New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-15
T. e. O'SULLITAN SLATED
La5cyer to Succeed Rl0es
If Tammany Wins.
COUNSEL TO PIER LEASING FIRMS.

Ex-senator Thomas c. O'Sullivan Is slated Tor
Corporation Counsel if Tammany elects It's
candidate for Mayor next fall The chances OF
Tammany success next fall are growing less
every day as the rascalities of the old admin
istration come TO light, but that makes no ulL-
ference to the former oficeholders in Tammany-
They assume that the Tammany ticket will be
elected The selection of Mr. O'Sullivan ror the
Mace so far in advance is keenly interesting.
Mr. O'Sullivan is counsel to Charles r
Murphy. He is counsel to the New-York Con-
tracing and Trucking Company. which oD-
tanned from the old Dock Board in whlcn
Charles F. Murphy the most prominent hg-
11re leases of piers at Ninety-sixth and seventy
ninth sts North River. which. II the leases
stand will give Murphys company monopoN
of the berthing OF vessels and dumping on the
upper West Side for the next twenty-nlne years
Mr. O'SuIIivan is counsel TO Naughton & Co.
which obtained from Charles F. Murphy When
mock Commissioner about 100000 Of treasury
orders without competing for them MI oSui-
Iivan is counsel for the Naughton Company
another corporation owned principally by Daniel
r Mcmahon chairman Of the executive COM
yni+tee of Taunnany Hall Mr. O'Sullivan Is
understood to be counsel for the mysterious Jo-
seph Egan, whose thirty year lease OF the nuIK-
head and dumping board at west TWenty-hlnsh-
st was obtained. according TO the complaint IN
an action brought by the Corporation CounSel 10
revoke il by the exercise OF conspiracy and
fraud.
The Egan lease is not the only one that Is to
be attacked in the courts The Corporation
Counsel's office is busy now investigating the
award of other suspicious leases by the olo
Dock Board It is expected that three or four
of these will be attacked soon as the 1nVesI-
cation is finished
AS Corporation Counsel Mr. OSulltvan Would
inherit" all the actions brought by MI. hlveS
10 ahrogate the old leases, as none OF lheIh VIII
be finished this year -
The attitude of the next Corporation Coun-
sci toward the suspicious leases a"droeu . Dy 80 e
old Dock Board is going to have an 1IIporIdnI
bearing on the fortunes OF Charles r Murphy
leader of Tammany Hall Brown & F!emlne,
one of the so-caIled Murphy concerns oD1eCteU
TO getting off q pier when DOCK CoTnnllsSlOIleI
Hawkes. who wanted to build a new pier OF
dered him TO. They enJoIned the DOCK CoI.lniS tis
sioner and finally were beaten. the court hoIo-
ing that they occupied the pier on the suneTance
of the Dock Commissioner Mr.. Hawkes. Drought
a similar action to compel the New-York Con
tracting and Trucking Company to Vacate tne
pier al Seventy min th-St., as he wished 20 Duio
a new pier there. He was en1olned az Ihe
petition of John J. Murphy and E Carney.
Tbe case looked like an easy for the city
TO win Whether from lack of vigorous prose
cutioD or because the case was weaker IneIi
the other one has not yet been determined, DuI
the CITY was beaten and the Murphy company
stiu holds the fort. The case has been appealed.
The action to nvalidate the Egan lease has
baaT1 Entrusted by Mr. Rives Messrs. Semple
and Hare new men in the law department
II Tammanv elects it's candidate for Mayor II
will be interesting to note the fate OF the ac-
tions 10 cancel the Murphy leases.