The morning call., 1892-06-02
GONE TO CHICAGO
And Left His Creditors DIsconsolate-A
Contractor In Trouble.
CInoon HE ron,o

Contractor In TronbIe.
]. G. Sloane is his name.
He came from Salt Lake. from San Diego
and from Pomona. In those cities he bore
good reputation, and, so far as is known.
did good work in his particular line, which
is contracting and building.
The beginning of his evils in San Fran
cisco was the taking Of contracts at TOO low
figure.
Saturday he left town and many creditors.
Monday his wife and three children packed
up and followed him to the Worlds Fair
City.
But the chances are Mr.. Sloane W i'll not
find things very fowery in Chicago, for
William 7. Wheatley, his hacker and bonds
man, vows he will let Chicago men kn 0w all
about Sloane's transactions ia this city or
know the reason why.
These transactions are not very credIta-
bic To their translator They are: Inc
borrowing of various sums of money fro IN
various people in the building trades, the
sudden and unexpected leaving Of town
and the total neglect to liquidate any OF has
numerous deb.s or to pay the laborers ana
mechanics who we're working for him.
Five or six months ago Sloane came here.
His first contract was to finish residence
at Milbrae for w. Fl. Dunphy. Mccormick.
the man who engineered the FelEStreet
sewer job, and tried his methods on the city
on the GIRLS High School contract. had the
original contract for Mr.. Dunphy's resi-
dence. lie began TO use inferior material
in construction and Mr.. Dunphy began to
kick. The latter kicked so hard that the
former had to throw up the job.
In this connection Mr.. DuEphy's clerk
tells an interesting story that is worth re-
ppeating even though It it be DEPRESSION ID:
came In here and openly PROMISED to me
that he and / should cheat Mr.. Dunphy on
the work. 1t will be few hundred dollars
in your pocket said he. ard seemed sur
priSed when l told him l was not doing bust
ness that way"
Well, when Mccormick was forced out of
the Milbrae contract, j. c. Sloane came In.
He figured low-toO low-and his surety,
the Golden Gate Lumber Company, had to
stand the erunt when Sloane gave ND the
job before it was half done.
Then Sloane secured another contract for
! $4,000 residence out in the Mission.
Charles r. Eager of the California Con-
structiOn Company, and William L. Wheat
ley OF the Slade Lumber Company were his
sureties. There were to be seven payments
on the building In as many different stages
Of construction.
The first payment was made as per agree
ment, for Sloane had done his work well.
Upon the advice of his sureties the second
payment was withheld. Friday last Sloane
secured the third payment of $3.50, con-
traTy 10 the advice of the supervising ar
chitect, and bright and early next morning
left town. He paid his hotel bill, but not
the men who were working for him. His
foreman. Mr. Zearney, is out many dollars
on the job, as Sloane was more than one
week back in paying the men.
William Day, a brlcklayer, built the
chimney in five days and half. and is now
looking for his pay. He VIII get it, and so
will all the other employees get their pay,
but the sureties will have to put up the
money.
The latter have assumed the many unpaid
bills for material and labor and will finish
the contract, but they are very much put
out at Mr.. Sloane's sudden departure. Mr.
Wheatley said yesterday that he meant to
employ a lawyer to see If there was not
some way of getting the recTeant contractor
brought back to face his creditors.
'Pll make it hot for him in Chicago, at
any rate" declared the indignant surety.
Sloane borrowed from many, though the
amounts were not large They range all
the way from $50 to $50. One Of his
creditors said yesterday that Sloane could
easily have borrowed much more at the
time, for lis credit was very good, ''but il
he came back tomorrow he would be likely
to go hungry for a nights lodging, if he de-
pended upon US for money"