Show j I I I TAKEN I II I FROM THE CITY CITY Complete Expose of the Work of the Philadelphia Gang REPORT OF E ARM J R REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS GOT Gor E MON n Oct report P r of the board of en appointed last July b by Mayor Maor Weaver fo 0 examine filtratIon system Of f the city elt and the northeast and the boulevards pow now under I cO construction which wu na submit submitted ted to the mayor maor yesterday was made public toda today It Iii Is signed by Major Cas I lus E B Gillette or of the United States en engineer corps who iny investigated d the tho Savan Savannah nah nab harbor frauds and John Donald Mc McLennon c Lennon of W Washington LI D C The report shows that up up to date tIme the cit has lost through ex excessive e costs costa bids illegal advertising and tn in other wits the tho sum or of G The Tho contractors who I received most moat Qt tU tP more than timE that have been expended on are D J lc 4 Co Ce Jamas J Ryan Han HanI and John Joh n A Kelley anti and Yare Vitro Bras Dro I Members of the Firm Time file members ot of the firm dreI are I Israel W V Durham r of the tho local republican State Stale Senator J Jp JP p also aho a city ity leader and the brothel Daniel fh rhe Vitro Vure firm I Iia is ia made up or of State George A AI I Yare Vare and Edwin J H V Vre Their brother William mam s Yare la is II a re recorder order of deeds deed an elective office i Officials I The rhe hId responsible by the re report rePort port for some comae of Ute the conditIons in c eon with the m ar ari are i w V M II C Haddock who was director of I pubU works under Mayer MaJOr I Peter E Costello director ot ef works I under Weaver until last May when time the I I mayor d and John W Hill former chief f the bureau of filtration who Is awaiting In connection with I the construction of the filtration s The report says Theft of I I from aU all small under find for forthe I the f work and the two boulo I yards ards as 11 up to date the city has pal paid or pledged work un under er th Di specifications shOuld not I have cost over for tor legitimate I contractors profits The i in In other words word In round number has been n paid fo for work costing the contractors I Of th the excessive cost there Ita ha gone to the contractors who worked un under under der th name miame of D I J 3 12 sImilarly to Ryan Kelley and to Vare Bras Bros or Of the n nr there is unpaid about to r and 7 to n Ryan and J elle elleI elley I Wo Work k Not I Much ruch of the work done one by bv flynn and 1 Kelle Kehley and U D J Is nt first firstI I I class prominently I to the public are faIrly well done the I that CAn he be with little trouble are d second class amid amI amII not up to Ute the sno We of I course do not know the condition of f such portions as cannot be seen without tearing up the work but 0 h have ve dug Into It we ne find It second class or worse I the report says saysA A careful analysis or of It all filtration ad advertising Indicates that everything pos poe possible sible sibie was done to avoid any finy real publicity without letting the fact appear t too o pro pre eminently In the records TIme The bureaus preliminary estimates instead be f being freely furnished to t bidders were rigor gu guarded sreta so 50 tar far as the tho g bidder was Ba concerned |