The New York herald., 1875-11-29

dare. TO which he replied 'That was all open ant
above board All tho directors knew OF IL and there
s was never any secresy about IL II was all done ID
THE "ARRAsGEMENr'
was mol known to the directors until after my examine
saon, wv yeaIs AFTER II was made Mr.. Kingsley CON
iesses through the HERALD that il fifteen per cent
ana not ve per cent as no then said Is was and the
changed entry would convey the impression il vas
Mr. Kingsley continues
took the private stock At time when nobody could b.
the stock until the organization was secure in theI
hands As money could be- and drawn out faster
than required 10 be put In he could as well have
subscribed for all the stock as for a part of it
Mr.. Kingsley continues
1t simply ordered that the alteration Of the word af
teenn ven in the original resolution would sufficient
A plain confession Of mntilation OF the records
which for year the managers had aborcd con.
ccaL and which all that time they had stouty denied
The mutilations adroity done that Mr. Hewitt
examined them with magniiyng glass to satisfy him
self of tho fact
will he not please why he did carry back the
whole amount of his overdraft instead OF part OF it9
Five cent to that date amounted to only S5s OO0
He had drawn Sl75 900 and only returned So 600
There must be still due from Mr. Kingsley on this ac-
count 500, 900
A reporter asked Mr.. Kingsley
RRroRrRR-Havc you interest in the sawmi and um-
per company that said to furnish lumber and timber sup
. Mr. KIScsLEY-None whatever. The sawmiIl estab-
ooncarSny With he building the bridge ''
The sawnill and lumber company here referred TO
was Incorporated by W. G. Kingsley A. c. Reeney, A.
zimmerman and others April /, 1870 Subsequently
Alexander McCue OF the directors OF the Bridge
Company became an owner in and director Of the
mill company
Mr.. Kingsley continued to say in this interview
or the lumber found for the work the bridge
in the caissons and esewhere the sawmi and lumber
All S%s% So y %s stses xSsse Jons
than Beers Pearl street other man whose namo
1 cannot just now recall
'sThe other man." whose name Mr. Kingsley "can-
not remember is his sawmill superintendent and
partner Mr. 4 zimmerman The total purchases Of
his sawmill partners up to that time amounted TO
$1434o9 "a
ABOUT MR. KISsELLA
Mr. Thomas Kinsea is the partner OF Mr.. Kingsley,
whom he sometimes serves in one way and sometimes
in another Mr. Kinsella went from the Eagle
tho Water Board controlled by Mr.. Kingsley The
Water Board had the letting OF pavement sewer and
reservoir contracts to Mr.. Kingsley. Having acquid
the OF the Water Board, Mr. Kinsea trans
ferred to the Eagle then controlled by Mr. Kingsley.
In Mr.. Knsellas interview with the HERALD reporter
Is the following
questions embraced them have been under discussion in
bare ago Ny connecon with them in any but Jour
nalistic capacity is very remote indeed
| Whether Mr. Kinsellas connection with these
s'stories" is remote than newspaper apoogst
for HIS partners will be He says that ''he
member Of the Water Board in 1862 at the end of ave
or six months by the LIST OF January he back in
| his old position" Very true he was back in his old
position the Eagle on the 1st of January 1870 but
drew his SIS, 900 salary until April He was Commits
sioncr but twelve Gays short OF year.
TILE NICHOLSON PAVEMENT JOB.
He went into the Board arm opponent OF the Nicof
son pavement but thereafter find him advocat-
ing that patent with great ardor The following state
ment of Mr. Bonestcel President of the company will
! throw somo light upon the subject:-"The Nicolson
Pavement Company OF Brooklyn said Mr. Bonesteel,
sis O stock company of this city OF which am Presi
| dent Up to the creation of the Water Board made
great headway Then seeking help wherever could
find it became acquainted with Mr. Kingsley, through
the Introduction OF
MUTUAL FRIEND srRAxAHAS
and interested him in the company For his personal
and political influence we donated to him $l5000 OF
the stock This stock worth but little nothing
the time and for any subsequent increase of value
depended upon the securing OF contracts by the
pany We did afterward secure contracts and in con.
sequence, the checks 1896, o00) were given TO Mr..
Kingsey-that much being due to him between August
and February-because of the stock he held and
agreement we had also made with him that he should
receive given sum per square yard of Nicolson pave
Hon s. b. Chttenden fixes the date of this transaction
in letter to Colonel Julian Allen OF the Committee OF
Fifty by explaining how he exchanged checks with
Bonestee for Kingsley four occasions during the fall
or 1869, for a total amount OF sos, $50
Here $500 worth of stock, an unending con.
rot worth $400 900 and SOS 900 known TO have been
received by Commissioner Knsellas partner for Gin
luence' securing contracts which could only have
been obtained from Mr.. Kinsela's Board
The occurring during 1869 and through Com.
missioner Kinsea's Water Board would I'LL column.
the Atlantic avenue pavement scheme was gotten upI
the Hampstead Reservoir job was Matched, although
deferred; So, 5000 600 were raised by taxation and
borrowings $40 600 900 hctitiousy ADDED to tho
assessed valuations OF property order to keep the
apparent tax rate down, but by which $500, 600 per
annum were added to the ctys proportion Of the
State tax, &c.
think l have shown that Mr.. Kinsella had moro
than a.renote connection with patent pavements that
Mr.. Kingsley risked nothing in the bridge, that his
connection with 1t was anything but that of public
spirited interest, that he received large profits from
his connection with that and other public works and
unless stating the facts be mahce neither Of these
gentlemen has been malciousy spoken Of
DEMAS BARNES.