New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-16
So IN NINE MONTHS
HIS CRAFT ON CITY
Municipal Lodging House
Chef, Waving Immunity,
Bares Sandwich Plot.
GOT DIMES ILLEGALLY
FOR FEEDING BOATMEN
Another Consplrator Took Whole
Orange-Magistrate Suggests
Better Pay for Men.

The self-confessed head OF the graft
ring among the employees OF the Munich
nal Lodging House waived his rights TO Inn
munlty yesterday and told on the witness
stand before Magistrate McAdoo OF his
prowess He even displayed wad Of
bills, saved from nino months OF grating.
There were just eight 81 bills.
At tho conclusion OF yesterdays hearing
Magistrate McAdoo decided that the
whole affair was a matter for investiga-
ton by the Commissioners Of Accounts
rather than subject for judicial inquiry.
Yesterdays star witness was night
chef In the lodging house. He works
twelve hours n day. cooks for from 600 20
1900 persons and gets from the city his
board and lodging
He was tractable. He realized that his
predlcament was serious one. The terri
flying formalty OF waving immunity was
enough to persuade him OF that. After
the meaning OF the phrase had been eX-
planned TO him IN the simplest language
he wasn't quite sure what 1t all meant,
but no was sure he wanted to help the
city which was giving him his board and
lodging in return for twelve hours day
OF his time.
lie was accused OF selling sandwiches,
the same being the property OF the city
Of New York, TO men on the department
boat Thomas w. Brennan. The chef, who
is lame. explained that he hadn't really
sold" the sandwiches. though he was ac-
customed to give a sandwich now and
then to one OF the bo9tmen who dropped
In TO see him At the end Of the week he
got 10 or Is cents for his kindness and
sometimes a bag Of tobacco was thrown
in. The tobacco he rad smoked, but every
cent of the money he had thus accumu-
lated in the last rine months he had with
him.
II got IL right here" he said, not With
out pride. Il don't drink and ! don't
bum, and / saved every cent
He displayed the roll Of frayed dollar
bills.
Although this plutocrat was regarded
as the head and front Of the grafters
there were others. The evidence showed
that potato peelers and other kitchen EN-
ployes put aside the skillet grease Tor
three or four weeks at a time, and then
sold It for their own advantage instead
Of sending il TO Blackwel's Island. with
a pitiful memory for details, each told
the exact sum received for each batch OF
grease. and how II was split up among
tho three or four who participated in the
sale. The prices ranged from 81 10 to
g 6s.
r.. Md nronto,az qoroo ~ whom re-
celve as much as $40 month, we're not
immune from the contagion. 1t was
shown that they sometimes purloined
either to sell or take to their families,
as many as half a dozen mutton chops
left over from the nights meal and one
brazerly admitted taking a dozen eggs.
There was some evidence 10 show that on
one occasion q relative OF Superintendent
Yorke had been seen carrying whole
orange away from the building.
The unwritten law of the 'fumigators'
IS that so far as money concealed in gar
ments given into their care is concerned
findings IS hayings.'
in a statement given out yesterday,
Magistrate McAdoo says: Among other
things presenting themselves to the city
authorities, Il would seem TO me that IL
might be pertinenty asked whether the
aggregate sum of these small, but con-
tinuous, offerings and vastage would
not help to pay for efficient employees
with a reasonable living wage. instead of
the city spongng on these poor and help
less men"
Magistrate McAdoo said that Mr.. DE
Ford wished il understood that the in
qulry was not instituted by the District
Attorney