The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-13
HAYWOOD GRILLED
BY B. R. T. ORDERS
Company Gets Chance to Turn
Tables on Service Boards
Chief InquisitOrs.
COMMISSIONS RULES HIT

William Hayward, grillmaster in the
recent investigation Of the Public Ser
vice Commission. found out yesterday
what 1t means to sit in n witness chair
himself and he prodded by inquisltive
and exactlng lawyers. For two hours
and a half attorneys for the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company raked him with
all manner Of questions. many of them
intended 20 impugn his credihilitv.
As a Public Service Commissioned
Mr.. Hayward liz trying to establish Il
guilt IL personal" precedent against
officers or agents OF railroad corpora
tions who disobey the commission
orders. lie In attempting TO have John
j. Dempsey. the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company's superintendent of trans
pottation. prosecuted criminally for al
legged failure to stop express trains of
the Bay Ridge elevated line at Third
street.
1t was rs chief witness against Mr..
Dempsey that he faced the fire OF h. II.
T. attorneys yesterday at a hearing be-
fore Magistrate podd In the New Jersey
venue police court. Near the end of
the ordeal the Magistrate suggested
that perhaps the strain was getting
on the Colonel's nerves.
NO, | am quite fresh and should like
to 10 ahead" chlrped the witness.
Here is a sample OF the way in which
ID. A.. Marsh. lawyer for the Il. X. T.,
went after Mr.. Hayward: There was a
ss,t.s :. ~ 80
,.,,h ~ aor,uts.rer 'Nh'
Don't you know the statute requires
it, MIR. Marsh asked.
ut may be in the law I won't swear
that IL is not. / don't pretend to be an
'N'e'' y" '"S
~
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Mr.. Marsh flashed back, you rec
commended the remoyal of one of the
Commissioners because he didn't under
stand the law, didn't you7'
Col. HAYWARD looked sheepish. As
sistant District Attorney Conway. the
prosecuting LAWYER. rescued him he OH
iecting To the question and the Naris-
trate sustained him.
TIE defence set out TO establish ,ha.
was ,gror,n, OF m,ry ex,enno,irc fac,s
In relation to Al. Dempsey and was
moved partly by malice. II maintained
that Mr.. dempsey was not responsible
ior the VOCATION and that the rider FOR
Ihird street stops was ~ahrogated hv
the commission Itself by virtue Of three
years non-enforcement II got tn
coionei TO admit mat he old Dempsel
before me complaint was made mat Il
he were a railroad man he probably
would have acted Just as Dempsey had
done.
Inc Importance OF the case, ms viewed
by the transit company. was attesiea
by the presence of President Timothy
5. Williams, Vice-Pres'dent :. w. Hun,
Counsel George u. feomans, d. A.
Marsh. NJ. +. Hoffman and Secretary
II. \. Bullock. Secretary Travis n.
Whitney of the commission WAS In Nj.
Hayward's corner.
Mr.. Hayward insisted that he had
started the suit because OF n report
from Joseph johnson, chief Of the tran
sit bureau, that the Bay Ridge train
or3er was being violated and that the
commission should act accordingly"
Mr.. Hayward said that when Mr..
Dempsey called on him the latter ad-
mitted that he alone was responsible for
the violation.
Didn't Dub Com missiOners FOgies.
"D,d ,o,, roll bim" ,ursu.d NJ
Norsh IN, Ill ,ha a,hor .m,issinn
ars uc ! brrch ~, oId fngies ana
f,ssls AND had hean string nouns FOR
s.yor years ana no, dnIry ,,v,hIryo
81 ala rot
.ni5 ,o, ,a,, b,,, thu, On Nor can,
n, Tho conmiss,on's orders shou,d he
ahroga,edo"
~ ala M, 7 had alre,dv supqe.,ed
~ tho commission Thai oIl orders mar
could not no enforced should no s,rnck
,ut"
mid Won cav IN n rewsnane- man
,os, S,iurday We arc Going to min
rorpet-me-nots ON the railroad officials
ord MAKE ,ber, really. rhev ha ye mo-,
oheyoJ our ordersa"
Mr. UavwarI prinned and renlied .
"I mink said we were goiug 10 try
n 7 mink l made no such pronhecy
~ success. ss Won refer TO"