National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-21

shat the aggregate amount Of the contracti
A. That q the cost. T1,sET =
By Senator Stewart: That h the cost of what
yQ dbl A. Yes, DIR. 4ssr.r.sa
Q. What did you receive for themi A: I
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the aggregate $50, 879.75. "A,
By Senstor Stewart: Then your profits were
I'm the neighborhQoq of IS per cent! No response.
By Senator Stewart: Do you count In your
cost and the use of your money and 81 tnets
A. Dyes, sir. I count everything IN the cost:
Also the wear and tear Of tools, machinery anu
everything Of that kind.
Q. You received this In cash from the board
A. Yes, sir. q --.es..-r.ET ..r.E
Q. DID YOU make these profits publie' A.
That is not very probable. We never iet any
body know-hare an insight into our business.
was the best YOU could dot A. never made
any representations about It. took the con-
tract for such price and carried II out in good
1h:th, and gave the board the equivalent for
the money received. The matter Of profits
considered my own business; If made money
by it that was my own lookout.
By the Chairman: Were these contracts in
writing' A. Yes, sir. Partly in print; they
were blanks filled up.
By Senator Thurman: Not verbal contracts
A. No, sir. ErEra So. --r.-s.-s
Q. Do You know the number of themi A.
No, sir, do not. 'H-
Representative Wilson. The clerk can give
rs the number. s.
Senator Thurman. It ID not material.
By the Chairman: Did you use the same ma
terial tn every respect except the sand FOR
street and Vermont avenue and jackson place
that you used in front of the Ariingtons A.
No, sir. -'...
q. Wherein did the material diAers A. We
laid the pavement on Sixteen and a-half street,
known as jackson place, we used the same
material with the exceptiohof the sand. On
the square between K street and L street, we
used very far different stone. The stone first
used was the Seneca stone, broken small, which
I consider one of the best stones for that class
ofpavements in the city, because It takes the
bitumen. The others were picked up pron.is-
cously by my friends-the firm. There W IRE
some loose stones, cobble stones broken up with
the others-sort of debris.
%. Did you use the same asphalt as to quality
and quantity3 A. Yes, sir. All the rest Of
the materials with the exception of the sand.
By Senator Thurman: Q. Did you use any of
the materials that you got in the street.-The
Cobble-stones, or curbstones, or anything of
that kind! A. There were some that were
taken off and brought up on the lot. do not
know. There was a little of everything
sort Of debris-stones, cob5le-stones, bricks,
and things Of that kind.
By Representative Wilson: What kind of
pavement was on these streets where you laid
this pavement? A. No pavement at all
nothing but just the plain gravel. There was
no pavement whatever.
By Senator Thurman. Q. Macadamized road,
was it A. No, sir.
By Representative Wilson: @. Where did you
get the stone from that was broken up and put
into your pavement?
Witness. The Arlington pavement? i
Representative Wilson. Yes; any of these
pavements.
Representative Hubbell. He has just an
ewered.
" A. For the Airing pavement we bought that
from the Seneca Stone Company.
@. Where did you get the other? A. We
got two squares of It from the Seneca Stone
Company, and the other was furnished by
material that we took off the street, and some
other was brought in for which Thomas Lewis
& Co. charged. They said they had some
themselves, and they had it broken up and
brought on the street-not Seneca; that was
. different material.
Q. Did you get any material of that kind
from the Board of Public Workss A. No, sir;
only what we took off the streets.
Q. understood you to say there was none
on the streetsa A. Along the cutters. The
road was dirt roadway common dirt road
way. think about four feet from the curb
stane was gutterway that we took up and
Q3uleu OH. luey UIOke II up.
@. Did you set any new curbi A. Yes, sir.
@. What did you do with the old curba A.
That cannot tell you. paid no attention to |
that branch of the business at all.
Q. Who did attend to that branch of the bus
tness? A. Mr.. Lewis and Mr.. r. C. Hewett.
Q. That old curb was hauled away, was it +?
A. Yes, sir; it was hauled off the street.
@. And you have no knowledge as to where |
Il was hauled. A. Some of it was hauled on |
lot between Pennsylvania avenue and II street. |
] am speaking now of the first street-that lie, |
jackson place. Some of it was hauled around |
on q lot between Sixteen snd-a-hal and Seven |
teen:h streets and II street and Pennsylvania
avenue; and broken up.
Q. When it was broken up what was done
with ita A. Then it was hauled back and put
on the street-Vermont avenue, first block.
Q. On which you Laid yonr pavement A.
Yes, sir.
Q. Whom did you pay for this material that |
in by Mr.. Hewitt claiming 1t as belonging to |
him. He was one of the partners, and he took |
all that; that was his own perquisites.
@. Mr.. Hewitt did thatl A. Yes, sir.
Q. Have you any information of the property
owners getting any of the benefit of this curb |
that was broken up and hauled away in making
up the estimate Of the cost ofthe street, A. In |
regard to this particular work you are speak
ing on ..-.
Q. Yes, sir. This work that was done by
you. A; No, sir; have no knowledge what
ever of that.
By Senator Stewart: Hewitt is your partner
A. Wewere connected together. believe that
the litigation that is going on viii make it out
that v as no partner at all.
By Representative Wilson: Mr.. Hewitt |
claimed credit on account of the curbstone and
The other material that had been used there
a. Yes, sir. He put in the bin and a check
was drawn, and he put it into his pocket very
nice.
Q. Do you know how much 1t amounted to?
a. Nine hundred and seventy eight dollars.
@. You have spoken of the manner in which
this pavement was laid in front of the Airing
ton, and also as to the manner in which pave L
inent was laid at Madison place. believe that
is what you called III A. Yes, sir. -.-l.c
q. What is the comparative durability of the
two, judging from the use to which they have
been subjected to rom the time they were laid
until this time, if you have noticedl LII /
Representative Hubbell. Are you comparing
the two? 10
Representative Wilson. Yes, sir; the pave
ments as to durability. -.-..f Il
Representative Hubbell Not the two laid by
himi .s.-. -H.. ...
Representative Wilson. No, the one laid by /
him, and the other laid by the ether party. II
Witness. That is little difficult for me to
determine, for this reason In front of the
Arlington is public carriage stand. There '
nc "a" ~ ioES siIiLS VI C6TTIdBce anu horses
standing on that pavement, and 1t is considered
by all pavement men as being Q very severe
test on any class of pavement. On Madison
place there is nothing Of the kind. The pave I
ment in front Of the Arlington. will have been
down this coming May four years. That which
was laid on Madison Place was laid in the fall ,
Of 1871, and in the summer of 1872 there were
several patches put into it., and there are now
some breaks in it, while have not been called /,
upon to make any repair yet on the piece of
the pavement in front of the Arlington. II
BY Representative Wilson: @. Have there been
any repairs put on the pavement In front Of the
Arlingtonl a. No, sir never.
@. And the other has been? A. Yes, sir. !
By Senator Thurman: @. How does that
pavement in jackson place compare with that |
In Madison place You say in the Jscksoni :
place is your pavement, and there are no car :
riages stand there. How does that compare !
with that in Madison placei A. They are
both in good order, / believe, now, although l ,
do not know that there has been any repairs
made on jackson place. However, think
there was. think there was . little piece put }
In by trap or man-hole in the middle of the !
street, where the earth had not been I
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