New-York tribune., 1916-05-05
p. S. Investigator Would
Force UnruIy Witnesses
to Answer Questions.
MOSS TO CONFER
WITH PROSECUTOR
Colonel Williams's and T. A.
Gillespie's Stubbornness on
Stand Complained or.

Counsel for the Thompson legisla-
tive committee appealed TO District
Attorney Swami yesterday TO start
grand Jury proceedings against several
recalcitrant witnesses who have elther
refused 10 answer certain questions or
failed to produce books and records
wanted by the Public Service invest-
gators. Colonel Timothy Williams
president Of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company. and 7. II. Gillespie OF
the T. A. Gillespie Contracting Com
panv. were said TO be among the Wit
nesses complained Of TO the District
Attorney.
Frank Moss conferred with the DIS
trict Attorney after yesterdays hear
ing. Mr. Swami said afterward that
they had not reached any decision IN
the matter, and hat Mr.. Moss would
confer with him again next week Mr.
Gillespie probably will be recalled by
the committee Tuesday and any action
contemplated in his case may depend
on his attitude at that time
Mclean on Stand Again.
Duncan Mclean. the subway CON
tractor. continued his testimony dur
irg most OF the sessions yesterday ana
made further charges that wastefulness
and extravagance characterized the let
ting Of the contracts for the new sub
ways. The witness accused Alfred
Craven. chief engineer Of the Public
Service Commission. of preferential
awards on the Lexington Avenue sub
vay contracts. Referring to the tunnel
contract on the Lexington Avenue
route. he said:
Between the fling Of plans and the
letting of the work learned that Will
son s. Kinnear was appointed president
Of the realty company which had -
per cent interest in the contract for the
tunnel Then ! found out that William
F. Havemeyer. father-in-law of William
r. Wilcox, then chairman OF the Pub
lie Service Comm ssion. was one Of the
three persons financing the realty COM
pany. and at the time the contract was
awarded Mr.. Havemeyer was living in
the same house with Mr. Wilcox.
began TO realize that they were not en-
Mr. Mclean criticised the construc-
ton Of the tunnel under the Harlem
River, through which thousands Of per
sons travel each day 10 and from The
Bronx. He said that the iron rods
holding the subway tubes in position
would rust out under the disIntegratne
influences Of salt water and sewage.
Offered 10 Build ? Tunnels.
The witness testified that he had Of
fered 10 build two tunnels, one between
tho BATTERY and Clark Street. Brooklyn,
and the other between the Battery and
Montague street. Brooklyn. for S6OOO,-
600. These tunnels he was told will
cost between $l2,O00.0OO and $4,000
600.
~ told the Public Service Commits
sion people" said Mclean. that !
would build tho tunnels TO BROOKLYN
and one 10 Staten Island thrown IN for
a fiat sl2,0OO,o00'
Several inspectors OF the Public
Service Commission were called and
examined as 10 the method of keeping
cement used iu the subway corstruc-
ton John Shea. tinokecpcr for Flynn
4 O'Rourkc, the contractors who are
building the q. Il. r. tunnel from near
south Ferry 20 Brooklyn. was exam
ined by Chairman Thompson IN regard
TO the hours the men worked. he
admitted that some Of the men con-
tinued through one ciChthour shut 70
another. which Chairpan Thompson
contended was in violation Of the state