The New York herald., 1921-10-14

Mr.. Derondi Is the only man who knows
| about the transaction with Mclaughlin,
in your company"
..Yes. SIR"
HAS Mclaughlin an Office hereT'
mot to my knowledge"
II want to say in reference to Nc
Laughlin that endeavors have been
made to locate and subpoena him; II is
a long story. the hunt for him Is and
where and how the subpoena servers
have hunted. but he Is not obtainable."
Mr.. Brown said.
How the pier situation is inJuring this
port was shown by the testimony OF
Mr.. Cauchois of the French Line. That
company has pier ST and lease on pier
Is. Staten Island, and temporary ac-
commodations at pier s4 He said:
Il have not been able to get the piers
I need. / need two more right now.
We need a passenger pier In New York.
trying to get 1t. / have been advised
there was no pier available"
ships Diverted to other Ports.
Have you notified the Dock Depart
ment that you had to divert your
steamers to other ports because of this
'I have, since 1918. Also, we have
to hold steamers down the bay and let
them take the place of others going out
We will have to suppress that"
Part of your ships are freight?' Mr.
Brown asked
Most Of them were, but outside of
our particular passenger lines I have
turned them elsewhere. 1 cannot get
the accommodation here, and they have
been moved to Philadelphia and Bos-
ton"
MANY Of your freight ships have
gone to Philadelphia and Boston?"
Eyes, sir, since the war"
Where you can get accommoda-
tions7"
YES. I have asked for two piers of
the city of New York, have asked for
them for two years, and If could get
them / would put the freight business
here. Now we only run our passenger
lines here. and we send our freight ships
down to Philadelphia, where they load
and discharge"
"You told me you would like one or
two more piers: which was it?S
IT would like one pier right away for
passenger business on Manhattan ISL
and"
would that enable you to bring your
freight ships back to New York;"
mo, that Is to replace Pier S4."
THAT would not enable you to bring
back the ships you have taken to Phila-
delphia and Boston,
mo. I am running ten or twelve pas
senger steamers a month, operating be-
tween two piers. and after the first OF
the month / expect to have to operate
them from one pier, which I will not
Go. ] don't know what will do for
passenger ships"
when the terminals are completed at
Staten Island, would that provide an
opportunity i
"For my freight ships, but not pas
senger ships"
ut is part of the plan of the Com
missioner of Docks now in process Of
ccmpletionT'
Yves. 1t would relieve the congestion
greatly If we could get down to Staten
Island"
Easy to Got Piers at Boston.
Z "How many piers have you in Bos-
toni"
IT haven't any In Boston, but I get
them from the railroads as the ships
turn up there"
mo difficulty about it?"
$50 far there has been no difficulty.
ships there. not so much to Boston as to
Philadelphia"
Frank J. Hoey narrated his adven-
ture in pier leasing and subleasing since
1915, when he decided to quit clerking
and go into business for himself He
offered $4,000 for a lease on pier at
the foot Of North Second street. Brook
lyn. and got It He sublets It for
eighteen months. He went over list
OF half a dozen piers which he had
rented Mr.. Brown went over list of
the piers showing that the rentals to
other companies was as much as 5000 a
day.
Frederick G. Kimlin, investigator for
the committee. gave testimony regarding
the operations of the Hoey company
showing big profits from subleasing the
city's piers. He said:
For twelve ships In January and
February. 1920. the company paid the
city s1.961.05 and got revenue from the
shipping compani-s of s7.Sf5. but those
are only the $50. $50 and SIS class.
whereas. for the $3.50 and SITS ships
had no records to check that up. I
don't know what the Dock Department