New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
CEMENT CONTRACT TO STAND.
TUNNEL COMPANY WILL NOT RECONSIDER
IN KANE COMPANY's INTEREST

Officials of the Rapid Transit Subway Construc-
ton Company repeated the denial yesterday that
the delay in completing the contracts which have
been awarded for the building of the underground
railroad and the supplying of materials due to
the efforts of John F. Carroll to the cement
contract for John P. Kane & Co. the firm which,
was brought out in the investigation of the
Mazet Committee, IS the cement purveyor to the
Tammany administration. At the offices Of the
construction company 1t said yesterday that
the contract which was made some weeks ago
with the United Building Material Company for
the furnishing of the 100000 worth of cement for
the tunnel. would be adhered to.
Information obtained from other sources how
ever. would seem to make 1t clear that some in1u-
ence has been at work with the construction COM
pany in the interests of John P Kane & Co. 1t
is known that this firm unsuccessful bidder
for the cement contract, but 1t Is reported that
Mr.. Carroll has been endeavoring TO induce Mr.
Mcdonald and his associates to reconsider the
award, which made on the ground that the
Kane organization had, in preparing its bid, been
under misapprehension to the amount of
cement required. But whatever the endeavors
which Mr. Carroll others have been exercising
behalf of the Kane Company they Will be fruit
less, inasmuch the positive statement was made
yesterday at the offices Of the construction COM
pany that there would be no reconsideration of the
contract which has been given TO the United
Building Material Company.
Representatives of the GAINESVILLE, Wis, firm of
Hayes Brothers, the sub-contractors for that por-
ton of the rapid transit road which extends from
Eighty-second-st to One hundred and -fourth-st.
arrived in this city yesterday. and waited upon
Mr.. Mcdonald in the morning They said that they
were ready to begin work their section at once.
and that part of the necessary plant already
on the way to this city. Fifteen carloads of ma
chinery, part of the plant which l.. B. McCabe
will employ in building the subway from One-hun-
dred-and- thirty third-st. Hillsde-ave., has
reached here from Pittsburg, and will be trans
ferred to Washington Heights in the course of the
next few days.
Acting for President Clausen OF the Park De-
partment, Secretary Willis Holly yesterday morn
ing sent letter to the Rapid Transit Board in
answer to communication from that body sug-
costing that the trees to be removed from the
boulevard be transplanted In the public parks and
then retransplanted the Boulevard in the places
from which they removed
In his letter President Clausen said that he called
the attention Of the Departments landscape gar
dener to the matter, and that the suggestions
bodied in the letter were the recommendations OF
the landscape gardener. The letter refers to the
public discussion which the matter aroused and
the parks is practicable and also their retrans-
planting in their original places. 1t would better
to place the trees in the first instance places
where they are to remain permanently.
President Clausen suggests that the trees re-
moved, in the building Of the rapid transit tunnel
from the Boulevard be transplanted in Broadway
from One-hundred and fifty sixth-st either side
Of the curb. far the will 60 Presi-
dent Clausen says that the landscape gardener
thinks that the cost Of the removal of the trees
will range from $50 to $500 $500, depending on
the size of the and the excavation necessary
for the roots.