The evening world., 1894-02-06
ONCE MORE
the Commissioner Accused of VIC
lating Civil-Service Law.
City Tugboat Employees Ask for
Wits Of Mandamus.
Tags Dassori and Municipal Taken
Out of Commission.

New trouble is in store for Commits
s!oner w. s. Andrews. The Masters and
Pilots Association. the Marine Engi-
neers' Association of New York and the
Engineers Benevolent Association Of the
United States are after him with a
sharpe stick.
This afternoon Attorney George w.
Dease, counsel for these associations,
made application before the Judge OF the
New York Supreme Court for a writ of
mandamus to make Commissioner An
drews show cause why he placed the
city tugs, F.. Dassori and Municipal, out
of commission, thereby throwing out of
employment members of the above asso-
Citations. who are Civil Service ap-
polntees.
The application for the writ of man.
damus commences as follows:
The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonality OF the
CITY Of New York eS rel.
Bernard j: McDade
william s. Andrews, as Commissioner OF the De-
partmont Of Street Cleaning OF the City Of
New York.
McDade, who resides at 800 East Tenth
street, was IA pilot on board the city tug
T. Dassori when that vessel was placed
out of commission.
A similar document Is in the lame of
capt. James NeyeS, OF 20 Avenue ~, VINO
was pilot on the city tug Municipal
when that vessel was placed out OF COM
mission.
These writs state that McDade and
Clvil-servlce laws. Affecting appoint
ments to office in the city and county
II New York, as pilots of steam vessels:
having been duly. qualified and appointed
by the Board of Commissioners of the
New York Civil Service.
The appointments OF these pilots for
service in the STRENGTHENING Depart
ment, reads as follows:
NEW FORK. Aug. %, 1893.
Sir: The New York City Civil Service Boards
having certified your eligibility for appointment
to the position Of pilot In this Department. you
W. s. ANDREWS.
Commissioner OF Street Cleaning.
The documents further state that Com
missioner Andrews, in violation Of his
duties, and against the best interests OF
the city of New York, ordered the tugs
out Of commission. thereby deprivlng the
they are entitled; and that COMMISSIONS
Andrews has unla wfully and against the
interests OF McDade and Keyer, and
Of New York, dismissed these pilots from
the city's employ, in the following let
ter:
NEW YoRK Jan. .. 1894.
Sir: The tugs Dassori and Municipal having been
ordered out of commission. your services as
pilot in this DepartH et are no longer required
from and after This date, and you are therefore
dismissed. W. S. ANDREWS.
Commissioner OF street-Cleaning.
The writ further says that the tugs
+. Dassari and Municipal at the time
they were placed out of commission were
in every sense seaworthy n porperly
manned and officered and fit to perform
the services of the municipality of New
York; that Commissioner Andrews I'M
lawfully and fraudulently placed the
vessels Out of commission.
Both REALTORS, McDade n Reyes,
pray that a mandamus issue, requiring
him to reinstate McDade and Reyes In
their office as pilots, and to place the
tugs F. Dassori n Municipal in COM
mission, or show cause to the Court
Why he should not do 80, and for such
other and further relief as the Court
may deem proper. besides the costs of
the motion.
Accompanying the writs are afidavits
signed by William Murphy, engineer of
the tug Municipal, of $50 East Seven
teenth street, and John +. Leyden, a
pilot, of G49 Cast Eixteenth street.
They make OATH that they are COM
petent to testify as experts as to the
present condition of the city's tugs.
They are of the opinion that the tugs
were placed out Of commission by An
drews upon the pretense that they were
unfit for Use, which suggestion, they say,
Is unqualifiedly false.