, 1876-08-09

Tho Chicago Times printed an article
fow days ngo On tho subject Of tho Court
House stone, which approved tho action Of
the Comfy Board mud its general tendency
has led to a suspicion III certnin quarters TINT
there Is somebody nbout that concern inter-
ested iu tho operations OF tho Ring. Ihis
suspicion was ccrtainly not dissipated by o
paragraph which tho Times printed yesterday
morning, justifying Tie County 1'onrd in re-
jccting the proposition made by aloss1y. Hoy
1NoToS md others to build the ontiro Court
House for 81, 100, ,000. Tho Times misroprc-
sents tho case as follows:
The plan presented by tho 13o7tsaroy combinn.
tlou s cheaper than le ono adopted, for jurt Tho
seS nf ses s1sss t. = f%esnss % sr Err L
s 1e.ess eesh i e ' ts iSay ps or Il t q Il
that i Ii muc too small, aud nut sufficiently COM
nanding in ita character. II would DO anything
sizc and imPosetishea as%h. % II cook kyls County Is
too poor 70 build Ccnrt.lIonse of ample t!Imen.
sions, and which Will he, for 81 time, representa-.
poor to build at nl As between cheap afraIr anil
none ut al for some years, tho later should, by al
means, hive tho prcfcrcnco.
Tho facss aro, and the Tines must know
thom to bo 80, thnt the BoY1Narov combine
ton offered to oroct its building on tho Ba,no
foundation rs TINT already put in; that their
plan presented n building with just as many
square feet aud just rs mich room, as tho
plan on which the County Board is proceed
ing; that their design was handsome and
sufficiently ornamental TINT tho building
they proposed would bo in every way ade-
quito, spacious, substantial, and crcdtablo
to tho city. Thoy proposed to do the work
for million and half less thnn tho County
Board proposes to spend without dome, or
two millions aud half less than tho present
plan will cost with a domo. In placo Of
dome which emit bs soen, tho BoY1aoros
plan contemplated utilizing tho innor space for
great public loll, capable of holding sov-
eral Thousand people and furnishing light for
alt Tho inner Offices But A1essrs BorlNaros
md associates proposed to put all tho money
into tho Courthouse md divide mono with
tho Ring. Tho Times further deliberately
nisroprcsonts tho case whom it says that tho
Doy1NoTos building would bo "cheap nj
fair" 4 building Gun bo crooted now for
S2,l00,000 which shall bo in oyery way as
elegant and substantial rs Il building that
would have cost $3, 500, 900 Of any time with
in two yeass after tho fire, aud that is rs
much as anybody over thought would bo ex-
pended on q Courthouse. Whatever tho
design of tho Times articles may be, tho
otFoct is to encourage tho Court-Houso
lsiug to proceed with its programme
for plundcriug tho people of Cook County,
and tho Indications are that tho programme
will bo duly inauguratcd in tho letting Of the
stone contract. The bid Of Tho fayorite con-
tractor Of the ling is in such tcrms that,
whilo tho amount Is uominally $Go5,710, it
will probably bo swollen by the extra labor
and material to supply tho omissions of his
bid, 80 that tho stouc-work in the oud will
be nlado to cost $500. 900 or 5000, 900 for tho
county part Of tho building alono. From
preaent Indications, this would suit Bomo-
body about tho TINES Office exccllently woll.