New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10

sioner, said yesterday that six distinct
| charges had been preferred against Gal
| lagher for failure to punch the time
| clock while he was employed as a watch
man along the riverfront between June
- and June 16. He had also been charged
with insoIence TO an inspector. The
charges were made by the engineering
| department of the Dock Department.
Deputy Commissioner B. F. Cresson, jr.,
| conducted the investigation, and on July
Is recommended the mans dismissal.
Gallagher said at the time that he was
the victim of a plot. and said that for
a part of the time referred to he was Ill
and could not get down to the docks.
Ever since his dismissal he has been
writing to the Mayor to try to get his
Job back again. and he went down to
the Dock Department on Monday to get
the 80 cents which he had to deposit
when he took out his badge He was not
allowed to go on the dock, and he seemed
TO regard that as the greatest injustice
! of all
Wrote Often TO SchlPiath'
Besides writing to the Commissioners
! OF Accounts on various occasions to COM
plain of various dockmasters and super
| intendents, he watched the making of
! the budget to try to get his wages fixed.
| Robert B. Mcintyre, of the Bureau OF
Municipal Investigation and Statistics IN
the Finance Department, said yesterday
| he had known Gallagher we'll. The man
had come repeatedly to the office during
the Metz and Prendergast admlnlstra-
tions to give information with regard to
the workings of the Department OF
! Docks. He complained early in July
that he was not being treated fairly, as
men paid as laborers at s. 30 day were
detailed as watchmen, while he got
only s..
Controller Prendergast wrote to Com
missioner Tomkins and was informed
that fifty-siX watchmen were employed
by the department. Gallagher said that
was wrong. as many laborers were de-
tailed as watchmen and got 500
month Controller Prendergast directed
William Hervey, chief of the bureau to
investigate, and he reported that the use
of detailed watchmen was permissible
and justified.
In reply to a letter containing this IN
formation Gallagher wrote to the Con-
troller as follows:
| Dear Sir: In reply 10 your letter Of July
: $50 I will state that you have been
misinformed as to the number or Wd ,
men in the Department Of Docks ana err
doing watchmens work, some OF mem
getting So per day; others dong messenger
work-Jeremiah Cray, Pier a; 800 per
month; Mr.. Gregory, Pier A; Ihonas toI-
nelly Al these are laborers Tho .,,aa
| Hines in the Twenty-fourth street once
doing messenger work at - per Gay, thae
men in the office call him stewards ward
man. He is a young man, and should be
in a concrete gang. There are tWentE-one
dockmasters officers in the departtnleIh H.,
| laborer doing clerical work for the COCK lock
| master: they get 81 per day and they
| formerly went there on sundays to see II
the office was still there, making t3elr
| wages s21 per week | am informed that
| the Sunday visits are cut out: so thal II
| is only SIS per week now. some t,,' ot tre
| dOrkme sterS have men VINO We're SWeepefo
in me department acting as their clerks
| Your letter states that there are only 90
Watchmen getting 81 per day / oouo ~, II
| there are that many. those 40 are clVli
service men when one dies a laborer Is
PUT in his place or a sweeper they are ty
for a Mace when one OF our men died. he
was a X, OF c, was asked why | wanted
the place by Mr.. Barney. the sectry OF
the Department. ] explained to nm thaL
it would be a saving OF zoe. week, as l
could walk to the job and that my WaSeS
would then be s14 per week instead OF slS ]"
| as at present
| Mr. Manley who gets 5000 per year now
but was d pier attendant like myseit az
one time said oh put sweeper IN MAJ at
| place. / said TO him YOU had no fleht W
| put a sweeper there. he said 1t was ohiy
temporary. this temporary business Is
only a sham. some of the leInpoldr S
| Watchmen are watching 5. 6. years ana
then the will say it is only an emergency
| case Now Mr.. Comptroller every Woro Oh
| this letter is as true as the Gospel YOU
| hear on a Sunday. and | can prove IL ana
you can see the fallacy OF the statement
the have made to You. Every man on me ne
| SIS, all laborers so il is a very simple
| too see that how the trying 10 miss
| that their are only IS & IA, making 70
! Watchmen in the Department OF DOCKS
Ferries: your honor, | will bet a dollar
| The might as well tell you that the North
| Pole was in the City Hall
In postscript Gallagher said: when
Mr.. Bensel was Commissioner of Docks
and Ferries he came to the Board Of APP
| portionment for money to buy auto
mobiles for his department claiming
that the old ones were no good heard
a gentleman tell him that his depart
ment was rotten to the core. He dldht
deny il, but only smiled at the remark.
Commissioner Tomkins has not cut on
any of the rotten branches or the COCK
masters getting So a year ahd ROD
bling the city; they were hones'ef "heh
they got only Sl,500 a year. lf were
IN power / would reduce them to the old
sl,5Oo, and see how many OF them "puIa
! resign. Not one"