The evening world., 1894-04-05
WIPE OUT The
DOCK BOARD.

tConanu"i from fyrS P1ne.N
contract. as compared with the expense
incurred ana time wasted by the Dock
Commissioners.
MIR. Walsh attacked the constitution
Of the Dock Commission, and said there
had not been "A Commissioner who knew
anything about his business since J. +,
missioners were merely political Office
holders.
Gately, the Secretary Of the Bay Labor
oiub. denounced the bin in toto. He
thought 1t would be n shame to allow a
plant. worth $4,000 to lie Idle. and tha,
would be the result Of the passage of the
PHI. II teh work was done by contract,
tho, contractors would employ cheap labor
ana aliens would replace American citl-
zens.
Gately then threatened the Committee
that II they passed the bill the labor
vote in New York would be cast against
its members. and also against the As
semblymen and Senator'S who voted for
the bill.
on cross-examination by Lawyer Whit
taker, Gately said he was a member OF
lannany Hal. The members OF the
Bay Labor Club, of which he was sec
rotary, were all Tammanyltes.
Not the Best In the World.
John Monks, OF John Monks & Son,
denied Commissioner. Grains statement
that the New York bulkheads were the
finest in the world. There was no com
parison between them md the Liverpool
ston docks. The Kings, Queens, Salt
house and aWterloo docks in Liverpool
were built of solid masonry, and were
a credit to the engineering skill OF Great
Britain. As regarded the bulkhead walls
In New York, they had a pile bottom and
a concret top Of blocks, all built in the
most expensive manner, yet already sew
eral settlements had been made In the
poor structure along the water front,
which showed that II was badly built.
| ADOllt "a Der cent would hn VI bapn M yaI
letting this out by contract and Il would
have been better done.
The dredging, which was lone by pri-
vate contract by orders OF the Treasurer
OF the Department. cost the city 20 cents
per cubic yard. 1t could be lone for IA
cents per cubic yard, which would mean
out by. public contract.
An Evening World reporter called on
some OF the members OF the Committee
Yesterday, who expressed their belief
law.
This bin said Edward Fearon, far
from putting men out OF employment will
Increase the number OF men employed,
ana VIII not lower wages. The dock
builders of New York, with a few ex-
SS@,pti3ns, always pay the highest wages.
cents per hour for eight hours. while we
pay = IL cents per hour for ten hours.
we 90 not object to their scale OF wages
at all.
"A meeting was held on Sunday, at 1926
.'"w,"ry, under tn" alleged auspices Of
dock workmen. That was not a legiti-
niasS meeting. II was a meeting got UP
ny Tammany. The Dock Department IL,
since ex-Justice Andy White was APP
pointed n Commissioner, a Tammany
Institution, Uhe qualification for emf
ployment is a letter from a district
leader. | Know there are a few, good
men who happen to be employed, but
the greater majority are Tammany heel
ers, whose employment by political
| nGGa a4n IA AL Vala - . mood $500 =
understand their business. walking about
starving. should like to know why ex-
Justice White threw up n position with n
salary or 5000 for a term of eight years
1900. which may be terminated at any
time.
Workmen, Not Henchmen.
The statement made that we would
employ cheap Italian labor II we got
contracts is false. We have never en-
VIII. but we will employ men who konw
how to work and not political h%enchmen.
do mit .h WAS also false to say that all the
tracts reside in New Jersey. Four or
I'VE may do so, but the rest live In New
York or brooklyn, Il the work Is done
cy contractors II %il be lone 25 per
than 1t Is now. When the Dock Com
missIoners issue contracts they insist
that we use certain materials, costing
'H 'A'lh W itts, Dul Wllen tntN 40 the
work themselves they use whatever ma
terlals they have n mind to. or course,
there j. a big pul out OF this.
IN 1870. when the Dock Department
was formed, II consisted OF seven menu
hers-four Democrats and three Repub-
leans. 1t was then reduced to four
members, two being Republicans; then
To- three members, one being Repub-
stanch members OF Tammany and the
hGpartmant has become a political ma
chine The department lnterfercs in
PEELED n man To break his agreement
with me. and allow them to build his
pier. They spent on It three times the
amount he paid them which loss the
city suffered, but II employed some needy
politicians.
w viii carry this bill" Mr.. Fearon
concluded and next November We will
put these men out of Office"
William II. jerks, Mr.. Fearon's part
ner, said II was nonsense for the Dock
l,epartment to say IT could execute work
quicker than contractors.
"Why," said he, there is a forfeit of
Sbo, a day for every day a contractor Is
behind time All these statements
made against the Lawson bin are by
Interested Tammany po.iticlans. The
workmen's meeting which they had 10
attend and make n show The bosses
ordered 1t, and 1t had to be lone. The
l''ck department used for years to get
nearly all its work done by contract, but
Tammany worked steadily to get control
over the Department, and now that II
has succeeded. the same system OF job
berry and robbery that Characterizcs all
public offices where 1t is supreme is In
full swing. You can examine the ac-
counts of the Department. but they viii
throw no light on the way In which the
money has been expended"
Comparisons.
John Monks. Chairman Of the Dock
Builders Committee, said the Lawson
hill would pass. He supplied the fol-
lowing facts concerning cost OF construc.
ton by the Department, as compared to
cost OF construction by letting contracts
10 lowest bidder:
The pier at West Fifty-sixth street,
built by the Departments own force in
1879 and 1880, as shown by the report
Of George 5, Green, jr., Engineer-in.
CHIEF, cost the city per square foot. cX.
elusive of sewer box, labor, "a cents.
material, 81 cents. Total cost OF labor
ana material per foot, sl.39, This pier
was 800 feet 'Ong and 60 feet wide, cost,
ing tho city to huild, S4l, 200.
At tn" same time the above pier wa,
being built by the Department. "A plcl
Of tn" same size and material was II
the cours" of construction under tn,
contract system, which was complete,
under exactly tn" same plans and speci
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