Daily Republican., 1885-02-03
rnsrn,ra stree, Bridge Job.

The Third street bfl0ge Job.
The following IL the reply Of j. w.
Hawkins to communication in the
REPUBLICAN of last Friday in regard
to the Third street bridge
In the first place Ii. u. Townsend is
the most interested In the bridge. He is
not one Of the signers OF the bond, and
as far AZ the Levy Court knows he
never paid dollar towards IL and As
for Mr.. Speaker James Ponder, what
he says privately doesn't count. We go
by the law, and ind 1t In the Revised
Code of 1874. The Levy Court built the
bridge In accordance with that law to
the best of their knowledge. The MEM
beers Of the Levy Court are az follows :
Jonathan Hand, Samuel Enos, Abra-
ham Ingram, John p. Bslville, Sylves-
ter Townsend, Brouo NJ. DerriDger,
Robert Walker, William Mcclellan,
Abner Hollingsworth, Lewis Zsbley,
John w. Hawkins. If he had told
any one of these men what he say
that Mr.. Ponder said to him the
bridge would not have been built at
that time.
The Court agreed to build the bridge,
six in favor and five against it. The
bridge was built at that time because
We thought that we were saving money
| for the county by Interested pariiu-
paying for What they wsnted then
The county would want 1t in the future.
| We knew " hat be txiei 81 ot bridge
tenders won ii 10 aud we're willing o.
pay that much, WIN. b has cot to bt
about twelve hundred pillars per year.
The county at that time did not wan
to borrow any money, and If we had
wanted TO no person would have lent Il
to us without an obligation to pay back
II they have anything to show that thu
county owes them money. let then
produce the documents. These mer
were not willing TO pay more thar
a, 200. Why did they obligate them
selves to pay $4,000? That was tn,
best we could do for them.
1 II they thought it too much the.
could have said I'VE won't pay it. Thu
court WAS willing for the bridge ques
ton to rest. We were in no hurr
about it. Some one of these partie
got up report that this was thei
Levy Court that they never woul
have the money to pay. James Good
man, one of the men who came there I
go on the bond, came to me and aske
/ the nature Of this bond. / told hir
Just az sure as he put his name t
al Nut DOuu ITO Woulu uAto W pny III
= money. He declined to go on /,
! Four of the men who did 90 on it pal
once willingly ; the next time undo
!, protest the next time because they ha
J. to. Mr.. Goodman had paid his 81 ,OO
. The others, all but four, had paid whi
|. they subscribed. These four when u
: bridge WAS half done made up the
III inds TO pay no more. Quigley wan
!. ed money. He went to the count
a treasurer, who told him that he cou
not pay him any more until these fol
). men had paid up their subscription
:, Brono NJ. Derringer introduc RES
~ luton, which he called "Chock,"
= THAT we should not move too fast,
70 follows
al Resolved, that there shall not be al
money drawn from the county treasu
!. or on account of the Third street brid
~ until the subscriptions are all exhaui
~ ed.
"a Quigley took the bond as money a
a put it iuto the hands of lawyer
o. collection. Two Of them paid at sigl
-, two others paid by notes.
,,uuI Now ] will say something abo
~ locating the bridge. The City Coun
met at the site where the bridge was
be built, the railroad directors W
" them, and the Levy Court all at
~ same time. The railroad company ga
a1 Council street through their prope
~ from the Third street bridge to Fou
~ street. The Council protested agai
o our building the bridge any furt
so than the wharf line they would u
y, charge of it there. They did not WI
az us 10 interfere with the grade of
w streets, and thai il why the brit
;" stopped at the wharf line. The C
tract had not been made to build
J., bridge then. think that this kno
~ Mr.. Ogle's and Mr.. Barrett's bid q
~ 1 never saw their bids, but they {
-. tainiy did not bid to do what we
~. not require TO be done. Quigley wo
No not have built the bridge II he
90 known that he was TO make the
rs proaches. One of Mr.. Derring'
VI resolutions, Cbock" he called tn,
- WAS as follows;
~ Resolved, That the bridge is not
be- paid for or taken Off the build'
'e hands until horses and vehicles
. pass over IL.
~ The Council agreed TO make the
"o proaches. They backed out and wo
49,, not do 1t. Quigley had to do 1t or
ey court would not have paid him S3,t
tnI ne ulhuc a gnu piiuEoJ o"eioi"SeoAJ
IS the Levy Court, and got paid just "
~. III we had agreed TO pay, ZIG, 900.
., bridge was given out as whole bri
III and pier, both In one. Mr.. Towns
ny says that the bridge cost 49,, 900. O.
Vi ley did not get quite S26, 300
70 He was short just what he had to
W the lawyer for collecting, because t
ece we're forced TO do IL. ne
we heard about Mr. Ogle and Mr.. Bar
70 bidding together. 1 have heard
IDr. A. ii. Grimshaw's and Mr.. Og
-, bid was s26 900, and was attac
eu once on the street for giving Quit
~ $500 more than their bid. The th
W. was all done fair and square In
,. committee, and the committee repo
'an to the court and their report was un
san mously adopted. Even the $l5,U0'
* * too ridiculous TO talk about, let a