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The City Club has started a movement to stop the letting of any questionable contracts by the Tammany administration between now and the 1st of January, when the administration of Seth Low will take charge of the Municipal Government. A committee appointed by the Council of the City Club has been in conference with a similar committee of the Independent Club of the Twenty-first Assembly District, and a plan of action has been agreed upon.

The Report of Hon. A. B. CONGER, Chairman of the joint Select Committee of the two Houses of the Legislature, in relation to the Canal Investigation, is a long document of eight columns.

Replying to the request of the City Club for facts concerning the new lighting contracts Commissioner Oakley of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity announced last night that he had made a full report to Mayor McClellan in a letter to the Mayor in reply to one addressed to the Mayor by Lawrence Veillier, Secretary of the City Club.

All of the large contracts for war materials have been the result of direct negotiation:between manufacturers and buyers for the Governments. The prices obtained by the manufacturers have been low. and it is unreasonable to supply that inferior goods have been delivered kept in very few isolated cases.

There was a meeting yesterday in the Mayor’s office of the sub-committee of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment named to consider the advisability of having mural decorations and sculpture in the new Hall of Records. Mr. Low, President Cantor of Manhattan, and President Fornes of the Board of Aldermen attended.

For a short time after the opening yesterday, the cottom market looked as if it might be in for a reaction. There were some advances on the first call, but Wall Street selling and some seattered liquidation by small trade accounts sent the level down 5 to 10 points under Monday’s closing figures.

WASHINTON, Nov. 21.–In a letter to Senator Martin today, Secretary Baker stated that contracts canceled in the last ten days involved $1,336,800,818, while the abrogation of Sunday and overtime work in war establishments had saved $2,900,000 a day.

By a vote of 13 to 3, the Board of Estimate approved the subway contracts and certificates yesterday and appropriated $88,200,000 for the construction of the new rapid transit lines. Only President Mitchel voted against them, after moving a series of amendments, which were rejected. No speeches were made, though Mr. Mitchel filed a memorandum of protest.

ALBANY, Sept. 9. — The State Canal Board has finished plans for work on the 1,000-ton barge canal during the coming season. State Engineer Van Alstyne, from reports to date on the six contracts already let, said that work was well under way on contracts 1, 2, 3, and 6, and that the plants for work on contracts 4 and 5 had been set up.

BALTIMORE, June 12.–The Manufacturers Record, reviewing Southern business conditions for the past week, reports that, despite the political turmoil, the past week has seen the consummation of more important contracts for industrial and railroad enterprises than have been closes in any one week for months. Railroad building…

The most important problem to come before the annual meeting of The National Commission at Cincinnati on Jan. 7 is the new form of players’ contract which is to be adopted by organized ball for the next season.

The Contract Commission held its last public session in the chamber of the Board of Assistant Aldermen yesterday afternoon, the ninety days for which it was authorized to sit and pass on claims having expired at 12 0′olook last night.

By the new time-table issued by the new management of the Long Island Railroad on Sunday last, the inhabitants of Garden City are almost completely cut off from direct communication with New-York, only one train coming west in the morning and one going east in the afternoon stopping at the Garden City station. The other trains which formerly stopped at the station now drop their .

ALBANY, N.Y., Nov. 15. — In deference to the wishes of the New York City administration and the protest of many of its residents, Governor Whitman will hold up the contracts for the construction of the sewage reduction plants for Mohansic State Hospital and the State Training School for Boys on Yorktown Heights, Westchester County, which is part of the Croton watershed.

ALBANY, Jan. 25. — Attorney General Mayer to-day handed down his decision in regard to the legality of the bids received by the Superintendent of Public Works on six separate pieces of work to be done upon the one-hundred-and-one-million-dollar barge canal. The letting of the contracts for this work has been delayed pending this decision.

Water Commissioner Oakley and Controller Grout gave out statements last night with reference to the signing of lighting contracts by Mr. Oakley last week. Commissioner Oakley’s statement was given out at the Pensacola Club, his district organization headquarters, while the Controller’s statement was issued from his residence on Carroll Street in Brooklyn.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.–Contracts will be let early next week for the erection of three big fapricating yards in which tho United States will construct a great merchant sea fleet. The sites have been selected and practically all of the preliminary negotiations concluded for the construction of the yards.

Realization that flood damage in Texas had been confined mainly to a part of the State that raises little cotton caused a revulsion of feeling yesterday. Although..

President Harding’s action in ordering the annulment of the contracts between the War Department and the United States Harness Company, under, which surplus leather and harness supplies in the army were to be disposed of on a profttsharing basis, was vigorously challenged today when Frank J. Hogan, attorney for the concern, filed a brief at …

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On five of the six sections of the Fourth Avenue Subway in Brooklyn the Public Service Commission awarded the contracts yesterday. The largest section, from Nassau Street to Willoughby Street, was reserved for further consideration.

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