The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1905, Page 5

“bi Soreness in V in Wigwam Because Contracts Go to His Firm. GOOD JOBS SCARCE, Smaller Men Complain the! Leader's Company “Hogs’” Allthe Good Thingsin Sight, SOME VALUABLE ASSETS Docks and Dumping Grounds Are Leased by Murphy’s Concern at Reasonable Rents, Tm every Tammany club-house in the wity was the eole object of discussion fe the manner in which Charles ¥. Murphy and his close followers have grown enormously rich by shrewd ab- sorption of big contracts, as set forth In yesterday's Evening World, Tammany leaders were never so besleged by small- fry workers looking for patronage as they are just now, and the question of how they are golng to deliver the vote next fall {s causing many of them serl- ous anxiety. The McClellan administration has had fewer places at {ts disposal than any previous Tammany administration, Civil-Service rules cover all but the most menial jobs in the city depant- ments and a few in the exempt class. These latter were practically filled the day after George B, McClellan was elected, Owing to the security felt by an of- fice-holder who is bulwarked by the Civil-Service rules, the Tammnyites who are holding down good Jobs are not as earnest in their work for the organi- sation as they wore in the old days. It fs | matter of experience that Tam- many suffered In 1903 and last year from the apathy of scores of men {t put In office during the Van Wyck adminis- tration, and who held over under Mayor Low, The problem ts to enroll new and energetic men to take the places of those who feel that they have reached the limit of reward, and can gee no reason for furtner activity, Murphy Owns the Carts, ‘Under the Murphy regime the old plan of allowing a vigorous worker to “put @ cart on’ and draw down a substan- tial day's pay for no service cannot be followed out, The only carts on big jobs under political control nowadays are owned by Charles #, Murphy and his associates, ‘They are out for legit fmate profit in their business enters prises, and require value rece.ved for every dollar oxpended, While Mr. Mur. phy and his partners are piling up mitiions the workers in the rank and file are wondering what there fs In politics, Out of this condition has grown wide- ead complaint against what the orkers term the foimation of patron. age into a trust. Richard Croker had an idea of the advantages of the plan, but it remained for Charles F, Murphy to sound the depths of {t and bring up the wealth therefrom. The New York Contracting & Trucks ing Company Js as close to an absolute monopoly as could be imagined, but in forming It Mr, Murphy and his assocl- ates forgot to let the small contractors in, What profitable work they can get now must come to them through the Murphys, and they are reduced through this necessity to the level of hired men, The ostensible head of the New York Contracting & ‘Trucking Company 1s John Murphy, ther of the Tam- many leader. s been only a few John Murphy could be seen hind the bar of a saloon at First nue and Twenty-third street, which was owned by his brothe Nobody around that neighborhood ever accused Jon Murphy in those days of having the bus!ness acumen to conduct @ gigantic contracting concern, but he fg supposed to be doing it to-day, Always Wins Out, When other bidders start after a job of sufficient magnitude to engage the attention of the New York Contracting & Trucking Company it Is a foregone conclusion that the Murphy coneern fs golng to win out under existing condl- tions, No other ce rn of like char- acter, unless It be one in which some of Mr, Murphy's friends are interested, could possibly secure the concessions necessary to economical work, Docks and dumping vunds are value able ansets of a‘big contracting con- w York Contracting & Ing Co, has many docks for wileh gs rent that is extremely reason never Lt w wnything from of Aldermen it 1s not even for {t to make a lowd noise, ‘Phe opposition of so formidvble an in- terest aa the New York Central to a west side track nerded by the Murphys w curry away Ay, out of ihe Penns: @ASily Over big job and that to acl » fit been clowed. to, Fifty-seventh sire: are all that