The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14
METZ SHARP AFTER dunno.
RAILROADS AND REPAIRING OF
BROOKLYN STREETS THE TOPIC.

h Comptroller Can't See Why the Com
missioner Of Public Works Singles Out
Brooklyn Rapid Transit TO Prod
dunno Replies n Metz Explains.
Comptroller Herman A.. Metz made some
sharp comments yesterday on the action
Of Commissioner Of Public Works Desmond
Dunno Of the borough of Brooklyn on Mon
day in notifying the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company to set to work at once to re-
pair the space between it's tracks in a large
number Of streets, the estimated cost Of this
being in the neighborhood of $4,000.
at seems strange to me- Mr.. Metz said,
that Mr.. Dunno has not ordered the Coney
Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company,
which controls the DeKalb and Franklin
avenue lines, to do the same thing. /
wond der IL the advertising contract has
anything to do with it2 / believe Mr..
Dunno. or the Desmond Dunno Advertis-
ing Company. no longer controls the ad;;
Transit Company
Then Mr.. Metz was asked II he meant to
imply that the crusade OF the borough
administr ration against the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company and the loss Of the adj
had any relation. He replied: You can
draw what differences you wish"
Mr.. Dunno had this to say in reference
to Comptroller Metz's remarks
Mr.. Metz is quite right. Desmond Dunno
no longer controls the advertising privileges
Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
Desmond Dunno understands on what he
considers reliable information that Herman
A. Metz does control those privileges and that
he obtained control Of them through the in
iuence Of his benefcent friend. Pat McCarren.
Desmond Dunno understands. further. that
Herman A. Metz is under deep obligation to
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company because
of the contract, He understands that this Is
the reason that Herman A. Metz still con-
tinues to pay city money to the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company for carting ashes
when the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
is daily violating Its contract with the city.
He understands that this contract obligation
Is the reason Herman A. Metz pays no heed to
the protests Of the borough officials Of Brook
Ign, who have asked him repeatedly not to
pay for carting ashes unless II is done by
night, as the contract calls for.
As regards the order to the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company TO pave Its tracks, as 1t
agreed TO do. you may say that the borou gh
i~stration does not wish TO begin with
babies when there are grown men doing
wrong.
In regard to the allegation that Comptroller
Metz has put up the money for the Intercity
Advertising Company, you may say that
Desmond Dunno is told on good authority
that Mr.. Metz said himself that he had put up
the money for the new company.
Comptroller Metz made this statement
in response to Mr.. DUNES allegations:
That is all false. but it is in line with the
implied calumny of the stories that were
circulated about in connection with the
Brooklyn Bank. and it is in harmony with
many other remarks that has been made
about me in the same quarter.
have no interest whatever in the advertis-
ing contract and ] never had one penny's
worth of interest in it. About one year ago
Mr.. Studwell, who got the contract, came to
see me at the Borough Bank and asked me
II | would become interested in an adver-
Using company that was then being organ
lied In Brooklyn. l got his prospectus and
read it over and 1t looked very we'll, so l
wrote him that | would take some stock in the
company.
] never heard from him again. I never
had any stock and ! do not know that such
a company was ever organized, except from
what ! have heard from outsiders. | have
never had one penny's worth of interest in
any railroad. ! never held any Wall Street
stock, and | certainly won't during my four
years in office. am willing to make. am
davit to all Of these statements II anybody
wants ii.
General Manager j. F. Calderwood Of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company said that
the company had never done any business
with Mr.. Metz in any manner, shape or form
as regards advertising contracts, n that
it is not looking to MIR. Metz for any favors.