New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-10-04
CHIEF ENGINEER CARSON.

We gave in our last the documents sustaining
charge against Mr. Carson Of getting money out Of the
City Treasury unwarrantaby. The following is Mr..
Cs response to which we give the earliest aud fullest
publicity. We will let our readers pass Judgment on
il first and then tell them what nc think OF II.
CHiEg ESoISEER's 0fyicE, NEw YoRE, Oct g. 1888.
SIE. In reply TO your long editorial in Yesterday
TriEBHe accusing me # crimes which il should in
mediaely my arrest trial and ncarcera ion AZ ong
Sing viii say in relation 10 this striking apparatus
attached IRE alarm bes that l. my invention ami
Tat my application for IL patent j. still pending by the
advice Of Charles NJ Keller Ed II this city, who con
tends that il pGtenabe, he having made personal eN
an nation in the Patent Office az ashil spectng
By the direction Of Mr. Anderson, when he was Chief
Engineer put this striking apparatus in the Jefferson
Market bell; another in Centre Market small IN
Clinton Market, and a small one IN the market a. the
head 81 GGndst, which has since been torn DOWN For
the striking apparatus which put IN Jefferson Market
charged one hundred dollar and al the machinery with
which the Corporation had experimental IN s Efforts -
make striking apparatus 'or that bell Lars ma lhery
was worth than one hundred dollars thereby =
ceying for that Job more than Two hundred dotS For
tie Centre Market apparatus whose BED was only about
hall The size of the Jefferson Market bell CHARGED
cord No 10 is sze For the Clinton Market and Grand
A. striking apparatus also charged according their
magnitude IFS, repeat, was before was CHIEF In
oineer and by order OF Mr. Anderson my predecessor
Since | became Chief Engineer personally agreed
with the Fire Department Committee OF the Common
Council tput up this striking apparatus 10 ne Ciy
Han and Essez Market bells which you alluded In yOar
EDITORIAL for four hundred dollars. his Was before me
perartmeuts we're established The Union Market aud
Twenty second = striking apparatus also mentioned
In vour EDITORIAL put up b. direction Of the Commission
er Of Repairs and Suppss charging him two hundred dol
lars each for tn. hal charged the fFe Depart
rent committee have also put the striking sppa-s
us in Jefferson Market The other having been Destroyed
by frei ole in Thirty third 81. and one IN dsTion .
towers and charged tie Commss.oner 81 kepars AMI
supries the usual pliee Of two hundred dolaTs each
iiold the Fire Department Committee AMI re Conlnl-
sioner Of Reper- and Supplies that ed.aed tbs sfN
ing apparatus as my invention that n.i sppisu "a
s Patent tia, they could ue not; that hey used
H. ihey must pay NE handred dollars for eaeh -strh
ing sruarerus Tkey ordered 70 erect them IN NJ
tower above alluded to DID and they pad NE my
price and have made OsIh, G. Chief Engrser that n 80
bill were correct
Now al the charges that have ever made, "a ri
yafe citizen or public officer -tand ready 70 prove
did In ihe memorable Cooperation Investigation car
Ard intend that you sba d. the ssme-that yoa sha
prUve your charges that have committed gross freud
On The cy-a Wholesale robbery Of several hundred dol
lar. The Tressu-aad OF violating my oath e. Chei
Ercineer
AID row d-naad yea 70 dsclose IL use y0u- Own