The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24
RECREATION PIER WAR.
,-p.Us SAYS EINSTEIN's SPITE rs
KILLING BABIES.

-. Do.h Commissioner Hctortn Thnt Heni
en-. for Iibel-Niik and Music Cutting oumo
p,rure in civic AnhirS Just Nou-Pre
80, o,ur,cn shouts Conspiracy ut Mr. fitch.
willis Holly, advertising manager for X. H..
Macy & Co., went to the oiico OF PRESIDENT
o,trt-n OF tho Dock Board yesterday ana snid
,h,, Nathan Straus was ready TO announce
,hrouph him the name OF tho DOCK commits
ohio Mr.. s,rnus alleged in a newspaper
,w,sryiev. was killing OF babies by refusing to
III IN, sale OF Strauss sterilized milk on tho
s.o,o,t,on pier ut the foot of East Third street.
nN..Id.nt O'Brien Immediately convened tho
go and Mr.. Holly said that the COMMISSIONS
S-.forred 70 was Mr.. Einstoin. He added that
~ Too, was 40 patent that Mr.. Straus had not
ho,,ht Il was necessary to come forward before
and name Mr.. Einstcin.
.so am the man referred to as killing of tho
-. ,hrourh spite, am l I" said COMMISSIONS
Einstein.
on a. replied Mr.. Holly, after which he
~ rinstein, It is said. will Institute a suit for
SANDER against Mr.. Straus.
p.rdmaster Joyce, who has been furnishing
cha music on the Third street pier. announced
,b,, he was going TO quit playing there because
all the bills for the music had been held up by
comntroller Fitch. Tho last concert, he said,
would be the one given last evening. Comp
troller Fitch held up the bills on the ground that
tbcy were illegally contracted. inasmuch as the
resolution authorizing the Dock Board to hire
The band had not been passed by a four.ffths
vote Of the Board Of Aldermen, as required by
section "A OF the Consolidation act, which re-
I.es TO money expended for professions, cele-
brations, and the like.
Twenty.four Aldermen wero present at the
meeting when that authority was granted, and
all Of them voted for the resolution. As these
uere all the votes needed under section o. OF
the Consolidation act, which gives the Aldermen
authority to permit contract letting without adj
~yertising. no trouble was anticipated. Mr.. Fitch
poration Counsel Scott was appealed to. Yes
terdsy he sent an opinion TO the Dock Commits
liOners in which he advised them that The con
fectly legal, and that no further action by tho
Board OF Aldermen in the matter was necessary.
u fhe o gesieFd ws' afternoon iser 90 ln' Mr. Fitch RRep Has
absent, and his representative insisted on fol.
lowing the co, sOuF 5's, of Nh The Icon, Co%p MsI ;n,d T. .5 5etq u.s.
had better sue the city. According to, the con-
tract, joyce was to get $462 q week for seven
concerts. From this sum 1913 was deducted
for the privilege OF selling refreshments on the
pier; p,s.,a.rt o,p-,., ho,rd ., ,hs r,,,.
matum OF the Finance Department he became
very angry. The Commissioners Of Docks
have conformed to every requirement of the
law In regard to the letting of this contract"
he said, e but they have been attacked at every
point and harassed without the slightest excuse
q! ius a,aEindiinn 9 q}tsy H. z sf FtcS con,G Ti tbin q fer =;
invoking the aid OF the law. obviously intended
as o check on tho pro6igal expenditure OF tho
city's money for "blow-outs" or funeral expenses.
But even the requirements of that section have
been met. A schoolboy could have told Mr..
Fitch that twenty-four was four,ffths Of thirty.
rsgeous. and the various ways-of which this is
one-in which we have been hindered in carry
ing out this work go to constitute one of the
most contemptible conspiraCies on record"