Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-07-18
ship lumber BY Santa Re line with

that ABOUT this date you recelYed an
nual transportation over the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe line.
We further declare that while in
Kansas City and without any intima-
ton, knowledge or instruction upon
the part of the Board and without
ever having consulted the architect or
the Board or any member thereof in
relation to the number, kinds, style or
description of bathing apparatus you
purchased bill of goods consisting of
twelve bath tubs, and material for the
drainage thcrefrom amounting TO
s267.O4. The first intimation Of which
purchase came to the Board by the
presentation of a bill of the following
regular meeting.
That also, and while in Kansas City,
and while you were in daily commune
cation with the Board, and without
the knowledge, information or consent
of the Board or any member thereof,
you purchased of the English Supply
& Engine Co., blacksmithing outfit
amounting to SIPS. II and that the first
information on the part of the Board
of the purchase of this Board was at
the following meeting on the presen
tation of said bill. Further, that at
the same time and place and without
the knowledge, information or con-
sent of the Board you purchased a bill
of goods from Emery, Bird, Thayer g.
Co., amounting to 500. Is.
Further, that during the same period
and without the knowledge, informa-
ton or consent of the Board and con-
trary to their express order, you pur-
chased of Burnham, Hanna, Munger &
Co one hundred blankets amounting
to $4,000 when your instruction from
the Board was to purchase but forty.
Further, without the knowledge in
formation or consent of the Board,
you purchased from A. G. Schermer-
horn of Hutchinson, certain cots,
springs, beds and bedding to furnish
certain rooms in a building on the re-
formatory grounds, for employees OF
the reformatory, whom you allowed to
use the same free of charge.
That you have ordered certain con-
tracts made for plastering at the in
stitution, the extent of which the
Board does not now know and all Of
which was without the consent, knowl-
edge or information of the Board.
Further, that you purchased of one
Yost two incubators and brOoder
presumably for the purpose of raising
chickens at the reformatory, without
the knowledge, advice or consent of
the Board, together with material for
enclosure, eggs, and other parapha-
MALTA amounting to about $4,000 and
that from about seventy dozen eggs so
purchased you have succeeded in
securing to the state sufficient num-
Der of'chickens to average about 81. so
piece.
That after the Board upon consulta-
ton with the architect and yourself
had agreed that certain changes should
be made in the interior of the admin
stration building for which the archi-
tect furnished you plans and speeifica-
tions and which changes were not to
exceed 10000 and you requested that
it be not let by contract for the reason
that you declared you could secure
laborers and under your own super
vision, save much to the state, but in
stead, thereof, and wholly disregard
ing the plans and specifications Of the
architect, and without the knowledge,
information or consent of the Board
of managers, you expended in such re-
modling a sum of money now esti-
mated by the architect and the Board
to be $4,000, very much of which was
useless, uncalled for, unnecessary and
extravaganza; that among which use
less concerns you had constructed was
library shelving, estimated by the
architect to have cost $4,000 of sef6-
cient capacity to contain in the neigh
borhood of 1000 volumes, when in
truth and in fact the reformatorY is
not the owner or pOssessor of single
book. That without the knowledge,
information or consent of the Board
you caused the shingles to be taken of
the entire sell-block and the same to be
reshingled. We further charge that
you have permitted laborers and en-
ployees in and about the institution to
purchase numerous and divers articles
for and on behalf of the state, without
your supervision and without the
knowledge, information or consent Of
Board, and that you have permitted
said employees to employ other per-
sons without any agreement or ar
rangement as TO price, all of which
was without the knowledge or in
formation of the Board, and thus in
Cured large bills of expense for labor
and material which the Board believe
to be uniustifable