The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-11-23
THE PHILADELPHIA BANDITS.
Another Chapter of Mu nicipal Robberles
by Contractors.
INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATING
Though Moving Slowly, the Pennsylvania
Senators Are Developing Facts That
Should Lead to Arrests, Prose-
cution and Imprisonment.

4 HlLADELPHlA, NOV. ~. - Y Hesterday =
session of the senate investigating commit
Zee at the city hall was productive of the
most sensational testimony yet heard, Sc
rlous charges being made against Samuel
MCKEE, carpenter and builder, and also
employed as bridge foreman on city
work. The name of Bridge Superintend-
enC ~ a. Irlk was also mixed up in the
affair
Inc charges against Mckee were the
outcome OF testimony given by General
Agent Adds, and Thomas Warren and
Frederick H. Roll, formerly employed as
laborers on bridge work, and went to show
ChaG Mckee swindled the city out of con
siderable money from May to September
of this year.
Agent Adds produced papers he swore
were correct copies of eight payrolls. Gov
erlng that period, TO which were attached
alhdavits of superintendent Trik that they
We're correct. According to the payrolls
warren and Roll received SO per day. Both
men denied receiving that amount. War
ren said he got but So per day, and Roll
SAID he received only S1.5O The latter did
not know he should have received 50 until
yesterdays inquiry developed the fact
Inc men said Mckee paid them their
wages and Warren added that he always
heid a blotter over the figures on the pay
Tolls Inc latter witness also said that
OWo OF Mckee's sons We're employed os APP
prentices at So a week. The payrolls
showed these were each paid 50 a day
Inc other testimony before the com
mlttee was of the same character as that
given ON Thursday, in which contractors
ior street paving and garbage collection
Ialled to comply with the specifications.
H. +. Henson, who had been on the
stand before, was recalled. He produced
three photographs of pier No. 80, the first
OF which showed lumber vessels which
We're being unloaded, and eight carts
loaded with garbage Several of these carts
We're wooden ones and the others were of
IRON, butall were owned and used by the
Philadelphia Incinerating company.
Inc second was another view of the same
scene, and the third showed the garbage
hanging over the side of the barge loaded
with refuse and dropping into the water.
Ihe witness then went on to say that
the cost of removing the garbage by means
OF the scows from Callowhill and Poplar
street wharves was at the rate of S5 a day
for each of the six scows used. The tow
age to Hog Island and return to the
wharves was about SO every two days.
while the wages of the men necessary to
do the work of trimming and unloading
the garbage would amount to about SIS a
day.
In this way the company did the work
Tor the average cost of $1,742 per month,
when, by incinerating the refuse, the cost
to it would have been Sc, $3.50, at the rate of
81 per load. By loading the garbage on
the scows, the witness said, it saved in the
First district Sl,03O and in the Fifth dis
trict Sl,549 in one month. Mr.. Henson
did not know positively what became of
the garbage after it left the wharf, but
supposed that it was deposited on Hog
Island.
Frank 2. Myers was called and asked if
he had ever had anything to do with the
removal Of garbage from Chestnut Hill. .
The witness in answer proceeded to read
from written statement, which set forth
that he had been fighting the garbage nui- |
sance for four or five years past. Hedwelt
with emphasis on the dumping of garbage
in the vicinity of the Bethesda Home. The
action taken by him was in the interest of
the home alone.
Silas w. Petit, the committee S counsel, I.
was on hand yesterday for the first time |
and assisted Lawyer Freedley, and at
Lawyer Pettit's request the committee .
adjourned until next Tuesday week.