The evening world., 1894-03-03
CONTRACTOR DALEY, BACKER.
Used the Office Of the Tug and
soow Superintendent in
Seventeenth Street.
HOW ABOUT 1T, Mr.. ANDREWS ?
Did You Know Of This Affair or Will
the Grand Jury Have to Find
Out for Itself?

A pool-room under the protecting wing
of the Department OF Street Cleaning.
the offical head of which is William s.
Andrews!
A violation OF the law tolerated by the
head of that Department in order that
favored contractor and personal friend
might grow rich by gathering in the
money of misguided employees of the
Department!
| A den where bets were made and paid
on horse races, almost without effort of
concealment, after the police had shut up
! all the Legitimate" pooi-rooms in town!
This Is the very latest scandal devel-
and 1t is highly improbable that Com
! missioner Andrews has been Ignorant OF
| Its existence.
1t has not as yet been shown, how
ever, that Mr. Andrews had a financial
interest in the bookmakng establish
ment that has been conducted in one Of
| the branch Offices of his big Department.
Last Summer when the city govern
ment and the police authorities closed
the pool-rooms and bookmaking shops In
town, some of the sporting men In the
| city's employ and the clerks and others
in the Street Cleaning Department who
bet on horse races were given an oppor
tunity to continue their daily wagers by
visiting the Street Cleaning Department
stables at Seventeenth street and Ave-
nue. c..
In the upper portion of this building.
| which was formerly the old City Market,
and which Is now occupied by the Street
Cleaning Department, there Is a small
room, known as the Department of Tugs
and Scows. In this apartment more
, than 100000 is annually paid. and the
chief contractor who receives this money
from the city is John ID. Daley, whose
private contracts, made with Commits
sioner Andrews. have caused so much
scandal.
| Being tug and scow contractor.
| Daley has made this Office his head
quarters. His right-hand man in the
Department is Andrew Buecher. Chief
Clerk of Tugs and Scows. When the
Legitimate" pool-rooms closed last Sum-
mer, Daley and Buechler. apparently
not satisfied with the money derived
from Dailey's fat contract with the
city. began ''making book" The "tip"
was given TO employees OF the Street
Cleaning Department who had money to
| spare, and during the race meetings at
Gravesend. Brighton, Sheepshead Bay
and Morris Park the little room OF the
tug and scow department was trans
formed into n lively gambling den.
In the Autumn afternoons crowds of
sports, some OF them not connected
with the city government, visited this
room and made bets on the Guttenburg
and Gloucester races. Chief Clerk
Buechler made the book" and John d.
! Daley was the financial hacker OF the
business. Many of the winning tickets
were cashed by Daley in person and in
stances are known where some OF the
patrons OF the place got bank checks IN
return for their winning tickets.
The book made by Buechler on the
different races was governed by the
opening OF closing odds as quoted in n
newspaper that made specially OF rae
ing news.
From . O'Clock until each afternoon
| Buechler made out written slips In lieu
OF printed tickets. and upon the fol-
lowing morning he or Daley cashed
winning tickets.
John a. Daley, the favored con-
tractor, usually arrived each day In time
10 take charge of the firms "roll."
There was one patron OF the concern.
|. well-known employee of the Street
Cleaning Department, who, as the say
ing goes, beat the book almost every
day. In September last when Laughing
! Water won her first race OF the year.
this lucky city employee won $780, and
was paid his money by DALEY. who gave
his personal check for the amount.
| The bookmaking shop was finally