New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-12
FIRE DEPARTMENT PROBED.
QUEER WORK IN CONNECTION WITH A
NEW LAW.
REASON SHOWN FOR EXAsPERATING SLOW
NESS OF CHANGING MOTIVE POWER
ON THIRD-AVE ROAD-MAY SIT
NEXT WEEK.

1ha Mazet Investigating Committee expects 10
fec,de to-day how long 1t Will continue TO sit De-
fore adjourning for the campaign 1here Il SUM
expectation that Friday Will marx the close u ''e
present session, but Mr.. Moss desire 10 get
hearing for all the witnesses he has suopohaeo
NAV lead the committee TO sit for Few Gays next
,reek GAS far as ! concerned. SAID MI
Moss yesterday the sessions are hKey 10 con
sinue all next week without cessation put HI '"'
vests with the members OF the committee ne
sardng the rumor that the committee may e
adjourn sine die Mr.. Mazet would only ga! 'ha'
&he question had not been considered yet ana war
far in the future. He thought there would De ''o
sess,on OF the committee next week
Mr. Moss nut on the stand yesterday NUMBER
of hotel keepers and superintendent OF char''ao'e
.1nstitutons who had been warned last spring 'ha'
they must forthwith install direct electrical nle
alarm connection between their buildings ana r''e
HEADQUARTERS Between four and hve thousa"u
Of these warnings were sent out. and they we''
quickly followed by agents OF the Manhattan '''
Alarm Company and the Special Fire Alarm Fec
+r,cal Signal Company who represented that they
were the only two companies whose connexions
rhe Fire Department would accept
One witness produced letter written 10 MIN =!
Fire Chief Croker In answer 10 An inquiry as ~
what company the Fire Department recommended
for this work Croker replied saying there were
two companies which did this work. naming the
Manhattan and the Special and giving their ousi-
ness addresses. but declining 10 recommend one
above the other. He did not say there were any
other companies doing this work though there
are several others. and Of course tho witness let
his contract 10 one OF the indicated In Crokers
DETER
The Manhattan IT was shown. has procured so
many orders In this way that It is far behind IN It's
contracts. Yet IN spite OF the peremptory order
sent out II has no trouble IN getting extensions
OF time for It's customers from the Fire Depart
,nent F. J. Berwind is q director In this COM
pany and is also director Of the Uvalde Asphalt
Company which gets fat contracts from the Dock
Commissioners without going through the bother
some formality OF competitive bidding Although
the Fire Department y exceedingly strict In com
pening some persons to make this expensive elec-
gard to others. II was shown that out OF twenty
four Bowery lodging houses only two have been
ing house keepers told Mazet detective that Of
Tammany made him put in such a connection the
Long ago The Tribune called attention to the ex,
Changing the motive power Of the Third Avenue
Railroad Company has been prosecuted. and yes
chants chants Whose Business is being DAMAGED BY the
horrible Of the streets in front OF their stores
months by reason OF this hardness The reason
the workmen are not discharged for persisteni
Tammany contractors Naughton & Co. under con-
aS %h the TT or c@ a fF & 6e
dtonal. How the company ever came 10 enter into
cheerful subject for the average Third Avenue Rail
road stockholder 10 think upon.
brutality, systematic violation by Tammany Of
sas of the c seSe peT ndW 5
lshed and the cheating OF labor out Of It's proper
wages on city contracts by means Of suD,S5tns
d030 o'clock at No. 23 Broadway.