New-York tribune., 1901-11-22
CITY CLUB STOP NAGLE? BAH!
HE WASN'T GOING TO SELL THOSE
SCOWS, ANYWAY, AND THEY
ARE NO USE, BECAUSE HE
HASN'T USED THEM

so the City Club stopped the sale Of the
scows." said Percival E. Nagle, the Commis-
sioner of Street Cleaning yesterday. referring
to the injunction issued by Justice Maddox In
the Supreme Court in Kings County. on
Wednesday preventing the sale at public auc-
ton of the three self -propeng and dump
ing scows which have been unused by the pres
ent Tammany administration. at stopped MOTH
ing That injunction was served on me yesterday
afternoon, and the sale had been advertised 10
take place at II O'Clock yesterday morning.
That shows how smart Mr.. Bellamy and tne
City Club are They served me an injunction
hours after the sale was to take place They
stopped nothing; that's what they stopped
Were the scows sold?' asked Tribune re-
porter.
"Oh, no; but they might have been for all
the good the injunction would have done.
stopped the sale before those fellows Thought
of getting an injunction. stopped the sale the
day after the election
Had the election anything to do with stop
ping the sale?"
Now I'll tell you all about it. 1 advertised
the scows for sale the day before the election
They had been tied up at the dock since Delo-e
1 was Commissioner. The city paid S4o,ooo
apiece for them in Colonel Warnings time, but
we had not been using them, and 1 thought 1t
was time to sell them for whatever they would
bring at auction. Well the day after the cleo
tion it occurred to me that it would be pest 10
let a administration dispose OF the sco"S-
1 thought that perhaps the scows might not
bring much, and then there would be an outcry
against for selling them. L concluded TO let
the next administration dispose of the scows
and take the blame if they went too cheap 80
/ stopped the sale the day after election Now,
what was the good of getting an injunction 10
stop what had stopped already? IL only SHOWS
that they were not on the level
Some of the City Club say that you
wanted to keep the from being used Dy
the administration
Il don't care If the new administration uses
the scowS sells them. We haven l useu lheH
because they are too expensive to operate
How do you know they are too expensive 20
operate If you have not used them- Clty Ciup
men say that the scows proved servlceapie IN
used them because you wanted to make favora-
BILE contracts with owners of tugDoats TOT lo"-
ing other scows"
I'VE were advised by Mr.. Mead. one OF war
ing's men, that it cost too much TO run ns .ns
self-propelling and that it was cheaper
to hire tugboats. If the next administration
finds 1t cheaper the self-propellers we
are not TO blame. II Warnings man that
told they were too expensive to run
Why didn't you try the ScoWS!
We'll. the dumps were not suited for the use
of the scows for one thing We kept the scows
tied up thinking that perhaps they might be
useful some time, If got dumps OF the right
kind
what becomes of the injunction TO stop the
sale of the scOws?
II don't care what becomes of it. They can
make it permanent If they want to- The CITY
can use the scows if it wants to- sent the In
can answer Il the way he wants. 1t was OF no
use. anyhow