The morning call., 1892-03-30
some VERY POOR WORK.
Property Owners on Juniper
Street Have a Grievance.
They Complain Bitterly Of the Manner in
Which That Thoroughfare Is Being
Paved and Curbed.

The owners OF property on Juniper street
are engaged in a very acrimonious discus.
sion with the city Street Department. 1t Is
about the character of the work being done
on that thoroughfare. which exhausts itself
in $50 feet Of roadway parallel with Eleventh
street in the block squared by that street,
Tenth, Harrison and Bryant
Their grievance is that the work Is not
being done according to specifications.
They have employed counsel and the law
yer notified Superintendent Gileran. That
funeti0nary visited Juniper street Monday,
but gave the people, they say, no satisfac-
ton. Their next action will be 20 file a
protest against the acceptance of the work
By the city and the payment of any money
10 the sub-contractor, Daniel Harvey who
is the assignee Of Moran & Phillips, under
bonds in $1,000 to do the work on the foll0w-
ing terms:
Paving per square foot. 1875 cents; fcurbns
per llneal foot, % cents. aud sidewalks per foot
way Is surety on the bond.
The specifications require basait blocks of
the best California granite to be used.
Their width must be not less than 3s4 inches
nor more than u inches their length not
less than inches nor more than u inches,
ana their ueDtn not less than inches nor
more than TX inches. And the finest OF
beach gravel or hard rock screened must
ill the interstices and be strewn thereon.
A CALL reporter visited the scene on
Monday. and found Mathew Kelleher, one
OF the property-owners on Juniper street,
looking on with an air of disgust at the
materials employed in the work. lie took
out his penhnife, aud scraping the blocks
as though they were SD much soapstone
asked the reporter whether he thought it
was decent for sandstone 10 masquer-
ade as granite. He then took out
his callipers and measured several of
these blocks. The measurene nts showed
wide variance between tho limits
set by the specifications and the blocks
piled up on Juniper street. The next thing
MI. kelleher Gid was to gather q handful
OF the superStratum, and, rubbing 1t be-
tween his fingers TO the consistency of clay,
ask whether such stuff was either beach
gravel or hard rock screened.
Nj. kelleher and the reporter with tape
line measured the width Of the sidewalk on
the south side Of Juniper street. 1t lacked
pa inches Of the feet prescribed by law,
and Mr. Kelleher complained that the Street
Superintendent had not notified the prop
erty-owners on the south side to move their
fences aud buildings back off the public
street. Another complaint was that the
curling had not been set in straight line
HARNEY's SAY.
Contractor Harvey. who has been doing
the work on this street. stated that the only
real cause Of complaint is delay caused by
Inability to obtain the blocks required
within the specified time; that In conse-
queDce Of this he was forced TO ask for an
extension OF time, but that the work will be
completed in day or two. He said that
the work has been done to the satisfaction
OF the Superintendent OF Streets, and that
ne cannot understand why any one should
Pnmnlafn