The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-25
HUCKLEBERRY
SECRETS OUT.
Startling Confessions Made by
Lawyer Breen In His Suit
for Big Fees.
hIRED To KILL OPPOSITION.
His Bill,of Particulars Tells How
e!"Persuaded" All to
Change Front
EVEN THE,c0URTS MANIPULATED.
Backed BY sCroksr's Crowd, He
( i. carrisdf' Through the Ne.
b furious Deal.
HIREO TO KILL OPPOSITION.
EVEN THE,c0URTS MANIPULATED.

The secrecy{ which has characterized
the taking of test imony before a referee
In the suit brought by Lawyer Matthew
p. Breen and ,hAs associate. Daniel F.
Cohalan, to re,fou er $l35O00 for services
rendered to the Union Railway Com
pany. in the SHuclkleberry" Railroad
grab il in a fair tway to be explained.
There II every sprospect Of a scandal
Of such MAGNITUDE growing out OF the
sesfimony now bel ng taken that many
OF the franchise ;rabhing Jobs which
have been engineer ed BY political tricks
tiers within the Las Few years will pale
into inAgnificanc~ beside It.
The history od tfss ''Huckleberry'
Railroad grab, or SO much Of II as APP
epeared on the surface. was printed from
Atime 70 time in 1.-THE Evening World"
during the progress of the negotiations
which attended the acquiring OF the
FRANCHISE by the Union Railway Com
pany. But the in vid,, facts concerning
the Vaccinations (which brought vic
tory to the road, W hich Croker. Murphy
and others are saiLS tto control. remain
70 be told.
Untp within a few days the papers in
the suit of Breen against the Union
Railway Company ha we been SO jealous
iy guarded by the la wyers employed on
both sides that II wa ! impossible to OBJ
tain an authentic s,tory of the facts
brought out during the progress of the
Testimony before the teferee.
To-day. however the bill Of particu-
yers and furnished tn, sm BY the plain
tiifs has been obtained by The Even
ing World" and for the first time
to suggest to those "a miliar with the
methods employed by SOME corporations
to obtain what they ,lesire that the
gain the favor OF pers ons whose an
rs.ii.ation Of Croker. Murphy & COM JIM
!. There vas something w,ry like panic
they learned that :The Eyenins World
oSs t on the n tas s
fsfr.d rom one lawyer to -" another r and nd
IN Of an m sGas v0a shs
disclosures. and 1t was only after con-
siderable pressure was bI ought to bear
duced. NV
NJ Why Breen Was Employed.
Matthew p. Breen. VIII, claims the
! credit for having obtained fbr the "Huck-
lsbeITy" road 2 FRANCHISE worth between
5000 AND G9se Is S,Mnsel t9 the
Twenfy-third and Twenty fourth wards,
Up to the time OF his engasement by the
Union Rsii way Company COMPANY Mar. breen had
which warrant the claiming of a sl35, 900
He lives In a modest house, at 25s willis
avenue. near One Hundred and Thirty
eighth street. According to his own
statement, 1t was not Mr.. Breen's repu-
tation as legal light which earned for
the ''Huckleberry'' Railroad people, but
L was his thoroug kno OF Annexed
Affairs and The politics Of Of the
be selected to engineer the "Huckleberry"
franchise scheme.
Of Beekman street, to represent him In
his suit. and Hoadley, Lauterbach Il
Johnson, of e Williams street. appear
for the Union Railway Company.
chester County Supreme Court In Janu-
Afraid of Jury Trial.
Mr.. Breen decle res that he favored the
trying OF the case before a Jury, but that
the other side fought SO hard to have
finally agreed to go before a referee. Ac-
cordingly,. Justice Cullen appointed Rob-
:rt sewell. OF 80 Nassau street. to take
The Bill Of particulars Tiled by the
plaintins cover seventy-fve typewriter
pages. and 1t is only necessary to read
fold opportunities for "persuasiveness'
which presented themselves during the
period covered by the Huckleberry fran
Seemingly insurmountable obstacles N
the way OF obtaining the franchise were
smoothed away by the force of Mr.
according to the bin OF particulars.
IN order that a proper estimate OF th~
S character tel and value Of the services service Ien
way Company may be had. he has sub.
divided his statement as follows:
What the Services Were.
First-Relating to the services rem,
dered by plaintiffs from January. 1891, tc
ths Sate Of the Of the soSsee
ter $40. laws of 1892.
Second Relating to the services rem
dered In the contest for franchise in thu
/, Third-Relating to services RENDERED
In the case OF Watson against the Unior
FourthSRelating to services Sendere,
chester town oficials for contempt o
Thomas Delehanty. Justice OF the Peac
OF the town Of Westminster.
Fifth-Relating TO services rendere
in contest for franchise before the Boar
Of Trustees OF the village OF Williams
bridge.
sixth-Relating to services rendered 1
TO the State Legislature.
Seyenth-Relating to services rendere
In the contest for franchises before tn
Board Of Trustees OF the village G
South Mount Vernon.
Misunderstanding to services rendere
IN the case OF Crawford against tn
Board OF Trustees OF the village OF Sout
Mount Vernon.
Ninth-Re!ating to services rendered
the contest for franchises before III
Mayor and Common Council OF the cit
OF Mount Vernon.
n How Heintx Was Convinced
The FIRST section Of Mr.. Breen's bill ,
particulars Is interesting to the publ
ss explaining the heretofore ineXplica b
change Of front made by the late Lon
n J. Heintz. Commissioner OF Street In
ne pro dement's, of the Twenty-third ar
Twenty-fourth Wards, In 1891. M
Heintz's opposition to the propos,
q hnckleoerry" road was at hrst OF Ii
NEST pronounced character. His cor
IN munication addressed to the Hoard
Electrical Control in January, 1881, pr