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percentage Of the appraised value OF
thp DroDerty mort pa ued. ia that frue2-

loan on mortgages certain moneys helc
IN trust pending litigation, | asked Clarl
Williams. the state Comptroller. wha
per cent. or the appraised value of prop
erty the City Chamberlain could loan. III
ADVISED that % per cent was the highes
that ! could go and never took mort
cages for more than ~ per cent. Of ap
praised valuation"
pon whose opinion az to the ap
praised valuation of the property offered
Tor mortgage did you act?"
The appraisals were always made b,
competent and experienced real estate
men" the Chamberlain answered
NOT AT ALLEGED pELMoNICo DINNER
When his interviewerS approached tn,
subject Of the legislative committed
investigation Hyde grew more and mor'
emphatic in his statements. A Who'll,
lot of rot had been printed about hi,
having run away to escape being made 1
witness in that Investigation. the Cham
berlain said. and his side Of the story
mightSasowell be made known now as al
any time.
in the first place. say for me. he said
that there nobody on earth that | want
TO run away from or ever did want 10
run away from and nobody that I'm
afraid of
Then he referred TO tn. story that
Assistant District Attorney Elder told the
Merritt committee that ex-senator Frank
y. Gardner had told him about dinner al
DelmOnicOs where "A sum of between
s?~.Wo and sJo,Wn was supposed 10 have
been raised TO defeat the bill against
rdcefrack gambling
Il did not attend such dinner if there
ever was one" Chamberlain hyde said
pounding our his denial with "A clenched
fist NO. and | never took part in IN.
raising of any sum to be used at Albany
to defeat any legislation against race
tracks. | have met Harry Payne Whit
uey, who is SAID to have been at that
dinner. only once in my life and that was
on special train coming down from
Albany following a public hearing on the
raCetrack bills And | was introduced
10 Canon Chase ot BROOKLYN on that
tram He was riding on It as "A guest
even though IT was called III. gamblers
train I've never met Mr. Whitney sin,.
then
Then HYDE took up seriatim the names,
of men who are said bv Elder To have been
with HYDE at that DelmOnIrO dinner
Gene Wood he did not know, James r
keene he met once, but keene never made
any proposals concerning bribery to him.
SCHUYLER Parsons he knows; Frank Hitch
cock he has met once. Dave Mitchell he
does not know
TWO MONTHS wHES THE c,MMIrrr,
p1DNT Want HIM
Il was in the city Hall every dav for
two months during the graft investiga -
ton. liyde continued. and all that tune
Judge Bruce never communicated with
me in any way nor intimated that he
wanted to call me As a witness WIS
ready and willing To take the stand If |
had been called at that tim. II they
wanted To hear from me so badly why
dldn 7 they call mo when was here instead
~ IL LOT
able Ia find me after ! had gone away,
You did not feel like volunteering H. a
witness. did YOU" the Chamberlain was
asked
NO. | was not going to rush in with
any volunteer BUSINESS becats. | had
nothing TO tell, he replied They would
have discovered that had nothing to tell
II they had put me on the stand "
Did III. fact that the power OF the COM
mlttee ended on January IA have any
relation to the time of your return?-
No | should say not | would have
stayed two weeks longer if it had not
been for the bank business
PAPERS STOLEN FROM HIS SAFE
NO. | never wrote to Gardner nor hay,
! any letters from Gardner" the Chamber
lain said in anticipation of another possible
question Then while on the sihiec
OF letters he said that he had been the
object of constant espionage since before
the last Mayoralty campaign and that
several important papers had been stolen
before he was Chamberlain and while
he was practising law,
My safe was opened and several papers
were extracted said Hyde i did not
know az the time just what papers they
were, but since then have missed from
time to time important documents and
guess those are the ones that were taken.
bAn fn
before the Mayor MAS shot | was con
stantly followed throughout my travels
by detectives and newspaper men
The surve! lance which began before
took Office aud which has been unre-
nitted since. even during my trip south
has been very irksome ! have not been
p Ile to attend any public or private funC-
ion without being spied upon took
h. trip on the houseboat az the advice
IF my doctor, who said that If for no
other reason ! should make the voyage
% get away from this dogging of nv
footsteps do not know why this shadow
ng has besa thought necessary"
Are YOU going away again in the near
'uture?" HYDE was asked
Il have no plans for the future except
% continue the faithful performance Of
my duties a. Chamberlain. as | have.
performed them in the past "
Then YOU have no idea Of resigning
your office"
Well should say not And don't
at any one kid YOU into the belief that |
nm going 10 stop being City Chamber
ain through any other process either.
NOr does 'he question of my salary trouble
n. az ali
TO SEE THE MAYOR TO-DAY
Hyd. asked # his interviewers knew
whether Mavor Gaynor was spending tn.
sunday AT ~ James or in his BROOKLYN
home He said that he would not see the
Mayor until Monday anyway. Il hop.
all thi, holer about IN. hasn't put m.
Mavor in bad" he added
When HYDE stepped from the train i'm
he Penn-ylvana Station a policeman had
10 shoulder Il way through the crowd of
and curious people who
were attracted by tho booming OF tho
f,ashlght powder, HYDE posed for his
willingly enough: then he was
rushed to the Hotel kmckerbocker in n
faxicab He said that he thought h,.
would stay there all night
The Mayor spent Sunday az 81 James
and came back to town last night. He
lid not desire to discuss Mr. Hyde'- re-
furn.
Comptroller Pr.ndergaSt had nothing
to add Yesterday to tn. lit-rat,r" of the
case
EPSTtIS'S CHARGES
The only charges standing against
HYDE We're sent TO the Mayor week ago
by Alfred Epstein, who asked for the
L'hamberlain's removal because Of his
prolonged and unreasonable absence
from the city, which II was alleged had
leoparded the Ciiy's bank deposits, and
because of alleged loans Of city money
IN mort cages in excess of 40 per cent