New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-29
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Scanpsil Before
don't know anything 10 his credit or discredt
Commissioner Pos;-By the way, had report
Mason spends mis- time looking OUT on the shipping
President Cram-Wel | am perfectly willing to
Cnrnmissioner Pnelan-Yes. but ne has been doing
some very good work in the department. hasn't he
tce TO get some other employment scannsil will
have to discharge him. thnk ,so, ..1,s, q, ,oam.n
' President Cram-what pull mas he got' There
Engineer"we have looked over these men They
are all pretty good men The best ,e one M M5hMy
Murnhv NAV he a Republican for all I know. Let
him 70 The FIRST nS s'ss from 'I Sn
Purrov and Mr. Docherty I move that II be
tabled"
Now Mr. Cram" said Commissioner Terry
when you asked: Who the - Is MURPHY pm ne, ne
may be a Republican for all know. ala you
mean that II he was you would not appoint
him."
mo Why. do you know have appointed men
from your organization, Mr. Terry"
what organization do belong to- demanded
Commissioner Terry.
"Why the reformers the Republicans. forget
what Won call them" and the witness laughed.
Then Commissioner Terry resumed the reading
of the minutes.
November 2. 1893, executive session
President Cram-How soon will you start the pier
EnTineerHOh. sir, we have got to get little ma
terlal first. -, o.. .ovar,v
Cram-That
men ali wlnter-dock builders. .,
Engineer~Thc filing between Twenty seventh
some more and we want about four thousand loads
! want to know II Plunkitt will go on with H. ne
Gains 1t under some old agreement
DIDN'T WANT A ROW WITH PLuNhIrI'
President Grant, wouldn't have row with MIN
would give Il to Plunkltt because he is Ill ana IL
e onlv triaing matter It would break his heart
Commissioner Phean-Oh. yes; would not De
the cause OF his death any one elses
Presiden. Grant, that the treasurer DC
authorized TO give Twenty-hfth and Twenty-sixthh
SITS TO Plunkitt. 1t is only trlrhhS Ha''ei' ""
he has contract there
Extract January t. 1894 Executive session
Commissioner Phelan-senator P!unkitt requests
the appointment of Frank Mooney as dock builder
'' Enrjneer-I have got an extra gang on my hands
Commissioner Phelan-rhe Senator really wants
this az a particular favor, ,. ,A.
but don't like turning OF: one man ana putting IN
another.
Engineer-I don't know. Suppose so. May nave 10
put off somebody.
John Quinn. !; was promised by Mr. Croker to Nr.
Dalton, and l have been trying to get him APP
pointed
Quinn was subsequently appointed laborer at
SIS a month.
Commissioner white-who is Bowen?
President cram-He was appointed for Ris ;ss5S
So Your ID SS sn m IN you
May 81. 1894 4 communication was received from
the ST. S0hn nd ssxng bs, ss "a, Io' as Thirty
fourth-st. North River. They a nuisance there.
Third and Rutgers SITS. don't care about them
They pay nothing and never pay anything ana
think had better go on private property and pay
Commissioner Ph.lan-send them up TO Fifty
President Crani-That is Plunkitt's. Deny them
that Thirty-fourh-st. and refer them as to the
other to the dockmasters 10 examine and report.
REQUESTS EASILY GRANTED.
September s. is9.-President Cram-T do not know
what Commissioner Pheian objects 10. PROBABLY
Plunkitt told him something. Tell Mr. Phelan to
come here
President Cram-what do you want to-day.
Mr. Plunk,t-I wanted to get permit
President Grant, will give you anything IL you
will never here again
Mr. Plunkitt-I will be over again tomorrow.
President Cram-He wants 10 break some la" here
other
President Cram-Granted.
ssp,en6eT H. lssEs,r payksr1 irhsy, went 10 OF
f9f IT, He Heb has been laid of dozen times He
fonder OF rum than ANYTHING myth else Show.
he is a gentleman by instinct.
september = lssiIA cOmmqnieaton was re-
Pres Presd sl CramNorder it done at once.
| Mr. Greene-You can't get him to repair that
President Cram-,Never mind, go ahead ahead. ,.u
ro IStoGe to DO With oDonohue? Fch wants us to
| pass a resolution declaring ourselves fools
/ commissioner White What does he want us 70
| Preslden, Cram--He say that We
agreed with MIN to repair a pier winch We had
] n0thinz u DO with and which We never agreed
/ abSuf and never heard about until August, and
/ he took lease Of ii In May. | think that We
/ rnicbt nass a resolution
" as1mni2l,sloner Phean-I don't know what it was
| Was It a renewal?
! Mr. C;reene-Yes
President Grant, is an open pier viii you
sneak TO the Mayor If call him up about this, be-
cause he told me, for oods sake TO pass something
IT, OF course will vote for IT, don't see that We
can do anything ,,,,.,
over the water front. and it IS tumbling into The
river. and he is friend Of the department and ne
saws that you and promised him. would like TO
own fault Corporation Counsel Blandy told me
that ne and Freedman called his attention to the
done. but he was anxious to get the lease that
February g. observation-disclosures Phelan-What
about Patrick McCann7
President Cram-Reinstate him.
Engneer-There is not any place for him
| President Cram-Then you have 10 find one
Engineer-Hs is the most useless wheip there Is
March 49, ls93-Presi6clt CRAM move that they
be approved subject to the Engineers report to the
| Treasurer that they are satisfactory.
COMMISSIONER Phelan-Au right
March Is. executive session-CoInmlssloner Post
| The Nassau Ferry Company ask 10 renew tnelr
lease (read by the secretary. . -
President Cram Whose ferry Is that; MI . Dom
/ ohue's? .,.
President CRAM shall vote. then. in favor OF IT,
Comm ssoner Post-I don't think that he has
anything 10 do with IT,
PRESIDENT Grant, that it be referred 70
Commissioners Post and Phean, to examine and
May Is. 1897 executive session-Presdent Cram
| Tell him 10 join Tammany Hall
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