New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-17

York, Lake Erie and Western RAILROAD to-day Tor
| trial. The "FOutaine" has two sets of driving
wheels one above the other. The first engine built
after this pattern proved success, both in speed
and drawing power, on Western roads, where it was
tested.
THE ALLEGED FRAUDULENT CONTRACTS.
DENIAL FROM Ex-CoMMIssIoNER VAN MORT IN
REGARD TO THE SEWER WORK.
The Assessment Commission ON Thursday decided
to reduce number of assessments uptown
property owned by John A. Sherwood and others
ton of sewers in Sixth and Seventh and St. Nicho-
iEas-aves. The contracts were made in 1878 by
Mort, with the following contractors, and for the
appoints named, without advertising for proposals:
SON, john McCaoe To'Sa% '1 @5
J John a McCauley, $124,570 27; James Everard,
S36 500 a 1t is urged on the part of the property
owners that these contracts were excessive in
amount that they We're fraudulent having been
made privately and that, to avoid the section in
the Charter of 1873 which provides that all con-
tracts above $1,000 shall be advertised for pro-
posals. they were antedated The Assessment Com
missicners decided to reduce these contracts from
% to 80 per cent and this reduction will govern
the ainount by which the assessments are reduced.
by reporter of THE TRIBUNE for an explanation of
the charges made hy the proper y-owners. He
pied that the explanation was very simple one
. The work OF laying out, paving, sewerng and
lighting the upper part of the city was for several
years I'M Ter the control of the Park Department..
Andrew IL Green was member Of the Park COM
mission, None of the work was done by public let
without advertising, reserving to themselves the
right to accept reject any bid. This done in
wards were constructed by days work for the same
reason. When this work was transferred by Act of
Departm Mt of Pablo Works the same system was
! followed, The work was carefully inspected as it
PROCEEDED by the engineers OF the Department of
Public Works some of whom still holding posi-
tons in the Department; The contracts which the
is alleged were antedated, were signoi by me on
April % 1878 The Charter received the signature
cannot be mistaken about these contracts because
they We're signed in the office of the Department of
Public Works while it was in the Broadway Bank
Building, and the Department took possession of its
rooms in the City Hall May l. 1873. The work
under the contracts was well done. 1t was inspected
as II was done by the Department engineers to see
that 1t came up to the specifications.
g.. he AMOUNTS paid were certified to be fair by
Stevenson Towle, the Engineer of Sewers who has
held the same position uner my and still
holds it. These facts wsre sworn to by me before
rated bymy deputy, Mr. Baker his brother then the
Contract Clerk of the Department of Public Works,
eight or nine in all / am wiling to face any
tribunal and suhstantiate this statement of facts"
CALMLY FIXING THE DAY OF HIS DEATH
Michael Mcintyre, of Hobolen, about q year ago
el0ped with Mrs: Electra Forbes the ianitor of
jantor of School No. 8. She has not missed him
much, the income from her position being sufficient
he went away he left note for his wife saying that
he had gone to Manhattan Beach and would not
return uhtii tne next day. Ills wife never heard
from him again until Thursday afternoon, when she
received the following letter in his handwriting:
BUFFALO, N Y. Sept. Is, 1891
/ would not have went away shall commit suicide on
September 3lst aud hope you will get along good with
the school Pray for me. Good by to all of you hope
snail see you all in Heaven Your beloved husband,
MICHAEL MCINTYRE.
On the back of the sheet of paper was written:
In memory OF Michael Mcintyre, of Hoboken."
THIS was surrounded by black lines. The postrnark
on the envelope showed that it had been posted Mt
Station a, New-fork, on the 18th inst at p. m
Mrs; Mcintyre was not very much affected by the
and Mrs. Forbes are IN New-York The only com
ment she made the letter that il her husband
waited until the 31st of September to commit sui
eide and died from no other cause, he would live a
great many years.
BIDDING MISSIONARIES GODsPEED.
bury and wife, the Rev |. +. Burlitt and wife and
Miss Annie X. Brandt, who are going as missionaries
t. India, under the auspices of the ptst Mission
AIRY Union held last evening at the Madison
Avenue BAPTIST Church. at Sixty -fourh-st and Mad
lson-ave The missionaries will sail to-day on tho
Ieam,r fnrnessia, of the Anchor Line, AT D. m.
T., goes to Madras; the Rev. |. +. Burditt, from
Kingston, Mass, t. Angelo; and Miss Brandt who is
from Nehraska, to Nowgong, Assam. The Rev.
Joseph f. Elder the pastor of the church, presided
over the meeting. The Rev. Dr. Murdoch core
spending secretary of the Missionary Union spoke
few words of welcome to the missionaries and
wished them godspeed in behalf of the audience
Mr. Waterbury spoke briefly of his reasons for
gong out az missionary. Mr. Bnrditt followed
contrasting the manner of their departure with that
OF missionaries fifty years ago when they went to
the boat on which they to sail by the back
streets. as to escape the g of the prople Miss
Brandt also spoke few words. Other addresses
were made by the Rev MIR Woods. of Patterson
and the Rev Dr. Morehouse, CORRESPONDING secretary
of the Baptist Home Missions. The meuting closed
with prayer by the Rev. DR.. Hiscox, of Mount
Vernon.