The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-24
5cept in great emergencies.

except in great emergencies.
 During Mayor Wilson's terms of office waivers involving the purchase of automobiles, provisions for the Town Farm, motor apparatus for fire department, Dodge cars for useless city employees to ride about in, all without any competition and in most cases passing through the hands of the very Board of Contract and Sup ply which. he stated would remedy condition which he had denounced as indefensible, but to the defense of which, at the behest of his political organization, he rallied
 Possibly the purchase of automo- bile supplies from the Blue Ribbon Garage was great emergency but if so we can only state that the emergency has existed ever since May Or Wilson has been in office, and he has proven himself to be a most valuable salesman for this and other concerns who have had exclusive en- tree to the city treasury, without thought or pretense of competition.
 Mayor Wilson also said in the same message-I am absolutely opposed to the creation of offices for political
 
 ist which can be readily, without de- stroying efficiency, consolidated, will by ordinance or Charter amendments, as soon as possible, be drought to- gether. In this way much saving can be accomplished for taxpayers
 Tt is @ matter of common knowl- edge that at no time in the history of the city has it supported so many of fees, and useless commissions than at the present time. The fact of the matter is that the director of public works today has so many assistants In the way of superintendents of con- structfon, bridge engineers, etc. that he, himself. has absolutely nothing to do except look pleasant.
 "One of the most fragrant viola tfons of Charter provisions and MT. Wilson's assurances exists in the case of the Bridgeport Construction com pany. This concern received more than s10O.00O worth of work from the city of Bridgeport and yet was not even legally organized.
 '"The work was let without bids, and without any pretense at en- deavoring to have 1t done at the low est possible figure. It was supposed to be organized with a capital stock of $5,000, and yet on such a capital has done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of business for the city.
 50 far as can be ascertained it never invested 8 penny of its own money. Certainly it invested no such money in the work which it has done, the city paying the payroll and pay ing for the materials used at their actual cost, plus 10 per cent. This concern had never been in business before and never submitted a bid on any public or private work which de- nanded competition. Until recently it filed no certificate of organization and therefore was not qualified under the laws of the state of Connecticut to do business.
 ''It was composed of dummy di- rectors and dummy stockholders, and the thousands of dollars which 1t has made on contracts under this sch heme has undoubtedly passed into the hands of men who are component parts of the Republican machine, un- der whose directions Flavor Wilson acts. An investigation of this matter has been demanded through the Common Council, and although Mayor Wilson expressed himself as willing to have an investigation no report has ever been made"