The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-14

| ~ We'll, how long aftcr the Plat company
went into business did the Freedman com
pany 20 into businessp A. Well. the Plat
company. II you choose TO call II 90. went into
business In 1894 The Croker or Freedman
company won't into business when Croker
returned to power In this city, Right
here should like to say a few words
In regard to this surety business. The Mary
land company has never In its history taken
any bond which IL did not receive In honest.
open competition with the other companies.
This Ii not true OF the Freedman company.
Our concern has had its business greatly ex-
tended BY the Newspaper notoriety. which has
drawn public attention 10 Il within the past
| two years. I want to add that Senator Plat
never had anything 10 do with the business Of
the so-called Plat company. II 10 managed
BY my brother and myself. He knows nothing
| OF It
| PAID FOR HIS STOCK.
Q, Are you Interested In any corporation,
A. Yes. sir.
Q. WHAT A. In tho United States Express
Company.
| O. How muoh1 A. decline to answer.
| q. Why1 A. II 10 mono OF your business.
| q. And what others7 A. The City Trust
Company.
O. How much' A. decline to answer Oh the
| O. Did you pay for III A. Yes. sir-the same
as any one else.
| O. What other corporation are you stock
holder in3 A. In the Maryland Fidelity and De-
posit Company.
@. WIN you tell Us how much stock You hold
in this company A. No. sir.
q. Why notf A. Because It's none Of your
business.
Q. Do you own stock in other oorporationsl
| A. Yes; q few.
Q. A good many. don't your A. No: only a
few.
O. Now Mr.. Platt You were In Albany. were
you not. about the time Mr.. Tracy was Presi-
dent OF the Ramapo Company A. I may have
been.
| 2. Did you ever hear anything In reference
to the bills Mr.. Clarke mentioned A. Never.
Q. And IL these bills were inimcal to the
Ramapo Company you would have heard some-
thing Of them1 A. No. know nothing OF the
company at all
| HAD NO DIFFICULTY WITH GOV. BLACK.
Q. You had some difficulty with Mr.. Black
| when he was Governor. didn't you7 A. No;
not at ALL
Q. Didn't you ask him to sign bill for which
| you appeared for a certain corporation. and
when he refused didn't you say that you would
| see that he wasn't renominatedp A. Nothing
| like that ever happened
| nv ',s polAU ~, ~, iio"au 80 .uousno WIN
through. Mr.. Moss took brief inning and
| asked the witness whether he had ever accepted
| stock as q gift because OF any influence he had
| or was supposed to have.
mo. SIR" was the reply Il bought my stock
10 e'o'' '"' uoe'
Mr.. HoLAHAN COMPARES H1MsELF w1rH
DREYFUs.
Civil Engineer Horace Loomis was called
| and told OF plans he had drawn. as Assistant
| Commissions Of Public Works, for turning the
| water OF the Housatonic River into the Croton
| by a tunnel to cost about S2OOO,OO This
| greatly excited President Holahan Of the Board
OF Public Improvements and Water Commits
sioner Dalton. who tackled the witness with
food Of questions. There was some con-
fusion. from the midst OF which issued Mr..
Holahans clarion voice demanding his rights
As he had no right to be asking questions at
that time anyway. the committee took recess.
thus pulling the ground out from under him.
He got very red in the face and, walking over
to Mr.. Moss. instituted a com parison between
hms self and Dreyfus. Mr. Moss smiled cheer
fully and walked away.
BOARD OF uNDrRwR1rzas NOT pop p.xIpo
..., - n No.
dant ~ tho Continon,., IT, Inam..o. re-,
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d,d W. r r.n,.aep. ~. so,t,n,.nta =, ~ ,rs
in advocating A contract with anv private com
pany."
Q. You have made a study Of hydraulics.
have you not? A. Yes.
.. Is there not in the Ramapo contract an