New-York tribune., 1921-10-25
Curran CHARGES
I,OOO% Graft i'm
Hylan Pier Rule
Ship Owners Forced 10 See
Observation-Disclosures
S1,799,Ol8 Since Getting
Grip ON Renting, He Says
City's Fee Only Nominal
But Firm Headed by Ex-Bar-
tender Charges $500 a
DAY, According to Record


henry II. Curran. Republican -coali-
tlon candidate for Mayor, speaking in
Long Is and City, Elmhurst, Jamaica and
brooklyn last night, turned his attention
TO the docks, the open city-owned piers.
which, he charged, have been so han
died under the Hylan administration as
TO put hundreds of thousands of dol
lars IN the pockets of Tammany ia
vorltes. One firm, Sabba.ino & Co..
has been able in three years to deposit
S1,779,01S in Brooklyn banks, appar-
entity the proceeds from the rentals of
piers over and above the n minal sums
paid the city for the pier space, Mr..
Curran charged.
Mr.. Curran invaded Mayor Hylan's
immediate neighborhood in Brooklyn,
making four speeches in that vicinity.
and in all these appearances was
vociferously welcomed. He spoke at
the Unity Republican Club, Bushwick
and Gates avenues; the goth Assembly
District Republican Club, 62 Woodbine
Street; the Bushwick Republican Club,
Republican Club, 637 Knickerbocker
Avenue.
The coalition candidate, in his ad-
dress at Heltinger's Hall, Seventh Ave
nue. and Broadway, Long Island City,
introduced the subject Of docks as an
other example of the Hylan broken
promises. Promising in the 1917 cam
paign that his fight was "to take from
the hands of monopoly control Of our
public utilities and administer them
for the profit of all the people" Mayor
this respect, Mr. Curran declared, not
only to the discredit of himself, but
OF his whole administration.
Dummies" Enriched, He Charges
"The docks are one of the first of
our public utilities" said Mr.. Curran.
"They have been in Mr.. Hylan's hands
during the greatest boom of all time
in the shipping industry. What has
been Mr.. Hylan's course and constant
policy? will introduce you to two
budding millionaire dummies sprung
from Mr.. Hylan's administration of the
docks. not for the profit of all the peo-
pie, but fer the pockets of favored in
dividua,s."
The speaker traced the career of
Salvatore Sabbatino, of Brooklyn, from
bartender to moving picture proprietor,
to partnership with Frank }. Hoey,
youth who did odd clerking Jobs
along the waterfront under the name
, of Sabbatino & Co. This firm got grip
on the open piers, the piers not rented
permanent y by the city, but held for
the use of fiuctuating shipping, accord
ing to Mr.. Curran, and shippers had
"to see them" instead of going to the
Dock Department for wharfage In
stead of the city's nominal charges, the
speaker concluded, they were compelled
to hand over to Sabbatino & Co. sums
exceeding the city's rates by $50 to 500
per cent, and in some instances as
high as 1000 per cent.
"You all know how Mr.. Hylan rolls
his tongue around his old favorites-
the special interests" said the can
didate. "Who are his special interests
now? Hoeys& Sabbatino? Or the men
they split with? Who is going to get
the s1,779,000? Who gets the money ??
Tourists Lost in Flatbush
Mr.. Curran and his escort gotlost in
Flatbush After leaving Queens he
was to have delivered an address at the
Church of the Evange', Bedford Ave.
nue. and Hawthorne Street, Brooklyn
When the party halted at Bedford Ave.
nuc and Lincoln Road they saw that
they were at church but discovered
it was not the church they were seek.
ing. They reached another darkened
fCoutinted on uaue fcur)