Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-28


to do the bad work and to build the walls
To Col. Townsend the witness said that in
| his opinion there were no places that could not
have been packed properly
The witness knew Mr.. Emery as the .boss
bricklayer," and understood that he was work.
ing for Beckwith Quackenbush, and that was
the general opinion Of the men below.
Mr.. Swift drew from the witness the idea
that Major Lydecker would have had, in his
opinion, to get up on the scaffold and look at
the work to have detected the bad packing.
AS TO READING THE RECORD.
When the testimony of Davis was concluded
the usual discussion occurred as to the proper
manner OF reading the record The judge-ad-
vocate said that it was but Just to the stenog-
rapher to state that it is an event of the rarest
occurrence in Washington to require a stenog
rapher to read directly from his notes without
nrst translating them. The question was SUBJ
mltted to the court the vote standing II to
against reading at the present time.
BAsHFUL WITNESS
Henry Jones, sprightly young colored man,
was called He was triAe bashful, and he had
broad smile that showed his teeth on the
slightest provocation.
cate.
well, no, sir; no more than Just workin'."
be had recently been "grsdin round de school
mousse. He was once upon a time employed
In the tunnel both in "Champlain avenue and
Howard Univers." He was packer and was
the hole, then put on little cement. He was
told to do TINS by his inspector. Mr.. Thomas
oBrien: He did not know how the work ought
to have been DONE
WHAT THE WITNESS DIDN'T KNOW.
"Once in a while we'd build boolkheads,"
said the witness, "afore holows, kind o.
caves"
why did you leave these cavities?"
II don't know"
''Do you know Major Lydecker by sight2"
mo, sir!'
Lieut.. Townsend"
mo. sir"
"Major Kirlin?"
"No, sir!''
who hired you?" asked COL Flagler.
Il went down with Mr.. Mcnamara"
Did you consider yourself in the employ of
Mr.. O'Brien?"
mo. sir. He was only kind of inspection
over me. l went down before him."
You supposed you were working for Beck
with Quackenbush, did you?'
yes, sir; seen it on the envelope they paid
me in"
BRICKLAYER ON THE STAND.
The next one called was Morgan Dorsey, a
bricklayer, who had worked on the tunnel His
testimony was merely corroborative as to the
bad work. The bad work, he said, went on in
the presence Of the sub-inspectors There
was also what the men called walking
inspector, "who came down the tunnel once a
day. They knew when he was coming by his
nght, and sometimes some one would give
warning up the tunnel. This done so that
he could not see the bad work. He never
knew him to get up on the scaffolding but once
and then he caught bad work. Lieut. Town
send came into the tunnel. The witness
DID NOT KNOW MAJOR LYDEcKER BY SIGHT,
Theodore HAPPY, some kind of Teutonic
foreigner, was called. He said that he had
been bricklayer for about thirteen years, and
last summer worked on the tunnel. He was
working ''all over" The packing was done by
Italians and Americans and sometimes by COL
ored men. he said, but none of them were
stone masons. About the 18th of September
the witness got orders to do good work and he
did 1t. He did not know about the cavities.
Whenever he went up in the key to key-up he
saw stone wall before him.
NEVER SAW THE MAJOR IN THE TUNNEL
The next person occupying the witness chair
was Samuel f. Boyce, bricklayer, who once
filled the position of sub-inspector in the tun-
mel. He knew Major Lydecker by sight, but
only since this week. He did not know that he
had ever seen the major in the tunnel.
The duties OF the witness carried him
back and forth. ahead of the work at times,
taking cross-sections. To the best of
his hHoWieuSe ue tHOuRnt Indt the
packing done was good. although he had at
times discovered bad work. Sometimes he re-
ported this. His orders were to have the work
done right, but had no instructions about max
ing reports il the work was not done well. He
had received
PAY FROM NIB. EMERY FOR EXTRA TIME,
but could not remember how much he had re-
ceived. There nothing regular about
these payments which he received several
times, perhaps four or six times. His recollec-
ton about this financial operation was very
vague, and as the judge-advocate endeavored
to get a definite answer the voice of the wit
ness sunk lower and lower. He had asked Kir-
lin, he said, about this matter, and the latter
told him that it was all right to receive pay for
the overtime from Emery.
Mr.. Swift found out that the witness knew
that Emery was a subcontractor right after he
went down into the tunnel. The largest amount
he had ever received at any one time from
Emery for overtime was IS, and the largest
might have been S25 or $50. Krlin once told
him to do some work which the night inspector
should have done, and this
CAUSED HIM TO GRowL,
mostly to himself" He went to work and
then Emery came to him and made the propo-
sition about the extra pay.
Mr.. Swift kept up a very brisk fire at the
witness, trying to nail him down to definite
statement about this arrangement, but with
little success. He did learn, however, that the
reception of the extra pay neither shocked the
sense of propriety on the part of the witness
nor dulled his acuteness in inspecting the
work.