keep 7 the vealolos, and inst Were You At Home Sunday When 1,701 employers knocked at your door iv t reh tor competent “help?” Had you read ple Help Wanted S's Wil Noe You ould prospe Kiockine i) andl found the position you are look- ing for, Don't Abandon Hope, but Read the Morning World To-Morrow, 4 | senate CHARLES F. MURPHYS , THIRTY YEARS AGO: Sh2 FAST B1V 87, CITY ACQUIRES STATEN FERRY Board of Estimate and Sinking Fund Votes to Buy the St. George Terminal from the Cofhpany for $540,000, | The Boant of Estimate and the Sink- {ng Fund mt in joint session to-day and | decided to purchase the St. George ter-| minal of the Staten Island ferry for | $540,000, Action relative to the acquisl- tion of the old ferry-boats of the Staten Island Company in accordance with| the terms of the contract vetween the) city and the company was also taken. | Nothing now remains for the clty but to build the proposed improved ter- minal stations and ferry-nouses at St. George, and it will be in possession of {ts own ferry enterprise The fleet of five fast ferry-boats to be used on the rehabilitated Hne dre building rapidly, t 18 proposed to spend $900,000 additional on the St. George’ terminal in the con- stpuction of ferry houses and stations, making them available to trolley and/ railroad passengers. | Work will be started on these struc- | tures as soon ag the Lioard of Hetimate | hus passed on the plans already drawn | and awaiting pprovl. It is proposed, also, to build @ jandsome ferry house at the foot of Whitehall street which will take the place of the ramshackle | xiructure which has been an eyesore | for a generation and a source of daily | inconyenieuce to the thousands who | patromze the ferry, By July, it is ex- peciee the now ferrw well be in opera ton, The City has not yet decided Whether to operate the ferry on its own account or lease the privilege to a pri- vate corupration, First Joint Meeting. It was the irst time during the Me- Clellan adiminisiration that a joint mectlug of the Board of Wstimate and the Sinking lund has been held to con- | Municipal proposition, Sea the "round table’ used atthe reg meetings of the Board ot Estimuve of each body, com- lellan, Comptroller | Grout, mberlain— Ikeenan, | Depucy Stevenson and | Phillips, President Fornes, of the Board | Aldetmen; Borough Presidents John | Ahearn, Mardin Littleton and Jo- ) Cusslily, and) Alderman John | “all, Who, as Chulrman of the Al- wanie Finance Committee, is a i member of the Sinking Fund, The Alderman was prepared to oppose | the payment of the full sum demanded | by the y Company on the ground | that an exorgttant price was demanded for a small Sirlp of land on Jay street, | St, George, useful for the proposed ne terminal, ‘The company demanded $48, 00 for the strip, and Comptroller Grout who caused an Independent appraisal to ba made. reported that the land was worth the price. Many Staten Islanders Preeent, A large dejega:ion of Staten Islanders representing various boards of trade and Richmond associations. was pres: 4, ‘The decision to acquire the terminal ‘as promptly made, ‘The secretary read ihe resolutions and the vote was uni a iin final, of Pending the operation tho ferry by the efty the determinatlen | lol Jo a private corporation, the | present ferry company will continue to run the system, TC was also Mga | to Tease the franchise to the present | operating company at the rate of $12 a year with the proviso that (ie con pany release all t thirty days’ notice, Tt was a led to. pay. bie 0 for the Improve- my the Whitennll for impr: terminal, Dp |ment r strant te ments m | PARK PLAZA AT BRIDGE PERMINAL, | | BILL Provides Improvement | -| on New York Side of Wine | Jamsbary Span, | E Speaial to 7 sy Eventing World.) ALBANY, Jan, 8—A bil author) ing the Bridge Commissioner of a York to lay out a parkway in Delan- coy Street at the terminus of the Will jamaburg Bridge was Introduced in the | ite towday’ by Senator Dreseher The Commissioner is given authority, ipon the approval of the Board of | Wstimate and Apportionment, to award cis for providing terminal tact | for the street cars ero: he Driv a Trinh Copper Mines, Copper mining once flourished In