New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-24

Chamberlain had been interested in the Self-Dump-
ing Boat Company, Mr.. WINS said:
This screed from TamInany Hall is false s cd
R9 Snd s SRs Boa Wae o nesen never owned
any stock in the company. I never had the sngnt-
Saon Anything hi about the company other than
what have read in the newspapers ne he Gils' ae
and statement are as absurd as II Wo9a De 10 %
cuse me Of being president of the FennsytvsIi,@
Railroad Company ana the Equitable Lie Assuf-
ance Society.
NJ Wins earlier in the day further elucidated his
views on graft and made attack on Tam
many Hall, saying:
There are two kinds Of graft" but there is no
honest graft" The two kinds are the greater
IS illustrated by the case Of the insurance manage
e men anf P 5hI gad get pped off in politics.
You ask me about the lesser graft. Wen: hAVs
some 4Rs s II 6eafs about the same relation 10 the
greater graft that picking pockets OF
-- %kben ~ Grain was Tenement House Commissioner
he Of bstween $4,000 and 5000 he appoint
ed a hundred or SO ward heeIeIs OF t&.li@iy spo
OF F i9 of the Tornbs has a personal system of
graft by which he reaps income through IA
v0rug prisoners. Our NewYork penltef1tiary, under
Commissioner Lantry, is nightmare Of tnefeiency
and corruption and there you may ind illustrations
of every form OF the lesser graft nat Is poSSDts
that easy prison jobs are openly traficked IN an6
that the offering Of city property and materials
For many Years the city itself has been engaged
the states prisoners and the State treasury AS
you know prisoner OF the Class i9otc4[ea upon
Quantity Of clothing. This clothing IS furnished by
Work and Kings County pentenuaries Ostensloy
the value Of the clothing thus supplied Is S1S per
m and dun TisiI pai Si BY the state the city
AS iac5 In SeteraI wretchedIy cut and badly
made 1t is utterly unfit for the garp OF Tramp 3
6gTe[ cheap clothing house for 50. As the gar
Toents I'm question prison maze py oCs1 Con
no
STATE suits is covered into the city treasury as
ON each suit the city does out to the state Priss
oners the recipient therefore is s~IuI I roo+ed
to the same extent. This practice OF T0gPng from
calls obtaining money Py Ia-s sfrpEe may be
clever business but il reflects little credls upon r9
city and adds less s., to rd the regard OF 'hS 'f'"
clSSSS of fo the meanest Of petty graft has
CILo " - oF a method that has been olscoVeIeo
Tammany Hail beat the Civil service law IN
by am way beautiful scheme for copper per
an3ne civil Service jobs was discovered by me ne
resent administration in ire reiote S PbJon6
the cry EaIe been volunteer fire companies aided by
city aPPropra16ns Sif Service law that gives e-
q pr fTe1nen the same privileges as spanish ~"
TetesTee -ice employees, they cannot De Ielhoyeo
Without trial on charges sSs - more dficult
Visions o. or break policeman than to CONVICT g
man of murder: he ba 1 NAV under the law, be re-
ad If the head Of the Wien This
the reason rrovision was discovered hundreoS Oh
oenedlceit. - ernDIoyes were introduced INTO thes
civil Se.' ere companies One dlstrlct Ieaoe[ Is
hore boasted Of putting In more 'naii Nv"
S1ndred in his distrlcI, ,taz saw an opportunity
The Es and instead Of the nominal H s s9t
for graf Isl they set up fees ranging from 20
fees o. Lay Most of these new menDeII iS &, tbe
TO $p; in that the new members l!Veu IA 90 80
frauoul ~ Manhattan, and their 49, a. "a i,a
Borough 80 question In fact, IN orGSr 70 D5-
was out Vi they acquired FAKE reslostlces 81
come nt IN which the fire company mS s1na
the borough otned their membership py paying 9
They IlHl taence from meetings anu III e9 ,,,.a
ullSS - ~ COIlpElAle0,
II the Io I;-o Commissioner could nave pIopeiiaa
which the r. done and the names were ooLlpI - :
caused 70 of Civil service aii
with the 5,ras as shown on theI oIIo9 - baan
their resI1'ants in the scheTne Wou!u % 80
the par - In my opinion the nete ,ei errdPnd
disclosed soTId have been suflclenL. 20 Al
ticpation "9NT know that this matter CsILIe III
for he attention OF the Ma U5,++rojIaT nd
recty TO ne vss taken up with the Toll +, ne
The matter Interested that he ana one 81 1ae
he was SO ~ TO the Mayor eo9ut II 1Ho '
aldermen ~ .syVhat petty graz .,,,., n nut a
merely salt ~ any steps peiils - rs
never heztLbb eJ1e or punish me par rs
stop to thg last month the lurlsaScSro axtanSeS
WITHIN C4U,ant OF the city mas 80 ,eontaer
Fire l eUIR Of Richmond Hna avstenoe The
over tho DO have gone out OF eAsIe ef cartif
ere companies receiving their exeInpt 49,
members ar ~ nbfect OF the scheme III a
Gates, ana tiae baen Accomplished - ,-aTt for
of cases another little chsPIe II,,gb+ 70 know
viii hs ssy or two The people ousaSS he svs-
YOU N = ue3nreciate the degradalio - sres
and tniLs eftiness as we'll as lis o16 the bosses
tenn the case OF the corpora LOIS frTa the insur-
ness in ne of 90 reaohss everywhere lrofh NA'