National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-16

Vi your eonIractS allow you extra e0mpensa-
toni A. No, sir; not to my knowIedse
! @. You were paid according to the contract
price only A. Yes, sir; only according TO the
contract.
Q. Has the board at any time changed The
original contract, or modified the contract so as
to increase your compensation A. Not to my
knowledge. I do not think so.
@. When were you awarded the FIRST con-
| tracti A. think In the fall of 1871.
Q. Did you have any conversation with John
o. Evsnsi Did you know hint A. knew him
very well.
well.
Q. Hallctt KiIbourni A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did you have any conversation with these
| gentlemen, or any of them, prior TO the first
contract Of September, 1871, in relation to
paving contracts in this ethyl A. Nothing
special, more than, perhaps, a general talk,
| like saying that there was going to be great
deal Of work done here.
| Q. DID you have any arrangements with
| them by which you were TO unite and secure
contracts, or endeayor to secure contracts from
the Board of Public Worksl A No, sir; moth
ing more than this: They were interested with
me then In my patent pavement. These-Mr.
Clephane, Mr.. Evans and Mr.. XII bourn, on
New York avenue.
Q. What patent pavement was thatl A. That
Is this concrete pavement.
o. Tbey were interested with you in the pa
tent or in the work. A. In the work.
@. Was that the only contract which they
were interested with you I'M A. Yes, sir; with
the exception of the Metropolitan Paving Com
pany, when we were stockholders together.
Q. When was the contract for paving New
York avenue awarded TO youi A. In the fall
Of 1870 or 1871.
Q. Was it awarded by the Board of Public
Worksi A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who appeared then as the contractor
TaylOr 6 Eilberf7 A No T. Eiiharf
Q. John o. Evans, Lewis Clephane, and Hal
let kilbourn were your partnersi A. Yes, sir,
and Mr.. Baldwin.
Q. Equally interested with you in that con-
tractl A. Yes, sir.
Q. Who composed the Beidler keystone
Company A. l do not know. know Mr..
Bingham is connected with 1t.
Q. Anybody elsel A. Not to my knowledge.
Q. Have you kept books showing your trans
actions with the Board Of Public Horksi A.
What do you meant Our work.
Q. Yes, sir. A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do these books show all your TRANSACTIONS
A. think they do. They should do so. am
no book-keeper. We had q clerk, of course.
Q. They cover all the transactions relative to
all contracts in which you had any INTEREST," A.
No, sir; nothing more than Taylor s. FIJI
bert's.
Q. Have you any books showing transactions
relating to the paving Of New York sVenues
A. No, sir.
Q. Did you ever have any7 A. No, sir.
By Mr.. Thurman: Q. Did understand YOU
to say you were a stakeholder in the Metropoli-
tan Paving Company A. Yes, sir.
O. When was that company formedi A.
About the time that Pennsylvania avenue was
first paved.
Q. About what year was thatl 4. guess
IL was in the fall of 1869.
Q. Was 1t a corporationi 4 believe so.
Q. When did it get its charterl A. do not
know; Mr. Clephane had the charge of that
He was the president Of it. I Judge they got
it from the corporation here
Mr.. Mattingly- A copy of the charter is in
evidence I do not know that you are aware Of
that, Judge Thurman
Mr.. Thurman No; was not aware of that
fact. Was l. q Congressional eharteri
Mr.. Harrington 1t was Incorporated under
the general Incorporation act passed by Con-
greSs. A certified copy Of the act of incorpora-
ton is in evidence.
Q. Did that Metropolitan Paving Company
obtain contracts from the present government
of the District, or the Board of Public Works.,
for making improvements A.. believe they
had some few.
@. What contracts did they hayei A. think
Twelfth street, and1 think they had a part of
d street; but am not sure about that; but I
think So ! knew very little about that. any
more than 1 was a stakeholder.
Q. Who were the stockholders in that COM
pduJ Al Luc lOu DccaI0c sLOCknOlOeTs
A. do not know anybody but Mr.. Collins, Mr..
Clephanc, Mr. Kiibourn, Mr., Baldwin, and
myself. There may have been others.
O. These are all you knowl A. They are
all know Of at this time
Q. What was the amount of the stock of the
company at that timei A.. Indeed do not
know; cannot tel, exactly
g. How many shares of stock were owned
at that timel A. am unable to say.
O. How many shares did you own A. That
cannot tell you; can tell by referring to my
stock.
Q. What were the shares in dollars-how
many dollars to shared A. think they were
either $50 or 500; am not certain of that.
O. Did you buy your stockof some individual
OR did you subscribe for the stockl A. /
paid in q certain portion when we commenced
Pennsylvania avenue. think 1 paid in about
g., 900.
Q. In 1862 A. At the time VIC paved Penn
sylvania avenue.
Q. That was before the present government
was inaugurated! A Yes, sir.
Q. You were a stakeholder, then, before the
present government went into exStcncel A.
Yes, sir.
Q. Can you recall how you got your stock,
whether by subscription or purchase from some
stockholderl A. got mine by subscription.
did not purchase any
@. Are you still stakeholder? A. The COM
pany is dissolved, 1 believe.
Q. When was it dissolved A. I think it was
about year ago; or little over year and a
half
Q. Were the same persons stockholders all
the time during the existence of that company,
or were they changed from time to timel A.
That am unable to say. do not know.
Q. Can you recollect any person who was q
stakeholder during its existence besides the
persons you have nameda A l cannot.
Q. You say that the contracts you had for
concrete pavements were in the name of Tay-
Ior & Filbertl A. Well, the only contract that
Taylor g. Filbert had for concrete is what little
we had on street and Vermont avenue.
Q. Did you say you had contract on New
York ayenuei A. That was before l knew Mr..
Taylor.
Q. That was your own contractl A. Yes,
sir.
o. Was that your pavement A Yes, sir.
o. Laid under your PATENT A. We laid a
part of it and made fixture Of it, and the re-
suit of it was we stopped it.
Q. Then did you use any patent at alll A.
Yes, sir; we afterward turned 1t over to John
o. Evans company; / do not know what the
name of it is-Schorff, I think. It was COM
pleted, though, In the name of L. S. FIbeEt.
By Mr.. Wilson: Q. Were you a sub-eon-
tractor under H. H. Binghamf A. No, sir.
Q. Was John o. Evans interested with you
in any of your contractsl A. Nothing more
than in the Metropolitan Paving company on
New York avenue.
Q. You had no interest with him in any con-
tractl A. No, sir.
Q. Did you have any contracts for paving 3
street where somebody else had the contract
for gradingl A. We have paved some streets
that were partially graded, but we never had
any graded down to the grade. We always
had to do more or less grading.
Q. Were there any streets where the con-
tract had been let for the grading to one person
and the paving to you'll A. I think so.
Q. You will you please name those streetsl
A. There was First street; believe that was
let.
@. To whom was the grading let in that easel
A. think to Mr.. Smith.
Q. Whas SMITH A. David Smith, I think
his name Is.
Q. What other streetsa <. Tenth street was
partially graded, but do not know who
graded it; and so was Eleventh street.
Q. Name any otheI that you can think of.
A. think part Of Fifteenth street. cannot
remember any Of the others just at this time.
Q. Do you remember who graded Tenth
street, A. I do not.
O. Eleventh street, A. Well, know the
names, for they were mentioned, but l cannot
think Of them now.
Q. fifteenth street, A.sThat am unable to
say. understand that Mr.. Gleason was inter-