New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-24
BERTHS FOR TAMMANY MEN.
uAGAN DISCHARGED THE OTHERS.
PRINCIPLES on WHICH HE RAN TIL STREET
CLEANING DEPARTMENT.

PRINCIPLES or WHICH HE RAN TIL SiEt-4
CLEANING DEPARTMENT.
The member, Of the State Senate Committee on cites
listened Yesterday TO more testimony on the Huc''
Cleaning Department ways and methods OF not ccah'-
.hc streets The first witness who was examined was
Horace Looms DIT. LoOmis was the first man ap
pouted by Mayor Grant 10 be street Cleaning No''
missioner after lie and his Tammany associates Ia"
made Commissioner COlemsns life miserable Tor So'"e
months on account of his alleged Intellectual EFFORTS "'
doing the work Of which two OF the Mayors own dp
noptcss have made dismal failures Thomas I. GIlrOy
WAS the Tammany brave who first asked Mr. Loo'l''
Ia try 10 clean the streets After thinking over 'lc
proposal for night he consented 10 make 'e a't'P"
His appointment Immediately made out All Nc"
York knows how Mr.. LOOMS struggled WIN t''e 'd'"
and finally gave up, as much Oh acoo"''C w ~
pressure OF Tammany men for places iS Oh HIS III
ability TO clean the streets Mr. Looms les'Hcu ''t
he appointed exAssemblyman Edward !. Hasdh' '"c
Tammauy leader Of the gas house dlStrct' a ue it'
OF the Mayor. to the place OF Deputy stce'o e'''s
Commissioner. Mr.. Hagan was appointed 10 40 a. hc
was told by the Commissioner IL came out h'el III
the testimony. however, that lagan was thero manu-,
to represent Tammany Hall in the distribution OF
patronage.
OF Hagan's qualifications Mr. LOOMS said that nc
knew nothing The ex Commissioner said further mat
the Office was distasteful TO him and lie resigned De
cause the newspapers criticised him. lie Thought on
the other hand that while he was COMMISSIONER "c vi"
about as we'll any other Commissioner h"d uoho
He thought 1t Wac impossible to clean the streets nj
all satisfactorily with the present appropriations lie
thought that the work could be done best by contract
and while he Commissioner lie put the idea beiore
Mayor Grant Since then he had heard nothing ABOUT
it, Mr. Looms explained the difficulties of getting
satisfactory work from men who were employed on
account of their political backing. When the city Ptd
o3 cents an hour for eight hours work. IT was paying
twice as much as such labor was worth. Contfac'ors
pay from IL . cents cents hour for the same
kind of work and demand longer hours.
Mr. LOOMS thought that the plan of putting every
thing In connection with the streets above ground IN inc
hands of Commissioner, the Commissioner OF Pubic
Works. and everything under ground, including the
gas, sewer water and other pipes, In the hahos Vi
another official excellent one, providing that there
would be no cashing of interests and responsibility
Edward p. Iiagan was the next WINES when nc
first went upon the witness stand lie started in to
follow the tactics fist exhibited by Fire CommlSN ioner
IurrOy. few we'll directed questions from MI INii'
brought the witness down 10 an extremely huhnulc
rest Of his examination. lie was nr't asked lesaiu
ing his appointment. He said that the Mayor anu
another man asked him if he would accept the p'He.
The of the other he could not remember Dut
from what transpilcd later II is probable tal III Wa
Richard Croker. Mr.. Hagan was entirely frank aDou.
his Of treating the employees OF the department.
who were not of the Wlgwam falth. lie cHlhlN ~
mttcd that AntiTammauy men were turned ont u aht
PLACES for Tammany men. He resigned because hIoit.
enough was not appropriated to clean me siieeS, NV
was Impossible clean the streets every day Win tle
present appropriation lie was deputy commissioner
for about three months. lie thought that Sl'1OooO
a wear would he large enough to insure clean strcc'S
Commissioner Bcatrie wa, recalled 10 give some
figures which he had been asked at previous h@ihg
to present to the committee: The figures consisted o.
his personal estimates of what II would cost u clean
the city. For the block system, according to him,
S2,1e0164 a year is needed.