The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-12
.TAMMANY UNDERGRADUATES
MONEY! FOR TWO CONCERNS ONLY IN
HOTEL FIRR-BOIES

| storyof n Moss Detective who Bribed Po-
liceman with Dollar or Two mt n Time
No Record Published OF Salary Increases
5000 More Names on City Pnvrolls.
The Mazst Committee at it's session yester-
day In the rooms OF the Board OF Trade and
Transportation listened to the experiences OF
Edward 7. Roardon. one OF Mr.. Moss's dctec-
tivss. Reardon said that early on Monday
morning he was riding downtown In Third
avenue elevated train with man named Bren-
nan when crowd Of intoxicated men in the car
became engaged in quarrel Reardon and
Brennan got Off at Fourteenth street to avoid
trouble. Reardon pulled a revolver. but had no
occasion to use It.
When we went down the steps" continued
Rearlon. we met Policeman Kelley OF the
Fifth street station. on whom l had served a
subpoena to attend this investigation. know
what would happen and l told Brennan to run
He did so. Kelley came UP to mo and began
to club me. man In plain clothes came up
and said could Ak It. by giving Kelley SO
told them / hadn't that amount. but would
give him my watch. Kelley refused to take IT,
but on tho way to the station house Keeley and
Policeman Hoch. who came along. asked me
II had any money. gave Kelley two dollars.
and when we reached the station house Kelley
told Sergt Todd he couldn't swear there was
| sufficient evidence TO hold me. OF course |
wasn't held"
Reardon said that he had paid Kelley three
one-dcllar bills on Tuesday night at Fourteenth
street and Third avenue in the presence OF
three witnesses and had promised to pay him
So more on Saturday night Kelley had prom
ised to wait for him.
Go there Saturday night and pay him." said
Mr.. Moss whom Reardon had ended his story.
Everybody in tho room except Mr.. Hoffman
laughed. He looked worried
Reardon's story was corroborated by Brennan
and George Hamm ond. a Moss detective. and
another OF Mr.. Mosss men told OF the lack OF
| discipline he had witnessed on the day OF the
Dewey land parade when policeman stepped
out OF line and boxed boys ears.
George McAneny. Secretary OF tho Civil Ser
vice Reform Association. submitted figures
| and estimates showing that the list OF en-
pIoyess in the city had been increased about
| 5000 since consolidation.
Secretary John W. Prior OF the City Club
said that the search for the amount OF increase
| in salaries which had been made by the Tam
| many admin stration had been almost endless.
1t took three competent men. he said.
| Citv Record That paper has no index that
amounts to, anything, and we had to read all
| baked. because after April the sala res were
announced as fixed a, such and such figures,
| The On Record has been inarcnrate through.
| out this administration and has contained
many misleading statements and announce
Mr.. Moss called several men in business
| along upper Broadway whore Naughton Il Co..
| tons for the Third Avenue Railroad Company.
| These witnesses said they had lost trade by
Of i S sad a.
men hired by the contractors worked as slowly
They worked" he said. "only when some
| one was watching them. Discovering this |
went out several times and sat near some
workmen near my place OF business. The men
| would work until tho foreman came along and
| told them to stop. The foreman would say:
cYou'se aren't allowed t. work too harh,
| seen two men pretend to work q whole dav on
| one nut with wrench.
| horhood played anvil songs" on the rails to
deceive people watching them and 81 i'll another
man said he had seen thirty men carrying one
Secretary Doehar,,y Of the Fire Department.
| n hotels and places Of amusement bv order Of
the Fire Departme3t Docha,ty denied that
| manufacturer from putting in these boxes. bur
Mr. Moss brought =, dozen witnesses 70 tho
| Company and the Special Fire Alarm COMPANY
| had practically monopoly Of this business.
snid he had interyirwed hundred hotel men
| on the subject and that number Of the hotel
mon snd thrt the Manhattan npG SPCSc zee Eoxss
The department." continued Wood. has
| ordered the big hotels to put in thase boxes.
| and tho Bowery lodging houses whore the
Tammany gsngS stay are not required to put
Mr. Moss brought out tho fact that the two
| companies mentioned make connections with
the nssrs.t rGasTm na n@D on G,J He street sd
some one had TO run to the street box to direct
IT went Teia to the Bartholdi Hotel where Com
missioner ScnnnelI lives" said wood. and
saw the manager tn. hotel was taken for
ger laid hit the BcTth"d wnsnt going 10 PVT
| in n box He aatd Mr. Scarn.ll had eaid It was
TSSt am to nrn.m M 6 the
Juvenile Asylum a. l1Gth street and Amster
| "On Aug. IL WAS notified that must pnt in
ono Of these special alarms. About this tiruo
the nre-alnrm box. which stood outsde the
blocks away. Tkept the key Of the box how
ever, 40 that any one sending an alarm had to
The Fire Department snid the box had been
| moved orthe convenience ~ he nelYhhorhood
he srr n nt IN srscn
box Immediately rs thirtv-day notices had
been sent out +? al institutions ard hotels.
with business The hoy Is not ye.ln. hut the
tanned several oxtensi ons OF time.
Copeland Townsend, manager Of the Hotel
CONNECT his hotel with the nearest Are alarm
boy by means OF special box and connecting
wires. and that immc"distaly after he WINS motif
| around and said he could put in the box Mr.
| Townsend said the hoN WAS not IN vet.
| The managers Of tho San Reno. thu Stevens
House The Virginia, the Weatmoreland Arnrt-
| mant House. and the Union Square Hotel
| related similar experiences. solomon MAY. nm
| electrician. said the agents o. the Special and
| Manhattan Comunnies had offered To PQuip the
NormandIe for slnD the first year and $50 for
| every year after that.
IT could make tho box" said Nav. TOR Ave
dollars and could make the connections for
with mo Tor having disturbed what they called
| their easy thing"
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