The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-10
A CITIZENS VIEWS.
nv THINKS TIN sTgKEr CONTRACTORS
DEMANDS AXE Txusr.
sessae Incidents aaeted 90 snxtata
His Position Are the Contractors
Aeting In Good Faith The corn-
egI's PrahaFse AetIan.

The civ seancsi Gid aas meet klsa street
eea,faet9ss yesterday a. rcqaezeesi b the
latter. aaa - - no .ndiexaes has hzsen
prepared 70 eesress the troahse The zoe
tractors easapiafz ef-sSsc ina1ilsr - d.
Faee q sSte-s grasze script e. rtAssuzssse
figures. sEsea a. o-siEnazrs w1sl probably
b. prspArss1 ~ city Attorney Piles ana
sabaftfe8 a tbe next meeting q tie
essuneiL Tins policy 5rsyosess ~ e.f5zsn
~ az Interview IN wednessayz P0s7 Is
sxfzisxScgE--lhst ~ prssia.ax Tor ms
ssszEnes u street EHra1fs 81 n1uch fsse
szE1a form - h-rftafare. s-xeessf fs.e~ ezlaff
contain provision gnaras tessnx fEie v.sv-
izezi . tie Interest seEai saaaaiiy, sal
PROBABLY - aiio5sAea- TIE izest authorities
consider that fisS u the aaly feasible vag
u dealing With the mater, II the sTsii-
1snee recently passed pF0Eiding FOR She -
ssisnee ~ ssusis. Is found unconstitutional
of1Sl0s ~ a xELLISFoRNED csrgzrs.
Ole - the sest-i n formed citizens ~ seat
re regarding city matters, sas5 10 a Posr-
sNTELt4GESesN reporter yestere&y. Il
aon I consider that this kiex 81 the con
iFnet1Fs - nearly az seF.asfs a matter -
they pretend L i. In my estimation. the
gentleman ole 81 yeuE reporters inter
viewed the other day struck il ahsts right
when be ssid that the trouble vas e.n-
c0c.ef principally By lawyer who holds
would IKE 20 unload il 81 par. Now, for
Instance. take the Fifth street grade Hem
dersOn & Locke tssok that contract for 81
cents per cubic yard. They figured on a 10
per cent. discount on the script before they
pat In their bid when they hired theft
men, they Told tsamsiers that wages for 6
i.fau and team were 8 80 a day: bot a.
they had 10 suffer loss Of 10 per eeat on
the script. they would have 20 pay in
script or resiaee wages to = II paid fn cash.
The Eeti, OF cOurSc. were not accustomed
10 handle script aud took the cash. With
ta0orer. y was the same way. TEey were
offered & In script or 81 - cash aad took
the coin. Then Henderson 4 Locke sub
let the work 10 Charles FrixeIl for
70 cents. rafasls In script You
can easily see that the original
contractors had 4 good enough thing. but
IN spite Of that, when this strike came on
they told Mr.. Frizell TO knock OF work.
he stopped. although he was perfectly viii
ling 10 go ahead aud take his pay IN script
His Ave teams are In the stable earning
nothing a1d eating hay aud grain, and his
men are idle and waiting for an uppor-
tunity 10 resume work. Now. one OF the
heaviest property owners on Fifth street
told me 10 day that four-ffths OF the as
sessment on that street would be paid at
once II Il were due, and that he believed
every dollar OF Il would be. He said he
was willing 10 take 500 of the script, and
that neighbor would take as muck more.
He believed that every dollar of il could
DC disposed of on the line OF the street at
about % per cent
eSE DIFFICULTY
''One trouble Is that the contractors 90
to the brokers 10 dispose of the script aud
the boxers tell them that they will take II
IL they can get IL all, so that no one else
viii BE- able 10 get hold Of auv 10 nav their
taxes with. see Mr Halter wrote al ex-
haustiVe letter on this subject and had IN
published In one of the evening pa.ers
yesterday Now. ! would Ike to know
why he refused TO purchase sufficient
Cherry street grade fund warrants to pay
bis taxes with to-day, when the contractor
asked him TO take them so that he might
20 on with the work. Mr. Halter instead
replied that he would have nothing to do
with the matter until the work was com
plefed, and intimated that he did not
know as he would pay his assessment any
way. as there were some things about
that contract he did rot like
"A Tenth street property owner told me
that he wanted 10 purchase 500 worth of
grade script on that street at once and 500
worth little later aud that ueighbor
wanted $500 of IL.
No EVIDENT CAUSE
''On the Lane street work McClannahhn
4 O'Day knocked of the sub-contractor al
though he wanted TO go on with the work
That was done without any cause for |
know one man who wants 1900 worth af
that script and he told me be thought II.
II. Lewis would take the whole OF It, am
glad that some of the contractors are re
summing work aud think they all will when
they recover their sober senses"