The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-17
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Mayor Wanser Today Inves-
tigating the Work on
No. IS.
ACCEPTED BY THE 5. & W. BOARD
But Declared by President Jones
to be in a Deplorable
Condition.
BY THE 5. & W. BOARD

School No. 25. acceDtei as complete by
the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners last Monday is developing into
SCHOOL for scsndll.n The building may
be complete under the specifications pre-.
pared by Architect Giele Of Hall Of
Records fame. bus the building as II
stands will certainly not stand muster
and is IN a deplorable condition as re-
ported by President Jones Of the Board
OF Edueation and others.
Mayor Wanser for three months has
been fighting the queer work which has
been going on at this public school.
WON'T A THE CONTRACTORS.
] Now that it Is accepted as compl etc,
Mayor WHnser ID not satisfied with the
building, neither Is any one else who
knows anything about a good, substau-
tial building The Mayor won't pay the
contractors until the building is in q
decent condition, aud today In his Uri-
vate office he Is giving Contractors P. J..
ward Kelly, the carpenters. and Terry
Mcdonald. b Inspector, a hauling
over the Goals. Ii is charged that there
has been crooked work in the construc.
tlon of the building aud it ID alleged that
the whole difficulty rests upon the Shouts
ders of Architect Gisle. The contractors
refused TO follow his plans BECAUSE. they
claimed, In many instances they were
nonsensical from a builders point oil
view, and being SO they did as they
thought best. Windows were left out of
the plans where they were absolutely
necessary. and also minor details, the cost
OF which now aggregates several n
dollars.
President Madden, Commissioner Som
ava = Cifu ArtnrnoU Wourf fermentation
Counsel Edwards. Mayor Pagan of Hobo
ken. who holds claim on some of the
money due contractors, DR.. Allen. Presl-
lent Jones, George L. Bouton, Clerk oil
the Street and Water Board. Superln-
tendenr Snyder and Secretary Nevln
were also present at the Investigation.
DIR ALIENS COMPLAINT.
DR.. Allen complained that there were
many things te be done on the buildtn g
TO make it tenable. Contractor Con >
don. who is getting tired OF The scandal
connected with the building, agreed to
do every thing that was asked. Ma yor
Wauser Was pleased with this. but he
demanded to know of Condor and Kelly
why the binding was not com pleted by
August I, 1892. when 1t should have been
under the CONTRACT.
The gentlemen could not explain this
except that there wa. a little shortage of
city money at one TINA. Kelly, the car
penter, accused Architect Giele OF having
caused four months delay. Giele said
nothing. -
TERRY M'DONALD'S SALARY.
Clerk Bouton and Secretary Nevin hao
durirg this morning been figuring al
Terry McDonald's SALARY. They
found that it amounts to 81, $50. The
sum surprised the Mayor. and through
Mr.. Edwards he informed Giele hat he
being responsible fer four months delay
would have te pay the Inspector his
salary for that time.
There are law suits ahead by the score
and the probability is that some sen
sational disclosures will be made. The
doors in many cases do not work. The
roofs leaks, there are no locks on doors.
and a few hundred other things are
wrong. Mr.. Kelly left the room at hall
past one o'clock TO get the plans of the
building In order to show that tn
trouble and delay is attributable to Arcn
itect Gieie. The investigation will con,
tlnue this afternoon.