The record-union., 1895-12-17
TENTH STREET MACADAM PROTEST..
Trustees Hear Evidence Concerning
the Material.
Samples of Cobbles and Dirt Shown
Theme. E. Crocker Calls 1t
Cordelia Hill Dust.

The Board of City Trustees decided
last week to go out yesterday morning
at 10 clock in compliance with the pro-
test of the property on Tenth
street, between c and G, to examine
the street and see if they would accept
the macadam work done by Antoine
King, and pay the city's portion of the
expense for the intersections.
Ten o'clock came, but the Trustees did
not-at least no one but President Law
ton put in an appearance. Contractor
King was on hand, of course, to present
his case in the most favorable light.
Calvin E. Croker was there to represent
the property-owners and Attorney Van
Fleet and a Record-Union reporter
made UP the lonely looking quintet that
had gathered to inspect the street.
Trustee Devine was to have been on
hand with a man who was to dig down
to the bottom of the macadam in varl-
Gus places, to inspect the condition OF
the work underneath as well as on top,
but those assembled looked in vain for
him.
Contractor King offered to go to his
house, several blocks away, and get
pick, but the offer was declined, as con-
Stunning too much time. A spade was
procured and a small hole dug in one
or two places. 1t was found that
the street had been well rolled, put
that the rock contained considerable
clay and dirt, which had washed down
into it. The top layer contained consld-
cradle stuff that was really too hne 10
have been put on the street, being al
most like sand.
AS there was no pick, the bottom layer
was not exposed, so the allegation that
it contained large stones was not Verl-
fed or disproved. After wasting about
an hour, none of the other Trustees nav
ing put in an appearance, the party
slowly and sadly wendell their way
homeward, very little wiser than when
they came.
Trustees Bragg, Devine and Kent ap-
peared after the others had gone away.
The matter of accepting the macadam
work on Tenth street, done by Antoine
King, was taken up by the City Trustees
last night.
Clinton L. White said it was in the
nature of a judicial proceeding, and he
suggested that the evidence be intro
duced by each side in succession, ana
the opening party offer evidence IN re-
buttal, as in a court proceeding.
His side, he said, would confine their
evidence to the character OF the mate
rial used and the specifications under
which the work was to be done, ana
show that the work was not properly
done.
Mr.. King identified the contract and
the bond given by him.
r. Platnauer, attorney for KING, Cd
iected to the questions asked, saying
that the only issue was whether the
Superintendent of Streets had accepted
the street and issued an assessment roll
on the property.
Mr.. White read the portion OF the
specifications which provided that the
macadam should be in two layers, the
lower one of a size to pass through
three and one-half inch ring. The sec
ond or top layer was to be composed OF
broken rock not less than one quarter
of an inch or more than one inch thick
in any direction.
]. NJ Avery said that he had seen the
progress of the work day by day. The
work commenced in front of his lot and
he noticed that many of the pieces OF
rock were large, fiat scales. he spoke
TO King and his neighbors about 1t, as
he thought 1t was not right, ana ne
Dicked out a bagful of such pieces as
samples and tied them up and labeled
them and had them here.
He opened the sack and the first stone
he TOOK out WAS d CODO1C oDO0N -
inches and tried it with a 3-inch ring.
He said that he picked it out of one OF
the piles that had just been dumped
from a wagon.
Platnauer objected to the introduce
ton of the ring unless it was measured
by a surveyor.
Then came number Of large, nat
pieces. measuring from four 10 seven
inches. He said that they were fair
ha raioLya6 He 0nlX
picked up the one cobble, but saw
plenty more like it. Superintendent OF
Streets Murray picked up lot or the
large stones after the street was rolled
and threw them into the intersection OF
= and Tenth street, and he told Murray
if he would go down two inches deeper
he could get as many more
Mr. Avery also produced a sack OF
thin. fiat fragments which he had taken
from a. number of the piles dumped for
the upper stratum. He said he took
them lust as they came from the piles.
THE sample was largely composed OF
fine stuff and dust.
pan punched full of quarter-inch
holes was produced, and the fine stun
sifted through it, and the remainder
contained many stones that would not
mass through an inch ring. Mr.. Avery
also produced sample taken from the
street Yesterday morning, outside OF
fhe beaten track in the middle of the
street. Trustees Bragg, Devine and
Kent. he said. were there, and hole
about a foot in diameter was dug in the
street.
The sample was sifted and was much
like the other.
Last Sunday, Mr.. Avery continued,
he went over to Eleventh street, be-
tween o and r, to compare it with the
street in front of his house, which was
muddy and sloppy. He found Eleventh
street much drier and better than
Tenth. While the work on his street
was progressing, he and his neighbors
used to gather and discuss II, ana op-
iacted TO the manner in which the work
was done. He took out both his sam
ples from the piles that were dumped
before they were spread and rolled