New-York tribune., 1909-10-24

nothing but the truth: / simply said that
X: Fulton Cutting was the president of the
1ltlzens Union and preached municipal
ownership and control and also municipal
operations of public utilities to us here for
several years. And all the while the
wicked brother, F. Bayard Cutting. had a
street, Brooklyn, and while his brother
was pre2ching-oh so unctuouslv-nu-
nlGpai ownership and control, the other
brother who contributed to the Cftizens
Union was around with the officials
ASSESSMENTS AND PRICES.
Buy my ferry and put in operation mu-
and he kept at it for several years until
tNo years ago the city did buy it, The
Iana AT the ferry end with the appurte-
nancts was valued on the assessors books
OF tnls city at $lS3.000 How much do YOU
LINK .itllIh ne got the city to give him for it
5 Shese prea ehers Of morality and reform ?
seven hunored and fifty thousand dollars
more than four times the assessed value of
the property on the assessors books
now, either the grossest fraud was prac-
used by them in having their property
assessed down too low or else a. gross
fraud was practised and a wrong, by the
CITY paying four times too much for it
Now, understand me, am not saying that
Mayor Mcclellan was a knowing party TO
thls or that he was guilty OF any wrong
or moral turpitude whatever; / make no
sGch accusation against him.
But this Is not all. 4. Bayard Cutting
also owned the land on either side of this
was a private bargain between the city
omclaiS and himself. It was assessed at
= cents a square foot, the total assess
ment being SI,07S.000 How much do YOU
think the city paid Cutting for it-and ]
nave ms deed and everything to show it?
Four million four hundred and sixty-fye
thousand dollars-over four times the
amount on the assessors books!
BuI X, Fulton Cutting says, "Oh, yes
Dut L oldn do that'-thiS man who is al
thes head Of the Citizens Union-''my wick
cd brother did It: I did not do it, II is
q convenient thing TO have a wicked
Unless, it is fact that Lawson Purdy,
az tne head of the Tax Department al
IoMeo o that property to be undervalued
Iop notch and the property of poor people
al aIl over the city, the property Of these
he3Ple was valued down to one mill. But
& - - n0C So. The probabilities are that It
was valued at its true value by the asses
sors, and that its excess was lamentably
given by the city officials. inadvertently OF
oy persuasion, by the persuasion of such
Iuly good men as r. Fulton Cutting and
r., =, Bayard Cutting, the great reformers
g6ind hi1M tps VINO yeIl stop Thief" at every
ser UP a bureau of municipal research
mere and finance tt-a bureau making a
great noise about IS too much having been
paid for a ton of straw over in Long Isl
ana CITY, but not one syllable abourst this
thlng that am telling you of.
on, no. Nor one syllable about a fradu.
tent contract In the building of a bridge OIL
IN the building Of a subway. Oh no, not
a woTq about that. They are right into
that right up to their armpits. and they
did not expose anything of that sort But
they holler stop Theft"
Nj Gaynor wound up by declaring thai
people concerned in subway contracts hated
him. and that he was glad to have theil
hate. He would be uncomfortable If people
Ike that SUPPORTED him for Mayor, he said
for he wouldn't want them to come creep
ing about hian and tempting him. If they
did he would show them the door. Then
there was applause and other candidates
told the gathering about themselves and
what they would do If elected.