New-York tribune., 1921-02-08
craig Attacks
Enriglnt Bills
For Printing
fwo Pamphlets From Police
Bureau Sent Broadcast
Through. the Mails at
4 Cents Postage Each
Tracts Deny Crime w ave
fity Shall Not Pay for
Paper and Ink, Anyway,
the Comptroller Declares

tjgatiop of accounts in the various city
ofsees leading directly into Police
headquarters. He turned the flash
l;eat Of inquiry for the moment from
aIdermanic President La Guardia,
waom he charged with paying personal
and political telegraph and telephone
bills with city money, to Police Com
missioner Richard E. Enright.
The Comptroller was one OF the first
persons to obtain copies of two pam
phlets, published by Commissioner En-
right and circulated in the mails, in de-
tense Of the Enright police admins
sraticn and as propaganda evidently
intended to convince the public that
there has been no crime wave. The
circulars began to appear yesterday
and were received by various persons
throughout the city, including mem
hers Of ciqic bodies and other organiza-
ticns.
rhe circumstance that interested the
Comptroller particularly was that both
PAMPHLETS bore the imprint of the bu-
resu Of printing of the Police Depart
meut indicating, Mr.. Craig said, that
the Commissioner intended the city
should foot the bill. One of the
: pamphlets, a sixteen-page folio, was q
reproduction of Commissioner Enright's
address before the Kings County Grand
Jurors Association on January ID,
which was vigorous defense of his ad-
nlinistrstion. The other is an eight
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George Creel had with the ComrAis-
sioner and which was published in The
Times on January %. The Comptroller
has started his examiners on the trail
Says City Won't Pay Bills
Somebody besides the city is going
to pay for the paper and ink, anyway"
the Comptroller said.
It has not been ascertained so far
how many OF the circulars had been
printed and how many mailed. The
circulars were inciosed in one envelope.
carrying four cents postage. The
Comptroller's examiners will endeavor
to learn whether it was proposed to
charge this postage to the city. The
circulars seemed to have been sent
broadcast over the city. In some i'm
stances old mailing lists were used, it
appeared, since some of them arrived at
addresses which had not been in exist
ence for several years.
It was said at the Comptroller's
office that the Enright circulars merely
added another interesting chapter to
the Police Departments printing bill.
the Comptroller having discovered
since ms suspension of the examiner
Tac Q. KID the alleged private and po-
ntcal kilograms of Major f. II. La.
Guardia, President of the Board Of
Aldermen, that the same examiner had
passed up items>for the Police Depart
ment which the Gomptroller believed
shoald not be paid by the city.
among these items was a bill for
sl,o0o Tor invitations and programs
TOT the launching last year Of the
pollce boat John F. Hylan, the printing
ana engraving of which were done by
Ueeriy & Newell, of 545 Pearl Street.
Inc decorative features of the nro-
gram, 1T was said, included Handsomely
engraved photographs of Mayor Hvlan
and commissioner Enright. The city
mad already paid this bill before the
eomptroiler learned of it and he did
lot ihalcate what course if any he
might pursue in the matter. He has
rot been able to find who maid for
the bottle OF champagne which his
department. was informed was used at
the launching,
Holds Up Another Bill
Inc Comptroller has the bill for an
etner picture OF the Mayor, however.
ior which he does not intend the city
,n saail De charged. This is the full page
AAeness OF His Honor which appeared
on tne menu card of the dinner
yrehdered by the Mayors COMMITTEES on
Reception of Returning Soldiers and
distinguished Guests to the American
ylctors at the Olympic games in tba
Ngidorf-Astoria on October 2 last.
The bill for the printing in this i'm
S ssahce was $500, according to the
comptroller, and there was also a ball
shes OF $S,l30 from bill of Sails for
r0ca and refreshments at the dinner.
Inc Comptroller said that the city
weuid not pay either of these items
me rest of the food bill, the Conn
sfoiier was informed, was paid by pa-
Hons of the dinner, but he has been
Unable to learn what patrons paid and
Mnat patrons expected the city to pay.
g, ne mas written letter to John +.
SSlnnott, the Mayors secretary. that
expenditures for dinner to the re-
ssfhlng athletes was not contemplated
or provided for in the authorization of
speeiaa revenue bonds for receptions to
returning soldiers and distinguished
visitors"
In the course of his investigation the
,S.omptroller also discovered that
iigntlng plant which the city purchased
1or The Police Department found it's
way without proper authorization into
sae Public Library, at Forty second
street. and Fifth Avenue, in order to
suord more illumination to the library
90 2 guard against thieves.
according to information in the
,s.omptroiier's office, the theft of a
.yshed exhibit of minerals valued at
ABOUT S40o was reported to the Police
department by the library authorities
month or two ago. The complaint
@as mace at the time that the library's
9sn lighting plant was SO inadequate
.a .sst ie not only might aid thieves in
.i; .nelr work, but that tramps even
SSapped into the building and Slept un~
uer the bookcases.
lhe Police Department., it was said,
agseed to give the library the $4,000
- syslamo OF an expensive lighting plant
ae city had installed at Police Head
ssaarters, bat which never had been
bs beo' The dynamo was said to have
ss ssa removed from Police Headquar-
M under the cover of darkness on
tls night Of January 4 and installed in
NJ Nv n9rary. The legal course to pursue.
~ Sralg says, would have been for
department to notify the Sinking
~ su commission that ii did not need
dynamo and the library should
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