New-York tribune., 1886-02-25
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ASKED TO HAND IN HIS RESIGNATION.
,v rxc,vvyR OF CONSTRUCTION DISMISSED BY

ASKED TO HAND IN HIS RESIGNATION.
AM ryc,yryR OF CONSTRUCTION DISMISSED BY
THE AQUFDUCr COMMISSION
Tho lnneduct Commissioners Yesterday decided
not to close the hearing OF tue QUAKER briueo Dau
project until April l. They were IN .;ua C5isf
Engineer Church was directed to detail speelai
assistant engineer to furnish the CorPIraih,;Hn POI h;m
Counael with information necessary 10 enapIo INN
In de.ud any suits that might be brought agai,nst
the city for land and other damages along the III" %
of the new aqueduct. II was UNDERSTOOD uuu, nd hs
Sineer of Construction Henry 5. craven wounn % 10
sentoiied It has been no secret that there was
feeling bet geeu Messrs. Church and CraVen' nc
latter is valuable man ana ose Ins him and they
Thought that it would be better to et hln 1 Iurnsh
The needed information: The Corporation ceulsei @
nstn,dav sent word that he did not need the ser,
ices of an official as be could procure the desired
information from MIR: Church. ihe COMMISSION af
then decided to rescnd lts action III olieo'ine "i
C9Slcn C o then came np what should be done
with Mr.. Craven. By vote of four to two ~ was
decided to request his resignation on inc grounu M
that he or Mr. Church would have 10 60, ana Tue
majority of the commission decided to STAND ON tne
Chief Engineer Those voting TO receive tnt rGs,g
nation of Mr., Craven were the Mayor CONTROLLER
Commissioner of Public Works and commissioner
baldwin. Messrs. DOwd and Slencer voted Ill the
negative. Mr.. Craven is one OF the oidesC eng
engineer on the new aqueduct IN 1883 while MI.
Edison was Mayor and rose rapidly until he became
Engineer of Construction AS such ne was the cA-
eeutiye officer of the work. transmitting the orCeis
of Mr. Church to the division engineers ana .s nav.ns
general supervision over them. SeveIaa Umors l,io
aQo Mr. Church and the consulting engs1eeIS
recommended that the position OF Engineer VI - NTi ~
stucti0u be abolished. This was not acceued 10 Dy
the eommission Mr. craven Is nue meu.e lie iS a
mander in the Navy on leave OF absence. ,fed ne w
son of Admiral Craven, and nep iew OF AiLeu & w.
Craven for sew era years the head OF the Ola Aque
duct Department.. n, p.Iar;, ond
Souire wish TO set themselves right WIN TeIeIepJe
to brck-lining the aquedcct the enoe b oS;gnaI
mn V,
estimates and the bids of the contractors. H. now
ever portions of the TGueduct had not oeen iinGu M
this would have been deducted from tne pay 0, tne
Contractors Nothing is paid for that Is not done
The main points that they rely on are that the prck
lining will prevent the tall ol loose rocN anu A''p
ont of the tunnel the surface drainage
DYING AMID FILTH AND DRUNKENNESS.
SAD FLIGHT OF MARBLE CUTrER-A DRUNkEN
WIFE AND MOTHER AND FOUR SMALL CHILDREN.
