New-York tribune., 1903-04-26

Contracting and Trucking Company the neat
net receipts Of about 1920 a day. The cost OF
building dumping board is about 5000.
Another transaction by the Murphy Dock
Board that has excited the wonder of the May
or and other members of the sinking fund was
another lease to the New-York Contracting and
Trucking Company. 1t supposed by the
Sinking Fund Commission TO be merely tenn
porary permit revokabIe at the pleasure Of the
Dock Commissioner. II was for the old pier
at seventy-ninth-st. and the North River Com
missioner Hawkes. decided that the interests OF
the city demanded the building Of new pier
az West Seventy-ninth-st-, and informed the
lessee the New-York Contracting and Truck
ing Company. that its permit was revoked
This is the usual course when the city decides
to build a pier. The Murphy company got
out an injunction Commissioner Hawkes.
turned the matter over TO the Corporation
Counsel who instructed one Of his assistants
to represent the city. Dock Commissioner
Hawkes., himself a lawyer. anticipated an easy
victory as Justice Scott in a similar action de-
cided that the lessee in a case where the city
wanted to build a new pier had only temporary
rights and that the permit revOkable- To
the arnazenent Of the Sinking Fund Commis-
sion, the city was beaten The case is on ap-
peal Meanwhile the NewYOrk Contracting
and Trucking Company retains possession or
the Seventy -ninth-st. pier f the company can
retain possession Of the pier. for which it pays
only 81 200 a year. until after January 1 next
it will, If Tanmany Hall wins next fall. be able
to retain possession indefinitely.
The New-York Contracting and Trucking
Company is a New-York corporation. and the
directory gives the names of orly two OF its
officers. John j. Murphy, brother of Charles
F. Murphy Is president and T. I. Gaffney is
treasurer E L Gaffney is understood to be a
near relative of Alderman James Cfaffney- The
concern is known as "Murphy's company
The man who ventured the suggestion tnat
Charles F Murphy did lot practically control
the concern would be regarded as dead slow
PIUMs FOR OTHER TAMMANY MEN
The New-York Contracting and Trucking
Company is not the only concern that has had
rnarveIously good fortune in securing low rates
from the old Dock Board for piers and dump
ing board privileges. The old board gave JO-
scph Eagan a Tammany contractor. thirty
wear lease of the pier between Twenty-eighth
and Twenty-ninth SITS. North River. for SIdO
a year Dock Commissioner Hawkes. advertised
for bids for similar pier at West Thirtieth-st.
where the lease had expired. and the highest
bidder the Independent Contracting Company
leased it at S1SS0O year for five years On
these terms the city viii receive for the fhlr-
tieth-st pier for five years $4,000. while for the
Twenty -ninth-st pier the city VIII receive 1rot$
Eagan for thirty years $22,5OO
lust what District Attorney Jerome VIII do
with the old Dock Board. of course. remains TO
be seen 1t is believed by those with knowi-
edge of what the Commissioners of Accounts
have turned in to Mayor Low in the way or
evidence that his action will be drastic Ihe
tr,nIted challenge thrown out by Edward NJ
Shepard in his Bronx speech two weeks ago.
about the improved dishonesty and extrava-
eance of the Van WyCk administration. has
created a bitter feeling the part of many
members Of Mayor Lows cabinet The Mayor
has TINS far refused to release the matter that
the Accounts Department has turned in
In the opinion Of some Of Mayor Lows cab
met a taxpayers action would invaldate all
tb leases granted by the old Dock Board
There is no doubt that it would be 70
Droye by the use of the figures presented In
This article that the property OF the city was
disposed of in such manner as - constitute
what is known in law a waste Of public
funds
Nothing in the way Of prosecution tnstiSated
nv the reform administration iil excite more
interest than the action proposed now Charles
2 Murphy is Croker's legatee- Peter F Meyer
is a mariner of Richard Croker in the real es-
tate business. j. Sergeant cram is the chair
man Of the General Committee of Tammany
Hall