The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-05

cuiated in the city. The tenders were sentir
and the lowest was that of the New YoaK HI
RAID, newspaper which, we are happy to ay
has never been the dupe Of Flagg or the otie
relicts Of the Albany Regency. Had the Com
troller obcyed the law, he would have given Ii
advertising to the HERALD aud the four io,t
nails whose tenders were the lowest. But TAI
would have given money to the HERALD;
paper which he detested-apd excluded frm
the benefits of the public plumber the Ece,.n
Post, the special organ Of Mr.. Flagg's parry
Accordingly, without hesitation Mr.. Flags
reported that to carry out the law would b
too expensive, and that an economy might b,
effected by substituting the Eceniag Post 81
the HERALD. OF course this scandalous repu
was rejected by the Common Council and d.
matter of the city advertising thus reman
unsettled to this day, greatly to the pub
detriment
Perhaps it may be said that we arc not dis
interested witness in the case of the adv,r
Using. Let us refer to other points. On pas
20 Of the last Comptroller's report, occur q,
following items in the list of annual expcnl
lures -
Roads and avenues (ceaning) ............ s63 24ee
Cleaning Streets. ............ lbs, 5433
Now it is a fact that with regard to to,
former Of these works, serious offer va
made by responsible party to clean q
roads and avenues for the space Of On
year for a sum Of $4,000. It SO happen
ed that the bidder was no more in the gov
graces Of Flagg than the HERALD he was pu
of, and the work was done by the day, costa.
the people of the city $63,249 80. An offer wa
also made by another responsible party 81
clean the streets for the sum of $l50,G00; an,
it is quite evident to every one who under
stands such matters that even at this 6gur
the contractor ought to have made none
in the year. Yet the business was given I'd
others, and it cost the city S268,543 SO. VII
did not the friends of the Comptroller say
word or two on these heads?
Why did not they--when they were CALM
Flagg the Cerberus of the Treasury, the incol
ruptible Flagg, and SO forth-tell us some thin.
about The moneys he did pay which he ongh
not to have paid, and the moneys he wouldn'
pay, which he had no right to retain OF tn
poor clerks, workmen and others, who, havin,
been employed by the city government, wer
kept waiting weeks and weeks and mon th
and months by Flagg, purely because it was bill
caprice, his will and pleasure to raise bubble
on the legality Of their claim ?--Of the $50
which he paid to the Society for Improving TIL
Condition of the Poor, and other charitable
institutions (see Doc. 80, PIP. 40 and 500 in do
fiance of the clause in the charter which DID
clares that no money shall be paid for the I'd
lief of the poor except on the requisition of th|
Governors Of the Almshouse OF the s3OI
47G "a paid to J. Pettigrew, (see Doc. IS, 4
1919 for interest on his contract for gradin|
the Second avenue, when that contract spec1
fed that Pettigrew should not be paid till TIT
money was collected on the assessm ent--n|
such sum having been collected to this day Of
the assessment?
The list might be spun out. We might men
ton that the tax on the property of non
resdents-property of the value of $1f, o00, GOD
would have been lost to the city treasury bu
for the vigilance of Aldermen Ely and Kelly
who were compelled to send the report back t,
Flagg for revision. We might mention case
where large sums were paid out by the Comp
troller on his own responsibility, while other
were refused when legally demanded. Car
Mr.. flagg explain the payment of sl,s90,2l.
20, which is the excess of expenditure owe
combinations for street openings, &c, and fo
which no appropriations have been made b,
the Common Councilg We were taught TO thinl
in our youth, that $l,s9O,2l2 20 was a yer,
large sum. It's indeed nearly one-third OF tn,
increase in the expenditure Of the city for tn,
last three years The fact is, Flagg is a sort 0
kossuth in finance. He came here with grea
parade, as an immaculate fnancier and poiiti
clan to degenerate the benightcd metropolis
but it was soon discovered that his advent wa
only the removal of the Albany Regency t,
New York.