, 1879-07-29

all could sea those for themselves, ntsl
Il ras matter Of opinion; hut tho
Committee. rs he understood, was appointed
to investigate tho durability Of the structure,
and not to Ravo an opinion upon tho looks Of
H. Tie roport, hc thought, should lsavo been
moro specific in It's nnturc, md whatever
CHARGES there wcrn aho..'d have. been n'adc
openly, without fear or fnvnr, and against tfic
parties concerned directly. In sort of blind.
itssint,ntittE .way, CHARGES were made agalnst
somebody, but ngxnst whom nobody could
s Ss. nlxnt syo gss 's Ges1e,n m vsn
the RuitdhnE Committee Of the Council. or
moro careful ,rcaalng Of the docuu'ont,
sht e9sa tsa nGs . sea all " pn,es n s'' asnE s;s;
anY.hing 10 10 With the building Of that Court
lloso wcro thieves and robbers. IT. was c1.
&remoly annorng TO think that 4 committee Of
experts, hired by tho Lemont Stonc Ring anil
other rival corporations st,uuId succeed ia mis-
leading flic people, or Hoodly number Ut uicm.
Into Tie belief that great trlud had beon com.
mlstod, and this III face OF tho fact that tho
whole building under root
WOULD COST HUT ABOUT S70o,m0,
when. according to tic archltect's repoE, sL500,-
| 000 Of the c0ltnly's money had already been
| paid to tho contractors Of the County Court
Louise, and tho building was by no mems coul-
plctcd pct. When tho City COURTHOUSE, In every
respect as good a structure. a',d batter one,
would be bllt for leas than half tho Nancy, be
could not for tltc lffe or him sec where tue great
steal on The part Of anybody could come III, l1lu
people seemed TO lose aigtlt Of this tnct Alto
Ecihcr, aud he thought it paeslng strnngc.
Mr. Heath appeared 10 take the matter very
| hard, and appeared to be moro d'sgnssed With
| public life than ho had ever expressed hinsclf
cheap building and IT tl,o s.mo ttn.ea good one,
anti savc the Cty Ut Chicago a million dollars.
There wns scarcely day that ! wRs not upon
the walls, md II was On my mind continually.
rcst hers. il I could do what / would
like to do, would haye some Of tho best cx~
perss in tue country herc,:-men why arc stran-
gers, cntlrely dtsintorcsted PARTIES -tmport them
and let them 10 on without word IRON any
body; then Bsu what wuutd COME Of It. II they.
| would say that the butlltpg was failure, tlcn
VIC would fall; II not, then so1nabotly else
thls alone, and dnn't know as / caro- cnpuch
about The building Itself 10 do It anyhow. How
orer, would like to bare had tho report more
explicit md name the partlcs 10 blame. II
there WAS anything In tie erection OF that build
lug that was not Ia tho specifications, certainly
wns not advised OF the fuct. hfy Superintendent
Of Construction, MIR. Button, was man TINT
had cvory confidence tn, and llRya yet. There
| must Ia come uiistnkc somewhere, but l can't
tell whcra It Wns.n
A1r. Heath alluded
TO Tun PATCHED sroHa.
Ho suid thcre were patches Ia the Btonc,-a few
| Of ttlcn,--aid maintained that 1t would 10 next
to impossible to erect largo building without
having some patched stone In It.. There never
Ind been one erected tn the CITY wtthout,-thc
Custom-flouse, and even tho magnificent and
costly County Building. There wcrc number
Of very 1argc oncs In the latter. uc con-
tlnucd "Suppose You have. stono
worth $50 or su, oil cut and ready
to p1t IL, when you find there
has bcen cor1icr broken of. You simply cut
out section, pcrhavs couple Of Inches square,
| ind set III piece. THIS goes into tha structure
aud is Undecided In the solid wall. It would
Te Impossible for the piece to como out cyen II
1t should become loose, and the strength Of tho
stone Is IN nuwtse diminished on this ACCOUNT"
lie sa!.i t.crs wcro u number Of little holes IN
the Btoue cauaeA ny 1osslls, put e1pcrleuca mao
eaueht ~. ~. t ~ sea .ac III ~
o. atono. "as Ius ttst .hsse ~ Asu ~, ~ \.
from Ile s.zu os ,a1 ~ n ~ ni;.s ,,t.s ~
cnu o. . an 80. ~ 'u .,ostsa,. ,shc- ~,
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a.n..a. efa ,al,a ~ ,,oSc ~. h,,ii'1;,r NM
eonsGqucnsXs % Nv taa nv. ~
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