New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-12

OF the state ana TWO "tit NV
Illness time book showed mat s'''o - Wv
getting s. day and some -
HENRY s KEARNY on THE RACk
Conr,ss,orer Henry s Kearny recalled He
rsmemhered officers of the United States Govern
ment made an attempt 20 build a SUBWAY UNIV.
Wall-st but he said that 10 MS
he made no attempt TO approve H. lie s''"P''
the officers OF the Government as engineer "a w
Roard OF Electrical Control. that under inc ID"
they would have TO put their "res III '
OF the Subway company. go ~.
you did not give them any permit Ola you
asked Mr.. Moss. - .r
why. Nj Moss" said the Commissioner
was simply engineer and had no po"ei ~ e'
permits" o.. Oh.
Manhattan Fire Alarm Company a permit 10
occupy the subway. He said he thousn' .e e"o
a permit TO this company as well as 10 'iiee y.
four other auxiliary fire alarm companies 10 lay
wires in the subway 49,. 10
Tho witness was about TO be excused when ne
said:
want to say that when was on the stand Ia
,av " or TWO ago | was accused Of holding up tne
Peoples I taTI made out and is on desk
ready TO be delivered, and mat no one n lac asf
a. nH arS have no one 10 give Il to. The recoids
Of nv office will show that it was mace out o' '"o
18th day OF last April
.eyhv don't YOU send It to them?" asked Mr..
Moss. 49,. ,
81 will not do anything Of the kinn' na|o
method of running my ONCE.
Nov Mr. Kearny." said Mr. Moss Is " no'
fact tina, you testified when you were on INC s'""u
before that on April Y you were wal'i'ls " w
convinced that the company was a bona noe com
pany? II that Is so how Ii 1t that you i"' ''0
hermit IN your office at that time!
Witness said that 1t was not the hrst instance
where permits had been made out In advance anu
before the applicants had Thoroughly com %.
him that the company was all righ' anu ''"'
DO business. 49, l.. ,,r,r,sc
.,,o counsel for tho Peoples Telephone Company,
,l,hored 70 YOU on that very day. and you 'on
hin, YOU would not be hurried How do you eN-
nloin that II the permit was IN your oeSN NJ '''
time" 49, -,,t
witness said that at that very tno tno penn
os readv and that his letter book would sho" It,
az ANYBODY had called for It, sau '"e '''''''''
s,oner they could have received II. ,.-,
At 112 o'clock the committee took an A'Jo"''
rent until 2 10 y. m
SLOW WORK on BOULEVARD fAih''O'''.
Henry Houseley. a bicycle dealer ahu 'o'"' ~,
No o12l Broadway testified IN the al'ei w s
he has suffered 10 the extent OF Si' VI gao w.
from delays the work on the e''c,'0 a1rooav
,boneh+ q had caused him loss or Sl'"' ai''"''
no y. has lost considerable trade when h.'tn'
NOT come hack He thought the work couu pe
done IN one-third Of the time Inc "''",s' w.,
asked by Mr.. Hoffman whether 'he WIN " "
done under private contract lie did not NM"
NJ Noss stated TINT the work IS being oo'e LUZ
.bo Third Avenue Railroad Company al co'ipe,'
sa,,on eoualling the labor cost and 10 per cent a
a,,onal That was phase OF X ~ was er, MS
done undcr permits granted , nS an unintcr-
sUMe ea noang Of tho streets to their legitimate
uses
MEN WHO KILL TINE UNDER ORDEH0'
Charles W. Gray. who Is in the drygoods business
NJ No. 1854 Broadway, said that MS t'@'0 nav '"'
fered likewise. and continued:
U-hen I've had leisure I've talked with the dIi.l
men While talked they kept tne c h 1 S1t 70
until the foreman came along ana toa ,n w. o was
not enough work keep 1t going at az t mes or
saw three men working on one oot ana NJ. oiue ri
IRE d wC ah SCREW e on the nut ana then talk while
and unscrew II again; , II wo on eli no day
"Did YOU ever SEQ man screw on nut ana
o,1,har come along and urscrew it?' asked MI
Moss. ..
NO never that" answered the witness
"Then Won haven't seen It ALL said Nh. Moss
"n,a ANYBODY ever tell you how long the WORK
was to LASH"
"vo But had one man tell that no was IN
Formed that II he worked too fast he would Do
bounced"
BY Mr. Costeilo-Dd you complain 10 any
A. pinover. of no. 22N Broadway. said he had
seen twenty-five men three weeks IN the same sal ne
them when any one was approaching Mh h,e an. AK
dd they would 2iay tune on we 10 drir two
| holes in n rail. usually ms,
Louis j. scharnikow, a merchant OF NO 2'Zel
Broadway. then gave similar testimony.
Toud yap mink 1 o. m2n T Si@ had sweat
Il think he would be discharged on the spot ne
replied.
AUXILIARY FIRE ALARM COMPANIES
Secretary Docharty Of the Fire Department was
put on the stand and asked whether he had
brought list Of persons who had received notice 10
| connect their places Of business with Fire Head
quarters through the auxiliary alarm companies
Since January J. 1893 lie said he had not as there
are + 4V Wodd ak ong time to make the list
The witness asked how the Manhattan com,
iibo 'companv made its come ton with the nearest
! frebox Mr. Moss made the point that the law
;nunicaton with headquarters The witness main
'a Inba l" WOOD one Of Mr Moss agents testified
that nearly all Of the institutions and private con-
compan ssat haTns and no n The fire alarm
boxes on the ground that II should be the duty or
from so TO SIS was charged for strineng wires not
more than one hundred feet
cboIcs Of oav two concerns-the Manhattan Com
pany and the Eestic Ssnal r No others
The wines said that he hsa F 1gnr honss ' he
found only that Were required to have FIRE con
nections II was said that the proprietors Of these
places tOld him that ir they were requleI 10 put III
connections Tammany Hall need not expect any
woes from their houses. He had visited the Bar
thold Hotel he said where he was mistaken for an
official Of the Fire Department. lie was told by
the proprietor 10 60 back and tell his superiOrs
that It was not necessary to have connection
with his hotel. Commissioner Scannell. who oc-
, | cuDed a IN 'he house had telephone IN his
room connected directly with Fire Headquarters:
Superintendent Charles Z. Bruce Of the Juvenile
Asylum testified 20 having received notice to pat
In signal system The Board Of Directors in
structed him 70 give the order to the Manhattan
Company, and he did SO. he got the order to put
in the system August II. and had only thirty
DAYS to do II In. The Manhattan people told him
they could not get Il up in that time but that they
wO.Hd Ct the necessary extensions Of time. They
had done nothing yet. and he was anxious for the
children In his care. Other Witnesses told how the
Manhattan Company had been favored by the Fir,
e Department. and explained Of the extortion
! ate charges made
, The committee adjourned 40 O'Clock until 1913
O'Clock this morning.