The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-21
ruE ST. LOUIS POST OFFICE.


,, s,h,rd.on,c. -urRagen's shares /
nr,ii Urnure Bu~incss In ~. Louis.
o. tot,ta, oct. I'm the spring Of |
,e-s 4 b. Nun ~, q supervising Architect
,cbo,f of the q vcrnu cut, entered into |
contract with pniiip W Schneider 81 the |
o.n II schneider brown, for tho stone
,ho used M the basement and ub-bascment
=, tho new hnilding. The arm at that time
o.,,ed the granite unarrics on Ozark Mount in,
T. wdslcbrook, eighty i've miles from 81 Louis
,nd the stone r, quired Tor the fulniment " the
contract wa. owned and sold by the Arm, but
o., various reasons the name vf MIR. brown
,hc Hon. u. Urntz Rrown-did not appear In the
b,ds or in the nnal agreements.
pv the terms Of tho contract schneider was
otnesd to deliver at the site Of the building tho
s,anlte cut and dressed, rcany fer the builders
pse Fort atanite itself. exclusive OF all the
e,st of cutting and Transporting, he received
rost liberal pricesD cents for eacl cubic foot,
when IN blocks Of less than ~ feet; 81 frr each
foot, when In blocks containing from 20 to 10
feet. and a corresponding increase Of 10 cents on
each foot for each increase of ten feet In the
cont nts of a block. Therefore, fora block CON
tanning 100 feet sl.7O per foot paid. In addi-
ton TO these prices FOR the stone ITSELF Schneider
received Is per cent. on all the expenses OF cut
ting. boxing. aud transporting tie Stone W re
turn for tue SUPERVISION of the Work. the Gov
eminent waving the bill- IN gro.s tier thcv had
been approved pV superiu oud,nt ~ auuned AZ
Inc uunrrtcs The frat suprrintend mt. John
Hest. was AN honest man, aud wa- soon r. moved
w make way for kentucktan named osnotn.
The plan adopted Tor ne"su lng me stone w
novel. aud through an APPARENTLY harmless pru-
vision opened the way Tor HE most starting
ovcTcharges. hits provision WIS, that ~ o.,
tsrminiug the bulk Of any tluCk. there should
be an allowance of one inch III around on the
sizc of the cut and dressed stone TO allow for
line wnato incurred. There seems to he no pos
ability for great fraud IN su,h system. out
one or twn examples wall he sufficient to Illus
trate the ma. nitude Of the jop II covered For
instance a block tnat whom dressed was feet
In length feet In breadth. nd feet In depth.
and therefore containing 80 cubic icct would
exccut through this system Of measurement.
have brought $500 AZ the price Of the mat erinl
solely Tor, by the tcrns of tie contract, all
blocks containing from ~ t. 80 cube feet were
worth 81 10 per foot. But 10y Increasing the
the block ecamc q feet and inches the breadth
feet and inches. the depth feet and 2inches.
and the contents SO cubic feet. f.r sll blocks
containing from W I" % cutie feet I ~ per foot
WIS puid. and therefore instead OF ~ ~ Schnei-
der received 5000
TuE LITTLE INCH ALL AROUND.
withtle larger stones the increase brought
BY tie simple " inch all around" was even more
marked. he builder require a number Of
blocks Of the net Size OF 10 II -. by II. by :
Il. In, cont lining l,d cubic feet. these at
t9i1per foot would nave been worth SsS 10
but 10y the measurements au0gted ty MHl
lett. they became u IT,. I'm, bv r. m. by II.
Gin nd were srii To contain lSj cubic feet.
aud at ~ ~ Der foot. whicn was the price set
by the contract. Wel1e sio0. But he irau
did not stop there As has already been said,
the contractors re ctNcd - per cent. ON al thr
expenses ~ out'lhi' I'Nlht anI ,nil77" 1,lt
Ihe iron Mountain II .liiNau O."IE.a a nAtu
ilelgnt vi ,"', .,i, ~, ,, f ,r,,r ~ r
W ~ pnn., ,, w. ~, ti,, ~, So III,
saau ~ 1911 , No Li,.L W.. me-, ,,'.,t
.h,u"i NJ, 1870 ,,, uo,,, a.tin,t,d frnT
,a 49,. ~ t, rii,.,,l t, "a, ., ~
,h ~, 4, A., Niia,ad tt,, Sshrc,,i.r Ia, ,oiit
pn'ui "a, u, vi W ~ ~, 80, ,h., ,,
r,oi NJ =, -, nt, I'm y, rtti,,n an tLe
i,,, ~ thss ,n.,,,s s a. tnrp ali ar,.tnd
,h anvai' MOI c.~h hlnrL TN. mate "A y,.i 4
hs ~. , IN h., 80 h, Jlvitsd 10 "a hi,rc r,n
tanning i6o cutie feet was transported 10y the
railroad company as Weighing "A tribe less than
IA Ions. whereas Mullett's measurement made
II contain Is cubic feet. which ~ IL feet 10 the
ton ", ighod ljS tons. be sure the ddui-
tnnai 10 feet nud no greater SOLID " IN n II
tho air, but ~ Schneider was paid $40 tor eacn
MYTHICAL foot. there was no reason WY he
should not be paid for TRANSPORTING tnem. Ihen
In addition to this. schneider took IL per cent.
on the railroad company's bill for his supeIsis
Ing care.
Schneider had In his once In this city nnan-
he purchased for the GOvernmcnt ali the supplies
needed for cutting the stone. Among these tn"
item OF steel for stone cutters 10 Is was inpur-
tant, ana Mehlgen DO dght Urge amount oil m
fenOr. seahcd octagOn steel, aud SchneldeI
sold IL to Mullett for - cents a pounding
hgnest market price for the best 50 are steel
There were 81 men emo Dyed IN INC iarnes
ana the stone cutting XII q each ~ tueh re