New-York tribune., 1895-10-02
DOCK EMPLOYEES CONFESS.
ADMIT THAT THEY RECEIVED MONEY
FROM CONTRACTORS.
e. I. RICHARDSON TEsTiFIES THAT HILLMAN' AN
AUDITING CLERK. RECEIVED COMMISSIONS
1rgFRoM GRAVES & STEERS FOR CIV
te 1883 rNG THEM INSIDE INFORMATION
ABOUT EIDs-INsPECToRS
REGULAR RATES.

REGULAR KAirS'
Some additional light was thrown on the Tam
many management OF the Dock Department yes
terday, when the inquiry being conducted by the
Commissioners OF Accounts was resumed fhe
first witness was william s Hillman. who lives
at No Is West Twenty -nfth-st. He was en-
ployed in the Dock Department from August
1884, to June l. 1895 He collected wharfage FOR
the dockmasters and was subsequently employed
as auditing clerk.
Did You ever receive money from contractors
Kidding for contracts with the Department.?
asked Commissioner Ferry
Yes in 1890" he replied II got dollar
thousand for selling some yellow pine to con-
tractor Before | was in the Department re-
ce,ved 5000 from Graves & Steers for similar SER
vices.
Graves & Steers supplied lumber to the DOCK
Cenartment and Witnesses at the previous hear
Ing testified to their having been in the rlns
A letter was here read from the witness TO
Graves & Steers. dated November. 1891. asking
for money and saying, 1T would do your mouse
no harm if the loan is given
.Dd you ever borrow money from James d.
Leary?" Sir Terry asked.
Yes sir; | borrowed SlVO from MINI "a''@u
the money at the time. m
Did you pay him back!
NO. sir ~
Steers was read. 1t said:
For heavens sake. let me have the money
am in hole" Tka witness explained TINS ,,S o.
saving nat he wanted the money badly Inc
money was owed to him for commissions secured
for Graves & Steers before he joined the DoeA
Department .,,o,i,.o -
Graves G. Steers vas then recalled ana testl-
hed that IIillman had received commissions pc
fore ne entered the Dock department tIla' ne
had given tn, firm valuable !nforma tion alter ne
became auditing clerk Mr.. Richardson SAID
that Hillman In giving inside information as 10
bids had been Instrumental in breaking up 'he
combine among the lumber-dealers.
"Dd Hulman intimate that the information he
supplied was given with the consent OF any one
of the Dock Commissioners? Commissioner Ter
ry asked. A., pSo,ar " r.
Yes. sir, with the consent OF MT inei"i'' '
piled the witness. Co., aus
The witness said that Graves Steers hlled
contract for eighty and eghty-hve 1901 pies
worth s14 apiece with cargo 10 per cent Of which
were from sixty to sixtyfve feet long, worm only
from 81 to 81 80, and the stock passed the IN
spectors all right.
How that arranged! ashed Coihiii'ss'o iei
Terry.
II told the engineer to get them passed in. and
Graves & Steers would make II all right Inc
engineer afterward got $2o. The inspectors were
paid, too. think. don't remember VINO the IN,
spectors were. The engineers name WAS Lasher
The next witness William Il. Bell OF NO
155 West Forty -fourth-st.. a lumber merchant:
He told of a bid he made in the spring Oh 1897
for ESQ 900 feet Of LUMBER which Commissioner
Phelan asked MN 10 Withuid", '"F.Ih 'N ~
promised the contract TO another man.
Joseph Doyle, of No. 16 Chrystie-st. testiiled
that ne had been an inspector of piles on the
Dock Department. and inspected some supphed
by Charles Kempland in lSss he saio a una.
Kemplsnd gave him s. one day 1or ulhi,9i
money and another day he gave him $2o he
said the piles to be six rches In diameter
at the end About half of them were under
size but ne passed them just the same. -;e...
John James McEntee Of No III Wes' flItH-
slxth-st who was foreman in the DOCK De
partment from June 1892 to November lss', said
ihat during that time he was also paid by Graves
& steers He said he received ab"ut S2oo IN All
from them He received % cents for every in0a-
sand feet OF lumber he measured for them. Inc
witness admitted to having received $zo" also
from Robinson & Booth for measuring their lun-
Der.
At this point an adjournment was taken COM
missioner Terry said he could not tell whether
the next hearing would be on Thursday or FIJI
day "lt will all depend on the attendance oil
certain Witness" he sad.