The New York herald., 1921-09-08
CURRAN ON STUMP
IN THREE BOROUGHS
Coalition Designee Talks to
Audiences in Brooklyn,
Queens and Richmond.
URGES DEVELOPMENTS
Says City Hall Was Not
Built for Menagerie,
Rapping Opponents.
SUGGESTS PARK PROJECTS
Candidate Asserts Staten ISL
and Is Natural Playground
for City's Millions.

iieHiy II. SulIdii ITeSiutHI OI the
Borough of Manhattan and coalition
designee for the Republican nomina-
ton for Mayor, ended his most strenu-
Gus day of campaigning yesterday
with a turn through Brooklyn and
Queens. where his last audience, an
after theatre crowd in Jamaica, pro-
vided a suitable climax for the busy
evening. Previously Mr.. Curran had
worked into his speeches some pointed
reminders to his opponents to stick to
local issues in the campaign. With
these he interspersed support for his
recently announced platform, "for bet
ter or for worse" as he said. and ap-
pealed particularly for a Jarge vote
in the primary contest.
At the Yale Republican Club of the
Sixth Assembly district. Queens, Old
Fresh Pond road and Glasser street,
Mr.. Curran appealed for a generou.
response in the primaries and touched
Briefly on housing.
"As matter of fact" he said, IL
hope every one who can will come out
to vote at the primaries. Under the
direct primary the people say who is
going to start in the race, and that, /
think, is just as important as in the
election saying who is the winner"
Discussing housing, he added:
The only way to get rents down is to
get more houses up. Already $150.000,-
600 have been put into plans for new
houses during the last six months. They
are not all up yet. but rs per cent. are
under construction. Most Of them are
In Queens and Brooklyn some in Staten
Island. Everywhere this fine mushroom
crop Is growing up.
Catching Up on Housing.
Building houses has been at stand
still during the last three years. and
now it's hard to catch UP because our
population has increased at the rate of
100.00 annually in the last forty years"
There were no honeyed words for the
present occupants Of City Hall whom Mr..
Curran is opposing. Admitting that
Mayor Hylan had done some good
things" then quickly adding that "he
has done some bad things. and there Is
a lot that he hasn't done,'. he was posi-
tive that IL Is now time 10 get him out
and give him rest"
why. this very day we have read of
Mayor Hylan locking horns with Comp
troller Craig again. When Craig calls
Hylan names one day. when Hylan calls
Craig names the next. and when Hull
bert can call both of them names the
day after thai. what kind of city Gov
ernment Is that to go on? The archi-
tect who designed City Hall didn't in
tend Ii to be a menagerie."
During the morning and afternoon Mr..
Curran addressed eight meetings in
Staten Island. speaking before $4,000
persons at TomplSinsville, Tottenville,
Princess Bay. Great Kills. Clifton. Sta
pleton. Westerleigh and Port Richmond.
Mr.. Curran devoted his speeches
throughout the day to Staten Island
and the shortcomings of the Hylan adj
ministration In dealing with that bor-
ough, and was received everywhere with
enthusiasm. lie particularly attracted
the fancy of the Staten Islanders when
he declared that the borough ought to
be and will be in the future the play
ground for the whole of the city. and
he urged the necessity OF developing
park and beach projects now before the
island Is so thickly settled that such
development will be impossible.
Hope for the "Glnss Slipper"
Mr.. Curran referred several times to
the familiar Staten Island. saying that
Richmond Is the Cinderella borough OF
the greater city because she Is always
left out OF projected improvements. but
he told his audiences not to forget that
In the end Cinderella got everything she
wanted. He said that he approved OF
the building of the twelve city piers at
Staten Island, but he pointed out that
the Hylan Board OF Estimate had done
nothing toward connecting The piers with
the mainland by railroads.
This" he said, makes lighterage
necessary, and lighterage is one Of the
most important factors in keeping UP the
cost OF living in New York city"
He blamed Mayor Hylan and his as
sociates for not taking care OF Staten
Islands transportation problem. He de-
clared that he favored the building OF
the proposed subway tunnel between
Staten Island and Brooklyn, and said
that. while he could make no promises.
the instant he received the Republican
nomination he would come hack to the
Island and tell the people there what he
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