National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-06-06
now TO Lara CONCRETE PATEMENT
WITH DISPATCH.

Putting In Condemned stone Not Half Broken
to Pieocs-A Contractors Opinion Of the
Conmi-sioners-Hc DeAes Them to Tear
Down His Fence.
The Office of the District Commissioners for
a few minutes yesterday presented an ami
mated appearance, and one man, evidently not
afraid to speak his mind, told the board pub
licly the opinion that he entertained Of that
august body. Patrick Cullinanc, contractor,
not Of the ring crowd, is putting an iron
fence around st. Dominic's church, and has
the work well under way towards completion.
II seems that the otlicious official who has the
duty Of looking aftcr this kind Of work in the
interest Of the District concluded that the
height Of the fence, which was four and half
feet, was about one foot higher than he thought
1t should be, and reported his belief to the
board The Commissioners decided that one
foot must come or or the fence down, and
when Mr.. Cullinanc visited their Office yestcr-
day morning he received that information.
lie sought first To reason them out Of such
n decision, hut failing to succccd, his Irish
blood rose, and he spoke very plainly and
forcibly what he had to say.
lie told General kctcliam to return to New
York, Ex-Governor Dennison to Ohio, and ms
for Captain Phelps he belonged on the sea and
had better gU back to it, rs he did not know
anything about municipal affairs, aud the
three of them were no benefit to the city. He
had started to build that fence, and he intended
to finish it, and he dared them to pull II down.
They knew as well as he did that they had no
such authority, and he defcd them to interfere.
lie then marched out of the Office as mad an
lrishman as could he found.
Tho carrying out Of the contract farce
goes bravely on. and the pets Of the ring
are pushing their work toward completion
with all possible haste. Interested taxpayers
would he rccoinpenSed by visiting some of the
streets where the concrete Is being laid aud
see the manner Ia which the work Is done.
The stone is broken right where 1t Is TO lay,
some of II in pieces the size Of n watermelon,
aud covered up by the binding aud concrete
with more dispatch than finish. When heavy
travel settles the broken stone and cracks oc-
cur in the concrete followed by breaks, this
result can be accounted for by the bad work
done in the laying.
Attention Is particularly called 10 tho size
of the stone put in the pavement On FtnnSyl-
vania avenue west of the circle, aud the way
IN which IL Is broken. by the way, rumor has
il that this same stone now being used for
street purposes in this city was condemned in
Baltimore and thrown out rs unit tOT service
II Is said that 1t WAS hurricdly shipped here
AMI put into use without any questions being
asked. Tho taxpayers with property AUDITING
on these streets have several times surveyed
the work. and condemned 1t M worthless ere
1t was finished. They entertain very poor
opinion of the contractors, and some oil the
property holders 60 50 far rs to express them
selves openly that the work is merely form
of disguise for depicting the District treasury
at their expense. and that more persons are
embraced in the steal than the parties to
whom the contracts were awarded.