The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1917, Page 5

-_—_ ral Ringe occ ee ¥ RUGHESS $7500 | _ FEE FROM ITY BUT AN INSTALLMENT Corporation Counsel Admits Special Counsel in Riverside | Case Is to Get More. Corporation Counsel Hardy ad- mitted to-day that the $7,500 already paid to Charles E. Hughes for his legal work in connection with the New York Central Riverside matter is mefély an installment. Mr, Hardy made it clear that he was to be the Judge of what Mr. Hughes's fee from the city will be when he has com- | | | | Dleted his work. If there isn't enough money in the fund out of which extra counsel is paid, Mr. Hardy said, he could go to the Board of Estimate and ask for more, The Corporation Counsel admitted “that the city has laid aside $35,000 out of which to pay outside legal talent during the present year. Mr. Hardy receives $15,000 a year. He has more than a hundred lawyers assint- Ing him, he sald to-day, The pay- roll for 1917 in the Law Department is $784,770 ‘comptroller Bird 8. Coler to-day « i the Mitchel Admin- istration for paying large sums to! outside lawyers. Mr. Coler charged | that former United States Attorney General Wickersham, Frederic R. Coudert and William H. Hotchkiss had been retained by the Law De partment as “special counsel.” He vant: “It Is an outrage to make taxpay- ers shoulder the extra expense of| meeting feos of ‘spe pounsel’ when we have an immense Law Depart ment charged with performing the nsel Hardy admit- ham, Coudert and on retained, Mr, 1 the city when Civil Service Commission stigating the Municipal Civil © Commission He received | Mr. Wickersham represented | the city during the hearings on the New York-New Jersey lighterage rate case and received $7,500, and! Mr, Hotchkiss received $7,218.26 for | his legal aid during the charities in- vestigation, which involved Charities Commissioner Kingsbury. Mr. Hardy explained there was) nothing néw about the practice of en- gaging special counsel, It had been done for many y ‘bout fou Jui a h 4 altogether will depend to a great ex- tent upon the amount of services he renders. Ho will defend the suit to restrain the city from making the proposed cc the railroad | company { will d rmine what Mr Hughes's services to the city are | a Read “THE WANDERER,” by Maurice V. Samuels, Story! founded on the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, which will be printed complete in twelve instalments, be- ginning Monday, Feb. 1%, in The Kvening W orid HIGH TUBERCULOSIS RATE FOUND IN JERSEY PRISON: Figures Show Mortalit Mortality Is 2 Per Cent., Says Report Condemn- ing Conditions. VY, 0, Feb, 16.—Con ary and health reg tate Prison is ex-/| pressed in rt made to-day toy siov. Edge . <. Bowen, Chief of | the Bureau of Local Health Admin- astration of the State Department of Health, who investigated conditions the institution for the Prison In-| sulry Commission, One of the declarations of Bowen {s that the mortality rate for tuberou- vain is 27 per cent, of the prison pop- ulation, “This does not take into account,” he asserted, “the per cent. of the pie privon TRENTON, edmnation of ulations at ti months after order today, ask for Sun~ kist. They niformly good oranges. 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