The New York herald., 1922-05-06
CHICAGO MAYOR, TOO,
AGAINST INTERESTS
Thompson and Hylan Still
Peoples Servants Says For
mer on Trip Here.
VISITORS STUDY TRANSIT
Head Of Party Sees Board Of
Estimate and Its Chief Han
die q Problem.

Mayor Hylan of New York and Mayor
Thompson of Chicago sat side by side
at the top of the horseshoe at the Board
of Estimate meeting yesterday. New
York's Mayor had arranged a demon
stration by his friends and neighbors"
who were present to protest against the
plan for an elevated transit line In East
New York. The hearing was kept wait
ing until the arrival of Mayor Thomp-
son.
The chief executive of Chicago spoke
in the most fiattering terms of Mayor
Hylan and suggested that if they stood
side by side in fighting the interests"
victory would surely follow.
Mayor Thompson said he and his
cabinet had come to New York to see
how it had been possible to maintain
five cent fare here.
Possibly taking his cue from the be-
lated interest taken in "Civic Virtue"
by Mayor Hylan, Hayor Thompson went
10 Stamford in the afternoon TO look at
statue of Gen. Phil Sheridan being
chiseled in the studio of Gutzon Borglum
for Lincoln Park. Chicago. If he had
his return last night.
This morning the Mayor and his party
will go over the transit lines and be the
guests of Mayor Hylan for luncheon at
the Whitehall Club at IL 40 Later they
will embark on the city boat Correction
for a trip around the harbor Disem-
barking at Bay Ridge avenue, Brooklyn.
they will go to villepigue's, Sheepshead
Bay, for an informal dinner where
Mayor Hylan will be the host the second
time.
"Aligned Against Intcrcsts.''
In his Board of Estimate address
Mayor Thompson. a Republican ma
tionally. at once placed himself and
Mayor Hylan in the same class, class
apart. He said:
From my experience in public life,
am more and more impressed every day
with one great thought that irrespective
of our parties or whom We follow from
political viewpoints there is arising In
both major parties of this great country
of ours a great division, and that divis-
ion. as / see it, is within the party be-
| tween those men who stand with the in
terests and those men who stand with
the people.
| THE people of this city spoke in no
uncertain tones. not to the people of the
| city of New York, not to the people of
the State of New York alone; but the
people of New York. when they re-
elected Mayor Hylan with that great
vote, said to the people Of the United
| States and said to the people of the
world: We. the people. will stand by the
public officials who stand by us
Your fight Is our fight. Your Mayor
is choosing to follow the will of the peo-
pie and be the peoples servant. as I try
! to do. He has received the same pun
ishment I have received through the in
| terests. through many newspapers that
are with the interests. Many of you
people In New York have read some
very uncomplimentary things in your
newspapers about Bill Thompson. Many
| Of our people in Chicago have read many
uncomplimentary things about Mayor
| Hylan. But. suffice it to say, we have
both survived. We are not discouraged
! and we will go on in the fight as we
have the light to see the right.
when New York and Chicago. these
two great cities of the nation. join hands
and speak together. they will not speak
! in vain, in my opinion"
O'Brien Greets Wrong Man.
New York city's official welcome to
| Mayor Thompson and his party was with
held until yesterday. John p. O'Brien,
! Corporation Counsel, hustled into
| the reception room of the Mayors suite
at the Pennsylvania Hotel and, seeing
! some newspaper men trying 10 extract a
| little information from gentleman In a
| Van Dyke beard in the corner, walked
UP and with outstretched hand began:
Mayor Thompson, II is indeed a great
pleasure. indeed it'--Then Il was cx-
planned that the Mayor was still inside
with his Strawberries and oatmeal.
! Later the Chicago party. escorted by
several motorcycle police, went to City
Hall. where on the plaza in a drizzle
| the Street Cleaners Band gave the Sec
ond outdoor concert of Music Week.
Mayor Hylan had gone into session with
| the Board of Estimate. but his secre-
tary greeted the visitors on the steps Of
| the City Hall. They went into the
Mayors reception room, where. after Mr..
| O'Brien had made a brief address of
welcome. they were introduced TO men,
| bers of Mayor Hylan's cabinet.
When Mayor Thompson went into the
| Board of Estimate room the Bushwick
villagers gave flourishes and ruffles on
| their horns and COW bells brought TO
emphasize their opposition to he ele-
vaed proposal.
Now you will see how we operate and
what my people think of me-" said
| Mayor Hylan in substance and the hear
| ing was started.