The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-13
CFlRGES AGAINST ALDERMEN
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..ry b. = laid lefofs District Attorney
! AI..lu Young ttr INDIA yi,S are made
+. 4 Reynplds, president ~ the state
ira rr,p, On" Company and also preriden,
,'-u, ,,oft T. storm Telcphone Company.
arI rplr II r.ling, the latter being Mr. d,
po,n p. |..'a strnoRrnpher.
, I- .hltgHd u,theaa afidavlta that the
A 'cuuru implicated asked amounts vary
irf 'r,m s2.0n to ,s,WU for their votes.
OIL, prr,.sltp II the bribes allegNI 10 have
i.rn .,Hrttcd Icing t'GW0. The neZo,iH-
,.r.- - tended over nearly I've months.
IN, franchise was voted on on April 20
pri he vote was 8 10 Sagainst granting he
,,mia nv a franchise. Two Of the Alder
mon VINO, it il charged. solicited money
Ger ran,r votes voted in favor OF granting
tr franchise. although several weeks
i..urr that Mr.. Reynolds, as he swears
IN his aida Wit. had announced that the
whole thing was OF and that the Aldermen
wouldn't get a cent out OF him.
The five Aldermen who are named in the
ariiav,ts IA having appeared at Mr.. Rey-
npl.s's office and whose conversation is
reported are Herman K~allenberg, Charles
" Hilldring, Anthony j. Rivers, Alfred
RADIO and G.. II. Morgan. Mr.. Reynolds
says that Kallenberg told him he repre-
sented still another Alderman and that the
money for him could be paid to Morgan.
The ~afidnvits were laid before District
Attorney Young at his home in New Rochelle
late on Monday night by a committee con-
sisting of Harry C. Perley, George F. Lewis
and George Covers.
The State Line Telephone Company
made its application for a franchise in
New Rochelle early in January. 1t wanted
a perpetual franchise, but agreed to give
certain free service to the city.
After the vote by which the application
was rejected the talk became even stronger
and some Of the citizens then took it into
their heads to investigate the matter and
see how much there was in il. The first
person they went to see was Mr.. Reynolds,
and he told them what he knew and turned
over to them the notes alleged to have been
taken by his stenographer OF the. various
interviews that were held.
q The steno grapher makes affidavit that the
notes are correct and Mr.. Reynolds's afi-
day Wit Is TO the same effect.
According TO the a fida Wits, 1901 after the
application was made to the board, 1t was
referred to q committee on franchises. Mr..
REYNOLDS says that soon after this Kallen-
berg cam to his office to make arrangements
for the passing of the franchise. 1t is alleged
that Kallenberg intimated that it would have
to he for a consideration and that he said
that the Aldermen had decided upon sl8,O 0
/; the proper sum they should receive for
RAISING it. There was no stenographer
present at this interview and Mr.. Reynolds
rays that it wns cut short 10 order to allow
him To make arrangements TO have his Ste
urrra rher'concealed in an adjoining room In
order to take down what subsequently might
to soid. The stenographer sat behind a
dcsk but was only a very short distance from
'hc speaker.
At the subsequent interview, which was
tatcn down, Kallenberg is alleged to have
given the price for zach Alderman. Mr..
Reynolds then had the different Aldermen
come down to his office separately and he
ewcars that all agreed to the prices that
had been named by K~alienberg.
The prices for each Alderman MIR.
Reynolds said last night, varied from
s., 600 to $1,000. My recollection Is that
two OF the Aldermen wanted 1000 apiece
and that 50 900 was needed for each OF the
others. K~allenberg said that one man had
demanded IS 200, but that he had beaten
him down TO 5000.
'The interviews lasted two weeks alto
gethcr and ended about March 20. After
they were finished the stenographer's notes
Fcre translated and put in the safe. Her
original notes were destroyed. h reason
the notes were destroyed was because we
destroy all our books from time to time and
>allow no waste paper to go outside the Office,
as we have reason TO believe that another
company Is buying all the waste paper of
our concern.
AT the last interview with the' Aldermen
said that l had no intention Of paying any
Doodle: that it was Kallenberg's proposal
and that | had carried It along because /
wanted to see how far 1t would 60. I made
no threats ofRny kind and they did not seem
particularly surprised or scared. or course
they knew nothing about the proof hat was
in my safe, l told them that l would be
pleased il they could see their way clear to
pass the franchise. but Iwould not pay q
cent for it.
The transcribed notes OF the stenograbher
which are attached to Mr.. Reynoldss af-
fdavit give the entire conversations at the
various interviews with the Aldermen.
They fll many pages. K~allenberg made
several visits, but the other four Aldermen
made only one visit apiece.
The only two members Of the board who
did not appear or were not alleged to be
represented in any way were Aldermen
Adams and Kuchler, When the vote was
taken in April Kallenberg, Morgan and
Adams voted for the franchise and Hill
drlng, Steele, RADIO Rivers and Kuchler
voted against it. Mr.. Reynolds said last
night that he had not said a word about
the matter until the committee came and
asked him about it.
District Attornev Young said last night