The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-19
WARRENITE SCANDAL
 REVEALED IN REPORTS

Richards of Atlantic, there was read into the record the opinion of Su-- preme Court Justice Garrison, in an action setting aside Bitulfth6c con tracts amounting to over six IBtndred thousand dollars granted by Atlantic City authorities in favor of the Unit ed Paving Company, which. like the Standard Bitulithic Company, was a subsidiary of the Warren Brothers to seemed to the committee to be practically identical with those exist ing in Essex. County. Judge Garrison said:
 From the testimony laid be-
 fore us we find that the United
 Paving Co. to which the con-
 tracts to lay Bitulfthfc pavements
 were awarded, had a secret ar = rangement with Warren Broth
 CTS, the proprietors of that pat
 ented; article, which gave, and
 was intended to give to the Unit 2 ed Paving Company a contro1I-
 ing advantage over all the oth-
 CT bidders, provided the propo-4
 sals were so framed that the ad-
 vantages accruing from such ar
 engagements were made available
 for the securing of the award of
 the contracts. We find that the
 proposals were SO framed, and
 that certain officials of the city
 were interested in having the pro-
 posals so framed, and in having
 the contracts so awarded.''
 City Engineer Morris Sherrered of Newark in his own defense and that of the board of street and water com aissi oners which had made all the Bitulithic contracts, declared that the patented pavement was never laid on any street unless ffty-one-5 per cent. -L- toned for it. He admitted, however that these petitions were secured by solicitors employed by the pavement people. He declared it to be pretty nearly a, practical iInpossibility.' ' without infringing the warren Broth CTS patents, to construct a bituminous concrete mixture that would be as good as BituIithic. They had prepar- ed an advertisement once for propos- als under an open specification. but after a conferences with the board o1 works and City Counsel N51gent, he had inserted a provdso that the sue cessful contractor must give bond to protect the city against any infringe ment litigation that might be brought by the Warren Brothers There were no bids, and he admitted that. per- haps, the proviso suggesting an un- known liability to the Contractor, had
 
 that was done toward securing com petition with Bitulathic pavement Light was thrown on Engineer Sher- rered's confession of inability to draw specialization for a satisfactory un- patented bituminous pavement ir competition with Bitunthic, by the testimony of other witnesses showlns that the Standard Bituithic Conpan5 had laid many miles of the inpatient. ed article in New York and had guar anteed the stability of the pavemen for i've years The New York pric, was about twenty per cent less thar the price of BftuIitf1ic in Newark.
 Another yEarTenite s.Joyride.',
 County Engineer Fox of A1iddlese- county testified to having laid a bitu minous concrete pavement on ope1 specthcation on a state=aid contra.c dn the Borough of Roosevelt, for sixty county had recently received bids fo; a Warrenite road from Highland Parl to Metuehen at $1.33 per square yard He had recommended the patented type, after MT. Turner, an officer O the Warren Company, had taken hin and some of the freehoIders on al inspection trip to Essex county an, elsewhere.
 Because of the illness of the presi
  pany the committee was unable t take his testimony. but subpoenae. James K Ho1Ifngshead of Hast Or ange, the treasurer of the company, t, whom questions were addressed witl the design of ascertaining the trutl with regard to the relations between the Warren Brothers Company an, the Standard Bitulithic Company. Tn committee was in possession of an af fdavit made by Ralph W. Turner the managing vice-president of tn 1 Warren Company, stating that neith CT he nor the Warren Company ha, l pany. From MT. Hollinghead i was ascertained that the divorce o l the Warren Brothers Company an, MT. Turner from the Standard Btu hthic Company must have been re I cent
 Warren Firm on Notes.
 The committee is informed that tn attorneys named by MT. Hollings head are the attorneys for the War ren Brothers Company. MT. Holings head testified that his company ha occasion to borrow $50,OO0 last yea l in Newark and they got it from tn Federal Trust Company, upon the en f dorsement of the Warren Brother Company. They had previousl 1 borrowed money in Newark, repeat edly, upon the endorsement of tn Warren Brothers Company.
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