New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-20

Q.-Within a month? A-withn a month.
$50 that you got the cousin In? Ayes. sir.
Q.-Promptly? Ayes. sir.
Q.-And he Is there still? Ayes. sir.
Mr.. o'sullivan.-Is he anything more than a
dummy in that company? A.-That IL all.
Mr.. ClaIke-oh. object. Why. Mr.. Chairman,
Q.-isn't ne occupying the same relation in the
company as clerk In Mr.. Untermyers office7 A
Yes. sir.
o.vvslmply to give it the form of a company
o.-Merely two dummies? Ayes. sir.
mine that ' y ony d s. Of pe the
Q-Isn't It a fact that you sold within three
weeks seventy-nve carloads TO outside buyers? A
o.-Vaued at abou, $4,000? Ayes. SIR
Mr., Clarke-Why, that Is his private business.
Witness-That Is right
$50. that while this pipe don't find favor In
tractors eyes? A.-wherever i have presented it
have sold II. and It has met with entire salts
faction.
MCANN AS A DUMMY.
Mr.. Clarke-Really we are very glad OF that. We
don't mean TO interfere with your private business
at all. Now. this double dummy game that Dr.
O'Sullivan has alluded to- How did you come 10 get
Deputy Assistant Distlict-Attorney by the name
OF Mccain, who Is a nephew OF Mr.. Croker. 10 play
this dummy game with you? Al know him; ne
was a friend Of mine.
Didn't you think that his public position and
would prevent him from acting as your treasurer?
Ale don't have TO do more than five minu'es
work a week; that Is all
Q.-But the name a pretty good thing? A.
Yes.
Mr. Fallows-Does any body get a salary? A
No. nobody gets salary; nobody gets anything
but me.
FARNIM is IRRITABLE.
ENGINEER OF SEWERS GETS ANGRY AND
DECLINES TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS.
Henry H. Farnum sworn
Mr., Carke-You official In the employ OF
the d.y government? Al am Engineer Of Sewers
Q.-How long have you been in the department?
Ain the neghborhood OF ten years.
Q.-You Will have to carry your voice over to
me. cannot hear you. Al do not speak very
loud. You VIII have TO come to me
Ono sir; you will have to talk so that | can
hear you. How long did you say. About ten
years.
Q.-Prior to the consolidation you were in the
Department of Street Improve ments Of the Twenty
NTH and the Twenty fourth Wards Ayes. sir
Gas assistant engineer? A.-As principal as
sistant engineer In charge OF sewers The office
title OF Engineer In Charge Of sewers-that is my
o-Mr Rogse was in the department? Ayes.
GLOW long had you known him? Aver
| have been in three departments have known
Q...You have been in three departments with
Q-That is. the old Park Department. the Street
improvements and the new Department OF Sewers?
Q.-And in all those departments you have been
A
Q.-And you were his superior up to the time he
was made Chief Engineer A.Yes ..,
Q-You are friend of his? A very good
o-what? "A very good friend OF his.
Do you know the selt.centring pipe Of which
Q.-IIow long have you known that pipe? A
Shortly after he became-shortly after his resg-
Q..-Had you never known Of that pipe before
n n 7, IA ,a,ar heer mn, IN nv vour department?
Alt was never called to my attention.
Q.-Do you know whether Il had ever been , OF,
DO YOU know whether any tests have ever
been made? A.-'There could not have been any In
about ten years. or ! should have know H.
DID NOT KNOW 1T WAS PATENTED.
Q-You testify. then. OF your own knowledge.
that IT had never been offered to the department or
used during that ten years? Ayes.
Q-You knew that it patented article. A
did not know anything about It,
Q.-Now you know IL was "A patented article? Al
know IT now. yes. did not know 1t when he men
article? A.-Mr. Raymond told me
oHow did Mr. Raymond come ea to tell y cS,ed
on me my office after the letter he read here this
Q~TRat is to say, Mr.. Raymond wrote a letter
TO you in the first Instance and then he called on
you? Ale wrote a letter to me and answered
O"Yes? A-You heard the answer that wrote
O-What occurred at the conversation-was that
the first time you found out that It was patented
papers iers patent drawings and letter from the
Patent Once. correspondence with the Pttsburg
Pf' told him i'm that was the first / knew OF it.
Q.-How did he come to write to you or now d dd
cause this sewer that you have been talking about
on Anna Place had been offered a centring pipe
Q'"Then it is a fact A .dnterruPtingl-I can
sraiehten you on, in very few words foT nave
o.DNo have not been bunsling at anything.
You may straighten It out by answering my ques-
tons A-Mr Raymond called on me
nv ones s one T thought Would straighen
~ u don't need to be Strengthened out We will
get IT ali straight. but prefer to ask questions
II Is fact then, that at the Anna Place JOB the
pipe equal thereto. specified 1t myself
HE SPECIFIED ROGGE's PIPE
o.-You specified yourself Mr. Rogges pipe? A
Q.-What? A-No, sir
O.-You don't know Of any other sef-centrng
pipe do you? Al said no. didn't specify Mt
Rogges pipe
o,~But YOU know there isn't any other sef-cen-
trIng pipe? Al do not. How do know?
o. don't know how you know. but he says there
isn't and presume as engineer In charge OF sew
ers in this city you must know something about
Pps COM come d FOR t Se0S s time IN all
yo,r experience In that department to cal for
seif-centring pipe? ask you how did you do II!
Al said a few minutes ago that some time IN
December after the resignation OF Mr.. Rogge. he
called at my ONCE with pipe. self,centring pipe;
make some very careful tests and give him my
onnion | made very careful tests. ana
taId him that Il was OF very excellent quality and
that / thought 1t was the best Hubbeli splg9L J
had ever 1t Is special FORM OF huopeh spso'
nine And there the matter rested.
po-And there the matter rested? ADO you
wish me 10 go on? -, 49,
-certainiy have asked you now the ques.
ton which gives you the chance TO make a III
exnianafion A-Some time In March, could not
yI'e Won the date-there was small contract 10
Sewer Anna Place-or Commissioners order. as We
caiI It-Iees than 81 contract. one block. ana MT;
Roeee had asked TO supply the pipe. He had asked
me and ne had asked the Commissioner, suppose,
hac,ause / was called In consultation about It, |
exnressed nv opinion that the pipe that saw the
specimens OF that had been submitted TO me 10, LOT
ssamina tion as being very excellent, In my opinion.
ca ia snoben I'm a complimentary way, and re-