New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-03
T4HH4NY TO BE SO GOOD!
c. +. Mmphy's Promises Among the
Humors of Early Spring.
RECALL HIS DOCK BOARD ACTS!

One of the humors of the early spring Is the
promise of Charles +. Murphy. the new boss OF
the wigwam that Tammany. from this time Ior-
ward. IS going to stand for civic purity. the
chastity of the ballot. respect for the spirit as
we'll as the letter of the law. drastic PUNISH
ment for every man who shall dare commit
wrong unuer Tamrnany's sacred obligation 10
the neople-and other bunco bosh of the same
sort Mr. Murphy has fixed it so that ne can
throw ont of the executive committee any one
who makes trouble for him. Tammanys new
leader said last night that Tammany woulo
henceforth stand for civic decency.
.Tammany is in perfect condition" added Mr..
Nurnbv In the approaching municipal cam
paign it will stand for home rule, good govern
ment and civic decency. II will present d Iche'
that all good Democrats can support
E,our DAYS before the old Dock Board went
ont. of office it granted to John j. Murphy
Charles F. Murphy's brother, and an unknown
person named (. l. Gaffney, making up the
Nev-York Contracting and Trucking Company
a lease of the pier and dumping privilege dt
Ninetv-sixth-st. and North River for a period
~ thirty years at about So. 700 year. The pier
and dumping board more than S2Oo
day net. and the lease will in thirty years, I'M
less abrogated yield to the Murphys and Gan-
news of the XVIIIth Assembly District between
$500 600 and 81 100000 profit.
and dumps of the upper West Side complete
for the Murphy-Gaffney combine" the same
old Dock Board, with Mr.. Murphy in control,
leased to the New York Contracting Company
dumping privilege at Seventy ninth-st- and
North River. Wishing to build new pier at
this place, Commissioner Hawkes. informed the
company that it would have to vacate the pier.
The company enjOned the city from Interior
ing with It's alleged lease, and the court has
sustained the injunction. If this action can be
delayed in the courts until Tammany returns to
power the Murphy and Gaffney family will be
well pensioned at the expense of the city.
When Charles F. Murphy. the new boss, was
asked to explain the action OF Dock Commits
sioner Charles F. Murphy in giving away for
little or nothing the city's privileges. worth
hundreds of thousands of dollars. he said:
'That-oh, that's old story. That was in
vented year ago by the commissioner OF Ac-
counts for political effect.
Meanwhile the Murphys and Gafneys are
making $500 day at the expense OF the city
Mr. Murphy's conception of civic decenCy was
Illustrated at the primaries in September last
when he sent to the XXIXth District about six
hundred colonizers to vote the anti-Carrol
ticket These men were committing State
prison offences in scores of instances. II cost
john +. Carroll thousands of dollars TO save his
political skin in that tight. and he had to
have the assistance of the police and State
Superintendent OF Elections at that. Mr.
Murphy never has denied that he instfgated and
put through this piece of work. On the con-
trary, he considers IL OF his personal tri-
umphs. because he followed IL up by driving
John F. Carroll out of the executive committee