The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-26

a stroke Of Work for the City--Siany
vu,d Pri, ate JObs---One Ran q Saloon.
Gov. odel will shortly be called upon
% determine whether he ought 10 re-
,noye from, Office Borough President Cassidy
~ Queens. Last September a. number of
,ornavers Of tho borough lodged charges
Nth the Mayor against Mr.. Cassidy in
,,bch il was asserted that he wasted public
money and was guilty of malfeasance and
misfeasance.
Mr. Cassidy was accused OF carrying on
Mis- nav rolls for political purposes scores
nf men who were rated as laborers and
mechanics and who drew from the city's
funds from 81 to IS a day, while they not
oply never did an hours work, but had
other regular Jobs.
The Commissioners of Accounts, who have
investigated the forty-one specific charges
made against Mr.. Cassidy. have sustained
twenty-four of them, seven have been
dropped and ten were not sustained. Under
the provisions Of the Charter, these charges,
together with the evidence gathered must
he transmitted to the Governor, who must
order AL inquiry by the Attorney-General
official will depend the action OF the Gov
ernor.
Among the charges which are sustained
bythe Commissioners Of Accounts are these
Antonio Parasites draws a salary rs a
mason, but Is a printer by trade and keeps
saloon at 1903 Broadway, Long Island City,
where the Commissioners Of Accounts
found him on several days playing cards
and serving beer from behind the bar"
Upon inquiry at the Bureau of Sewers,
where he was supposed to be working, the
Commissioners report that they were told
that -he was a member Of the gang, but
was not working that day" They added
that the pay roll at the time Of this inspec-
ton showed that he drew six days pay
for the days he was found at his own saloon.
Samuel kugelman is employed as an
elevator man in the county court house
and appears on the pay roll Of the
Bureau Of Public Buildings and Offices
for August. 1902, at 81. 50 a day. There is
an elevator in the building, but it has not
been running this year. The inspector
who investigated the case alleges that
he found kugelman with a gang of men
cleaning up some rubbish in the county
court house. Kugeman told the inspector
that he was employed temporarily at cdd
Jobs until the elevator started running
again
Edward /. Doyle appears on the pay roll
as a foreman Of the Bureau of Sewers
Rt ST. dav. Inspector Lang re-
ports that on the week enGed Sept. 27,
1902, Doyle was supposed to be in charge
Of six men, who were detailed to "repair
tools. hose &c When Mr.. Lang visited
the department yard in that week he
found the yard empty. In the followir g
week, he again visited the yard, and four d
Foreman Doyle, evidently forewarnsd,
with two men. one of whom was cleaning up
the yard and the other repairing wornout
hose with few strips of old material tied
around the broken places. In the yald
manhole covers ard that there was no
Workshop at all.
In addition to these, there are charges,
which the Commissioners sustain, that two
men were employed as drivers at the rat Q
Of % a day, although both men wcIktd
on the same cart; that another man. err.
rloyed as n hagger, never worked ut
tagging in his life and could not De located
at all except on pay dav when he appeartd
at Long Island City to draw full time.
The charge that George HoucE drew a
salary OF 81 a day as a stableman at a place
where there was no stable is sustained
and the report adds that he was actually
employed on the farm OF Joseph Meyerroso,
the ward foreman Of the S copd ward in
the Bureau of Highways. The report
SAYS that the pay rolls carry the nance
of three men employed AZ ship carpenters, :
although the inspector was unable to find
any ships in the borough, and therefore
10 work for ship carpenters"
Dick bowling, who was ratcA as a
"fagger' at $3.50 a day, a plunhcr by
trade, really acted as a "runner" Aor the
Long Island City police court according
70 the report.
Theodore Wagepheimer was found to be
drawing salary OF $50 n Gav from the
Bureau of Highways as mason, although
he was cgarmaker by trade ard the
owner OF a grocery store al 10 Academy
street, where he was found by Inspector
Lang frequently d ring the Investigation
James B. Reynolds, -ha Mayors private
secretary, has forpl,dNtl a COPY of the
report 10 Mr.. Cassidy. with n request that
he should send as soon IA possible any
statement that he might wish to have for
warded 10 the Governor with the report.
Mr. Cassidy made this statement last
night:
THE whole affair is politics. These
charges were originally brought about a
year ago on the eve OF the primaries and
election by men who were interested in
defeating me- The making public of the
findings Of the commissioners at this time
Is politics and comes again just before
me primaries and election. II the report
had only just been made I would not say
THIS but the report was made 20 Comp
lroiIer CIRCUIT some time ago, and was in
the hands Of the Mavor last month |
know this, because Mayor Low sent me
copy OF the report
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