Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-25
Interest in Mazet Investigation Les
sens With Croker's Departure.
SENATOR PLATF WILL TESTIFY
Croker's Son Has Monopoly on
Sewer Contracts.
OTHER GOTHAM GOSSIP
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

committee investigation departed with To-
days developments. Richard Croker was
subpoenaed to appear before the committee
on May Il. This, he said would force him
to abandon his trip to Europe. He and his
son. Richard s. Croker today went to the
committee room and arranged with Lawyer
Moss 20 withdraw the subpoena for May Il,
Croker agreed to appear and testify on
August II. He was excused and will sail
for Europe next Wednesday.
OF course there will be all sorts of ex-
citement over the investigation of the
small fry" but Croker was the drawing
card and the show must anguish with
Croker absent. The committee will present
to the assembly, with its preliminary re-
port this week. a recommendation of cen
tinuance to February l, 1909, and supple
mental resolutions greatly extending its
power and the scope of the investigation,
If the assembly consents, the committee
will be enabled to inquire with undoubted
authority into any of the city departments
and to call to the stand Senator Plat. his
sons and the lawyers and politicians asSo.
ciated with the republican leader.
Mr.. Plat willing to Testify.
Mr.. Plat will testify if subpoenaed; bis
son. Frank, especially, is anxious to go on
the stand. They expected from the first to
be called, and while the young man is said
to be a bit impatient now, the senator says
simply that the committee had better disre-
gard the democratic bowls, go along ac-
cordinS to It's program, and leave him till
Mr.. Moss is ready with his leads 1t is
quite likely that the investigation will have
been satisfactory all around by the time it
is through. At any rate, Mr.. Moss, who
surely is independent. has not caught sight
yet Of any barriers to his progress in any
direction in which he has made soundings
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did that early. So did the governor and
some of the members Of the assembly, who
We're reluctant to start off an Investigation
which might run up against the bit.
In the very first conferences at Albany
when Lemuel Ely Quigg was working so
hard for the appointment of the committee.
1t was foreSeen that the cry for Plat which
has gone up would have to be dealt with.
Some of the men who We're proposed for
membership refused to act on a one-sideI
inquiry. But there was not the slightest
hesitation among the party leaders: they
said Mr.. Plat would be called; Mr. Plat
said he should be called, and the committee
was organized with that understanding.
Then, when the committee appointed Mr.
Moss counsel it insured itself as well as it
could in advance that Mr.. Plat once on
the stand, his examination would not be a
"whitewaSh.'
Young Cookers Cinch on Sewer Con-
tract.
There are hundreds of sewer pipes to be
laid in the Greater New York, and it has
been asserted that the only pipe that will
do is the one in which young Frank Croker.
son OF Richard Croker and Nephew Nc
Cam have been said to have manifested
an interest. The sewer pipe dealers in the
borough of Bronx are greatly stirred over
the fact that no other kind of pipe has any
chance of being used They complain that
the specifications for sewers are SO drawn
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only the patent pipe will fit them.
Paper Money Famine.
There is a famine of paper money threat
ened in New York, due to prosperity. Gov
eminent officials see it comfng-some finan-
ciaI Joseph already having predicted the
lean months--but they have been unable so
far to find any method to divert it. 1t is
found that by September 10 the rich man
and the bootblack will be on a plane of
equality in this respect, that neither will
or 50, for there won't be any in these parts
to be had. While prosperity is the princi-
pal cause alleged, the acquisition of colo
NAL possessions is said to be another
Many millions of Uncle Sans money have
been sent to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and the people of those island
possessions Like ii 50 well they haven't sent
1t back. Then there is another cause that
- Itt!lQlIS 10 use up the Supply OF
money, the war tax compelling the use of
a 2-cent stamp on checks. Hitherto thou
sands of firms paid off their employees in
checks instead of bills for convenience
sake. The tax drives many back again to
the use of bills of small denominations and
the paper money famine is helped on by so
much.
job for Young Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr,, is mentioned as
the successor of William Buchanan whose
resignation from the Vanderbilt service has
just been accepted. Buchanan was super
intendent of the motive power and rolling
stock OF the eastern division of the Wander
bilt railroad system. Young Mr.. Wander
bits marked aptitude for mechanics has
been recognized for some time and if is
said that if he is promoted to the vacant
position it will be solely on the ground of
his ability to fill il. He is engaged at pres
ent In devising plan for relieving the 4th
avenue tunnel of the smoke and gas so dis
agreeable TO travellers. Mr.. Buchanan the
retiring superintendent, has been connected
with the Vanderbilt system for tifty-two
years. He is recognized both in this coun-
try and IN Europe as an authority in the
matter OF railroad mechanics. His designs
for locomotives have been accepted all over
the United States, but he is perhaps best
known as the designer of No. 999, the fam
Gus record-breaking locomotive which has
so often drawn the empire state express.
Mr.. Buchanan's resignation was made on
account of i'll health, and he is now recu-
peratins in Atlantic City.
Contract for Fast Boat.
What is intended to be the fastest boat in
the world is to be built in Nyack n Y,
for Charles r. Flint Mr.. Flint, who is a
member of the New York Yacht Club. has
an ambition to own a boat that will beat
anything on the water, and Charles d.
Mosher, the Nyack designer, has promised
to crafty it. Samuel Ayres & Son, whose
shipyard is at Nyack, are under contract to
build the boat, which is to be completed in
year. The keel is to be laid Immediately.
The yacht will have a guaranteed speed of
forty-two miles an hour; it may exceed
that Its engines will develop l. 900 horse
power, enough for an ocean steamship
Notwithstanding its speed, Mr. F1int's boat
will be a yacht in every sense of the word
and not merely a racing machine 1t will
contain cabins and will be luxuriouslv
fitted. The yacht will be so constructed
that inside a week it can be transformed
into a torpedo boat.
The Chicago Golf Tournament
1t would surprise no one in the least
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