New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-19
LOCAL MISCELLANY.


r.ABopISG TO DAMAGE THE CoNTRoLLtR.
.xor,rn HEARING BAFoRE THg AtDERNANIs LAW
ceu ,rTs.--ruR scOrT-UnA .cIAid PURCHASED
nv srcayraKY wHITs OF TIIE FlIE DEPARTMENT
AZ puoyrr OF $4,000 RLPEhEEs AND CoUN-
s7i. FETs.
The Law Committee Of the Board OF Alder
og, continued on Saturday the hearing OF complaints
nxa,nst Controller Giccn Charles IL, Hodges lawyer
testified that he counsel for Dir Pofta VINO 'i"" ~
be tho Inventor OF the aerial iFddef' "n''H vac
nougbt bv tic city Porta and Mira. scott-Uda
,,ers In ,aracrship and TO share tho profits q"
sailing the patent right In April lS74,t &c "iloss va"
,rstr,oted TO ascertain what contract had bern rItereu
into l,ctwecn the Fire Department aud Mrs Seo''OUf
ana he leaTned that there was contract 10 pay to
lady $4,000 for the right TO build AM use 'no
lailer; several persons aferwara cana 10 nave nave
Mr. Pcra and Mrs seottUda. ani hroysh tS I'm 81 81
Cnsni an or OF was obtained directing the ntrolc ~
~ ti money only 10 Porta; the Controller refused Ia
nay a. mercy to reecgnizo tho claims o. MrS Seo
lila ON Sspt H. 1874 shO sold her clam to Ma, Mp u.
N1ite secretary OF the lire Dep utmcnj, Tor SloVVIi
Edward Jonllan, patent lawyer hsu II, PI,Ni" ,5
AMI dccided That Mrs. ScotUla's pat'nt VAC hal.d;
lac paid $500 for the opinion When sS sinrd:
the money was given tO air. White anah Eoh rcsnl5tn
Ia AIRS. ScOttUda tho amount winch lac A- p'"iH" :"
Alderman Billings remarked that thore was nothing IN
paId the money only after Judgment Was EthU e,u
afer lghtng thr claim Melngn lurloj said that nv
when the Investigation Was ended. -, - 80,
for,,oraiion Counsel ~mith testified that me cah ha'
20 DO paid ON the Judgment rendered ana NAV h.er uA
anirilg tae contract made with Mrs scot -uuh hc nv
gsve,-.ai otnion that the claim legal "l NC i,u
sccnv sent In to the Board of Aldermen list OF 'bo
os,u,ci ptnincd him and the amounts aic ~
and counsel; Dexter A. Hawkins was reid,n u ~
Mr. Andrews, the Assistant Corporation CO'Isui'
10 thc absence of the witness ana Aitef con
sntation with the Controller; simon stern was
,tained AZ the request of the lac MIyIi NcnoFe,
raf Jbnrdan had been retained because O! MS s
with paont laws; lao had retained Tie Late AlS Nhei w
Harvey ,n his own motion; Jauts W hhstn hiIu noch
rtron en,ed 81 bin b. Mayor Hlyemeyer; the witness
Id ucyer paid am for services rendered AT Albany
fIerp weTr only four cases during lis term OT Once IN
which lie had over consented to references thc control
lar on many occasions had urged Tie Nith -
10 resist claims against the 'ty which WIT
fily rssisted; In the case Of Mrs Scott-Uda's claim
Mayor IJay,aneyer had urged the justice oi her claim
bad witness known OF the assignment to Mr Wtht9 ne
would not have allowed dgmen to Oe entered uni ne
had Thoroughly sifted tne matter. . NJ. r.,
Oscar ZOllieOner, President Of the BletfO3otish Gas
Company, testified that the Company iad claims lsainst
the city on which payment resist by the CoutfOI;
Oue was for gas fraished during IL months OF lS|I
&lO6,055 81 this aln0Nt was now IN SUIT anu iti D' d
Tor three years thew also an un suted clam io
cas furnished In 1873 amounting 10 Sl3lJ1 80 au OF
Sl22,714 50 for 1874 total OF S536SOo 30 "inesS
asserted that all these claims were valid.
CIlaTles swan n former clerk in the FINANCE 'epll
reu tcstii that he had worked at albany aSa hsl u
measures proposed by Tanmany HAN thc tohuV!uII
d NOT employ him To do this; h. dd IL as c!lz OF hc
STATE ne had end,AvOred to procure tho repeal OF tic
yafermeier law Of 1871 he had used his voice Win Ms
friends, aud no other means