The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-28
THE COUNCIL INVESTIGATES.
Continued from page

ground to store it White the contract
called for waste mate rial to lie placed anywhere
within , q feet. the beard would have to tell
the @ @ nos be d"ps rnt tho sever Was
completed. In the meanwhile the work was
blocked by these two huge walls oil rock in a mar
row street lie did not know how much had been
rakcn hut thought not very much as there wcic
huge quantities still there
MIR Coleman made City Engineer Dunap's ng
urcs look funny when he stated that the latter
had claimed that the city ought tn make $3.50
of this rock when he had estimated the total
cost OF tho sewer at SS,9ss In other words, that
Mr.. Dunlap figured that the contractor ought 10
build the sewer for nothing and pay Owe $3.50
fof chance at the rock. Mr.. nuniap protested
against this showing. hut admitted that he had
undcrcstimatcd the cost OF the sewer, not hav-
Ing Sufficiently examined the nature OF the OK
cavation.
President Buckncr forced Mr. Coleman to say
that Mr. Dunlap had done many things dctri-
mental To the city through mnintcntiontl mis-
takes in the city engineers office.
DO you think MIR. Dunlap makes more mis-
takes than the average city engineer
- Comparisons arc invidious. prefer Not To
answer that" replied Mr., Coleman dryly.
MIR. Dunlap stated that in one scasc the board
OF pablo works gave away the rock taken ont ~
the outfall drain, because they did not object.
But Inspector Fortune called up and stated
that he had called Mr.. Dunap's attention 10 the
taking of the rock over two months ago. Evi-
IDENTITY MIR. Dunlap did not consider it a very sori
oue matter then or he would have called the mt
tcntion OF Council to il.
certain discretionary powers in supervision; that
they were not mere machines and that Il certain
latitude could he used 10 the furthcrin- OF the
interests of tho city While the contract called
for earth filing in the sewer. tho use OF rock
above two foot line over the sewer was not in
furious
INSPECTOR Fortune was an intelligent witness.
He defined thf duties of the city engineer in CON
nection With sewer work to he the giving OF
lines. grades and estimates, and that the rest be-
longed to the board OF public works. Unrcr the
city engineer lie had had To assume authority
which was now confirmed under the board OF
public works. lie had not solicited the transfer.
That was about the end OF things. President
Buckncr REQUIRED to the city engineer and said
thai il he guilty or the chargeef substituting
n yardagc allowance for RI jccted xtra work bill
he ought TIC he dismissed but II he were not he
should be honorahly acquitted, which he was
motion OF Mr.. McClclland.
Thea Mr. Moomaw tried to rnb ii III on the
board of public works by moving To rcscind the
resolution transferring Inspector Fortune TO
Ii he had succeeded Mr.. Fortunes name would
have been Dennis. for the city engineer had fired
him about twenty four hours before he had been
transferred 10 the hoard.
Then Council adjourned Earlier in the even
lug while waiting for MIR Patterson to get some
documents Council awarded the contract for Wit
rihcd brick sidewalks TO W lillian McCarty AT II
cents yard; and was abont to award board
sidewalk contract to b. l.. Huffman when Coun
Gilman Crabill asked II II were not the same
party who failed on the street lamp contract 1t
turned out to he and his cake became dough.
There was the usual wrcStie with that horny
headed hydra of monopoly" the Gas and Water
Company which was accused or delaying certain
contractors. 1t was particularly charged with de.
LAYING work on Henry street, but rs it has had TO
lower its pipes twice that street to conform TO
the Kaleidoscope changes of grades which vary
a. the seasons, and is now engaged in blasting
to keep up with the changes, the city has no very
good grounds to stand on.