The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-12

you made the payment it was for the benefit of the Republican organization here? ?''
 Yes I thought that might be it, said the witness.
 The Mayor Called When Mayor James McEwan fol- lowed later on the witness stand MT Osborne asked him if he was mem Der of the Lincoln League. The Mayor replied with an indulgent smile that he was not MT. Osborne did not press the question any fur ther.
 Mayor McEwan, when member of the Senate in 1906, introduced and pressed to final passage the bill which conferred on the land board authority to transfer to the City of Albany the States interest in the southern end of the Albany basin, which figured so largely in the pro- ceedings before the Senate Commit tee yesterday. This bill also contain
 ed a provision giving the city au- thorities the right to transfer the lands under water out to the bulk
 head line arbitrarily established by City Engineer Melius to the riparian owners. MT. McBwan, since he be- came Mayor-in message sent to
  year-recommended that the lands be deeded without compensation to these owners-the Delaware & Hud- son Railroad and 4he New York Gen. tral-for freight terminal purposes. Did you consider that in. giving away the basin to the railroads you were deeding away all the available dock facilities in Albany not already occupied 2, asked Mr. Osborne. Mayor McEwan replied that it was part of the plan that the railroads,
 after making their improvements, ! the city. He was forced to admit that there was no record anywhere of any such understanding. .I ask you nows' said MT. Osborne, if it was not part of the plan when the basin was filled up to force the
 as to protect the railroad companies from annoying competition?"
 Such thing never entered my
 head' said Mayor McEwan. The Mayor next testified that he was President and owner of 26O and that a majority of the remaining i 500 shares were owned in his fam | fly. He also testified that intimate business relations existed between the coal company and the Delaware & Hudson Company, which would profit so greatly if the plan he recommend- ed to the Common Council should be- l.come effective When asked to be
 more specific in telling of the busi- ness relations between the coal con-
 cern and the railroad company May or McEwan protested on the ground
 that this was his private business. Private And Public Business.
 "Your private business in this case unfortunately comes near being pub lie business. and that is the reason ask" retorted MT. Osborne. In reply to other questions Mayor
 Mel Evan said that his coal company
 was supplying coal to the AImshouse, ties he had appointed was taking the
 coal without public bidding. This is contrary to all charter provisions | governing the affairs of second -class
 cities, but in this instance the city authorities take refuge behind the fact that. while all the moneys are paid out of the City Treasury, the Almshouse being county institution, the city is partly reimbursed by the county.
 baccO sent to the Almshouse was be- ing supplied by tobacco concern In
 which the Mayor is financially inter ested
 Mayor McEwan testified that he was the owner of some bonds and
 
 pany He had received from his
 brother, who since has died bequeath- ing to the Mayor large fortune.
 The cement company it has been
 shown by testimony earlier, supplied cement to contractors employed on the city's water front, where no ac- ton had been taken against them,
 though it had run 33O days over the time when under the contract. it should have been completed. @'You are also a Director of the
 Municipal Gas Company" asked MT. Osborne.
 | The witness said he was. ."This company supplies all the gas and electric light to the city and you
 are the member of the City Board of Contract and Supply which makes the lighting contracts for the city ?' This question Mayor McEwan also answered in the affirmative, but he explained. that he had not since he
 became Mayor attended the Dlrec- tors meetings of the lighting cor among the other Directors in the company are Commissioner of Pub lie Safety Cantine and State Super intendent of Public Buildings Bowne the latter a Democrat. Vice conditions in Albany were al- so taken up. In approac---. .-4e = ject Attorney Osborne said: .I think I can show that Albany
 has been practically wide open city for a great number of years, and that this condition of affairs has existed flagrantly and openly and with the knowledge and consent of those whose duty it is under the law to suppress il"
 Rev. Herbert Tinsley, a former field agent for the state anti-saloon league testified that he went to vari-
 ous places in the red light district
 of the city.
 As MT. .Tinsley enumerated the va
 rious resort MT. Osborne put in evi- dence the number of voters register
 ed from each place, contending he would prove that the official registry list showed a ratio of ten Repabli- cans to one Democrat
 ssVNhat differancp s5oos ;t ~.olx1