A Civic Emperor

The power of the mayor of Greater New York ia greater than that of many potentates, greater than that of some kings. The longer it is looked at the stronger it seems ; the more it dazzles the mental visión and appeals to the imagination like au Arabian Night's Entertainment. Within the mayor's direct appointment are 245 heads of departments, and these control a veritable aruiy of employés, whose salaries amount to $33,000,000 per aunum. Alexander, king of Servia, is dwarfed by this comparison. The salary list annually- in brief, the patronage at the mayor's disposal, is more than thrice the entire revenues of Servia. Other rulers, such as the Sultan of Morocco, the Prince of Montenegro, the Maharajah of Nepal, though they reigu over larger territory, and though two of them are practical despots over the life and death of their subjects, have 110 such revenues under their thumb as mayor-elec-t Van Wyck, or bis ruler, Richard Croker, will have at New Year. In sober truth, as the Lnudon 'Spectator" remarked, the mayor of Greater New York is aii entirely new creature in municipal history ; he is nota mayor, but a civic emperor.