The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-18
BUTTIMER.S CONTRACT SAFE.
1T WAS NOT TAKEN FROM THE
CLERK OF COUNCILS OFFICE.

/ CLERK OF COUNCILS OFFICE.
/ Mr.. Buttimer Replies to the Charges
! Made Against His management Of
the o. 4. VI. Department by Alder
man FaIIignnt The Complaints
Against the Department Due to the
IncOmpetency of the Superintend-
ent. He says-He Has no Fear That
the Transfer of the Contract VIII
Not BE Approved by Council.
NJ A Buttimel's contract with the city
I 10 take charge Of the work Of the o. Z. n.
/ department from March. 1894. for three
years is in the hands OF the clerk Of coun-
ell all right enough and was shown to a
/ Morning News reporter at the city ex-
change yesterday. Clerk Manucy did not
Ike the statement that the contract was
missing from the city archives and could
not be found. The contract. ne said. has
been in his keeping all the time. 1t seems
that DR. Falligant called for the contract
one day recently and # could not be found
just then. 1t was afterwards found in
Mayor Myers desk where it had been all
the time.
Mr.. Buttimer doesn't appear to be in any
Falligants threat to prevent the transfer
and to break the contract.
Il am one of the "exes" now" he said
last night.
"How's that2" he was asked.
Il mean / am an ex-contractor," he re
piled. THE deal has been completed and
l have got my money. The transfer will
be approved by council and that will end
no I
What have you got to say to DR. Fal-
ligants charges Of mismanagement?' he
was asked.
Il II just give you some figures on that.
In the year preceding my contract with
the city the O. L. NJ. department cleaned
out 800 closets at a total cost to the city
Of $4,000 being a net expense to the city.
after collecting charges from property
owners, Of nearly 5000. During the first
twelve months of my contract l cleaned
out 1900 vaults at a total cost to the
city Of $500, and a net cost, after col
lecting charges from property owners, of
not over $500. Those figures show that
the contract was not only a good one for
the city from financial standpoint, but
from sanitary standpoint as well, be-
cause more vaults were cleaned in the
same length of time"
AS to the charge made by Dr. Falli-
CANT that l evaded cleaning the larger
vaults and picked out the smaller ones
! VIII simply state that my Work was
done under the written orders of the SUI
perintendent of the department, Mr.. b.
y. Rogers. Every vault cleaned vas by
written order of the superintendent, and
the work was done in rotation according
to the number of the order If 1 have
tailed to perform my work properly there
Is no record at the city exchange of any
repont to that effect by the superinten-
dent. If the superintendent of the de-
partment Is Incompetent they have no
ierhf 70 frafe fob
never had any trouble In collecting my
money from the city until this moran
when~1 had to knock six closets that had
been cleaned on my bill. l consider that
! got out of this thing very light after
having supported the opposition candi-
date in the recent election. OF course 1
knew what to expect when l did that
Mr.. Rogers has orders in his pocket now
for work that he has been Withholding
uui ntu 5hls ueal could 90 through. Under
Mr.. Cleary, the former superintendent, 1
had no trouble and there was but one
complaint made against me by him, re-
garding the cleaning of closets. Mr.
Cleary had no trouble either in making
his collections from property owners,
whereas there are now number of COM
plants on file because of bills wrongly
rendered by the present superintendent"
"Dr. Falligant states that have recent
ly violated the city ordinance by dumping
the cleanings inside the city limits. The
as dumping grounds were pointed out 10
me by Dr., Falligant as chairman of the
proper places to dump the vault clean
ings. Both places are on Springfield plan
tation, one on Maj. Ryals farm and one
on Mr.. Guilmartin's farm, and both places
have been used for long time"
My contract" continued Mr.. Buttlmer.
was signed in proper form by Mayor Nc
Donough and approved by Mr. Myers, then
chairman of the finance committee, ana
j think it Will stand. The transfer will
stand stand, too: IN spite Of anything DR.. Fal-
MR.. Buttimer had a good deal more
to say about his differences with the
chairman of the health and cemetery
committee, but the above is his reply to
the charges made against him by DR..
Falligant. Mr.. Buttimer stated that there
are several thousand of these vaults in
the city, many of which are not cleaned
for years at time, and that new vaults
are being constantly added in violation
Of the city ordnance which prohibits the
creation of new vaults.