The Washington times., 1908-01-07
INK EXPERTS ARRAIGNCD
AS CONSPIRATORS
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Bloede. Some Of the officials and en-
ployes who are said to be familiar with
the case. take the position that they
would probably be called as witnesses,
and that they could not discuss the case
in advance of their appearance In court
It is learned. however, that the ink
question has been under investigation
for more than two years. and that Van
Dyck's resignation on June 26 1876. was
not entirely Of his own vOliuOn-
Interesting as showing the ink situa-
ton at the bureau for the period i'm
mediately preceding and following the
Van Dyck regime is the following eX-
tract from the stenOgraphic report OF
the hearings on the sundry civil apprO-
priatiOn bill before the subcommittee Of
the House Committee on Appropriations
held last winter:
THE Chairman CMr. Tawney)-NOw,
on page IS. Mr.. Sullivan, in the item
for materials. there is a reduction OF
$4,000. Your estimate there Tor the
fiscal year. 1905, is $42s.053 and your
appropriation for the current fiscal year
is S565, 408.
Mr.. Sullivan Director OF the Bureau
OF Engraving and Printing)-Yes.
The chalrman-Wil you eXpend the
SJ65. 40S this year2
Mr. Sullivan do not think we shall
we opened bids for our materials
as usual, and I took a more care
full part than 1 ever did before and 1
made a personal investigation Of one
item-an item Of hard black ink-and
the price was reduced from IS cents a
pound to y cents a pound.
THE Chairman-Wa as that the case
where the ink you had been using was
manufactured under a process that was |
devised or invented by some man in the !
Bureau2
MIR. sullivan-Yes; alleged TO be.
THE Chairman-You have reduced It. /
you say, from IS cents TO y cents a !
pound?
''Mr. SuIllvan-Yes: we are now pay
ing u cents pound for It, and Il IS /
giving excellent results.
The Chairman-What- was the aEgre- /
gate reduction in that one item? Can /
you give il to us?
Mr.. Sullivan can not give you the (
aggregate, but there Is Sl14O0 saving IN 4
that item in dry COlOrs. and a part OF 4
IN that item OF hard black. Mr Ralph /
made an investigation on all the other /
items; and he developed a soft black
that we had been paying s. cents a 1
pound for. and got II at u cents a |
pound; and all the other colors in the 4
same way. He went right straight |
through the whole series OF CoIOrs there
and we made our contracts at all these
reduced rates,
The Chairman-How long had they
been furnishing this black at 45 cents?
Mr.. Sullivan think they had been |
furnishing &c about four years"
Edwin NJ. Van Dvck was appointed TO /
his position in the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing through civil service chan
nels, and received a salary Of $500 per
annum. HIS papers show that he was
born In New York state IN 1866. and that
he was appointed from Brooklyn, N Y
August -, 1885. He resigned June G
1915.
At 1902 p street northwest, where Van
DyCk was a boarder while living IN
ii was stated today that
the last heard Of him he was located at
his old nome, Brooklyn, y. Y. On
leaving the bureau Van Dyck left hts
address as Hewitt, n J.
Very little is known of Van Dyck and
his habits while in Washington. He
seems to have had but fe,y intimate
friends, and so far as known Was n /
member OF no clubs or societies.