New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-23
FINE MEALS ON DOCK BOAT
COMMISSIONER HAWKES. EXPLAINS
BILLS WHICH CONTROLLER
CIRCUIT HOLDS UP.

Certain hills for provisions furnished to the tug
of the Dock Department. the Manhattan am
charged to the city have been held up ny Cotioii
Grout. These provisions were 0roefed i'i i
cons served to the officials of the DOCK Depart
ment. including Commissioner Hawkes. the oepu'S
commissioner Jackson Wallace; the secreta =
Russell BIeecker, the engineer in chle1' MT Dn
sal and others. II has been tie custom VI I'm
missioner Hawkes. and his assistants TO MAKE Ire
.quent almost daily. tours of inspection ana III
order to save time ne arranged 20 nave iufcHeoi'
served on the Manhattan while these tours Oh III
soection were being made. Each person paftahlh5
of these luncheons was expected to pay for them
at the rate of 80 cents meal According 10 con
trolier CIrout. whom the bills are sent ana VINO
also receives the money paid by the officials Tor
their meals, the bills for August amount 10 sZo' 4o
while the balance from the receipts for luneheons
is only S5l. Controe- Grout said yesterday that
he would continue to hold up the bills of the Dock
Department until the department had shown d
greater credit.
.cThe civ does not paw my luncheon bills at the
Hardware Club" said the Controller. and don
see why the Dock Department should expect the
city TO pay for extravagant dinners on It's Depart
ment boat
1t was alleged yesterday that the provision oiiis
for the Manhattan had exceeded the amounts re-
ceived from those eating the luncheons IN othel
months than August and that the balance against
the department at the end of July was sl45 A. mat
a cook should be employed on the tug at salary
of 1920 a year also criticised
Commissioner Hawkes. said yesterday when asked
IN regard to criticism:
as to the salary of the cook Of s72o year the
Department of Charities the Department OF Correc-
ton and the Police Department or TINS city nave
cooks their boats. . = H..
Concerning the item of S43 Al alleged to be que
by the city for meats poultry fruits ana vesetaDlS
furnished during the month Of July, ana 70 ire
amounts paid in by chiefs OF bureaus alo
others Of This department during the same perlou.
state that the department cook at that tifne en-
ployed was discharged by the department at me
end Of JULY among other reasons. because tLle
expenses for the month of July were consloefe 3y
the DEPARTMENT officials 70 have Deen niSneE man
they shouId have been. though the difference OF
expenses of an official meal furnished 10 the StaI
Commissioners of the Land ONCE upon an oLICLd i
tour which they made of this port. accompanied
BY His Honor the Mayor and others, - -.
- TO the question of having luncheOns on the
roc. Denartnient boat the Manhattan. they arose
rnent to make daily inspections or the Water trohI
which would not interfere with the once WORK
The rerorts Of the Commissioners or accounts
showing increased receipts of the department ana
various other improvements are sufhclent com
800 On re actual result of these daily Inspections
at T1nche0n for three-quarers of one hour eacn daE
IN shore IT is impossible for them TO make TINS
TOM IF inspectton Of the water front without inter
ferinr with their office work and during the urle
that thew are absent from the ONCE the CoInrnls
siorar is derived of the of their services
The facts are that under the present system the ,
oAicaIs Of this department giving the whole of
+bair time continuously from o'clock in the morn
ing frequently until I and o'clock in the evening
70 +he Department. This department has not re- !
csfved notice from the Controller that any bs lor
supplies on the Manhattan have been held up