The sun., 1895-03-03
COM'R WARNINGS TROUBLES
TWo or MS APPoINTEEs SUD-
DENLY DISCHARGED.

They Were N,es Young Mes who &c soon
ns They Got Their Jobs Tried to Get n
Commission on Purchases or Supplies -
Letter 90 Fitch - defective Pay Rolls.
In reply to Comptroller Fitch's letter Of Fri
day, Street Cleaning Commissioner Waring late
the same night sent the following note:
NV DEAR Mn. FITCH. beg to acknowledge the rc.
cep OF your letter of this date. and to subscribe my
self very truly yours GEORGE l. WARiNd, in.
Yesterday Mr. wsrinE supplemented the note
by the following letter;
IY pEAR MR FrrcH. acknowledged your letter yes.
terday. l had then no time for more You are en-
Titled to tho courtesy OF further consideration.
You say that Mr.. Andrew II. Green established the
precedent which you followed at the meeting OF tue
Board OF Estimate and Aprortionmcnt on Wednesday
last. Mr. Green with all Ills defects, wns always
very careful man aud he never made assertions until
he knew that the facts would sustnin them. You
should have followed this precedent also. Had you
followed II this correspondence would not have be.
come necessary.
As to tho relations between the Mayor and myself.
think that ho and adjust these to our mutual
satisfaction. Very truly yours
GEORGE Z. wARiNo. JR-
Two young men were dismissed from the de-
partmcnt yesterday, but Mr.. Waring dcclinei
to tell who they are, or to givo the specific rca-
son for their dismissal lie said:
"They are young men Of good family, and
we're appointed by me. l shall not give their
names because that would ruin them, and they
have really been guilty of no crime. They evinced
too much interest in the possible profits In GER
tain purchases for the department. They had
scheme for getting q commission on purchases.
but l will say that 1t was utterly impossible for
them to have made cent out Of it,"
In the department 1t was said that the young
men had been employed but a few days, and
he how had had iain nf tha faed
bills of the department of stables. They discov-
cred their scheme themselves by proposing to
Deputy Commissioner Moore that he should go
in with them on 1t, and they were discharged on
the spot.
For some time the department has been re-
ceiving complaints from some of the extra men
who have had trouble in getting their money
it was ready for them they could not get It be.
cause of defects in the pay rolls; In several of
had been paid already 70 other men. This has
come about, as Chief Clerk Doc of the depart
sny saDgns o tins in sns ,sH theft
The rule has therefore been established that
when the men go for their money they must bo
identified at the cashiers office by the foreman
of the gang in which they worked; The fore
mans pay is withheld unit lie has identified his
men, and that is the only safeguard that the
men and the department have that the money
Jean Farauar. one Of tho foremen, has shown
his unwillinRness to identify his men on several
occasions, and yesterday he refused again to re-
mair at the pay window while his men were
paid. A policeman was sent to look him up. and
finally caught him, and he was compelled to
identify his men rs they came up.
In the morning n man had called at the de-
partment with a letter addressed ITO whom IL
may concern" which set forth that the man
was Luigi Sandowni; that he had worked one
day as a shoreller. and that he was entitled to
81. II then went on to say that owing to the
bad methods and mistakes OF the department 1t
was utterly impossible TO identify men by name;
1t was found that the maine OF SaDdowni did
not appear on the pay roll. and somebody suE-
farauar's gang. In consequence the foreman's
service in the department is to be the matter of
investigation.