The evening world., 1894-04-05

taker. Gatelv said he Was a member OF
Hal Tho members ~ To-"
Labor cub. Of which n" was Sec
were all TammunyItes.
Not the Best In the World.
John Monks, Of John Monks & Son.
denied Commissioner Grams statement
finest in the world. There was no com.
parlsOn between them and the Liverpool
stone docks The Kings, queens. salt.
house and Waterloo docks IN Liverpool
were butt uf SOLID masonry. and w"r"
a credit to the engineering ski. ui Great
Britain. AS regarded the hulKhond walls
TN New York, they had a vii" huttom ana
u concrete top of hllck-. all built ~ IA"
moss expensive mpurp', yet already soy
erdl settlements had been made In she
poor structure alofg IN" water front.
About 81 PR cent. woulI have been saved
letting this out by contract and It would
have been better done.
The dredging, winch vas done by pri-
vate contract by orders Of the Treasurer
of the department. cost the city - cents
per cubic yard. II could he done for II
cents per Cnhlr yaII which would mean
n saving Of thousands OF dollars II glvoH
out by public contract.
An Evening Wurld' reporter called on
some OF the members OF the Committee
Yesterday. who expressed their belief
that the bill would certainly become u
law.
"Thts bIll.' said Edward %I'carou. "far
from pdtting men out of enjoyment, viii
increas", the number of men employed,
and will not lower wages. The dock
builders of New York. with IA few cX-
S"ptionS. always pay the highest wages.
Inc DOCK. department pays it's men 20
cents rer hour for eight hours, while ""
pay = IL cents per hour for ten hours.
we do not object to their scale Of wage
at al.
"a meeting was held on Sunday, at 325
Howery, under thg alleged auspices Of
mate meeting. ]: was n meeting got up
by TaIumary. The Dock department Is,
sine" ~cN-Justice Andy White was APP
Eo!n."a a c9mmtssioqGr, = Tammany
ployment is a letter from n district
leader. ] know there are n few good
men who happen to be employed, but
crs, whose employment by political
hoss"s Keeps hundreds of good men who
understand their business walking about
starving. | should lik" to know why cX-
Justice White threw up u position with u
salary of 5000 for n term of eight years
to accept that Of Dock Commissioner at
5000. which may be terminated at any
time.
WOrkmcn, Not H]enchmcn.
THE statement made that We would
employ cheap Italian labor II we got
contracts is false. We have never I'm
llbNtt 'lltfp lbI'lFl liIbT, ana never
VIII. but we will! employ men who know
how 10 work and not political henchmrn.
IT was, ais false to say, that all tho
hock-builders wh9 would nd fer con.
i've may do so, but the rest live in New
York ar Nrooklyn. If the work Is done
by contractors IT vii be done % per
cent. quicker and - per cent. cheaper
than It Is now. When the Dock Com,
m~issioneis issu" contracts they insist
that we use certain materials. costing
us extra prices. but when they do the
work themselves they use whatever ma
t.r!;tls they have n mind to. or course
thcr" Is a his, pun out OF this.
In lSi0, when the Dock Department
was formed, II consisted of seven mem,
hers-four Democrats and three Ropub.
members. W being Republicans, then
TO tire" members. one being Repub.
lean; while now It's three members ar,
stanCh members of Tammany n tn,
Department has become a POLITICAL ma,
chine. The department lntcrfcrcs In
private work, and in one instance com
PEELED n man to break his agreement
with me and allow them to build his
pier. They spent on 1t three times the
amount he paid them. which loss the
city suffered. but It employed some needy
politicians.
I'VE win carry his bill" Mr.. Fearor
concluded. land next November we vii
put these men out of office"
William IL. jerks. Mr.. Fearon's part,
ntf, Stli " was nonsense Tor the DDCi
Department to say IT could execute worl
quicker than contractors,
why" said he. there IL n forfeit q,
$50 a day for every day a contractor Is
behind time, AL these statements
made against the Lawson bill are b,
Interested Tammany politicians. The
Workmcn'S meeting was u meet
ing which they had to attcnt
and max n show. The bosses
ordered 1t, ana II had to he lone. The
Dock Department used for years to ge
nearly all it's work done by contract, bu
TammHny worked steadily to get contro
has succeeded, the same system OF job
berry and robbery that Charactcrlzcs al
public offices where IT Is supreme Is IL
fun swing. You can examine the &C
counts of the Department. but they vii
throw no light on the way in which tn,
money has been expended"
Comparisons.
John Monks. Chairman OF the Dock
Builders Committee. said the Lawson
bin would pass. IL" supplied the fol
lowing facts concerning cost of CunstruC
ticn by the Department, "a compared I,
cost Of construction by letting contracts
to lowest bidder:
The pier at West Fifty-slXth street
built by the Departments own force IL
1889 and 1890, az shown by the rcpor
of George s. Green, jr., Enginecr-in
Chief, cost the city per squarc foot, cX
elusive Of sewer box, labor, 81 cnt
material. 81 cents. Total cost Of laho.
and material per foot. tl.S9. This pie
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