The New York herald., 1922-06-01
WRIT HOLDS UP NEW
COURT HOUSE BIDS
Temporary Injunction Issued
Against Hylan and Es-
innate Board.
RESOLUTION Is NULLIFIED
John J. Grace, Representing
One of Contractors, Is
Complainant.

The $4,000, 900 Court House for New
York county. which had its inception
more than nineteen years ago. and in
the last four years has been nursed by
Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig for
its possibility as a memorial to the
Hylan administration. ran afoul OF the
machinery of the law itself yesterday in
the shape Of temporary injunction.
This action. the second of its kind
against the administration within a
week-the first being temporary re-
straint against the Sixty-fifth street bus
line-was granted by Justice John M.
Tierney in taxpayers suit instituted by
John ]. Grace, secretary treasurer and
director of the firm of Hermann q
Grace Company. Inc. sheet metal work
ers, Of 673 Bergen street, Brooklyn
The Mayor and members of the Board
of Estimate are restrained temporarily
from carrying out or attempting 10
carry out a resolution adopted at
board meeting April 2S. which provided
for re-letting contracts for work on
the superstructure of the proposed S2o,-
100000 building. Specifically it enjoins
the Mayor and his associates from ANY
wise re-letting work covered by the
contract of the Bethlehem Steel Bridge
Corporation and the Hermann & Grace
Co., Inc
The bids of these companies were
among five, aggregating S6.000,00o, that
were annulled in October, 1870, as q
result of disclosures concerning the lime
stone contract made before the LOCK-
wood Committee and subsequent IN
vestigation undertaken by David Hirsh-
- ffyfG
Bethlehem Company's contract for the
steel framework of the building amount
ed to $1,277.000. To Hermann & Grace
Company was awarded the contract for
the superstructure and roofing at
$21S,300.
The resolution revoking these and
other contracts was offered by Mayor
Hylan and received the support of the
board with the exception of Comptroller
Craig, who constitutes the boards Court
House committee of one, and William J.
Flynn, then Commissioner Of Public
Works Of The Bronx, who was sitting
for Henry Bruckner, Borough President.
at a meeting October %. 1920. Fiorello
II. LaGuardia, as President Of the BoaaI q
OF Aldermen, and Henry H. Curran As
President of the Borough of Manhattan.
were members of the board at the time.
The injunction restrains the board do
constituted now. In addition to the
Mayor and Comptroller Craig it in
ciudes Murray Hubert. President Of the
Board OF Aldermen Julius Miller, Presi-
!, dent of the Borough OF Manhattan Ed
ward Riegelmann, President Brooklyn
Borough Henry Bruckner. President
Bronx Borough; Maurice Z. Connolly.
President Borough of Queens. and Mat
thew j. Cahill. President Borough OF
Richmond.
The last resolution of the board was
passed April 2s, after the committee OF
the whole had decided at meeting
April 1G to recommend that the old con-
tracts be modified and work be started
on them as suggested by Comptroller
Craig. Bids have since been readvertised
and scheduled to be opened tomorrow.
The move in court yesterday adds to the
complexities Of the situation until the
issue has been threshed out in court.