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Show TAMMANY SUFFERS Mayor Gaynor Making a Big Hole in the Patronage New York, March 1. With two months of Mayor Gsynor'a administration adminis-tration completed, political stock taking tak-ing at Tammany hall this morning was not a pleasant business for the followers of that historic organization. organiza-tion. There has been a saviDg nt the rate of $2,0i.i0.000 a year effected by Mayor Gaynor since January 1. in tho dls-cbatge dls-cbatge of men and the reorganization reorganiza-tion of departments. The mayor apparently ap-parently finds that this sort of exercise exer-cise ngrees with him, for be ended Ms second mouth yesterday by ordej-ing ordej-ing a reorganization of the force em-'ployed em-'ployed iu municipal ferries, and dl-i dl-i rectlng that an entirely new system be arranged for paying lawyers retained re-tained in land condemnation proceedings. proceed-ings. These two moves, it is estimated, esti-mated, mean the cutting off of three quarters of a million dollars of Tammany Tam-many patronage. M,nynr Gaynor has three years and ten months more to serve. Already what has boon regarded as the most perfect political machine In tbe countrv coun-trv Is fare to face. with a situation that It. has not known before. No Tammany man cares to predict what the condition of the organisation will be at the expiration of the Gaynor edmlnlsiration. pay roll changps made by ",.tho mayor during the last two months include: in-clude: Highway department. $100,000;. fire department. $200,000; Bronx park department, de-partment, $110,000: bureau reorganization reorgan-ization in Bronx. $13,000; water departments, de-partments, $185,000; aqueduct board, $300,000.- dismissals by borougbr officials. offi-cials. $300,000; land condemnation department, de-partment, $400,000; mtin'clpal ferry .organization, $300,000; dismiss a'.s in |