New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-19
ALAS! POOR MURPHY.
ANOTHER PIER GOES.
Mayor Mcclellan to Stop the goth
Street Dumping Privilege.

The New York Contracting and Trucking Com
pany is to lose its last remaining pier and dumping
board. The Mcclellan people are going to take
away from the company the 96th street pier. which
for years has been a big money maker Tor the
company.
Charles F Murphy. leader of Tammany Hail. Is
the financial hacker of the contracting company
and, while it may be in line with public poHcy 20
Gust the Murphy interests from the valuable prlv-
leges they have enjoyed at merely nominal rentals
the politicians see in the successive losses by Muir
ply of these privileges only the political "aIL%,'
which is being waged relentlessly by Mayor NC
Clellan and his friends against the boss OF lam
many Hall
Chandler Wilmington. chief engineer OF tne De
partment of Finance. at the meeting of the SINKING
Fund Commission on Wednesday will turn IN d
report recommending the Improvement OF 'ne
waterfront between 94th and 9Sth streets on inc
North River. His report will recomend perai ma
nent home for the LIST Naval Battalion at SO'h
street. the Murphy pier
The law says that whenever the Dock Depart
ment or the city authorities decide to maze P
maneut Improvements along the waterltoht t
lessees of piers and other properties undeF 'Hc
Jurisdiction Of the Dock Department must move
1t was only last week that the Dock Department
decided to make permanent improvement VI w
waterfront between nth and 61st streets u
years the Murphy Gafney company has leased the
18th street pier for dumping board purposes io
1920 year. The company obtained the lease
while Charles F. Murphy was treasurer OF 'he
Dock Board. The company received an income "a
about $4,000 year from the dumping bodrd On
this pier
On Saturday Dock Commissioner Bensel sent
notice 70 Philip F Donohue. treasurer OF ram
many Hall and right hand man OF Charles r NUT
ply that he must vacate the bathhouse site at
l55th street and the North River. as the CITY hau
decided 10 improve permanently the Waterfront
there. This the same ordering Murphy 10
give up an incoTle of about $4,000 year as Doho-
hue is recognized in Tammany Hall as cog III
the Murphy financial machine
Now comes the final blow. by which the Murphy
company loses S6th street. Doubtless this means
The loss OF another $4,000 a year for the Murphy
interests. More than year ago the company was
compelled to vacate its pier at East 2lst stree
About the only waterfront privilege still held by
the company is the dumping permit obtained Tor II
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company al "a
street. through the use of which the rock excavateu
for the Pennsylvania terminal building is dumped
on sc0"s No one can tell what Will happen 10 I'M
Gently tina. the New York Contracting and Truck
ing Company dissatisfied with its contract WIKI
The Pennsylvania Railroad people and was getting
ready 10 aurosate IT. Whether the attitude OF thg
Mcclellan administration toward the company A"u
anything TO 90 with the circulation OF thls Iuihot
As YET the Tammany leader has not made any
move in repvisal When Commissioner Hawkes..
20 Gust the contracting COMPANY from the 7stu
street pier. James 4. Deering and PeteT \. Hen
peaIed to the courts and entoined Commissioners
Hawkes. from carry ing out his plans. Inc com 20 n.
.lothe the Dock Department with fuller power. II
is believed that while the Murphy interests
may be able to put up stin battle In the courts.
the Dock Commissioner within a short time vii
take possession Of all three sites which are needed
for Improvement.
1T is not because Murphy Is interested but
rather because of the natural evolution Of the city
business that Murphy will have to vacate." said
az Mayor McCIelan's advisers yesterday
when the Murphy people got the 18th. 96th and
155th street privileges only nominal rental was
eNactef because II Anticipated that the City's
business would sooner later make n necessary
to extend the Tler system far up the North River
II q n
and dumping board long enough 20 am7ss com
Portable fortunes II IS time that the city again
came into its own. As Donohue's bath
house IS taken away from 155th street ferry ser
vice will begin. the city receiving round price FOR
the part Of a pier which IS bringing IN nothing
NJ present Tho change had TO come sooner or
later. and - IS poetic Justice that II should come
now"