The sun., 1889-12-04

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Thomas McMahon' formerly employed oy
the Union Dredging Company and Captain OF
the dredRe America from 1873 TO 1883, was the
prize witness In the DOCK Department lnVestl-
cation yesterday. no 'eetlnou 'hat MS oruers
| frequently were TO uFeuse UP poht ioau oI
| mud by day. have the load measured up ana
charged to the city, dump II In the slip again at
| night and 90 ahoad dredging next day,
| presidcnt Loomis of the Union Dredging
C,.,,,, ,nLilo ON ,bn s,,rd lost ,vonI att
80, -, =. a. .o, a. IN oi,, eIos TO- oror- ooo,v
.nateu .na' ~ 'oo' '"o 80 toA M
lohu OF ureuRinE' 'o""ioh oApia'neu 'n"'
this thing was done every tlme the Wlnd Waseo
strong that the scoWs could not De taken out 10
sea readily. lie saio ne ienennoereu Two ocea-
sions when lows were sen. UP tno Nottn hlNer
from foTty-seconu stree' ooninu 'ne lux D"i'ic
ana dumped up the rNer'
o.-Do you reeoioct who was the inspector OF the
dumping OF ofeuEeu mA'o'~'' ~ ."'' .i"e' 81 oo
80, ~ va. I'., ,n. Wv ''N' '''N w
on,a c.,din,sr .x,r tall vop h. v,, r,,a ,v ~.
Union Drsdr,ng Comp,py, Ale told me he received
money from them
Q.--How much month Al never knew him TO Be
short nc always ussa 70 60 Gown "neh " "" hoeeE
o-Did he ever tell you that no was paid sIoo
he had not hundred dollars lately. lie wasn't work
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ing; ne was outside 'meanns 'nAt no was not on duty
"nen he bAlu HJ'
The America. Mcmahon said. lay at the Forty
sa,ond straet MAR week and dredped over tho
-, ,,,.io Thnr drr,noa ,ho ,,,torI.I
whoie GROUND twice. ineV dumped tne materiai
In the river right in front Of the slip.
n No ,or r.oou.ot h.,p1 ipa,ruct,d N dpur thu,
material in front of the slp by the Superintendent. OF
the Dredging Company. A-That was tho order that
came. 1suppose it must have come from the company
Sn @|whO %; dId you 90, them from. Fo.h, A-ro,.h
believe was the man who gave the orders
Gle told you to take the scOws and dump them in
front OF tho sip' A-leS he has done that
nIGht' A-wen, it used to be enough to keep the
chimes running tho next day-probably two or three
.,.
@ nnen 'ne uleuEo MM Was "o,nI I'M, h ~ n"s' oey,
IL s'teo'' .t oo e usou " ~
scows on tho way down the river. Tho tugs
thon were the Webster and the Bowen, which
belonged to tho company that owned tho Bal
tic The Union Company used to send the de-
par'ment scows whlcn IL was 'hen using IN the
East River around the Battery into the North
River and dump them there Mcmahon also
dredEed at Stanton street and the East River.
v!2-whsre q You dnmP that mq:.ra!; on tho North
ha"d, in The nisGt ims; 1at 4'Goray r. DAY time
Q &"" ro"S you tsco,ec. e..w..n the iron
mps * M ssS be eWs wf u W WAS done oeIason
uity
ycWabon tes,ifed that they dredeei for pri-
yntS re oWnors at at Thirty.stxti street at night
, '',m ~ tt,o TwcmIv-1iTh street in the morninR.
'r ,iere II The INSPECTOR would put in nm apuear.
@ ite.o ,',aos,,r. ~ mn th. Scows as thnrgh rbav
ance. measuEe up LhS seomS VI; "s rtiS '@noy @
bntI-n ~. ~ mn 10 tbe Docl, Dopnrtment Mc-
MnhSn had Instructions about this.
QyDo you reeoieot scndihs empty Se'"" out 10 sea-
yln tss cs' Of f'9M fa m mud al al
ey hoas1s PT"paI one OF .ns HG officials Of se
SSv Ss was pier aud il better load
her up she looked 10" oa"
nand0iph Gatd'her vas 3dws 1Rs a Wno b
period. McMahoh lseu 10 20 soihe'imes' 100 100.
s5sg hw Sd sy ts 81 he and ali
around Tue .sH0T ana go ot t s was h''e
SSaEpose Say t was reIy stormy day where would
at night or would not 20 cut at oil
McMahon said he often heard at this time
pIoyees TO receive money from the Union
Dredging Company.
tpsp.ct" on Iredrs Who was not friendly to the nion
Dredging Company Al a.wAys heard that in case
hat one part OF ths Sp Is ha5a i5 @ mHd ana
another So IN 20 b .h9y ms ser III tue s0' uu
Q1HHa where they sIrkot yory, hard they skip III
fault found with me
The rest Of the day Gys1 up IT, hS S
~, Wa said that Chief Ingineer Greene was
rsenonSihIe res Tor the accartance OF the con-
dapnad InmhHr in Deyter Hunter ~ Co.'s
coran Jnmner had zone lip since the order
was originally given, and Mr. Greene had re-
ported that the rejected balance OF the cargo
VIC Iattar for the nrico than the merc I'm hla
Nmno 'ot t ~ ,.tS ~, -, ~, Ia ,t,na
lumpeF III lhe Hat.ol u 'ho it'o'
Odd ask why SO many treaBurers orders
given job iii Tie Cases mentioned IL this
investigation A-Ao; the Engineer III CHIEF looks Afler
that
D-hre you NOT responhole 70 Ihe CITY soI any "rVhH
acts on e i4it OF ~ VI, - i
~, no more thah tne % ~ 20
TOT tue ihlsaeeus OF tle ueas VI 90. t' ~
no ten is az az h.. ~, iSa S 1us
nK TK sIeh % as tiose @ m,S.i psny pIHr JS ' u'ti0e"
iho Nhloh pieuk"k SNNlA'' -. =.
Georre o. Reach n former clerk in the DOCK
Dennriment " IN lind testified in an inyestiRa-
ton April Z 1887. Mr. Matthews irowned and
said that MIR. Beach was sorehead. Mr.
Clark then 0uened n written volume and read
Mr. Beach's testimony that MIR. Matthews
loafed around the otiices drunk smoking and
drinking whiskey and doing no work, and that
his son generally had u still on" Mr.. Mat
thewS said that this was all false. His son now
fills Beach's former place in the Department.
Asked further about his son, Mr. Matthew'S
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