Inmates of the tenement house No. il9 west
s;vteenth-st sent word to the police. station IN
Twentieth-st yesterday afternoon that family
living on the first lOOr of the house needed atten
tion policeman who was sent to the place Ionhd
Michael / LYONS marble cutter, age forty dying
from pneumonia i'll one OF the three snal Iooihs "n
the first floor Lyons lay on e.L era anI amost
devoid of furniture. In the rooms were SeVeIal
wome3, who were under the influence OF hIn9r,
among them the sick mans WE anu ioiivr Smtsrin r
from the want of proper food. were shlYern9 III the
room where he living. LyOus had 0eeh SICK loI
rec
earned SI5 a week but most of the money had been
wasted by his lazy, drunken wife and the women
to whom she gave shelter. " s- pol,o
vue Hospital but the ambulance surgeon refused 10
take Lyons to the hospital saying that me man
conld live only few hours longer ana that III was
nselesssto remove him. a bottle containing brandy
was left by the surgeon, with INSTRUCTIONS 10 nave
small doses of the brandy admlnstered 10 t1e uNnS
aboarders" drank most OF the brandy soon aItef
the surgeon went away. Some OF the occupants Vi
The house had furnished food to the SICK man
Children TO keep them from starving: They sad
that some of the furniture which was IN tle IoenS
when he first became i'll had been broken up lot hre
Agent Wilson, of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children went 10 the house late IN the
afternoon aud removed the three Youngest chiuteh;
The oldest a boy Of fifteen years had disappeared
by that time. Lyons was still awe MI MIS93h !31
drove the drunken women out OF lhe roos ' f 'oo h
did not clean up the rooms ana pay Detter atlen-
tion to her dying husband.
ELECTION OFFICERS HELD FOR FRAUDS.
The Tammany Committee. of which Peter Mitch
eli is chairman appointed to investigate lrauI
on the ballot al the last election nave oeeh az woh
for some time and have finally moved IN Tie lnalter
Isidore Sachs Isaac Mas, William j. Mccarthy
and George II. Jones, Inspectors OF Election IN ihe
Sixteenth Election District OF the nIn m 1nsnnctor
District, were arrested YESTERDAY Dy inspector
Byrnes ON the affidavit OF X. j. Mahan OF NO. Io9
West Forty -ifthst, that they had falsely couu1eu
votes cast for James A. Flack, the Iainmany can
6idate for County Clerk, as cast for hs County
Democracy opponent, Patrick Keenan,. similar
charge is made against them with respect TO SherlI
Grant yutes cast for him being credited to Andre"
J. White. The official canvass shows curious
state of things in TINS district For sheriff the vote Vote
was canvassed as follows: for JacObus hep lo';
White &C. ID. 81; Grant, Tam l52. For county
Clerk the vote GOebel, lRep.l ll6; keenan
C d. 1893; Fack Tam o. lhe totals ior
Sberif and County Clerk Including the scattering
vote foot up Just the same, 331' ne PIisoucnS Ps
were taken before Justice Welde at the Jefferson
Market Police Court and held to await an cXainlna-
ton. . ~ Il. -: o,;..oo
proposed TO push this matter sharply. lhey were
satisfied that an attempt was organized 10 count
out Mr.. Flack, in the interest OF ms 1ouh'S
Democracy opponent, and tins dlstI!ct was "a a
specimeu of several. In this case at least 100
yoIes had been transferred from Flack to Keenan,.
IL this sort of thing were allowed to continue 1t
would not be long before elections would be as
complete farces as in the time OF IWeeu'
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STRONG WORDS ABOUT FORGERY CASE.
Cornelus H. Boelen held at one time the trade
mark of the Cindad Bolivian bitters winch were
manufactured by the ]. Calvin Shaier COMPANY,
and his share of the profits OF selling dne Pi''eTs s
ordered a few weeks ago the delivery OF dozen
eases of the bitters TO II. Z. Nothen at ERhthaVe.
and Forty ty-eigth-st and he sold SIX cases, retain
ing the money for them lie was cOhNlcteG oI
foromg VOthen's name to the order and was taken
before Recorder Smyth yesterday Tor sentence.
The Jury recommended him 10 mercy ana petltl0hs
were presented from the directors OF the Shaier
company asking for lenlency to the prisoner. Inc
Recorder was indignant and said .,.. ...u.
IL evident now, though ltwas qulie appasnI ,
beure that there scarcely be any good motive Tor
the prosecution by the company Ihey hd toelen ar ar
rested and urged the prosecution ln tne po,ce ~, m
and before the Grand jury ana hlrcd lawyer 10 au ~
the prosecution here. Now they ASK me 10 suspend
sentence shall pay respect to the Tecommendsuoh OF
have always discouraged the bringing OF such cases Inc
ease in which the least term allowed BY 0y law a
mg money, had excuse for committing the crime.