition. due to the
fact that there has been no head or
tall to the whole business, the garbage
In many localities OF the city gets mixed
up with the street sweepings and rubbish
and Is carried by the Street Cleaning
Department to the city's land dumps,
there to remain public nuisance and a
dangerous menace to health.
II need not dwell on this. We have
all suffered because OF the hit or miss
methods OF getting rid of the garbage
And. remember that for two years after
his election we have absolutely no record
that Mr.. Hylan even tried to remedy the
situation. Then. somebody suggested
that there might possibly be way OF
getting rid of the garbage so as not to
offend half the citizens of the city. The
time might even come when Mr.. Hylan.
as a candidate, would again be asking
for your votes. And the Mayor began
to think of the promise he had made.
THE way in which the Hyian Board Of
Estimate started out to deal with the
problem OF garbage disposal was so
typical OF this whole administration
way of transacting public business that
want TO tell you about the first plan
they took up. On November 20, 1919, the
Board Of Estimate received a communi-
cation from man named Charles G..
Armstrong proposing to submit plans
and specifications for the disposal of gar
bage In a manner satisfactory to all. On
December s, 1919. the Board authorized
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