The evening world., 1894-01-19
DUMMY" BOATS, TOO
City's Money Apparently Paid for
Work Never Done.
Street Cleaning Department Con.
demned by Records.
How Part Of 100000 Is Spent in
"FinaI Disposition"

tracts DetWeen COHtrdCtOT JohH ~
Daley n william s Andrews. Com
missioner of Street Cleaning. will give
the Grand Jury an opportunity to dis
tinguish itself.
The Evening World has shown from
day TO day facts and figures. exposing
ahe frauds and shans. jobs and deals. In
the matter Of ash-cart horses. horse feed.
dumping-boats and scows and ~tugboats.
An Of these questionable transactions
are o~vershadowed. however. by disoov-
cries made yesterday In what Is known
rs the final disposition bureau" OF the
Street, Cleaning Department.
The final disposition bureau. which
annually expcnds nearly 10000 Of the
public money, is without question the
most fruitful field for schemes and
deals. 1t Is under the supervision. as a
matter of course. Of Commissioner An
drews, but more particularly Is II BOXED
after by Deputy Commissioned John j.
Ryan. , Under. Mr.. Ryan Is Charles ?.
Anderson, Superintendent Of Tugs and
ecows, n under Mr.. Anderson Is An
drew Buchler, his clerk.
Cpon. these four city officials, then,
Andrews. Ryan. Anderson and Buchler.
N the order named, rests the grave re-
sponsibiHty OF e~xpending $4,000 annu-
ally Of the taxpayers money.
Anderson and Buchler practically run
me business OF tugs and sc1ws. making
daily reports to Andrews and Ryan.
At the foot OF Seventeenth street, East
River. at the corner OF Avenue e. are the
9eventeenth street dumps and the Street
Department stables. The staolA build
ing 10 the cid City Market. and II the
Vi~ffAr Will climb a uIniInO tFHn gfaIT-
cese In a corner Of the structure TO the
top floor. he will And himself IN a dark.
S sfE sa aRas,m ss will, f snS q ,m 1sTou sarn a
like room, where there are four or Ave
old desks. q few chairs. a stove and a
This is rhe final disposition bureau"
4 Is here that Anderson and Buchier
direct the movements OF tugs and scows.
hire men and discharge them. ana above
10000 annually. with telephone com
munication with the seventeen dumps in
The city and also with Commissioner
nnareTs Ia ana bur, De9nfy nyan' all thr e1'i'
Anderson and Buchier are seldom
alone In this gloomy old attic room. for
- representative of John p. Daley. who
! holds all the fat contracts In tugs and
4reds Of bailey's blank bils are Kept
here, and II Is said that a bill against
Dom made out in Dailey's downtown
John d. Daley is a Tammsny Hail
more Gluh, and a follower OF. Police Jus.
tice Weltie, the leader OF his district.
He is Q piotege Of James D. Leary, who,
ITS said: gave DALEY his start y ne.
tor Daley are close friends. They car
frequently. be found arm in arm in Wall
street. and az recently as Jan. s, dined
together at Delmonico's place In Broad
John D. Daley. according to his busi-
ness cards. Is a contractor for water
ONCE at $50 West one Hundred and
Nineteenth street and another Office In
Hroa sire ct. His work for the city in
yssr IL n %aa swe IL oh TO- SO St r. r PIs y las1
Mr.. Dudley Is In a fair way to receive
sonnet ng Hike $3oO,C 900 from the Street.
Cleaning Department.
The rntaI Of scows and tugboats tc
the elf by Contractor Daley Is n matter
for future consideration. and the pur.
pore to- day Is TO show the methods ant
manner In y hich the city scows are un
loaded b. DALEY at Riker's Island anc
There al'e twelve dumping wharves or
B%eventeenel street, T'wenty-second
street. Thir 'y.eighth street. FGrty,six,t
street. One Hundred and Tenth stree
and Lincoln avenue.
There are s'ven dumping wharves or
5 Tw.,f North .tr aayeT' s y1si cnpa' street stree,
strSet. scvcnay-ni n street and On,
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street.
jackson streets, are not used. At eac'
of the other dumps, one or more scow
are kent to receive the garbage from
from various parts OF the city.
These are the twenty-three scow.
owned by the Department: Nos. %, =, :
Is. 81, 81, 80 ~ ii and H. Scows Nos
a 20 and az arc not In use, being tic
Up at the Seventeenth street wharf; tn
partment now In use.
These are the sdxteen scows hired fror
private parties Nv the Department; Tn
vend. Wei. Daily. MulIiEan. McMuiIer
Elannery. Carrie; Francis Lizzie D
scows hired from the Barney Compan
o., 10. n. p. 10. " and IL 49,.
These forty eight scows are the tot
number in use by the Department sin
Jan. /. Upon these scows the figure
IN his article are computed and base
Al Of the facts herein stated are matte
OF public record.
This is the oneIsl record o' scows IN use
Jan. IL. 1894: Twelve patent dumping soow.
hired nat ,eows, 90 D,psrtmen, so2Ts
INV ~ Wv l'A "H 49, 49,
the same day Jan, II. lss+:
seows receiving ashes from vessels, al SC
10 .sows 81 damps. ut 81 50 ana t5........ 81.
II Jumpers at S23 per day .....,.-........ .S9
To.al.-.""..... .'..,..'' ',..'.'.'.''.. sax
Here are seven hired fiat scows and o.
bumper for which bills were render
and money paid, when the boats we
not In use at all.
II these seven dummy" scows We
put In the expense account, as the n
ords show they were, It Is a natul
sequence that John u. DALEY was pa
S0 each for unloading these sew
dummy" scowB. 1t would not balance
the books OF the Departments to pay
the hire of seven scows II payment "
not also made for unloading them. Sev
scows at $50 means a little matter
$3.50 for DALEY.
A cubic yard OF solid garbage will ~
about fill an ash-cprt. Many OF
\ carts, when their loads are dumped II
the scows. are only half filed. st ca
Of the dumps a record Is kept OF
number OF carloads emDtied into ca
\scow, and the Department records q
the number OF loads to each LOAD
Bcow.
mlEor Inst when n scow Is ready
flowed to Riker's Island for Daley
load, q record is made by the capt
the dump OF list how many ca
nhg ar FNnFa nI.nNArlu giny IA