New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-27
NICE LITTLE LORs.

NICE LITTLE JOBS.
IL is fortunate thing 10 have friend at
court especially if that court be the Common
Council, and you can manage to secure through
YOUR friends influence nice little job now and
then. Mr.. A. d. Carlock, the gentleman en-
gagged in making certain alterations and additions
to Essex Market, is one of those individuals 30
fortunate az to be thus befriended. On the 10Th
of November the Board Of Aldermen passed the
following resolution:
Ret>d That the ceiling q the EsseI Market,
cupied By tho 6h Regiment be Taised to tho hight Of
feet and ha. additional story be ea on that gSG OF as
rom aud that space directly the srket IN the rear OF
responding hight; the be done without contract
This resolution passed in the usual form, by
twe-third vote, in order to eYade that pestilent
provision of the City Charter against swindling,
which requires all work over $3.50 in coat to be
done BY contract. OF course there was no In
teuton, on the part of the Common Council, In
passing this resolution. to give the work to any
particular individual; but just about the time 1t
was adopted, BY singular coincidence Mr. Car
lock, who was then wo believe filling the post OF
Health Warden, or some such subordinate situa-
ton, resigued--the Sunday papers at the time
remarking in " full editorial (price 81 iine)
that he found the practice Of his profession too
profitable to permit him to remain longer IN pub
lie life-and was selected by the Street Commits
sioner to perform the work on Essex market.
How much he was to get for tho job does not
appear; but the Controller having refused to pay
his bills, for lack of an appropriation, on
motion of Alderman Bagley We obserye that
Sl4. 600 has been inserted in the tax levy to
meet his expenses, and We may readily assume
that they will fall but very little, if anything be-
low tie appropriation.
OF course the Street Commissioner, in giving
out the work, selected the most competent man
to do it, irrespective of the relationship that
might exist between him and any OF the mag
mates at the City Hall. If 10 so doing his choice
bappened TO fall upon the brOther.in-law Of an
Alderman, it is not to be supposed that he was
aware of the fact, and we cannot, therefore, re.
frain from congIa.ulating him upon his ielictous
, aeectjon Mr. CarlOck, although q relatiVS of
AID. Brady, and the person who swOre that he
! had been offered large amount of money to
! secure the vote Of the Alderman to confirm the
| appointment Of the lion. Gideon J. Tucker as
| President Of the CrotOn Board (Which offer we
were all glad to learn he rejected with appr0.
| PIRATE scorn), ia doubtless an eminenuy proper
person to do the work on Essex Market with
out contract, and we would not insinuate, there
! fore, for moment that in order TO get the
! job he induced his brother.in-law, the I'M
bribable Alderman, to use his influence with the
| Street Commissioner.
But we regret to say that our confidence il
Carlocs is not shared by the community al
large. There are those who are 50 enIious as tC
insnuate that but for brady, the brother-in-law
would not have been selected by the Com
! soner, and that contractor would have done
! II much cheaper. Indeed, they go 80 far az TO
assert that the whole affair was "put.up
| thing from beginning TO end, and that Brady
himself is most interested in the business, which,
Of course, is an unmitigated falsthoOd because
the charter expressly provides that no member
| Of the City Government shall be interested in
work done for the Corporation, and Mr. Brady
has been too long in the City Hall not to be
aware Of this provision.
| There is another nice little Job now hanging
by the eyelids in the Common Council. We
refer to a proposition by the yirtuOas Mr.. BoOle
to repair Pier No. %, North River at an ex-
pense not to exceed $4,000, without contract
We hope this matter will not result in bringing
Mr.. Boole into bad odor. Malicious people say
the work can be done handsomely for $1,000,
and clear % per cent made out Of it at that;
but of course Mr.. Boole knows best. At all
events should the resolution pass, lie will be
able aud no doubt anxious TO secure the city
against swndling; and as the work will be given
out by and done under the supervision of the
Superintendent of Piers n gentleman whom Mr.
Boole, in his zeal for the welfare of the tax
payers placed under the Street Commissioner,
we do not see any reasonable ground for these
grumblers to stand upon.
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