New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-14
7'71EG1uE THTNLY DISGUISED
4 TAMMANY MAN DENOUNCES THE
HALLS COURSE on THE SPEEDWAY.
SIZE or THE "DIVvY" AN IMPORTANT
CONSIDERATION IN rIBlIC IMPROVE
MENTs-M MEETING or THE BOARD
OF ESTIMATE.


"If this monkey business with the contracts for
= speedway work and other city improvements got
/ ten I'D professedly for the benefit of the "Een-
poyed doa't stop. the people VIII set us down -
lot of 'sawdus,ers.' ard the first Of mex; year
/ nav see a Republican in the Mayor" cAaiT
| This was the remark OF Tamnany city o'H'ial
! Yesterday who has becoTc Disguised win Inc
manifest purpose Of the Tammany leaders to use
| the Park Department al employment agency
TO enlist Tammany Hail recruits, Will" me ram
many contractors are filing their pockets al the
| expense of the taxpayers
"The game Is 900 tniny disguised" he added
"ard the number OF hungry cormonnis looking
orer .livvios' from so-cal,ed Improvements in the
Park Dock Street Cleaning. Public Works ana
others departments of this city is too large TO es-
cape exposure.
The Board of Estimate held a meeting yesterday
to arrange for spending more money princ1alN
to give work to the poor. unemployed working
men" but no steps were taken toward hurrylng w
James u. Leary. the speedway contractor, VINO
was to have had 2Oco men at work long ,, beiore
this but who has not vet put twenty-five names
upon his payroll Leary's mastery inactiyity was
not even mentioned in the course of the session
PLANS LAID BEFORE THE BOARD
Under the recent act Of the Legislature allowing
the expenditure Of 100000 for improvements under
the direction of the Park Commissioners. President
Tsn,on laid before the board the following plans
and estimates:
Improving Manhattan Square. total cost. S,COo
COST OF work that could BE- done at pres mt >S"p
Construction of an entrance 10 Central Park al
Fifth-ave. and Eighty-hfih-st. total cost $SVp
amount TO be spent at presSeH9t SlW to
One-hundred-and Twenty-nnth- total cost S'-''-
900 cost of work that can b. done m@W' e. cn,ra
Park. between one-hundred and Hncm1n,
from One-hundredand- irst-st. TO One-hundrcd-and,
tenth-si total cost. $4,000; amount to be expended
Total cost of improvements that can be made
now $4,000.
The first three propositions were approved bn' me
Mayor sat down hard on the last one HIS obJec-
ton against the extension OF the brd,epaih IN the
Central Park was that the plan provided that
the path should the driveway. The Mayor
and other members of the Board Of Estimate be
gan to cross-eXanline President Happen on inc
subject. and soon had the venerable president 81
the Park Department 50 "balled up t ,na
he asked take back the maps and specifications
Plans for small improvcmccnis Of the Annexei
ment OF the Boston Post Road 5000 the Eastern
Bo%levard in peham park nov vod nmpev
100 men The Mayor asked Mr.. Toppen how many
men the work authorized YESTERDAY would erp.oy
The latter was sure that at least five hundred men
could be employed upon II. and nat most ct mem
Mavor declared that There must not be an hours
DELAY about this. for this sl,G"cc had been ap.
necessary just now but to give employment 10 idie
workingmen.
MONEY TO BE EXPENDED.
The Mayor said that bills authorizing the ex-
pen0iture of SG0.Ho In RiVefs'pc PARK ana S-'''""
in the Cathedral Parkway would become n law
shortly thus placing a total OF N.$"0O in the
hands Of the Park Board :or expenditure IN the
interests of the unemployed. -
The Controller was authorized To- issue S|t"" OF
bonds for street repairing, or one-half Of commits
si0ner Days appropriation Of N.VoOn Tor tne
current year to be devoted TO street improvements
Eugene l.. Bushe Rapid Transit CORNERSTONE
male a touching appeal for the remaining Sli"D OF
expenses Withheld from that commission last week
Then 50 900 allowed. Mr.. Bushe was succtssful
in getting through all the items except mat Tor
stenograp h,c work which sl.lW.
I'VE have paid everybody on the mission *
cent the stenographer." afterward remarked a MEM
Der % the board "and lie was the only man con-
nected with who did any work.
Department for coal distribution to the outdoor
moor President Porter said that the applications
for free coal had increased to thousands da!y. and
that an average OF 100 tons day was being given
TO the destitute.
LEARY MAY sl'DLET THE CONTRACT
Controller Fitch said yesterday that he was "s
urging Contractor Leary TO do as he had agreed
about putting men to work the Harlem River
Speedway" and reason why Leary should
not now have !, 600 men the construction. The
trouble the Controller said. that he had no
power to compel the contractor 10 go ahead
Leary had $40 working days to complete his con-
tract in, and could not be pushed if he chose to
take that time TO do the work
The Controller asked If II was true that Mr.
Leary had sublet his contract to Stewart Il Nc
Dermott had been reported. This firm was one
piled that he had no knowledge official or other
wise. of the fact, but that an examination OF the
speedway contract had satisfied him that there
nothing in II to prevent Leary from subletting
If he wished. 1t is understood that the firm men
toned has agreed with Mr.. Leary TO Go certain
parts Of the work.