National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-31

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tissiy ~ whether he mssns 70 vss0s''osd o
o. a cart load, A. About three cart loada
would make . yard, the way they generally
By the Chairman: Q. You cay q .vouid Be
worth two or three mills per cubic yard for cd
ditional haul DISCO fect5 A. Two or three mills
for each 100 ~. GEt 9It
4 9. For instance, Mr.. Jexett asked you the
difference between an average haul Of 200 feet,
and An average haul Of 800 feea A. Inss Wooid
o. Mrs milh mar cubic yards A. For the
500 fest, three or four or i've mills; sometimes
bidders would put In ono, sometmss anotnet. |.
/ @. You say for esch sdditiond 1o0Nets cent
Q yardi A. No, sir; three mills.
|, q. But YOU said three mills per 100 fest, -
understood i'll A. You misunderstood me; !
said three mills to each 100 feet.
o. That Is what I understood A. Or nine
q 100 i1 Won to state tie dlRssspcs b.
tween haul Of 800 and haul Of 300 fssts
M. Bass Ito Mr.. Jewett.) He states differ
emily, now, to what he did to your question.
By the Chairman: Q. ssksd what the DIFF
ference of cost was per cubic yard for that 3D.
ilitional haul Of 500 feet. A. The question was
not put to me- IN that way. -c.g.Tg-
Twin try and make It plain. 1 said three mills
Q yard for every additional one hundred Del,
making nine mills for the three hundred feet.
By Mr.. Jewett: Q. Would you consider .
cent and quarter yard for each one hundred
feet, beyoud one or two hundred feet 0sees-
sive charged Ar depended . iistle On Vow
far you hauled It. II Il was . half mile
should consider II very excessive.
I Q. say for one hundred feeti A. Il would
be excessive If you hauled II half . mile. The
principle that you spoke of-the cost diminish-
ing as you extended the distance price
ought to be diminished.
| Q. How Is II, II you make three mills yard
q reasonable charge, that you say Q cent and q
quarter per yard depends upon anything A.
Your question Is rather
Q. lift Il Obscure, make Il plain. a. don't
Q. want to know II, in your opinion, cent
and q quarter yard for each one hundred feet
beyond two hundred feet. In the first
place, here Is two hundred feet provided for In
the contract. A. Yes, sir.
Q. So much per yard. Now, would you re-
gard an allowance Of cent and quarter per
yard for each 100 feet, in excess of that 200
feet, an excessive charged A. should think
it was, If It was only worth three mills.
Mr.. Jewett. That is what I want to get from
Mr.. Wilson. Mr.. Jewctt has covered part
of what wished to ask; but win ask this:
O. Did you examine that R-street sewer,
which Gleason had been repairing, so Is to en-
able you to state what 1t would be reasonably
worth to make the repairsi A. don't think
he made any repairs. think his contract was
to clean out the gravel that had washed In.
@. Did you examine the sewer, then, with
sufficient particularly to enable you to state
what would be q reasonable compensation for
doing that worki A. did not examine it, be-
cause had no occasion to. What / had refer
encs to was this: that the original contractor
should be responsible for It.
Q. know that, but want to get at what 1t
is reasonably worth to do that work and take
the gravel out7 A. The only way that could
answer that would be by saying that he might
have worked twenty men day for month,
and the value of their labor was, of course,
what he ought to be paid.
Q. You are an engineer, and you have seen
the placei A. Yes, sir.
Q. Can you, from what you have seen of IT,
give the committee any Information as to what
It would be reasonably worth TO do the work
necessary to take out that gravela A. OF
course, could not answer that question pre-
cisely, because have not measured the work
as it came out 1t would be q matter of opin-
ion. I have taken no measurements. think
It can be measured, so that any one can de-
termine that.
Q. You think there would be no difficulty in
measuring? A. Yes, sir they can measure the
material As It came out and they can probably
estimate better than could here, without 60
ing and measuring It.
Senator Stewart. Could you tell, from the
condition you saw it in, then, how much would
be required to clean 1t out? A. If you asked
me what it would cost for taking that material
out, when saw It, when it ought to have
been .
Q. Yes; you could estimate thatl A. Yes; 1
could estimate that. ~.
Q. But after it had clogged up and filled It,
80 that 1t would have to be dug out again, you
could not estimate It very WE'LL A. could
not, because had no opportunity to examine
It thoroughly. 1 think, very likely, It would
cost twice as much now Is then.
Mr.. Wilson. What would 1t have been worth
them A. l don't think It could actually have
cost g., 600 to have It all repaired.
Mr.. Wilson. That is all l have to ask the
witness.
The Chairman. Have counsel anything else
to suggest
Mr.. Mattingly. should like this witness to
be examined upon this single point: He has re-
ferred to the prices of grading under the old
corporation. I would Ike to know whether the
contractor did not, in fact, appropriate the sur
Plus earth! ..
The Witness: No, sir; not under Mayor
last year, unless it was by special contract.
They stole it sometimes. e--i:.9
@. Did they not universally steal lit A. No,
sir; not under my administration 1t all; that Is
their complaint. L 7e6,.-
Mr.. Jewett. understood the witness to say
that in making . contract he designated where
the waste material was TO be put.
Mr.. Harrington. I would like to ask the wit
ness what he thinks Is fair price per CARLOAD
horse CART He has already said there were
three cart loads to the cubic yard.
Mr.. Jewett. But some men would put three
cubic yards where another man would put only
one.
Mr. Harrington. I mean his basis of three
loads to the cutie yard.
@. How much would be fair price per cart
load, hauling It 200 feetf A. It would be one
third of what Il would be worth yard.
o. It would BE- worth one,shird Of ii centss
A. Or 10, or whatever u WAS. -
Q. 1t would be four cents q cart load, theni
A. see what the gentleman Is after. he
wants to get me % the question wont be clear,
and don't want to be made to say anything
different from what mean. want to say
first what mean, and nothing more.
Mr.. Harrington. VIII you say It nowl +
Inc CnalrW1u. Answer Inc QueSLlOu-nOW
much a cart-load, hauling It 200 feetl A.
think said my price would be % cents Q yard;
and one-third Of that IL HI
By Mr.. Harrington: Q. Eight cents7 How
many cart-loads can you make day, excavat-
ing and hauling 200 feeti A. can't tell you
that. g EAEF ~ t-g-sE
Q. Could you make Is loads In dayi A.
That would depend iltogether-some men
would take Is yards out 81 l-IFn[
Q. Take two men working four carts; We can
average It that way. A. can say this: II you
have good foreman and good men, they VII
take out two yards where poor foreman and
poor men will take out ono.
By Mr.. Wilson: Q. Would ~ cents for
hauling cubic yard Of earth 100 feet In excess
Of 200 feet be . reasonable or unreasonable
CHARGED A. It would pay we'll.
9. Would II be reasonable OF unreasonable
charged A. I'll had Q contrsct--
Q. Just answer my question. A. Think Il
would be more than d q worth. I think Il can
be done for les. ! -@-s EE8tlEBL
Q. What would be reasonable charge for
hauling 100 feet in excess Of 900 feeti A. I
think quarter Of . cent would be more than
. reasonable chsrg,. sE-..
Q. Then, suppose you add another 100 feet
to It, and what would be Q reasonable cAatgei
A. II would not b worth twice ore quarter of
Q cent; It would be worth little more than one
quarter Of cent addsd; thsre b dimination
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