The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-13

it has robbed the dreaded grip ofsits ter
rors. Please remember, thougn, Lnat q
remedy used promptly Is doubled IN
value.
bill for furniture placed in the Assem-
GEN oHaIEMplpsEtNHE1MERs SUGGESTION
General Stryker then testified that he
has been Adjutant General Of the state
heimer came to him and told him that
the vaults in the other offices We're being
filled up with metallic cases. and n sng-
o~verhauled, should be fitted up In the
same way. The Comptroller was accom-
Der of the Assembly, and another gentle
man, whom the General did not know.
The General said he had valuable docu.
ments in his vault which he thought
| might be better preserved If they were
| kept in metallic cases. so he entered INTO
| the suggestion. m
| bill was presented to him for his APP
| prevail he thought 1t exorbitant. and re-
fused to approve the price. The comp
| him if the boxes a not been put IN
| and were satisfactory, The General SAID
they were. He was then told thai the
| Commission General Stryker then ap-
proved the bill as satisfactory as to work
| done, but still refused to approve the
Mr.. corbin produced the bill for the
york. amounting, to sss1l52e. which WAS
sworn to by Dick ip Chicago, ana drd ma
| by the Governor, Comptroller, Score
| tary of State and Treasurer; Ihoa were
then menlbsr5 q the stats stats n. aon ssch 9o en-
nenditures. Previous to this time the
| witness said, it had been the custom OF
the State officers to certlfy 70 pom 9nd t i1s
was the only Instance in which the Gen
eral aid he had refused to 90 50;
COMMENDED GEN. STRIKER.
senator voorhees, said that the course
of General Stryker in this particular was
| Commensurate. and the COMMITTEES wished
| to express its appreciation OF the same.
The General thanked the. committee.
Mr. Corbin here read the statute which
| provides that the Comptroller shan pe
| When there was any dispute or question
| arising over prices he is authorized TO
| summon witnesses and take testimony
so as to determine what the true price
MI. Voorhees, asked # there was amy
| record of the Comptroller having done so
None" replied Mr.. corbin, except
| the affidavit of Dick"
the Advisory Masters in Chancery. n
Chief Clerk in the office OF the Clerk OF
| Chancery. gave similar testimony. In
| the fall of 1898 the Chancery office was
enlarged SO as to afford more vault room
| for the storage of papers. He appIied to
the State House Commission for Tucker
/ nI6S- the SAME DIS vi tACA "A ftoS- "a
the office. He was told that the metallic
files were the best and safer than the
| others. and although he did not like. the
metallic files he consented TO nave them
THE PRICES ExoRBITANT.
The bills for them were sent up to Col
| onel Diekinso for his approval. as he
had authority to sign for the clerk. The
bill was from A. B. Dick & Co. of Chi
fss IL, and q was 7 f fsgs 8. l1 tsst t He a apss Ssd
been put in satisfactorily. but he con-
| ssderede the price exorbitant and refused
to to t appFf time : had been that when the Of
fee ordered goods he would approve the
bill as to price as well as to the quality
of the goods. The Dick firm did put in
a little Bill for some goods he'd and
Allan MeDermett, Clerk, because he
Colonel Dickinson then gave way to
Henry w. BooZ. whose testimony Gre
ated considerable excitement; He said
in the Metallic File Company since 1887.
| He was sole agent for the States of New
Jersey szsyn P fen ky HaSfma Dsas estn c ana
pany of Chicago. manufacturers OF metal
files. He remembered when the metallic
| Friday he went over all the files In the
State House and made a detailed state
ment of what they were worth. He ar
rived at that by taking the cost n
Mr.. Corbin then made a statement,
showing the difference between Mr.. Booz's
| figures and what the State nc for the
" VooRHEEs' DEFINITION.
Comptroller,as vault cost ssM per o cent 1t:
Treasurer's office cost S3h per cent; add
ed 1896. 81 paid by the State, %, $3.50; Adj
jutant Generals Is esc office g. cost, 81 Is per
s f,osi. 2o aae chainc slis's'e Clerks l'u ofase COST cost
with 50 e per sent { t.. added, $, Slo.s7, paid
ny the va s1ate COST sa.zV w ;s2i 8 S0 is per- cent. D add-
II beieve you said they were steal
n the crowded chamber burst INTO
Vault in the Governer's ONCE. Mr.. Cor
Hrs, cost to the State sgs's45. Total cost,
with profit, add 81, 420. IS. total paid by
the State 81. .sS, a difference Of $14,-
Mr.. Booz then said that he remembered
tho time when the contracts for the
files We're being considered. He was sum
firm. and told that owing TO the relations
existing between H~eppenEeimer and Dick.
nc one could get the contract at any
Dick wanted to buy the files from the
Keefe-Hoffman Company, and they did
not want to sell to him because Tren-
| ton was in his exclusive territory. It
was afterward arranged that the conn
| pany was to let Dick have the files and
he was to pay Booz ten percentage on
NICE DISCREPANCY HERE.
They had a Misunderstanding in the
matter and Booz had to sue for his com
| mission He based his claim en- a $1,000
| price, but in their sworn nswer the de-
PENDANTS swore that all they got for the
files was s4,117. Mr.. Corbin submitted
verified conies of the a%ffldayits filed by
the defendants. Booz settled with them
| on the basis of SALT. Mr.. Boos remark
ed that he knew that Comptroller Hep
| penheimer and Dick were fast friends.
They seem to have been bound by
ties of STEEL remarked Mr.. Voorhees,.
Mr.. Corbin then read some correspond
ence between Comptroller ~Heppenheimer
| and Dick, which was taken from the
files Of he Gomptrelles's otfles. T was
the prices which appear in the bills for
the files, and asked if they were satis-
factory. The Comptroller replied that
the State House commissson had endors-
Booz further said that in 1851 he filled
the vault of the Supreme Court Clerks
Office with the files. Although It. was
twice the size of the A.djutant Generals
vault the cases in which cost $4Q2l, he
put the cases In for So 2S,S He made
as Is per cent. profit, and steel was Men
500 more a ton than It was when the
Addl1tant Generals office WAS fitted up.
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