. Water & sewage works . the legal methods of pro-cedure. He moved to Brooklyn when hewas thirty-five and began a fight againstthe McLaughlin ring, then in control,which resulted in his election as Justice ofthe Supreme Court in a contest whichfinally crushed the ring, and sent some ofits members to prison. After numerous refusals of the nomina-tion for mayor of New York, he finally ac-cepted one from Tammany four years agoand continued his reforms, introducingeconomies within the first three monthswhich saved the city nearly $2,000,000 ayear. A list of seventy-four good things doneunder Mayor
. Water & sewage works . the legal methods of pro-cedure. He moved to Brooklyn when hewas thirty-five and began a fight againstthe McLaughlin ring, then in control,which resulted in his election as Justice ofthe Supreme Court in a contest whichfinally crushed the ring, and sent some ofits members to prison. After numerous refusals of the nomina-tion for mayor of New York, he finally ac-cepted one from Tammany four years agoand continued his reforms, introducingeconomies within the first three monthswhich saved the city nearly $2,000,000 ayear. A list of seventy-four good things doneunder Mayor Gaynors direction includeswork in nearly every department of citygovernment from increasing the credit orborrowing power of the city to better su-pervision of milk inspection. The attempt at his assassination made 388 MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING by a discharged city employe brought himthe sympathy of all and would have elect-ed him governor with no appreciable oppo-sition if he could have been induced toaccept the WILLIAM J. GAYNOR. He has been accused by petty politiciansof all the evil things he has been fightingfor so many years and the line up whichwas forming in the campaign this fall wasbased to some extent on these misrepre-sentations, but those who know had thestrong belief that he would have been re-elected if he had not been so suddenly re-moved from the race. Mayor Gaynor has done his whole dutyas he saw it at all times. No one is freefrom mistakes but no one was freer thanhe from intentional wrong. If every goodcitizen had the same courage of his con-victions, politics would b eclean and citygovernment would be a model of efficiencyand economy. George W. Fuller The thoro manner in which George attacks any problem before himwas first exemplified in the completenessof his preliminary technical graduation from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology-, in itself an evi-dence of a full technical education, hemade a special study of sanita
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