New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-05
FIGURES CHANGED IN BIDS.
AN EXPERTS TESTIMONY AGAINST THE
OLD DOCK BOARD.
THE ORIGINAL FIGURES SHOWN By CHEMICALS
HOW LOW BIDDERS WERE uNDERBipDEN
pY CONTRACTORS IN THE R1NG-MoRE
TESTIMONY OF MONEY PAID TO
Employees TO DEFRAUD
THE CITY.

THE CITY.
Tho commissioners OF Accounts resumed their
Investigation of the old Dock Board yesterua!
4, Room 122 Of the Stewart Building. commas
e,oner Terry called as the first witness Charies
I'm Rois a member OF the dredging hrm OF henry
On Ros &, Son. at No. 113 South-st.. ana FORMER
" a member of tn Morris & Cummings Dredging
COMPANY. He testified that In October 1885, nc
had nut In a bid for some dredging IN the E'e'
River at the old rate OF II cents CUBIC yaru'
He also put in a bid on october rs 1881 ioi WIN
at the end OF West Fff,y-fourth-st. ms o'u
was at 101A cents a cubic yard but 'he "o'N
could rot be done at profit. Inc lCwes' p'''e'
at which dredging had previously beer oohe was
~ co,,s q cubic ward His bid proved not TO De
~, ,oyas+ however as the firm OF Morris q
Cummings GOT the contract at lOA cents cuoic
yard Nobody he said except the DOCK Coh'hls-
s,oners could have any idea OF what MS oid was
The next witness was David y. CarVai"o INC
exncrt in handwriting. He tes'heo 'ha' '"e
e.rrss .ron" in Morris & Cummings's bid were
not inserted at the time that the rest VI '"e Wv
,r.s made out. In another bid by the same hrm
the figures "l9%" had been written over o'her
egures previously made. Mr.. Carvalho said that
re ,ho ,se NJ chemicals he had brought out the
original figures, which were ho' u" '
Do,os Nccurdv who represents former DOCK
Commissioner Phelan endeaNored to shake 'he
exnert's testimony, but did not succeed
Iieutenant-Commander Deahanty. superih-
,andent of the Harbor, testified that the MOTIFS
g. Cummings Dredging Company had ialieu "e
ouentlv TO return permits for dumping lhe'i
scows he said were never loaded OF else ''e'
were surreptitiously dumped
William + Drew. who in 1892 was the once ooy
fo. the Morris & Cummings Dredging Co"ipa,''
testified that every week H. H. Ie'~e w
treasurer Of the company. drew cneck iUt 70
s50 ON the Chatham National Bank pay "o.' 30
Noare~ and that these checks were given 'oVS
,r;tnees who accompanied by an inspector haii e
carpenter of the Dock Departmen.' Ven -, "a the
hank and cashed them. Drew sdu ~. 80 =, ms
money to Carpenter and understood lhat ~ wa
t tTe ;nsnectors who watched the dredging ana
scOw loading. =, 1Y,,o, eacretarv
90 The W II Beard Dredging Company, testii.eu
that his firm had frequently been a piuueI ~.
dredging contracts and he had heaio ne bt5s
commissioner Phelan had refused To d.YM ,th
10 be examined after they hau peei OP'
was an unusual course. - ,a Cons
testified that the treasurers order Oh en- s,, q,
recruitment showed bid for spiles OF Ell 3D. n
ma nv Graves & Steers for - ~ was ihaue eiis ,
subsequently erased. contract was ua.aiho
10 Graves & Steers at Sc o. Ar. IA IA S en-
testified that the bid Of Graves q Steers iau "SN'
changed from 81 20 10 50 o. .,as .ho. ha
Hugh Colwell a contractor testihed lhat ne
used TO nav $40 for the privilege OF dumping sanu
at the free dump at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES >
eirhth-st and the Harlem River ,,
patrick Reddy. of No. 4A East One-huhure ~
and-twentv-frst-st. a contractor, SAID mat ne
had paid Inspector Seers go once loI 'iie p y,
i,aao ~ dunnjng some earth on some property al
Observation-Disclosures ffth-st.. two DOCKS IN
land. Seers told him that the property belonged
10 Dock Commissioner J. Sergeant, ram o snea
Schifr the successor IF Seers at the One-hundrea
and-thirtv-eighth-st dock. testified that feuuy
f,rad ~ nav him for Illegal dumping, but he
had declined the offer. . Go
vears in the Dock Department. testihed that !.
was not an infrequent thing for water-iosgeu
smiles and spiles that did not come up 10 ,ns
snecIGcations TO be delivered by contractors anu
not rejected. ., .ha In
commissioner Terry then adjourned the IN
yestigation until next Tuesday at O'CLOCK