Tre- Jland, and between 184 and 188 the | jallymurtagh mine in Wieklow county | { nduced 6,00 tons of copper pyrites a I There Is some prospectin, Delng done in Ireland, PIvee ey A A Uae Yoo tea aoe AR i le | Seventeen + Year AGAINST CO. IN CARAHEAD CASE In Suit Brought by City Against | N. Y. City Railway Co, Justice Roesch Intimates He Will Im-| pose Fine, After hearing the testimony in the test sult of the city versus the New York Clty Railway Company, which op- erates the Christopher street and East | Tenth street crosstown lines, growing out of an alleged violation of the “car ahead ordinance,” Clyil Justice Roesch | | to-day, In the Fourth District Municlpal Court, though reserving decision, Intl- mated that he would find against the ra{lroad company. case the company would only have to pay a fine of $100 into the city treaa. ury, but if the test holds in other ca: under preparation the fines would ag- gregate $10,000, Assistant’ Corporation Counsel for the elty of all sults of the kind to be brought against the Interurban Railway Company and its subsidiary companies, appeared in the case both as counsel and witness, having been ordered to get out of an Kast Tenth street ferry car at Avenue C to take the car behind on the evening of Dec, 31 last, Mr, Stlefel had boarded the car at Christopher street on the west side and as he would not get out at Avenue C, was taken back across town agaln. He declared he could see no antag for his suggested rejection from ie car and called four witnesses to testify to this effect, The defendant corporation called sev- eral employees as witnesses, ‘They tes- tiled that there was an immediate necessity for cutting short the run of the car and turning It back, Then the counsel for the company urged the | dismissal of the complaint on several grounds, His motion was dented and the Court reserved decision, Before Jeaving the court-room the ‘Assistant Corporation Counsel had a talk with Juaucn Roeseh, and sald later that the \decision would certainly be in his favor, —$————$__— GRAND JUROR FAINTS IN COURT Seth W. Johnson, Ill Throughout Session, Overcome by Pain in His Chair Just Before Ad- journment. Seth W, Johnson, a member of the nd Jury. slipped from his chair jn fa dead faint Just before the adjourn- ment of the Grand Jury session this afternoon, Dr, Suttorlee, from the New York Dispensary, and two doctors In attend- ance at the Jackson trial were sum: mpned to take care of him, They re- vived him sufficiently to allow of his being sent to his home. Mr, Johnson {s a sufferer from rheu- matism and lumbago, He was Ill) throughout the session, but was trying to stlek ft out n ome by pasn. ee ;TWENTY Vi:ARS FOR Boy M URDERER, Old Marcelling Sento Shot and Killed His HootbInck Rival, Marcellino Santo, the seventeen-year- yd boy who shot and Killed Pasquale arrotello at the latter's home, No, 321 West ‘Twenty-sixth street, Dec, 4, bo- | cause Barrotollo had succeeded in get- tn the bootblack stand in the Hotel was to-day gon- twenty years by sions, yrisoner’s counsel made an appeal | for ieney on the-ground tht Sento young to realize the enormity of his epline, Mr ne sald it was a coldeblooded mur and that Santo wits so young but what he armed with a langer calibre revolver he was acoustomed to carry before commit ttn the crime, Judge Foster sald the could: oqsion for clemenoy. nO 00+ adce idl aoa In this particular | Her- | man Stlefel who has personal charge; “TIGER ANGRY OVER MURPHY'S WEALTH. MURPHY’S HOME LIFE CHANGED SINCE HE WAS A BOY,| RPHYS PRESENT Tidoitad 006 EAsr 17m 97 DR. IRVINE QUITS TO SAVE CHURCH deca Beas Drops His Charges Against Bishop Talbot, Who Unfrocked Him, and Declares | | He Freely Forgives Prelate. i —— (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 91.