New-York tribune., 1922-04-06
commissioners Removal
Asked i'm Petition Start
ed at Club Where Justice
Wasservogel Is Member
Petition to Go to
Albany Next Week
BrooklynCommerce Body
Calls Meeting to Back
WashingtonSquare Men

The He'll Gate Republican Club and
the Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce
are falling in behind the Washington
square Association, it was learned yes
terday, in it's condemnation of the po-
lice methods of Commissioner Enright.
j. Harvey Williams, president of the
Brooklyn organization. announced that
there would be a special meeting
Tuesday to discuss crime conditions.
The Police Commissioner remained
IN his Office at Headquarters until
after 1870 this morning, contrary to
his habit, and reports were current in
the building that he was laying plans
for defense of his administration.
He had nothing to say when he left.
The He'll Gate Republican Club ex-
poets to present q petition for the re-
moval of Police Commissioner Enright
to the Governor next week. Within
the next two weeks there is to be a
mass meeting in Yorkvile to protest
against the Enrght administration in
the Police Department. Joseph Gold
smith, an attorney. is chairman of the
committee in charge.
Yorkviie in Panic
Other members are Abraham Ober,
Walter Nadolny, Lewis Ellsworth,
Charles Kogle, Mrs. Emma Angerman
and Mrs. Martha Constance, Members
Of the committee say that the Iorkville
section of the city is in state of
panic because of the prevalence of
crimes of violence and attributes the
condition to the abolition Of the East
Eighty y-eighth Street police station by
Commissioner Enright.
"Conditions relative 10 hold-ups and
crimes have become too alarming for
this organization to longer withhold
from aggressive action" said MI
Goldsmith. cat meeting of our COM
mittee held on Tuesday evening it was
voted to draw up She petition and
launch an aggressive campaign that
will bring about either a restoration
Of the Eighty-eighth Street station or
the removal of Commissioner Enright
"The petition circulated directly
charges the Police Commissioner with
inefficiency. 1t sets forth, in addition
to his abohshment of the police sta
ton, that he has weakened police pro-
lection by abolishing old systems put
IN vogue by his predecessors, which we
demand be restored until the lawlcss
element is curbed.
Crime in this district. which in
cludes a residential section in when
live on its Fifth Avenue border group
of citizens whose wealth will exceed
$500 100000, has increased so per cent
since the police station was abolished
Hundreds Fear Hold Ups
'Hundrcds of storekeepers have Wis
tied this committee in the last ten
days and aksd for advice. Their fear
of hold-ups has reached the stage Of a
panic. They are now contemplating. as
partial means of protection, the form
ing Of vigilance committee. and we
have advised them to do so, pending
our endeavor to secure the removal of
Commissioner Enright, who is inca
pable and who has an utter disregard
for the public at large.
GAS public spirited citizens of the
18th Assembly District we have taken
the initiative and intend to fight the
campaign to a finish. We have $4,000
already subscribed as a nucleus of q
fund to wage the campaign.
Eve intend to make impossible
present conditions whereby section
of the city in which 100000 people live
shall be without its own police precinct.
At present the citizens of this district
must depend on the police from the
East Sixty y-seventh and East 104th
Street stations for protection. span
of thirty seven blocks in such a closely
populated district is wholly inadequate
and insecure police protection"
According to reports received by the
committee last night hundreds Of
names were signed to the petition on
its first day of circulation. The names
are reported to represent all classes of
merchants, bankers, professional men
and millonaires in the Fifth and Park
Avenue sections.