The evening world., 1894-04-13
Big Profit In 1t, Especially if You
Have a Hand Under Cover In
Furnishing Supplies.
WHERE TREASURER'S ORDERS COME IN.
With Them to Count On the R.nesters
Need Not Bid, Yet They Can Get Rich
Jobs-Thomas F. White as Surety.

is regarded as absolutely solid with the cen
trail power He is getting so many plums h,
hardly knows what to do with them
Treasurer's orders have become rule In
other words. the work given out to whomever the
Commissioners sclect-The World April G. 1so,
Alfred ]. Murray is President of the
1roquois Club. which set out recently 10
give Barney Martin house, ne Is rich
and is the recognized financial backer of
this same Tammany leader.
Murray is the most active, alert and
able man In the Murray -Kimpland-
Morse-Steers lumber combine. The
World showed yesterday. in the nara
tive of f. L. Richardson, how, when
the latter was breaking in on the old
Murray -Kimpland- Morse combine In the
interest of Harry Steers, Murray called
on Richardson to fix up things and put
stop to competition. 1t also showed
now Murray, by the cooperation of
Commissioners Phelan and White, fyoze
out William Taylor, Of Delaware, in the
Powis bid. Murray's price averaging SIS
pile. and yet how Murray, under COM
petition. had put his price at one time
at ss when Richardson had discovered
the figuring system Of the combination
Dock Department and there learned all
those ins and outs such as William s.
Hillman. Commissioner Phelans conf
Dental man. made so serviceable in con-
veying advance Information to favored
contractors. He left the department and
became a clerk with the firm then
known as Beard & Kmpland. The
story is told that when the new plan
for the waterfront was devised, Beard
& Kimpland sent Murray to the North
west to lay in big supply OF the large
piles running as high as N feet long
which would be required for the new
piers. 1t is also said that Murray got a
rich hacker here. and that after he had
made heavy purchases of big piles he
sent back word to Beard & Kimpland
that he had filled the orders-for him
self. Murray was in the field ahead Of
anybody else ana made q fortune out of
this venture.
This put Murray on his feet and he
has kept there ever since. He is an old
Ninth Warder and has been active in
politics. When the Iroquois Club was
founded, some five years ago. Murray
became its President. He has been
President ever since.
But Murray has n much stronger tie
than Barney Martin In the Dock De-
partment. He knows all about the Sc
cret of being a bondsman on work for
which he expects to supply the material;
80 he long ago began being n surety for
John W. Flaherty. dock-builder, who has
an office with Commissioner White. fer
tllizer, at No. Al Peck slip, as already
narrated in The World. And the other
surety on Flaherty's bonds, when not
Andy-as In the case of the $33, ,472 wooden
pier at the foot of Canal Streets
Commissioner.
Here Is at least a partial list of the
Flaherty contracts, on which Murray.
Barney Martins backer and Thomas F.
White are the sureties. and for which
the Murray-White combine supplies pill
ing. and also timber. when required:
lSso-Crib bulkhead. Lincoln avenue. 3ll, 40. so
Pier 9, East River. SEQ, ,256.
Repairing bulkhead, Piers (od) 81 and S.
North River. 81, 2ss.
lSsl-Extending Pier 81 North River. SCI. SSl
Repairing bulkhesd. Pier 90 East River. 81. ssS
Removing portion Pier 55. East River. and o
crhwork repairing and dredging. sl3.s7o
building wooden pier. East Thirty y-ffth street
s5sl7.
lss2-wooden pier foot vesey street. sSl 1876.
Repairing dump and bulkhead. East Forty
sixth street: IS 2s5.
lso3-New wooden pier near Canal street
ua.F2 "a. J. White and Murray sureties)
Wooden pier. West Fifteenth street July 12)
IN. 7C5
This shows a total for the Flaherty
White-Murray combine of s49.s17 for 1890
s27.l9s for 1891. s36, 4S1 for 1892 and So, 90
for 1893.
But this Is comparatively mild phas,
or the story OF combines and freeze outs
The annual reports of the Dock Board
muddled and mixed as they are-shov
that Flaherty, for the year ending Apri
w. 1881, had A5.06l of work: Ss1, ,745 for tn,
year ending April 30. 1891 $50, 900 thenc
to April 80. 1892 and s26,5l3 for the follow
ing year.
simultaneously, however, for the yea
ending April 80. 1890. Alfred ]. Murra,
got $55,325, and s34, ,735, 33S, ,905 and s35, II
Tor the succeeding three years. And h
has kept up the proportions the pas
year
The significant point is that while tn
main part of Flahertys contracts cam
f''iiS tilt DluS DelnI
opened In the presence OF a representa-
i've OF the Comptroller's office, Murray
name does not appear In the City Recor
reports as n contractor; so that his bi
nlnhg contracts have been given out OF
lreasurer's orders, the precise characte
OF the working OF which was exposed Il
me World yesterday in the story of tn
william Taylor freeze-out.
And Al Murray. hacker of Barne
martin and co-surety with Andy White
aerulizer and Dock Commissioner, o
WIN Thomas. his brother got tn
.o"ls contract, which Phelan gave I
h''n after Andy, Harry Steers, Murra
anu CONFIDENTIAL Man Hillman, tn
iammany Indian. had got in their fin
wCrk.
Murray can thus freeze out ma
VI the wealth and standing OF Wlllliar
Taylor, no wonder he does not need I
p'u publicly for piling contracts. Treas
'rer's orders are good enough for hin
'urther proof. II needed. that Murra