The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-20
IL
ALL BLAME BROOME
Commissioners Begin to In
Vestigate the New City
Hall Building.
$4,000 ARCHITECT
Contractor English Says the n
Irregularities are Due to De-
fects in the Plans.
$4,000 ARCHITECT

Hall.
Contractor John English was the only
man put IN the stand. He only served
to add strength to the assertion nat the
great bulk of the scandalous work is due
alone to Architect Louis III. Broome.
Mr.. Broome's compensation is 5 per
cent. on the cost of the building. The
cost is $4,000 and Broome's commission
is 1000.
The Commissioners wanted him to at
tend this mornings session very badly,
and to their surprise their $1,000 en-
ploye stuck his head il the meeting and
saidA 5r4
81 can't stay with you this morning.
I have other business to attend to. My
time is too valuable to stay here. l Will
send in a report and in it say what I
have to say.
That's pretty - good" remarked
n of heirCommissioners.
Broome was gone IN an instant. There
We're many occasions when they wlsheo
TO ask him questions, particularly when
Contractor English said he already mas
a claim for 5000 or more extra work.
VINE ordered h extra work.! de-
manded Commissioners Burke.
"Broome, was the laconlc reply.
ibid ne consult n commissioners
about it," ora
Il don't believe he die. But the work
a 10 be done 10 make the nuiidlhg
a decent one. %eiHtF4
MI. EiisllsRA 1nenA gave d oescrlptioh
OF the coholtlon OF the puiiolhS- Inc
basement outside wall was speclleo 20
De zotAlncnes Wloe. When CONTRACTOR
English looked over the plans ne iouno
that on the 2V-incn wall tnere was 10
rest % lncnes OF stone work. ALT. lAnsilsn
SAID TINS morning such plans II carried
oul "ouiu MAKE d polch JOY. ne Az nv
want the stone TO overlap the DITCH wan
. lncnes. he caHeo broome ateen.ion
TO the matter was al once oroereo
to make the undat WAN % 'ncnes
wide.
ON ORDER
81 did it upon his order explained
MIR. English, because l dio not want u
make a botch job or plunge into lazy
suits at the outset. 1 made changes9
which were necessary upon broome's Or
der. Those changes cost me money ana
I will look to the city for payment.
What other extra WORK aiu you wi
asked Mr.. Burke.
Il ran the Aldermanlc champer waits
up eight feet higher than the plans
called for" he replied.
"Why?"
Because the walls would have STOOD
there like sticks and would have made
a very Incomplete Jop. | KNEW lney
should be run up to the attic, and when
I told the architect so he directed me
to go ahead with the work by all means.
Your Board has clothed the architect
with lots Of power. He is my boss. He
l. boss of tbe building and T haze done
- posS "a 'ne "Ho
Just as he directed. no mater "hether
his own plans had to be departed from
~ NOT
orh
Don't you know tnat no extra "oiA
was to be done without a resolution OF
This Roard9 %, asked Mr.. Datz.
80 -. Ian-.r. ord
hne" you oiuh WANT ia"su,'o' 60
I knew you didn't want a botch 1op'
replied Mr.. English. "a builder knows
wbat is necessary to make a good lob.
whae Is hecessals
The Commissioners were dumbfounded.
rLorr 49, proor,o had made changes
ines 80 49, Ala not Lnow
that to give his plans a showing of per-
fectness he had gone ahead and ordered
extra WORK zone.
The revelation staggered the Com
missioners.
mr1Ao - about tho
Ine next me oI INJURY was =
enameled brick in the corridor. and TO
their utter establishment Architect