Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-28
TO BEGIN WORK TO-DAY.

The Erection of the New Government Build.
Ing to Proceed Once More-Where Are
the Detects, Mr.. MaIones
Work on the new Government building,
which has been at standstill since the dis.
missal of Superintendent of Construction
Patterson and the appointment of M. L.
Malone, will be begun under the new admins
tration this morning. The work which was
supposed to be defective. and over which there
was great amount of commotion in the de.
partment at Washington, is not SO bad after
all. and inasmuch as some people would like to
see the whole building torn down and the piles
under it repainted this will not be done.
General Superintendent of Repairs upon
Government Buildings ]. N. Pattison. of
Washington, arrived in the city yesterday
morning and proceeded at once to the new
Postof1ce, where he had been ordered for in
spection. He was taken iD charge by the new
superintendent, Mr.. Malone, who showed him
about the building and pointed out the defects
which had been reported to Washington. MIR.
Pattson made a careful examination OF the
building, and took especial pains not to COM
municate the opinion he had formed to Mr..
Malone. The inspectors report will be for
warded to Washington to-day or tomorrow,
and will not be made public until acted
upon by the department When seen
last evening Mr.. Pattison would not say
what impression he had formed Of
any grounds for the complaints about the de-
fective workmanship Of MIR. Malone's prede-
cessor. The Superintendent of Construction,
who now claims he did not say anything to the
newspapers here about part of the building
being out of plumb, and it would be necessary
to stop work until it was investigated, main
tained dignihed silence as to what would be
done by Mr.. Pattison.
Mr. Malone stated last evening that work
would be begun to-day with force of about 40
men. He would not say how much, If any, of
the building would have to be torn down and
rebuilt. 1t is understood though that num-
ber of slight changes in the plans will be made.
Part of the proposed work which was begun by
Mr.. Patterson will be eliminated. but on the
whole there will not be the tearing down which
was supposed would have to be made.
There has not been piece of granite set on
the building for the past three weeks. At the
rate Mr.. Patterson was going on with the work,
he might have had the greater part of the re-
manning half story in the center completed,
while Mr.. Malone was waiting on the Depart
ment to send an expert here to investigate
what his predecessor had done. At present
there are about II 900 cubic feet of granite
lying on the ground, waiting to be placed into
position. Another ship containing more than
this number Of feet is also on the way from
Maine, and will reach here long before
the present supply is laid. 1t will take
about six weeks to place the 1900 feet
into position. If there is no effort made to
drive additional piles and paint their ends red,
white and blue, the work which will be begun
this morning will continue for at least three
months. The first work " i'll be begun on the Gen.
ter of the building. which lacks 215 stories of
being completed. The four derricks which 1t was
found necessary to overhaul, and brush the
dust from the top of the mast. are in good
working order now. and there will be no diff
Guilty getting the large blocks of granite into