The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-01
LAST EDITION.
now KNOX
RAPS. Martin.
IntimateS There Is Crooked.
ness in the Police Hell
met Contract.
sPELLMAN Gets THE ORDERS.
He Charges 1926, Although
Kno1's Regular Price Is
and Has Been So.
TREATED SAABBILY, ALSO.
Knox Says He Paid Barney Mar.
tins Campaign Expenses and
Political Assessment.
sPELLMAN GETS THE ORDERS.
TREATED SHABBILY, ALSO.

With the threats of ex-Police Capt.
Doherty ringing in his ears. and with
public opinion focused upon him in
most uncomfortable manner. Police
Commissioner James ]. Martin is called
upon this morning to answer another
and unlocked for charge. The COM
Plainant in this case Is Knox, the
Wh9 Se lost that hat
contract for supplying the patrolmen
with helmets, contract which he had
enjoyed for years, and VINO supplied "a
until James j. Martin became a Po-
lice Commissioner.
What the public and the patrolmen
are particularly Interested in, however,
Is that J. H. spellman, who now supplies
the helmets to the Department, charges
p cents more for each ar,, ss than Kn IN
like amount more than he is willing to
supply them for at the present time.
but when 1t is remembered that the pa
trolmen wear out from four to fve and
six helmets year, and that about $1,000
viii be seen that the men are actually
paying 1880 more for hats every year
than they formerly paid.
angry Is that he regards the whole affair
as the rankest kind of ingratitude. In
the first place, he blames Mr.. Martin for
Il,
j. Grant to. get the, facts before the
courts. In the next place. he claims the
credit of having taken Barney Mar
from the depths Of obscurity and given
him his first start in politics. He claims
10 have paid "Barney's" first campaign
Later, that f he paid all his political assess:
ment of $500 when the same individual
got the nomination for Coroner; that he
P%e he Sae Msrn ms
10 be his friend through life; that he has
not been able to collect from Barney"
now Police Justice Bernard j. Mar tin.
ever since and that generally he Is a
much-abused man.
The story of the change in contractors
for supplying helmets, which Mr.. Knox
tells, and which an examination OF the
police records bears out is interesting.
For years~KnoN supplied them to the
made a fair profit at that. then James
j. Martin doomed upon the scene as a
Commissioner, and great change
Until MIR. Martins arrival at the Null
berry street building 1t had been the
habit whenever the time came around
for giving ont the f TO adwersise
says that every halter in town was no.
titled beforehand In order that they
1onld get ready and send IN SAMPLES na !;
to, Mr.; Knox's story, all this ceased
AT the corner OF Park ROW ana NeN
hat store. 1t may be that he has a
hat factory somewhere, but untii the
present time few persons seems to have
been aware of its existence. The hat
store adjoins the liquor store which
Patrick Divver-now Police Justice-kep'
1t is a well-known fact that Diver
aid Spellman were and are fast friends
Spelhnan Is member of DIVERS Asso-
citation. over his store are the ofiice'
tenants, who was electei Civil Justice
last Fall. This Is the Spellman who nov
supplies the helmets to the Police De
When. after Martins admission to tn
Police Board, the time came around fo
the giving out of the contracts for hel
a. the, old rate of 81 in spite of the fac
that the contracts had not been adver
used He was surprised later TO I'm
that Spellman was the successful bidder
anu stranger still that his price was 81
per hat
IT was then that Mr.. Knox began Il
think; and think pretty hard at that
but he was powerless to do any
Ging. He says now that he called oil
Seines >. Martin several times 10 asl
Wnat y al meant. but got no satisfac
ton. Next year, although the contract
were not advertised, Mr. Knox put Il
his bid as OF old, for 81 per hat. 1t wa
AVA waste OF time. however as spellma,
ever since.
When Commissioner Martin arrived a
Headquarters this morning and wa
questioned. he refused to say anythn
TO the newspaper men present, beyon
asking them II they had gone into tn
hat business.
This whole story Is silly" he added
and am not going to discuss 1t at all.
Then he walked upstairs, and bein
Joined by Commissioners Kerwin an
murray, proceeded 10 hear the com
plants against policemen in the tris
:. From Major Kipp, Clerk OF the Boart
y WAS ascertained that II has not bee
the practice to advertise nor to let on
nat contracts u was stated that tn
Of the money; they simply passed 1po
the quality of the helmets offered. The
had decided that the Speilman hat wa
/. the best. II was claimed that the onl
privilege he had was the use OF the hal
room. He delivered his hats at Polio
HEADQUARTERS and sold them to the me