New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-30
COSTLY LEGACIES FROM ANDREWS

COSTLY LEGACIES FROM ANDREWS
HE soUANDERED NEARLY ALL THE SNOW AND
ICE FUND FOR 1895 IN FIFTEEN DAYS. AND
COLONEL. WARING HAD TO ASK FOR HELP
THE BARNEY sCow INIoUITY.
How ex-Street Cleaning Commissioner W. s An
drews got away with all but 5000 OF the sno" ana
ice appropriation for 1895 in the fifteen days he re-
manned in office this year was told the BOARD oi
Estimate yesterday through his successors report
and application for transfer OF funds. The sum
allowed the Street Cleaning Department FOR the
current year for the removal OF snow and ice 'rom
the streets was $4,000 Andrewss utter failure 10
do anything 10 make the streets passable al the
time OF the snowfas late in December and carry
IN the present month are well remembered. Yet
this pure and holy looking person dissipated $lV"
of the snow and ice fund leaving the department
handicapped and crippled 1t was hitting climax
TO Andrewss outrageous career in the street Nleah-
ing Department To meet the present emergency
Colonel Waring Andrews's successor was com
PEELED 10 ask for transfer of $4,000 from the street.
sweeping account TO the snow and ice fund
Another legacy OF Andrews is the Barney Dump
ing Boat Company constituencies corporation
which has been trying to drive the city INTO buF-
ing its rotten old scows at the enormous price OF
$4,000, which is many times more than the whole
outfit is worth. Colonel Warng reported that THIS
company upon whose patent bumpers the depart
ment has been depending for deep-sea dumping
threatened to strike and do more work unless
its claim for $4,000 alleged 10 be due up 10 No.
yember 15 was paid Commissioner Waring
also said that the company had raised its rates
Der day from SO TO $50 Within year Its former
rates of S12 10 81 per day had been raised 10 SO
Controller Fitch said that the money TO pay the
Barney Company was available. but it had been
withheld because the city had never agreed 10
pay these exorbitant rates. Andre~ss relations
with this corporation have been apparently init
mate since he became Street Cleaning Commits
sioner and he has been ready 10 accede to any
demand L made even TO approving It's utterly In.
defensible attempt TO saddle the city win its Ola
scows at the figure named.
President Barker of the Tax Department re-
ferred briefly to the Barney Companyn history
and said ttat its present action looked IKE an at
tempt TO take the city by the throat and compel a
settlement the companys own terms. Commis-
sioner Barker has an Interesting array OF facts
and figures about this Barney concern. which ne
IS ready make public when they are ofnciany
The result of the discussion yesterday that the
claimed on Controller Fftch's statement tnat
'something must be done at once unless We wiSh
Mayor directed that Controller Fitch and President
Barker be continued the committee on the Bar
ney corporations demands. .
The board authorized the Controller 10 issue
$4,000 in assessment bonds 10 pay the citys share
OF the Park-aVe. improvement cost The improve
ment is estimated at over 10000. OF which the
road Company the other half The sum OF $.o73 10
was allowed for the Washington Bridge Commits
sion and the following appropriations were made
TO charitable institutions from the Excise funo'
SIS 439 50: for widening Riverside-ave. from one
hundred nd twenty seventh-st. TO Claremont race
s39 $50 65 for asphalt walks on the grounds OF me
The Rapid Transit commissioners asked IoI
s2l72S for expenses. The request was releTred 70
cation for siiSOcO for laying out Corlears Hook
Park