New-York tribune., 1905-02-16
GETS $4,000, 900 CONTRACT
NURPHY,S FIRM WINNER.
II Policy in Tammany's Business In
surance-Neac-HGccn'S 47cGrd.

e,ieni6can. obiect lesson in cause and effects
While Seth Low was Mayor and despite the
efforts Of the Republican leaders, the control OF
The Board of Aldermen passed to Charles +.
Murphy and Timothy D. and Timothy F. sui
Ivan ard still is controlled by them.
Effect No. ]: August Belmont, whose railway
Interests are affected ny local politics. gave the
Nen-York Contracting and Trucking Company
a concern which started with nothing while
charles + Murray was treasurer Of the Dock
Board, 100000 contract for grading Belmont
Park. in Quscns
No . The aldermen held up the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad contract. and the Murphy firm
got a S509009o contract for -excevating and
grading al 32d-st. and Sth-aye.
No =. The Consolidated Gas Company gave
The Ncw-York Contracting and Trucking Com
pany 9 Sl00o009 contract for grading the site
Of the company's proposed new plant in Astoria
At about The same time the Tammany As
sernblymen al Albany cast their votes sody for
the East River Gas bill The bill signed by
aIayor McCleIan. and was vetoed by Governor
Odcll or the demand Of the newspapers of this
city. backed 10y all the civic organizations.
10 /. The aldermen for two or three years
held up the Port Chester Railroad Companys
application for a franchise. and gave similar
franchise to company said TO he on cordial
terms with the New-York NewHaven and
Hartford Railroad.
No. ,. The New-YorE New-Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company has given to the New
York Contracting and Trucking Company a con-
tract for about S6O00O00 for the proposed six
track Improvement Of the road from this city to
New Rochelle.
No. G. Charles F. Murphy has bought large
country place on Long Island. and is now rated
as worth fully S2,000,000.
Timothy D. Sullivan is one Of the prominent
theatre owners of the city. and this winter
''joIlied' his people in the Bowery by giving
away two thousand pairs Of cheap shoes.
SOME OF THE PARTNERS.
Charles F Murphy and Timothy D. Sullivan
have established business insurance In this
city. Some of the subsidiary partners in the
business are Alderman Timothy P. Sullivan,
Alderman James E. Gaffney. John ]. Murphy,
Charles F. Murphy's brother. and as a sort of
felt footed outsider, with disposition to "break
tn" whenever there is an opening, Senator P. H.
AIeCarren. of Brooklyn.
There is nothing for outside contractors when
political contracts are to be given out Out
side contractors get a sub-contract and
then, just to keep peace in the family, but the
New-York Contracting and Trucking Company
IS as they say in the Bowery. ''the real thing
That is exactly the way Charles T. Murphy
and his coterie wish the situation to be inter-
preted, and that it is the way it is interpreted.
II is an understood thing among the heads of
corporations that it is good thing to take out
business insurance in the Murphy y-Suvan
company. No other concern. ii is said. can
guarantee that permits will not be held up by
big and little officers in the city and borough
governments.
The outsiders dare not say anything The
Murphy Sullivan lockjaw serum has been ad-
ministered, and if the patients DO not obey
orders they win not get well-tney will be put
into, and kept in, state Of business coma.
The announcement that the Murphy firm got
the New-Haven contract was made unOficially
yesterday 1t is understood that the contract
viii be signed tomorrow. Several OF the big
contracting firms went after the contract. Some
of them Hobrook & DAILY, who had a sec
ron of the subway contract; the United En-
gineering and Contracting Company, Sundstrom
& Stratton. McCabe & Co., of Yonkers, and
Blakeslee Brothers. of New H oven.
When asked yesterday il his firm had secured
the contract and if it was the lowest bidder,
Alderman Gafney said:
4 understand that the contract is to be
awarded TO US. l WAS told by another contractor
who made about fifty trips to New Haven that
he had been directed to see us. / suppose we
are the lowest of the New-York City bidders
Some out-of-tOWn firms may have gone lower
but their bids were not accepted because they
had not the necessary arrangements with the
labor unions and the work would be constantly
delayed if they undertook II. You see. a rail-
road would rather pay a little more for a job
and get the work done quickly. There is no
politics in this matter 1t is purely a business
transaction. Port Chester had nothing to do
with this contract. We went ahead and bid
with other contractors and won. That's all
there is 10 it."
NOT SURPRISED AT THE RESULT.
When member of Sundstrom & Stratton
was seen yesterday he said
We are not surprised 10 hear that the Murphy
concern got the contract. We assumed they
would get it. We put in a bid for S5,500OO0.
and had the plant to do the work We had no
particular pull
Because McCarren and Murphy are interested
fn contracts in this city, it is assumed by bank
ers in Wall Street who take care of their paper
that they viii pull together" in the MaSoralty
campaign next fall.
Al the Offices of the New-Haven road yes
terday IL was learned that the Improvement
scheme comes under the general control of Sec
ond Vice President Curtis, and, of course, falls
within the department of Chief Engineer lnger-
soil The work OF construction is under the
immediate direction Of Mr.. Berrian as the en-
gineer in charge, with headquarters at New
Rochelle.
The proposed Improvement contemplates the
complete reconstruction Of the existing line and
its expansion TO six track system between
the Harlem River station at Willis-ave. and
New Rochelle. Beginning al Willow-ave. and
continuing TO and including 14lst-st the tracks
will be elevated over all streets eliminating
grade crossings The tracks will also be car
ried over the Port Morris branch Of the Har-
lem Division Of the New-York Central Be
yond that point where the topography permits
the tracks VIII be depressed TO allow the streets
TO cross above them. There will be grade
crossings along the entire route.
The most difficult and expensive work will be
across Pelham Bay, where the present two
track swing drawbridge sil be superseded by a
roller lift or bascule bridge, similar TO that es
tablished recently at Bridgeport 1t will, how
ever. be 80 per cent wider.
The present lire comprises only two tracks
between the Wis-aYe. station and Pelham
Manor. while beyond the latter point to New
Rochelle. distance of about mile and half