New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-20
fOSD|CK ACCUSES DOO[|NG
Says He Risked Fire in Election
Materials on Storage
CHANGED TO HIGHER Rem Al
May Be Punished for oonteinP'
in Refusing to Answer oues-
tions About His once

RAYMOND p Fosdick Cornmiss'0',, -
Accounts In a special report 10
Gavnor YESTERDAY. called attenuor ~
pecuhar transaction In which John j.
ing figI~ed when he was president
Board Of Elections According 10 NV
port the board on April J.. 1892 TOOK ~.
wear lease. ar 8. 500 a wear. on the pret'''
Al No 1891 Second avenue IN "hio"
store election materials They Were
from a storage warehouse which was
proof where the rental was only 80
wear. whereas the Second avenue Oui'u'''7
has no IRE protection. 1t is alleged
The rerort asserts that Mr.. Doolns al'eu
as attorney In one of the transfers vi
lease JUST prior 10 the time 1t was 'aNe"
by the BOARD ~ Elections.
when Nr Doolng was placed on ~
stand by Commissioner Fosdick ne sala '"S
election materials had been moved DecaN'
the managers Of the storage warehouse AaU
refused n continue their lease Wllh 'i''
CITY. This statement. Commissioner f''
dick said in the report, was fatty coH''a
dicted by the president OF the company anu
by the correspondence
Mr.. Dooline refused 70 say whether M
had acted as an attorney IN one OF '"e
transfers and declined TO answer al otnri
an, stions as 10 hrs relations with the prom
iscs Commissioner Fosdick referred TINS 20
the CORPORATION Counsel and said he had
been Informed thar an application would De
r.ado TO the Supreme Court for an oId7. 10
show cause why bir. D0oling should no' 80
punished for contempt OF court
re says in his report.
Whatever may have been Mr. Dooins
relation 10 the transaction. surllclslIl ~.
dAuce is ar hand 10 indicate deuperatrll
conceived plan 10 saddle the city WIZ O.
excessive rental for an undesirable ahu w
safe building The material now stored ul
No 1871 Second avenue Is sufnclent 70 eq-lp
four hundred polling places us dSsu NC. -
tion by FIRE would seriously cllpp7 d. =
election machnery Of the CITY, IN lact. D.
DESTROYED ar q time when replacement Vas
impossible q per cent or me lp-!H1 -
stion would % practically disrrancnl9eo-
Commissioner Fosdick suggested that i'm
mediate steps be taken 70 remove the ma
terials valued ~ $4,000 from the building
and that an effort he made 10 break the
lease
The report IN tracing the ownership ~
the lease. asserted that IL was given 10
man named Strauss IN 1901 for 800 year
for the first ton years and $3.50 a wear Tor
the second ten wears CARRYING with IT. me
ownership OF the building. Tn Novemoer
NJ the same wear Strauss transferred MS
interest m the lease 70 John ". Wood FOR
$1,000 ON January IS. 1909 Wood sold MS
interest I'm the lease. through Doohns as
strornev. 10 Charles T. OSuihvan O'sulh-
van said the rotal payment approximateo
s2.5OD A month later he sublet the build
inz 70 John T. OConnor for 5000 2 year
and in April OF the same wear OConnor
leased IL 20 IN. Board Of Elections.
O'Connor. who IL employed by an under
taker. said he was interested with O'Sulli-
van in the lease. and they had secured II
for stable purposes. thinking that mar
ket was 10 he established under the Queens
horo Bridge near by