—In a signed slatement given out this after- jNoon Rey. Ingram N, W. Irvine an- nounced tat he was determined to end all proceedings ngainst the Right Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Central Pennsylvania. Dr. Irvine, who was unfrocked by Biehop Talbot and who has ever since been endeavoring to have his case re- viewed by an ecclesiastical court, and who only two weeks ago instituted a court sult against the Bishop tn this city, In a statement to-day declares fe 1s actuated in dropping the case by « desire to save tho Protestant-Dpiscopal Church all further scandal, Dr, Irvine reviews the case at great length and gives what he terms the inside history “of the controversy with Bishop Twibot, He tells of the part Mrs, Elliott played In the matter and declares that money and Influence were both used by the friends of Bishop Talbot in blocking all the efforts that haye been made by himself and his friends to have the case alred before an ecclesiastical court and to secure Jus: | Uce for himselt, Tn conclusion the preacher says: "Tt do not Know what else can be done with BSshop Talbot, who has Ivought such a scandal upon the jehurch and such a scandal to others, | but to forgive him; and I herewith freely and without’ reservation offer | him full and free pardon, as if we were standing on the last great day before the judgment throne of our In- varnate God," | Thus ends the famous church case which has caused so many sensations recently. —a—__ OLD MAN FOUND DEAD iN HALL Way) Hoapital Surgeon Says He Was Victim of Exposure — No Clue to His Identity, he body of a man about sixty years was found In the rear of the hall- way of Duffy's saloon, at No, 249 Bast | ‘Dhirty-wixth street, early to-day by an| Itallan who was delivering coal in the | place, ‘Mw man, according to Dr, Dru- ry, of Bellevue Hospital, died as the result of exposure, ‘The man was evidently a German, He} had a full dark beard and was poorly | dressed, A pollveeman of the East Thirty-flfth street station, summoned | an ambulance from Bellevue Hospital, | but Dr, Drury, the surgeon, sald the| ‘man had been dead some time, | iis highest price on a bid and deposits POLICEMAN is SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS ‘Devanna, Who Shot and Killed Man in Hotel, Gets Long Term, CLEMENCY DENIED, Counsel Makes a Vain Plea for Mercy on Ground His Client Was Drunk, Mounted Policeman Bugene L, De- \vanna, Cn the Highbridge station, who on Nov, 22 last shot and killed George Dorwich, a boller-maker, in the Morris Helghts Hotel, was tosday sentenced to | twenty years In Sing Sing, | When Devanna was arraigned before | Judge Foster in General Sessions for | sentence, his counsel, Hal Bell, made a | plea for clemency, stating that Dev- anna was a splendid man, but that whiskey made ‘him a demon and that he was drunk at the time of the crime. “If there is nothing more to be said jin extenuation of this crime than that the defendant was drunk," sald Dis- | Wet-Attorney Jerome, ‘counsel would have done better not to mention It, 1 would like to ask counsel if he knows that, outside of another crime for which | | this man spent ten months In Con- necticut jail, this man 1s guilty of a | crime of violation In the South and of | the erlme of forgery,” “It's not so," yelled Devanna, who | much exelted, "IT would ike to ask counsel, too,” went on Mr, Jerome, “whether he knows that this man deserted his wife and | children and chat on the very morning oft me for which hf has just been | tried he threatened to kill a brother of- ficer with his revolver." My, Bell made no response and Judge Foster asked Devanna If lt was true | that he had been a member of Roose- velt’s Ronh Riders, Devanna sald he | Was not in that regiment, and Judge Moster then sentenced him to Sing Sing for twenty voars healt Queer Auctions, They have a queer way of holding auctions In Japan, and these affairs are entirely without notice, The auctioneer puts up the object to be sold and asks ids on It, Bach bidder then writes from it ina box, ‘The box {s opened and the object given to the one who has offered the most for it, 4 Duffy's bartender does not know the | man, He sald the hallway 1s open all | | night and that he might have come Into | | the place at any time. ‘The dead man had a small out on one of the fingers of the left hand and a sim eut on the left side of the head, TLlowever, the po- | Hee are investigating, ‘The dead man was abou inches tall and wore black |; d shoes, each of different style, His clothing consisted of a dark coat, striped trous- ers and short overcoat, There was noth. ing found In the man's pockets by which ‘he could be {dentifled. | —— CONDEMNED WOMAN BIDS FAREWELL, | | Mother of Mra, Rogers, Who In to| Be Hanged, Seen Her for Last Time. WINDSOR, Vt, Jan, %1,—Mrs, J, 0, Callahan, mother, and Miss K, BR, Cal. Inhan, half-sister of Mre, Mary M, Rogers, the Bennington woman sen-!