Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-28
HIGHWAYS CHIEF
DENIES CHARGES
Governor Glynn of New York
Gives Out Carlisle Answer
and Accusations.

Albany, n. Y. Nov. 2S.-The charges
filed against State Highway Commits.
sioner John n. Carlisle by the Warner
Qufnlan Asphalt company and his
answer thereto were made public last
night by Governor Glynn.
Carlisle's accusers averred he dis
criminated against them in laying
down specifications for asphalt to be
used on state highways in order to
favor the Barber Asphalt Paving com
pany. held secret meetings with agents
of the company for the purpose Of con-
spring against other asphalt manu-
facturers, wasted thousands of dollars
in employing incompetent engineers
as road experts, and threw the high
way department into a state of chaos.
The commissioners reply was a gen.
eral denial of the accusations. They
were inspired, he said, by chagrined
manufacturers who had failed in an
effort to foist on his department justs
a good asphalt for that designated in
the specifications.
The name of John A. Hennessy, for
merly a special investigator in ths
highway department, appeared uneX-
pectedly in the formal charges. To
irfrr- rr-wrs-sssf1bured the sending OF a
telegram to highway contractors last
July 5, notifying them that they must
use Barber asphalt.
This telegram was alleged to have
followed a meeting in Cooperstown
between Governor Sulzer, Carlisle
George Mcclure, an agent for the
Barber company, and others. Com
munication was had by telephone
from Cooperstown with Hennessy in
the highway department here, it was
alleged, and the sending of the tele-
gram followed.
The message is said to have been
signed Roy X. Fuller" by Hennessy.
Fuller is secretary to the highway de-
partment and he previously has denied
ever having sent the message.
Allegation further was made that
two days after Hennessy was appoint
ed on June 16. 1913. he was called
into conference with James K. Nc
Guire, an agent for and a stockholder
in the Barber company, Carlisle and
others and informed that only Barber
asphalt would meet state highway re-
Both Hennessy and Sulzer, continu- !
ed the charges, received money from
the McGuires, some of which, If not !
the entire amount thereof, was furn- I
ished by the Barber Asphalt Paving /
company.
When Hennessy was apprised of his /
alleged connection with the asphalt /
deals, he said that the accusation
ought to be investigated Immediately .
by a grand jury
Members of Carlisle's board Of ad-
visory engineers, Harold Parker,
George C. Diehl, and William De Hart
burn Washington, also were accused F,
Of participating in asphalt conferences
with the McGuires and Carlisle.
In this connection it was further
said that Washington was given his
position by Governor Sulzer on the
of Mcclure. and Diehl
and Parker were recommended by
wo contractors interested in state
highway work Parker was alleged to
De a stockliolder in the Hassam Com
pressed Concrete Paving company to
which the state has paid royalties FOR
he use of the paving process.
These engineers received $50 day ,
md expenses for their services from ;
as Nav until recently. Parker and ,
)iehI resigned last week, 1t being said ,
heir work was finished.