New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-03
THE MAYORS IRE AROUSED.
HIS INADEQUATE EXPLANATION.
NOT RELIsHING THE PUBLICITY GIVEN TO HIS
NEGLECT OF AoUEDUCT AFFAIRS.

NOT RELIsHING THE PUBLICITY GIVEN TO HIS
NEGLECT OF AoUEDUCT AFFAIRS
Mayor Grant pretended TO be extremely angry YES
terJay when lie read the account Of his continued al"
sence from the meetings Of the Aqueduct Commission
of which he Is q member, and he promptly SCI aDo".
making excuses fo his refusal u vote with three %
the commissioners the plans for repairing uie lio"
Aqueduct and on tho plans for the Quaker Bridge DA
at the meeting last Wednesday. Three OF the Cohils
siOners waited for two hours for dnOthcI hch'o' Va
the Board to join them and vote upon the'e wv IN
p0rtant subjects which awaited tleh acuo"' ""
II cot to be late in the afternoon ana ''e N'
sioners who live out of town during the summer i''
trains 10 catch the three Commissioners In at'eu"'
Mcssrs Duane Howe and Tucker. went 10 inc -i"1 Vi
office and tried TO get him TO vote with them on ulc
plans which the Construction Committee Oh INC Oo-II
mission had already approved
Tho Tammany cabaI had not, evidently. taken theSo
.nbiects into cons ideration and the Mayor was u"o
fore uninstrictcd as to he should act IN tins case
lie at first made The excuse that he wa SiSInH pay
rolls and did not have time to give attention 70 'c
Aoneduct Commissioners. Then it was shown 10 MN
that he need not waste than few minutes at u''
utmost to give his vote, so thai the "orN oo"iN w
gun This was 40 plain an answer 10 HIS excuse ' "
a moment the Mayor Wa at iosS iof a'o"'V '"'''
might seem to be at least more diino"lV ~ ~ %
swcred The MAYOR then hit upon the excuse 'ha' nc
r,us, have time 10 consider them. If the COhhiis
sioner would wait until the following morning. "hH
then he might vote with them Inc Ooh'"S'i'"''
seeing that the Mayor intended to continue 'io o0
sruotivc tactics which he has pursued since the ue
feat of his efforts To Gust General Duane "' ~
Roard. in which the guess-wOrk legal ADVICE ol 'io
Corporaton Counsel played prominent part "ludio"
in disgust and LETT the young Mayor Win MS pay
rolls.
Mayor Grant declared vigorously YESTERDAY WIFI Oh
attempt At n STACEY exhibition of injured innocence
TINT he had attended the meetings OF the Boar" "i'
dx months and pointed the index finger OF pfloe d'
the meeting OF July To- which ne attended ms was
an adjourned meeting of the Board cacd only loT N'o
purpose of going to the reservoir IN SeHtIdI am -
turli on the water from the new AqueuuCt; i,un,f1
one of those occasions when Cohsiuei"".I Nornr,s
was called 10 The Commissioners ano the idNOI
friends evidently thought that IL would De sVou pO
for him 10 show himself II he viii take the uouDIo
., look over the records of the AQueduct CufAssloh
since the Court OF appeals decision was hulueu uONH
acarnr thai General Duane's occupancy OF his ONCE
was legal he will find that there nave beeh SoOrc 81
more OF meetings when after hi name an absent mari
wa. pln1ed bV the secretary of the Board HIS name
comes first on the list Of commissioners OH lhe Io
call but he seldom answers. - ,,
The question is asked by many, why the MaNo,
would need eighteen hours IN whch 10 study Il So "a
plans, the major part OF WHICH, haVG G eg "a Com
missioner and kept himself Informed upon what
the hoard was doing, would he not ne READY al any
time TO act with its menl eTs in pushing 70 a co!A,
ass cost snch AN sum of money Is another
luestion that intelligent people ash. Ills oOsuhic'
In refusing to vote has delayed the Work OF Re
pairing the AQueduCt for another week, ou, ms
previous conduct in matters in which Tammany
Hall is not the Chief benenclNy