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Tammany: 1789-1928 Tammany Hall; The Organization; and the Sway of the Bosses By Allan Frankin
Originally published 1928 |
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and Trucking Corporation showed the new methods used by Tammany to gather in the millions from contracts. This company had been formed by John J. Murphy, a brother of Charles F. Murphy, James E. Gaffney and Richard J. Crouch. Murphy consistently denied that he had any connection with or interest in the company.
Under Murphy it was charged Tammany Hall had turned from the open thefts of the Tweed days to a plan whereby the political leaders became partners in business enterprises and then compelled the awarding of large contracts to their companies.
The New York Contracting and Trucking Company obtained a $2,000,000 contract for excavating the site of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. The Board of Aldermen had long refused to vote a franchise to the Pennsylvania for the use of city streets for tunnel approaches to the proposed new station. Rumor had it that the Aldermen wanted a large sum of money for granting the franchise. Be that as it may, the Board suddenly changed front and voted the franchise. Later it developed that the New York Contracting and Trucking Company had been given the contract to excavate the station site.
Another "juicy" contract awarded this company was for $6,000,000 for constructing the roadbed and tracks for the New York, New Haven and
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