The evening world., 1909-02-03
More Arrests Ordered After
District Attorney Hears
Details of Looting.
MEMS PAY HELD BACK.
Books Tied Up by Looting Dis
cloSureS-7SO Workers
Must Wait.

David Jacobs, confessed CRATER o
snow removal tickets, made further adj
missions late this afternoon to Distric,
Attorney Jerome and Street Cleanin,
Commissioner Edwards He outline,
with detail and names the system o
looting the city treasury BY persons Il
the snow removal business Men prom
inent in Tammany Hall and the con
tracing business were mentioned.
As result Commissioner Edward!
said two more arrests were ORDERED
from the ranks OF Street-Cleaning De
partment employees.
Millions have been staten from IN,
city in the last fifteen years by tn,
snow removal graft" said Jacobs. whc
has been in the business for as many
years.
/ He declared that in every district OF
the eleven in Manhattan bogus snow
tickets were for sale, except in one, the
Seventh District.
Their Pay Tied Up.
Because the discovery of wholesal IL
snow grating has tied up the books In
the Street Cleaning Department, nearly
eight hundred ragged, hungry, bread
liners and clearinghouse dwelIers,
through no fault OF their own, must
walt until a 10, Of official red tape Is un-
reeled before they get the few dollars
they have already earned shovelling the
town clear OF the accumulated frozen
sush of many winter storms.
When these men, $50 OF them, to be
exact, came 10 City Stable A. al the
foot OF East Seventeenth street. this
morning to draw the money they had
earned during the week ending Jan. y
lay, perhaps OF hours. This wait they
endured with patience that was COM
mendable in a lot Of ill-clad, Ill-shod,
hungry men shivering in a nipping wind
that blew in from the river. Only one
Of them dared 10 make an open protest,
and him a policeman rebuked by kick
ing violently, The others huddled to-
gether for warmth and comfort, and
were silent.
Meanwhile Deputy Street Commission
er Hogan got his chief, Big BIZ Ed
wards, the new head OF the department,
who uneGrthed the graft.
Then Came Riot
Mr.. Edwards telephoned to Police
Headquarters, and when Commissioner
Bingham understood the emergency he
sent down two patrol wagons contain
ing the foremen who were locked up In
last nights raid, But when the pris-
oners arrived under guard of many po-
than before. for they didn't have the
books which had been seized and from
which the pay OF the men must he fig
ured Then somebody discovered that
tho accounts We're in the custody OF tho
District Attorneys office and wouldn't
be available before tomorrow.
When the shOvellers learned this they
made row, naturally The police called
II a riot and hustled them out Of the
stable and, with the aid OF nigatsticks
chased them. cursing and groanng, into
the side streets, The women OF the ten.
ements readily championed the cause
Of the ragged legion from their fire.
escapes and window lodges. and 80 the
police made a house-to-house canvass.
warning all such offenders to stay in
doors and hold their tongues. It was an
hour before the neighborhood quIeted
Gown.
II has been expected that District.At-
torney jerome would take the scandal
to the Grand Jury this afternoon in the
hopes OF obtaining speedy indictments
and II possible. OF smoking out the Man
Higher Up in the snow graft-a political
power according to report. But he de-
clled at the last minute to postpone the
Grand Jury inquiry until after the police
court hearings tomorrow when, II pres
snt promises are carried out, the mum
her OF suspected street cleaners and city
employees Onuel arrest VIII De increased
from nine TO somthing like hundred.
Before Grand Jury.
T. Leonard Mclean and Daniel DAILY,
composing che OF the firms having snow
contracts. were served with subpoenas
to appear before the Grand Jury, as
was their general superintendent,
George Atwell. Atwell declared that n
comparison Of books would show that
the company had received far smaller
price for handling snow than the Brad
ley company, Of Tammany Leader
Charles Murphy, used to get for the
same territory, and that his vouchers
would compare fayorably with the bills
o.! the A o Brown Company, another
big snow handling concern, which is
supposed to enjoy friendly relations
with the Sullvans
To an Evening World reporter Percy
Nagie. Tammany leader In the Thlrtieth
Assembly District, said
Il am interested In the firm Of DAILY