New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-29
CITY BLED FOR RAILWAY.
LENT MEN; PAID BILLS.
Charge That Hafen Administration
Vas Kind to Union Company.

Man7bars Of the engineering corps or the
Buraau Of HIGHWAYS Of The Bronx have been
farmed out by the Haffen administration to the
Union Railway Company it was learned yester-
day. and at Ieas, part Of the expenses Tor the
time so empIoyed were met by the city. This IN
cIudes the EXPENSES both Of the engineers and OF
a gang of laborers. This charge IS broushI
against the administration of Borough president
FIarfAn Of The Bronx after a painstaking exami-
nation of documents on file IN the auul'iis
bureau Of the Department of Finance. While II
is not positively known that Haffen's friendship
for the Union Railway Company has gone be
z-ond the having by the city of the expenses or
an engineer. transit men and Jewellers While DO
tne, WORT, for a private corporation the records
show that in one specific month where Bran
c Collier certified that he and some OF the men
under him had worked twenty-four days out OF
nossibIe tvent-nine days the city paid Colher
IN the sDecifc month referred 70 for six days
work. which according TO his own return Tor the
month in question. he could not have possibiy
worked.
Working with the engineering corps IN ques-
ton has been a gang of laborers whose pay mas
been not less than 81 a day each MOI oIuy
40 the official expense bills filed with the FL
nance Department show that the expenses oi
+1,esa men were assumed by the city, but 1t is
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administration. whose task it was to audit bills
f Tho F21,rea11 of Highways that the wages OF the
borers in the intervals that they were detailed
70 work on jobs for the Union Railway were
Maid bv the city and charged to the maintenance
fund of the Bureau of Highways of The Bronx
The record begins in November 1907 At
that time Brian c. Collier was and still is an
assistant engineer IN the Bureau of Highways
The Bronx. Golfers salary at that time was
50 100 2 wear. To-day he Is receiving from the
citv s.. 400 The head of the Bureau of High
7vavs is Samuel C. Thompson. Access has been
gained 10 the time records turned in by Collier
10 the engineering department Of The Bronx for
November. 1902. The entries on the records are
MI Golfers own.
In November. 1902, Collier had under him and
at work for the Union Railway on some days
of the month the following men: Alfred j.
Ostrander. Ieveuer. salary in 1902, 1880; now,
81 800; John f Joyce, Ieveller, salary $3.50;
Isadore Dilson. rodman. salary, 1880; John 5.
Turner, rodrnan salary in 1902, $1,000 now
81. $50; John A. Heunessy, transitman. salary,
81. 300. now, $3.50, and transferred to the
Bureau Of Sewers; Robert F. Tighe, leveller,
$500 In addition, Collier had under him
gang Of eight or nine laborers.
Golfers time record for November, 1902.
made out and signed by himself a copy of which
follows. shows:
West Farms Road, Union Etaiay one day Soys596sT 59to
Road t1ion Railway, day Eozen6sr s Ans
9I R9yaE PIN one dav NoTe1ber 4 orrisave Union
Railway one DAY 20. 0 9ge niSn Railway one
6sy November IL 13sth-sJ.. Union Railway. one day
vsTober IA sedgVlck-ave Union Railway, one day No
veHlbeT 70; st. S-ay9 ,9 mon Union Raifvay six
days ended November 20 Total number OF Gays
twenty-four.
-, - H.. Corliar over his own
signature. as shown by the above records. Ger
tiled that ne was at work for the Union Rail
v-av CoYnsanv for twenty-four days, from No
vsr1ber to November % the monthly payroll
for November 1902, credits him with having
worked six days for the city, as follows Regu-
1ating and grading 179th-st.. three days: rock
soundings, three days.
scrutiny Of the time record returned by
Collier in the case Of Joseph F. joyce Tor NO
vernber, 1892, shows up the same as Golfers
return for that period. twenty-four days work
for the Union Railway Company ending Novem-
her % and six days labor for the clty-Lnfee
davs regulating and grading 1lJtn-st; Tcch
scundings. three days
corps worked for the Union Railway, they ran
up a petty expense slip for each day Inc e&-
uense Of every man was paid by the city or
New York and not by the Union Railway COM
pauv The expense slip of each man was at
tested by Samuel G. Thompson, engineer or the
Bureau Of Highways ana hy buIousil Ie5i'I-.i'
Haffen as having been examined and found cor
reot fo,.,,,ardad 10 the auditing bureau of the
Finance Department, and warrant was drawn
a nd sent to Thompson. These expense Sips Tor
November and other months are now on nle IN
The auditing bureau of the Finance Department
Some Of the expenses set down by Coiller anu
the other men were for carfare- Some OF the
Iahorers whose pay for certain periods was
charged to the maintenance fund OF the Bureau
of FIighways worked in conjunction with
Golfers corps at the time that Collier was en-
49, an Union Railway work and expenses
incnrrsd by these Iaborers were also certlhed
an5 forwarded to the Finance Department ana
later paid
~, .np1Uvc To RuTTD THEATRE.