The evening world., 1893-12-09
WALES new
FARCE COMEDY.
I. Covering the Horse Deal with
a Beautiful Coat Of
WhiteVaSh,
I An EX-PARTE INVESTIGATION.
Natural Result Of a Remarkable
Star Chamber Court Of
4. Isl Inquiry.
THE TRUTH WAS NOT WANTED.
"-Brennan's Administration and Meth
DDS Condemned by His
,-Y.. Own Evidence.
the TRUTH WAS NOT WANTED

As was to have been expected the
: Street Cleaning Department has been
~, hitewashed II second time.
''The Evening Worlds" expose OF the
method of burchaslnE ash-curt horses at
! $3.50 each frcm favored firms caused
Mayor Gllroy 10 nsk Messrs Wahle and
Owen, Commissioners OF Accounts. TO
3 make the jsecond investigation OF the
n administration af the Street Cleaning
: Department tltat is. to examine into
Il the -charges TINT money WAS wasted in
The mattfr5sf purchasing horses.
The, investigation WAS confined to the
x period when Thomas s. Brennan was
STRENGTHENING CUmmissonrr
The Commissioners OF Accounts made
3 their report U tiic Mayor yesterday
after stnr-chambcr session. at which
= only witnesses favorable Ia the present
system OF purchasing ash-curi horses for
Z the city were called 10 testify.
= - IL WAS an ex pnrtr inquiry II onc-"idcd
investigation throughout, Il defense OF
am extravagaht system from first to last
Only the Brennan side was given hear
ing BrcnnHn'S witnesses and there
were no others -wcrc asked only leading
questions. There was no cross-cNaminu-
q 1tion. The parties who made the charges
against Brennan and The system lie rep
resented were given no hearing.
fs- 1t Is hardly to be Wondered at that
such an Investigation" failed to bring
I. -out the faults and the waste OF pubic
World
''rne. Evening Wcrld" published a
y story Nov. 49, showing how city money
a .asn-cart horses. The very same day
Mayor Giiroy instructed Commissioners
of Accounts Wanie and Owen TO investi-
gate the matter. The Commissioners eX.
nnined their witnesses IN secret Friday
Dec. !. and saturday. Dec. >. and on tn,
Il WOULD report to the Mayor MONDAY, Dec
4. The report of the Commissioners. how
n ever. y dated "Wednesday Lee o, ant
y the affidavts Of the witnesses were sworn
Dec. 6.
= This IL pretty quick work. even fol-
experts with the wnitewasn brush.
The report of Messrs. Wahle and Owen
which In reality IS a defense OF Thoma.
81 Brennan. and Is not the result OF al
Official inquiry IN the interest of publ,
justice, calls attention to their previou,
n report on the Brennan administration. II
which they stated:
"a methods OF obtaining DiLs for needed
stock Introduced by Mr.. Brennan, as {
result result, Of which art articles were Dough
s.s.eu Of ihvitng estimates from u dozei
X or more houses, thus crea..ng n livel,
competition"
Az a matter OF fact -.rennan did not in
Z. vite bids for furnishing ash-cart horse
from "a dozen or more houses. no
even from a half-doZen lie patroniZe,
two firms. Fiss & Doerr and l. ii. Dam
II man. and stated on oath before the star
chamber investigators:
II have never been spoken to by
= living soul in the horse business exccp
+ Dahlman and Flss g. Doerr"
The star-chamber investigators max
this statement In their report:
ut is to be borne in mind that we ar
not called upon to consider the presen
value OF horses"
Tits was probably to lift out of nm en-
9 barrassinS position the firm that offcrc
b, TO sell for sl42. so each to one j. d. Cole
OF Newark, horses Of the same grade a
those Tor which II was charging this cit
$3.50 each.
The report of the Commissioners cor
tains little else than what Mr. Brenna
says, what Superintendent of the Stable
"A Kennedy says and what Messrs. PISS
81 Btoerr say regarding the purchase {
~ s2Io ash-cart horses by the City Stree,
~ Cleaning Department.
81 The report says no horses nine year
s4 OF age were bought by the city. hut IN
auditors books refute this statement.
that all horses bought by the cit
weighed l.t5o pounds. evidently forge
ting the, light weight animals bought
Some thirty-thrcc OF them-for drivin
Y and express purposes.
ia Here IL where they hedge:
$500 we tdhe II tndt lnP sworn StHtencT
Of Messrs. Fiss & Doerr can safely /
believed as against the statement mad
by them as horse dealers"
In truth, do they mean to infer tbs
FisS g. Doerr deceived the city and sol
horses under false pretenscs when the
II as horse dealers. disposed OF ANNA
age and "greenness" selling item
the city through the Street-Cleanins u
partment officials?
Messrs Wahle and Owen. after mel
lecting TO subpoena important W,
u nesses and declining all outside ASST,
- ance In making their investigation.
ter written by Robert Furey to Edwal
s I<earney as direct evidence. When it
known that Robert Furey Is henchmg
"a ney IL Tammany politician. the vall
or such letter in this investigation
apparent
In concluding their report of the r
markable star-chamber investigation Il
= Commissioners OF Accounts say:
that Could Se dSfaned f ths witness ,sa
partment OF Street Cleaning and al
Nv such as we're suggested to us in the Y
whom we could reach, and whose tes
s','n tony could be material. we find that d
prices paid for the horses ,purchas
Cleaning. Department were fair al
reasonable and that the charge of e
trayagance is without foundation
reach" Or. james Hamii. Tor sew
s..:years veterinary surgeon In the Sire,
Cleaning Depa rtment?
Was not the testimony OF the Quart.
master OF the United States Cover
ment; who buys heavy artillery hors
at xlSO. each very material?
=, Why was not Mr.. Coles. OF NewaI
questioned and given an opportunity
make oath as to the offer made him
Messrs. Fiss & Doerr?
. Why were only those persons co
nected with the Street Cleaning Depal
ment called as witnesses?
II looks as if the evidence secured
IL. the Commissioners OF Accounts was [
' oa.y sort Of evidence they desired
The testimony OF Brennan before [
star Chamber Investigation Is peculiar.
h say the least.
He stated under oath:
"Yes. ] introduced a system for /