| tenced to die next Friday, paid thelr | last visit to the condemned woman at | the State prison here to-d ay ys women were age led by bof C, Delaney, peste oman Catholia opiritual navies, feet 8 zi DON’T WAIT. Cut out the pictu ‘2 CATARRH AND COLDS G02—S, B, HARTMAYN, M, D, HB crisp, biting alt’ of a yigovating, HEALTHY PEOPLE ENJOY WINTER, i than the hot season, But, if there isthe lightest tendency | to catarrh, found lungs, then the winter season, the bluster Ing day, the tumultuous blizzard, dangerous and things to be avoided. Winter, being entirely tree A short course of Peruna {8 always sure | & to eet the system right in this respect, When Clean up the system, made welcome, Keep Poruna near by. ing to the directions on the bottle, and you need not fear that winter will bring sooretary to U. 8, ‘Tho past winter has been ono of tho severesL CHILIAN. WHITE TOP You will never have such an opportunity again, these are the same i tical goods which we exhibited at St. Louis and of which we sold howl Such bargains Lf You Cannot Call Mail Sour Orders. in currency or Express Order and the article will be sent you postage pve If not exactly as represented your money will be refunded. : CHILIAN WHITE TOPAZ COMPANY, $@ “WHENEVER YOU PASS A DRUG STORE, BEAR IN MIND THAT WHEN PE.RU-NA’ wintry day| have been frequent and sharp, and often) trouble, I went. But ero the lunga ond mucous tinprex As fast as etait RELIEF eat membranes, Ca-/ hed hoard so much of eatthtul aid Ine| who are quite | “well enjoy. the winter sensgn and find It more con- duclye to vigorous many ways ts Peositn 3 tarrh has been more! to try It EASY REACH, | frequent than ovor,| “tr rid me of my trouble 60 but never before, 1 venture to say, has rellef been within so fully belleve that it would not PABY reach, paruaty to ia ome Peru ny “It was simply because there was such and I bi ae, 4 remedy as Peruna, 1 took it with the to take when I desired effect and so did many others 1 know, and we all belleve it {s without a veer Ag A catarrh remedy and tonic,” Miss Aline Fay, 921 10th St, N, By Washington, D. C., writes: “L hnye bec sueveptible to colds for humber of years, T have found jp | TERUGNA REDUCES Terie a remedy i At strong now, if catarrh has niready bara tn the Thoad, throat or ol or, Jody ment One reason why Peruna has. foul manent use inj! ta -NA CO become ric: 80 many Mad it NO_NaRCO 1s that 1 tains no nar cotlos of any lng Perunn, ed harmless, It can be used time without acquiring @ Perna does not. produce suggerty the necessity of trom catarrhal disease. then, DISCOMFORT which has great: catarth goes. fortify it by ban- ishing all catarrhal ‘affections, and win ter, with all of its rugged weather, {9 Pervna comes, PE-RU-NA A SAFEGUARD, Take \t accord. ly reduced the FROM COLDS, discomfort I ex-1 suits. It 18 permanont In ite if ) cords, 1 bave not on) It has no bad effect upon 4 15 N, "Bell resident ‘Tramway | whe Peruna bas) resident Frateroal ald been used off and on| Abtoclation, writes: ore 8. J. R. Long. formerly private drugs of a Hare ee nature, Senator Smith, writes settled on my] Address Dr, 4 Washington, D, C.: PROVE SERIOUS. Iuoge, ‘The dors to Colorado, and as I was afraid of lung perienced with tound {t good for Colds, but it in good and gradually ellminates © Pesliea tonle,’ moving the causo of oatarrh for twenty years. am very susceptible to colds, DLast| Such a thin Sole nor T could not get. Vie of a cold and of The Hartman Gani ordered me! Ohio, and te will be pl for catarrh, and an st Shas, Lincoln | a multitude of homes At kerr Much waa not be possible ' NEGLECTED COLDS [tettiea” on my ite valurbie advice gi in many years, Its changes he Last Week §& Of the Great Clearance Sale of \v lt Avi A Dh » DON’T DELAY. THE LAST CHANCE, will not last long. Call at once. re of any article illustrated above, mail to us with $2.00 23d Street and Fifth Avenue. Store Open Evenings.