The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-04

AS there is only st6,ono in the fund.
and $t5. 900 has been spent the work must
either be stopped or another appropriation
made OF |, 80 feet of twenty-fouv inch
pipe only about 400 has been laid. The
trenching has not been touched and not
an inch of pipe has been paid for.
LAS 10 the Kinney street. sewer the es-
timated cost was $1,000. 10 10 February
there has been expended sii. +5a69. The
amount of work done up TO February l. at
the original estimate, should have cost
about S7,asn. In this last named sum
allow for the pipe on band. Only half the
amount of pipe required has been laid, and
there IS nearly i.buo feet OF trench TO ex-
cavaie.
THE estimate for Front street was S27.-
600. There has been expended about sl9,-
iS7. AS 10 this am unable TO give close
figure, as To details.
Why did you allow Il cents a foot more
than the first estimator
because We expected that only one of
the car tracks would be closed. and then
there would have been additional work
This was got needed.
The money has been spent all the
same %
"lt would seem so.
Attorney Thompson 5 questions were ex-
eeedingly few.
The first witness of the day was j. c.
Moore, whose testimony was interrupted
on Tuesday by the service of the writ of
prohibition. He testified that he had seen
about l. 500 feet of trench opened NJ at one
time on Nesi street. and thought that to
be too much as so feet would have been
enough. Further. that five men were en-
gagged in baiiing water. where one man
would have done the WORK with pump.
lie also testified that he had visited Brook
street and found tive or six blocks of
trench opened az ono time, although one
block would have been amply sufficient
and would have been much cheaper. lie
also found some very poor brick being
used in the sewer These brick.
in his Judgment. would absorb about
~ per cent. Of their weight Of water, and
would make the sewer urdurable Wit
ness further testified that be had visited
Front and Commercial street sewers and
had taken two bricks from a pile. which
bricks he dried and weighed. ana then
soaked them in water and Weighed them
again finding iha. one had absorbed IL,
per cent. and the other re per cent These.
he claims. were fair samples of the brick
being used. and were wholly unfit for use
IN that kind OF work
pom being eross-examined by Attorney
Thompson witness testified tha; he had
been employed by City Engineer Thorn
sen sbo0s four months after he went into
office and had made the examination Of
VI est sud Brook streets before Engineer
lhomsoH bad been removed.
ron further examination witness tesfi-
FED that he hal tested the brgcS In acid
and thai shout one-thigd more Of the SON
hs3cS dissolved than the harder bEick.
The next witness called was Robert
Bridges. bat taai gentleman did not an
swe- when his name VAS called, where
upon Mayor Ronald ASKED;
Did Mr. Bridges 80 10 work in the tan-
mel today
Nc, sir. answered NJ. Cochran.
HoseveT, after short search, Mr.
Bridges vas found N the building. aud
upon taking The stand testified sabstan;!-
ally - follows:
Il HeDt - work In the North Seatti :
seSe- iunacs iats morning. being en-
ploye3 ~ City Beginner Warner Mr.
oa!e spoGe % ae on the subject last
ae=dAy evening / know of ne specitie
case 81 uitsipsnase. neut. although bv the
n~I be- 81 mea employed ana the manner
IN walcA sAcy have been pat IN work they
have been unable - DO the work IN prcreg
share. an at present employed Ia the
North SeaIFie ssseF tunnel as oversee q.
wages 81 s. per cav. Mr.. Morgan, the
foreman sGu a2s CTasd iAere tao wsars.
vas discharged taiS morning
Bridges thought sEeFe had Teen a sAs,s