The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 4

HIRSCHFIELD = Good Government Bureau Acts} in Case of Fireman Wil- | liams, Department Victim. Be Wiliam utiock, virector of the Be Goa Government < Made public the ») Mayor Hylan “Supplementing this Bureau's report Of Sept. 2 revealing that Fireman Hen-) ty F. Williams, ot pany No. 16, had been ordered back te Tureau, to-day © Engine Com- @uty with a fractured spine and in 4) > plaster jacket by Dr. Joseph FE. Smith, | Chief Medical Officer of the Fire De- | partment, with the result that ho has © een in a plaster cast and supported by lock and tackle since March 21 last, I + submit herewith additional facts: “Published statements of David Wirschfield, Commissioner of Accounts, admit that maybe Dr. Smith made a mistake. Otherwise the Coinmissioner upholds the physician, setting fo. tM} that Dr. Smith had every reason to | believe that he had recovered. “Williams showed to Sinith the} jacket encasing his body 48 arn EAS Al | b i | ment. 26—Crystal Pitcher, Ham { sna Silver Band, $5.00 ASY to reach and # difficult to leave, Ovington’s is a pleasant bm spot in which to shop. Its individuality, its range in stock and its M@ reasonable prices bring it new friends every day OVINGTON'S “The Gift Shop of 5th Ave.” told Smith this jacket had been fitted to him only twenty-four hours before y Prof. R. H. Sayre of the New k University Medical College 1 to Smith written word Sayre that Williams need rest’ for his spine, and uesting leave from duty. But th ordered him to duty, with the result he ‘fell fainting five minutes after he reached the engine house ind has been bedridden in Bellevue Hospital since, or almost six months. “It is clear that the known facts call for the removal of Dr, Smith, 1 im of the opinion that the facts regarding the part taken in the case the office of the Commissioner of vints call also for th® removal mmissioner Hirshfield, This is | the office to which city employees look for justice, and which is ex-| pected to lay information regarding city departments before the Mayor. The nature of the cruelty and in- justice done Williams is such that he probably will be a cripple for life. Commissioner Hirshfield makes light | of the matter; he is quoted as say- ing that be investigated the case on May 22 and thought #0 Uttle of it he did not even report it to the Mayor. “The Commissioner makes ‘known only partial truth. He fails to men- tion the fact that his office by its investigation In May tried to make it appear that Williams was suffering otfly from lumbago. The attempt to | set up this theory was made at the| bedside of Willams in Bellevue Hos- pital, and against the oral and writ- ten statements of the Bellevue phy- siclans ms to Williams's real condi- tion “The arguments advanced by Com- missioner Hirshfield in defense of Smith are in the nature of a defense of himself. For his office failed in May to do justice to Williams, and now, when forced to break silence by & brother organization, resorts to garbling of the facts. © ¢ © “Other information in my posses- sion seems to make It clear that what is required is a wholesale inquiry into the medical branch of the Depart- In this connection I cite the following, as handed to me by a Fire Department member who affirms that conditions are such the morale and discipline of the entire Department are being destroyed: “An applicant for fireman, named Quinn, was examined by several members of the Medical Board on Jan, 7, 1919. He was rejected by the board for ‘deafness.’ Subsequently this record was changed and Quinn ‘on Jan. 7, 1919, for ‘defective vision.’ He appealed for a re-examination, and on Jan. 27, 9, he was again rejected, On Feb. 6, 1919, both these rulings of the Meadi- cal Board were reversed, and Carney accepted as a fireman,” > “JUSTIFIES” SINKING FLEET. von Leraner, the German Government representatiye here, sent to the French Hyrelen OMe this afternoon @ note in which an attempt was made to justif: IMPORTANT LEAD INL RT NQUEY District Attorney Edward Swann the action of the Germans in scuttling [this morning announced that impor- thelr warships at Scapa Flow jast June. tant witnesses had been discovered AUT eT Was accepted as a fireman, In the jpace where the record was ordered, 314 Fifth Av.,near 32d St. ‘deafness’ was erased and ‘hearing normal’ was inserted. “Another applicant, named Carney, was rejected as a fireman dy the which 1 dab een ‘wit be used in th traordinary Grand Jury's investiga: tion into an alleged conspiracy be- tween the Interborough and the Brotherhood of Interborough Em- ployees in the recent subway and ele- vated strike. The prosecutor #ald that he consid- ered the discoveries so important that he intended to appear before the Grand Jury himself and also take charge of the case To-day Mr. Swann will call wit- in an effort to ascertain the change was made in and under What circamstances. J. Harrigan, first President of Brotherhood, who left the compan’ employ eight months ago, told Prosecutor he drew the constitution and bylaws and that they were ap- proved by General Manager Hedicy and General Counsel Quackenbush. When he left the company the clause was still in the constitution providing arbitration without a strik for all differences with the compa: Harrigan was one of the witnes before the Grand Jury investigat: te pel oe ann intimated hi ould cali to his office for mina ion soon high officials of the Inter- porough, They would have w waive immunity If called before the Grand Jury In bis statement to the prosecutor, Harrigan said that arter he had as- sisted in organizing the brotherhvod, after the Amalgamated Association jof Street and Electric Railway &m- ployees had caused a strike which the ompany broke, he was promoted to SSSA MUAMIUUUNTEAAUTUEASAATUTU TUTTO sme TT ccc Pree CCU Dh BETWEEN BROADWAY-FIFTH AVENUE BUSINESS HOURS DAILY, INCLUDING SATURDAY, 9 A. M. TO 6 P, M. 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