NEW YORK TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1921, Page 5

NEW YORK TO-DAY.

REMARKABLE REV ELATION S GRAVE CONDITIONS ALLEGED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 22, 10.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 22. One of the strangest fights in the history of th© city is occurring between the newspapers and the Mayor (Afr. Hylan). Nine of the eleven chief morning and afternoon newspapers are attacking him bitterly. They point out that the city’s budget of 400,000,000 dollars is due to incompetency. They declare 900,000 school children are housed in buildings which are fire traps, and that many thousands are without seats. They say the market commissioner accepted large graft sums. They allege the police are inefficient, and that robberies, hold-ups and murders are occurring, and that large numbers of police are catching few offenders, but clubbing innocent citizens, recently charging into a. group of old women who were attempting to distribute food to the unemployed. The State Legislative Commission, which is investigating the city administration, reveals countless extravagancies, thefts, malfractions and absurdities, which the newspapers are ridiculing and denouncing.

In the face of the greatest crime wave in New' York history, Mr. Hylan and his appointee Police Commissioner (Mr. Enright) have issued statements declaring that the number of crimes is extremely low, and mostly are imaginations of the newspapers. Mr. Hylan capped tlie climax by issuing a formal proclamation urging business men, merchants, and. shopkeepers to withdraw all advertisements from the hate-crazed newspapers, who brand New York as the world’s paradise for criminals, thereby attracting the undesirable element rather than peaceful visitors who would spend money here.

Mr. Hylan was recently nominated for Mayor for a second term on the Democratic ticket, but the newspapers, both Democratic and Republican, have combined to work for the nomination of Mr. Henry Curran, the Coalition candidate. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.