, 1892-05-10
FOR DAY LABOR.
The City Council Unanimous in
This Opinion.

No Profits TO Contractors in lay
Ing the New Sewerage system.
Resolutions Passed at the Meet
Ing ON Monday.
AT special meeting of the city council
at 1880 O'Clock on Monday, the plans pre-
pared by Engineer G. N. Miller, for full
and complete sewerage system for Olympia,
were adopted. The system, complete, will
cost $1,000, but the council proposes to
expend $4,000 at first and gradually ex-
tend the system where needed, when
finances will permit. The system will be
laid by days work.
S. G.. Ward, chairman of the sewerage
committee, has given the matter careful
attention, and has displayed disposition
to commence work at the earliest possible
moment. In support Of this idea, he intro
duced the following ordinance:
Section |. That the city council hereby
adopts the sewerage plans prepared by G..
N, Miller for the city of Olympia, and now
on file il the Office Of the city clerk, as the
plan Of sewerage to be used in the city Of
Olympia.
"Sec. 2. That the estimated cost Of tie
construction of said system in the city of
Olympia is $11O,00O.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose Of identi-
fcation of said plans it is hereby directed
that the mayor and city clerk place a certi.
teate upon each portion of said plans,
identifying them as the plans hereby
adopted, ana that they attest the same
with the seal of the city of Olympia
Sec. 4. That this ordinance be in force
and take effect from and after its passage,
approval and publication"
The sum Of $110, ,000w inserted in the
ordinance as the cost of completing the
system, but it is not thought that it will be
necessary to extend the pipes on all streets
contemplated by the plans for eight or ten
years. To provide funds for the inaugu-
ration of the work the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved, That the sum Of $4,000 be
transferred from the street fund to the
sewer fund.-
This ordinance was read three times, and
under a suspension OF the rules was passed
The mayor and councilmen favor the
plan of paying the laborers i'll cash, using
warrants to pay for material, which viii
cost $1,000 for the immediate supply.
"a motion by Mr.. Ward to proceed witt
the work at once and that the city attorney
prepare an ordinance submitting it to q
vote OF the people, was carried. He stated
that It was the intention to lay mains as
far south as the corner of Seventeenth, by
running on Main to Fourth, to jefferson
to Seventh, diagonally to Cherry, tc
Twelfth, to Jefferson, to Seventeenth.
decided stand was made against the
building Of the system by contract, in COR.
sequence Of which only day labor will be
employed.
motion that the work be done on the
day labor plan, and that no contracts be
let, occasioned some discussion.
The charter requires contract for all
work in excess Of the cost of $500, and il
order to avoid this he suggested that the
sewers be laid in divisions of blocks each
Mr.. Ford did not see the necessity fol
strictly following the terms of the charter
lnasmuch as there were no special assess
ments to be made. He thought that while
a contractor might agree to employ home
labor, he would make the terms SO obiec.
tionable that the men could not work fol
him.
Mr.. Talcott agreed with him, saying that
after contract was secured the contractor
cares little Tor home labor.
Mayor O'Brien was convinced that Tie
city would get its work done for Just what
1t cost under the day labor system, with.
out profit to contractors.
The matter was laid over until THURSDAY
evening, in order that estimates might be
made OF distances which could be com
pleted for less than $500.