New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-25
MIXED ON CUTTINGS
GAYNOR'S BLUNDERS.
Not Whole Truth Nor Right
Name IN Last attack.

AHere was general scurrying to cover
VI Gaynors supporters yesterday as the
result of the resumption of his attacks
on the Cuttings. The Tammany candidate
Tor Mayor was supposed to have all the
DATA In his possession but a man who
knows something about the ferry property
purchase of four years or so ago said that
the data must have become more mixed
than ever since the Carnegie Hall meeting.
X. Fulton Cutting had no brother named
r Bayard Cutting. this man said, but per-
haps Gaynor meant w. Bayard Cutting.
AT the Acorn Musee meeting at noon
Saturday the candidate persisted in the
use of the initial F. and it so appeared
III the stenographic reports. These reports
have been edited on several occasions,
which has accounted for the difficulty
sometimes of getting at them until long
after the meetings. and the frequent
changes in phraseology and often in state
ments. A reporter for The Tribune got at
the figures in the first transaction men
toned by Gaynor, of which he said, to
quote the stenographic report:
The land at the ferry end with the APP
Purtenances was valued on the assessors
books at S1S3 O00''
This was the ferry that runs from the
Battery to 18th street, Brooklyn. The
sessment was on the land only, 1877 lots, of
$500 square feet each and this was bought
by the city after appraisement for 100000.
1t was said yesterday that land near it was
bought later in condemnation proceedings
al an average of 81 90 a square foot. The
property purchased for $685. was at about
81 a square foot.
The remainder of the s7500O0 which Mr..
Gaynor said the city paid for the alleged
Cutting property was distributed as fol-
lows:
For the ferry company's interest in New
York property, due to lease with several
years to run, $125OOO; for the terminals.
$4,000; for use of boats until citys boats
were built, $4,000; total, $4,000
Mr.. Gaynor did not go into detail about
the sale and his story made it appear as
If the $4,000 had been paid for the land
only. And it was learned yesterday that
the valution placed on the whole property
before it was taken over for appraisal was
$1,015,000. From the records 1t was found
that the city bought the market property
in Brooklyn, between 36th and 38th streers,
for an average of 81 90 a square foot. and
other property between Seth and 3Sth streets
for an average of 81 10 a square foot.
The Tammany candidate did not explain
that the property was not r. Fulton cut
ting's or that it did not belong to w Bay
ard Cutting, or "F." Bayard Cutting,
he persisted in calling the brother AS ex-
planned soon after the first mention of this
transaction, the ferry property was in
herited by the wife of w. Bayard Cutting
from the Murray estate. It was learned
that the Cuttings were not known in the
transaction when its was consummated.
Allen n. Spooner. Commissioner of the
Department of Docks and Ferries. called
attention TO the fact that the purchase 1T
Guided land under water the terminal
rights and was not confined to the land in
Brooklyn.
AS Mayor Mcclellan was carefully ex-
Onerated of all blame by Gaynor in his
Saturday speech, it was said yesterday
that there would probably be no come
back" from the City Hall. Friends of the
candidate lifted their hands in a deprc-
catory manner when asked for an opinion
one of them said that he would say some
thing if this were not a critical time in the
campaign and his utterances would not
have a perverse effect.
AS for real out-and-out Tammany men,
they were loath to say anything for put-
LEGATION, but they freely gave vent to re-
marks not for publication that would not
have looked well IN print and these re-
ferred to the general outlook for the whole
Tammany ticket