The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-06
MORE BROOKLYN SCANDAL.
THAT 0TTY SAID TO HAVE BEEN
BWINDLED OUT OF $4,000.

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Csusptroiier Ooler Accuses Ds.isi .. Doeay Of
ReoeivinE That sun FOR AneEea werk
which. Even ir n We're All Performed, ne
shsutd Have Been Compelled 60 ne Gratis.
Comptroller Golfer made public yesterday
morning additional disclosures concerning his
Investigation of the affairs of tho City Works
Department of the former city Of Brooklyn. As
in the case Of the Neptune avenue filling con-
tracts, tho name Of Daniel f.. Doody. contractor,
10 again prominent. and tho officials concerned
are those having charge of water maintenance.
1t appears that between Sept. 10 and Oct. 90.
1897. Mr.. Doody was paid Sl5, 27b.Al for repay
ing New Utrecht avenue from Fort Hamilton
avenue to Sixtieth street. This amount was
paid on eight separate vouchers Of less than
$1,000. 30 a. to evade the law which requires
the advertising and public letting Of contracts
of more than %. 600 each.
The only apparent excuse for doing this work
Of repavinE under the jurisdiction of the off,
cials having charge of water maintenance Is the
fact that a part Of the expenditure Is supposed
to have boon made necessary by the overflow of
q pipe at Forty-ninth street and New Utrecht
avenue. So far as can be ascertained. however.
only an expense Of S2.s91 can DO charged
against this cause.
No record Of any authorization for this work
can DO found on tho books Of the department..
nor Ia there any contract on file relating there
TO. All Of tho vouchers were signed by Oscar
Knapp Water .Purveyor. without certiication
by any INSPECTOR or engineer that tho work
was properly performed. The vouchers were
approved by r. M. Fielding. Deputy Commits
sioner, and audited either by the Auditor. John
X; SUTTON, or his deputy. David s. ouimby.
Further investigation then disclosed. the
COMPTROLLER reports, q remarkable state Of al.
eighteen months ago, and the contract price for
grading. curbinE. and paving from Thirty.ninth
nue. now 10 said to be in a wretchod condition.
same contractor. Daniel i. Doody. Ills contract
condition. II. also called for tho retaining OF 5
pei, cent. Of tho contract price as security for
consequence Of Incomplete or faulty work.
Notwithstanding these provisions of tho con-
bills Of SIS. 275 for the work of r~epaving over
the identical water mains which. under the
terms o. the origins Al eontrae for laying themains
other contract At the sSpoDseo Of the city. And
the Waterman contract, amounting to 1892. 90,
was: on the last day Of the year, 1897. paid over
been properly performed and the city had not al
ready paid aim thousand OF dollars on another
c' Tb ! co rIr rcpa nring me faults or ms own work;
curbinE New Utrecht avenue from Thirty:ninth
street to Sixty-seyenth street was S29. 700, Tit
distance between Fort Hamilton avenue and Six
tieth street is about 15-2sths of the distance be-
tween Thirty.ninth and Sixty.seventb streets.
To repaye q trench Of sufficient width to cover a
twenty-inch water pipe over 15-2sths of the dis
lance and to make repairs which might have
% DsSR sn eoss 81, g. '2 e. io at aSsin, tos sI !syipS t fas
grading. paving and curbing the whole width
OF the avenue from curb to curb. This may not
Seem quite 10 strange when it Is stated that one
contract was let subject to competition and the
other was composed. as already stated, of
orders of less than S., 900 each.
These and other facts in the case have been
transmitted to the District Attorney of Kings
county, and the Corporation Counsel will also be
requested to begin suit to recover as much of
this money a. possible for the city.