National Republican., 1874-04-02

A.. 4 really could not say. I have sean bis
name In the papeIS often. think hs beFI
some public Office; Lvt could not saw.
ar. Christy. am tGSd he was Q member of
the Legislative Assembly,. "
Mr.. Wilson. That ought 70 he asce,,.a..,
easily enough. 1'ain0o
Mr Harrington. I believe that he q e4Aet.d
ior the coming Legislature, but he has never
had the honor Of being quali65E Us g.
three or four years in the Legislature. but Ss
resigned from political life and weIS into tIle,
brokerage business Wv
Mr.. Christy. Has he not been electedT
Mr.. Harrington. believe he Is elected for
the coming Legislative Assembly.
Mr.. Mattingly. We viii furnish the commit
tee with all the correspondents In relation 70
the case Of this last witness.
TESTIMONY or GE0BsE T. STEWART.
George T. Stewart, having been duly sworn,
Testified as follows:
\ have resided and carried on business on II
street for thirty years. Al present. I reside at
she items that the board have charged Us for Is
go trees and tree-b0xes, at the cost Of $500,
which has BEEN. running on interest for over one
year at 10 per cent There have been but two
trees planted en- each street from the COM
meurement Of the improvements to the psesent
blucs- 1uOoc bWO IrccS, Z All COiuy Wcfc pte0C60
by the order of the Board Of Public Works. I
have examined the trees planted by the Board
of Public Works about other streets, ana
find K street, which runs directly north parsl-
lei with II street, is about the average space
that they plant the trees. The space that they
contemplate to plant tho trees on H street,
were they to plant them at the same space ON
Il as on K, would not hold more than f6O trees.
As grading on,H street has not been altered,
there are many good trees there Ecountsd
fully ninety that ought not TO come down.
have six that I would not like 10. .hsvecome
down. have spoken to other property holders
on H street, and,they do not wish their trees to
be touched.
By Mr.. Wilson: 0. How many trees have:
been planted on H street, A.. Two. since the
commencement.
Q. What do you say the charge Is on b street
for treesi A. Eight hundred dollars.
q. What do you know in regard to the charges.
for paving -bricksl A. Among one of the
items charged by the Board of Public Works.
on our bill was difference of 81 100 In the
price of paving bricks / was told by one Of
the contractors that when the work was given;
out the bricks were estimated at so much
thousand, and when bricks went up higher
they put the difference in the price onthe prop
holders.
Q. Your point, then. If understand you, Is
that the contract was let out st SO much per
700, and afterward tht re was an addition to
the price on account of the increased price of
the bricki A. Yes, sir; Of 81 100. for the i'm
provements.
Q. In other words, they allowed to the con-
price for the brick and the price of brick at the
time the brick were put downl A. That is
what should judge it was.
Q. That is what it vast A. Yes, SIR
Q. Do you know anything In regard TO any
excessive charge for gradingl A. They have
US charged for II 400 cubic yards of grading
To, make that much It would take the old
breadth of the street-ninety feet-oVer twenty
inches, which does not include the grading be-
longing to the concrete pavement. The old
sidewalks, which were more than one-third of
the width of the street, did not want any grad
ing. They were merely raised-nor more than
to require the sand to lay the bricks on, with
the exception of little loam-between nine
inches and ten inches. think, and swear to
the best of my knowledge, that there was not
much grading Gone on Il street-extra grad
ing.
Q. What kind Of pavement was laid down
therei A. Concrete.
Q. Who did that work. A. I cannot say
what company It was.
@. You do not know who put down the pave
ment on II street, A. No, sir.
Q. Was there more than two feet of grading
done on H street, A. do not think there
was, sir; taking the average width. L do not
think there was.
Mr.. Harrington. suggest to the committee
that in this matter Of grading engineers would
do it better than this gentleman, who seems to
be giving his ideas of what people told him.
The Witness. If have a right to say it, L
would like to state that they have oVercharged
us in the aggregate one-sixth more than they
did for the whole cost of the improvement on
II street; that is, by charging US for the church
property. ..f
Mr.. Wilson. That Is legal question with
reference to which this committee will have to
exercise itself hereafter.
BY Mr.. Bass: Q. Where do. you reside on H
streetl A. No. 1900.
Q. That is between Twelfth and Thirteenth,
is it noti A. Yes; have lived on that street
with all parts Of 1t.
By Mr.. Mattingiy: Q. What is your businessf
A. am now q produce-dealer. My traders
that of a carpenter. am calculated to meas
ure superficial contents as well as the most of
the persons.
By Mr., Wilson: Q. Didyouever measure this
street, A. did.
Q. Do you know whether any credit was 81
lowed on that street for intersecting streets' A.
The whole of the concreting, according to my
measure, is made up to H street.
Q. That is counting the cross-streets. A.
Yes; the other streets were goingon at the same
time, and it was hard to tell which would do
n
would put the paving down afterward.
H. Your point there is that in measuring II
street for the concrete they measured the whole
street through! A. Yes, sir; and charged it to
H street.
Q. Making no allowance for the intersecting
streetsl A. No, sir.
Q. Did you measure this street, A. did,
sir. 1t is easily measured. The breadth is IS
feet.
Q. What is the length, or II you have the
measurement made give it to usl A. (refer-
ring to paper in his hand.) It may be pretty
hard to understand.
O. What is the length from Seventh 10 Thir
teenth streetsl A. The length of the building
line from Seventh to Thirteenth streets Is
,62s feet 10 inches. made in 1 ,629 feet, CIV
ing then two inches in.
Q. 1t is IS feet in width and I $50 feet long 2
A. Yes, sir; and the crossings are 1864 feet.
Q. Additional A. Yes, sir.
Q. That makes the total length, then, 2,095f
A. Yes, sir; that is the length; but that is not
all, You have got to take the alleys. There
are four alleys crossing that street which viii
average about IL feet wide.
By Mr.. Bass: Q. Have you not the exact
measurement A. have.
By Mr.. Wilson: Q. Walt one moment Give
me the entire length of that street. It is 1 ,629
feet, without Intersections A. Yes, sir; and
that is 1865 feet.
Q. Making 2,095 the whole length7 A.. Yes.
q. Does that embrace the alleysl A No,
sir.
@. What is the width of the alleysi A.
Twenty-seyen feet six inches long, by an aver
age of, say y feet wide. They run from the
street back to the building line, which Is 2716
feet.
@. Give me the whole amount Of alleywayi
A. There are four of them arr feet by II feet.
Q. Is that ala A. No, SIR Streets where
they cross on each side of the carriageway arc
paved on the line of the curbing to the build
ing-line where the cross-streets cross. They are
paved on each side with concrete between the
present curbs. Eleventh street Is fifty feet.
The crossings amount to one hundred and
ninety feet.
Q. did not quite understand you. A. It is
pretty hard to measure, sir.
By Mr.. Wilson: Q. Very well; we will have
it measured with an engineer. A Yes. sir;,I
am certain, however, that the whole of that
eoncreting is measured to Fl street.
Mr.. Hubbell. / submit that the only meas
urement we can go by is an engineers meas
ursment.
Governor Shepherd. would state, in regard
to this, that the engineer who makes up these
assessments has plates prepared showing the
whole line Of the street with all the distances,
Intersections, and everything Of the kind.
Mr.. Wilson. Who Is that engineer
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