The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-11


this size ana kind, naturally many de-
tails arise and questions of difference
must be fairly and honestly adjusted.
challenge any architect or builder of
long standing and experience TO say this
is not the rule, rather than the excep-
ton, and herein positively assert that
certified to by me, the city will nave the
terms OF the contract fairly eXacteq ana
receive value for money expended There
is still due the several contractors when
finished about one hundred and iitteen
thousand dollars, over one.thlrd of Ine
entire contract, which IS. qoubie the
amount necessary to properly complete
(Here Mr.. Broome inserts number
of letters written to the Commission at
various times, complaining OF various
'-laS THE WICKED INsPEIG,ToR. E T e, TO nara-
in complained of by those writ
ten notices to your gsemnnission ,sa is Z n
issues ieu n made ''1 Verbally while in Comnis-
sion meeting. and the stand have taken
against issuing any certificate Tor work
not fairly in accord with the terms OF
the contract. and when an etfert was
10 be made by a majority of the Com
mission to order warrants in favor OF
Mr.. Kiernan without my eertlncate,
which / had refused, that | then stated
l would get an isjunetion restraining
the city from paying # Such reTo5qz TSsqz
openly stated he would go before HIS
Honor the Mayor, and request nm NOT
n L,
time fully justified to say to the favor
of Commissioner Datz, that al all times
he has placed himself on record againSt
any effort to eyade doing his duty All All
desire to defend myself and those who
stood by me in the eity's interest.
AS to the Inspector / nave little TO
saw. except that from the commence
ment of the work to the date OF this
communication, ne never came 10 me
personally or in writing, nor 10 the COM
mission in person or In writing, with any
complaints that any portion of the en-
tire work was not being gone as Iequlr- ql.r
larly referring to the many times have
called his attention to bad work ana ma
terials there is proof on cal tina 5nat ade ne
wiser and did advise him not 20 carry
Volir w ~ Commission of his indifference and
disrespect to me upon the building, but
he seemed to be encouraged by the ma
friend has for another Those are hard,
cold facts, but they are of record, ana l
will not longer keep the public IN cl:a.e the
dark as to how the work upon the, CITY
Hall has been allowed to drag and be-
come d PRESENT PRESENT CONDITION. =.
The following is the present condition
of the building as to it's finish and What
is still required to be done to properly
complete it, -. ,,,
The piling and capping mas peen eoIh-
The foundations upon the piling is COM
pleted. the main exterior ana ,ltide laoefloF OF
cleaning down and pointing up the prick
and stone work and properly finishing
the carving The eTs plssterlngb Ter baf H aal1 Wheh
is waiting for the guide posts ana ma
chinery. etc. necessary to receive tne
elevators. The mason is concreting IN
cellar vaults: much still remains to be
done by the mason. At this time would
respectfully refer to report pubhcly
investigation ordered by the Grand Jury
of this county. In this report references
have been made Whieh, are re 4nfalr 4,s i ana
OF the building have been changed with
saving to the contractor; the fleor OF the
boiler room plainly shows that fioor. by
rnent floor. so as to give the necessary
ceiling height for boilers: the floor of tax
ALWAYS intended to be just as it is built
and I challenge the writer to prove that
one brick was saved. a To the root
boarding of valleys and for eornices.
am on record with the commission as
having found fault with it. As to the
flooring. | have condemned all the floors
above the basement long time ago, and
am on record to that effect. AS to the
truss spoken of at dome, near Grove
AS to the entire roof tiling. I am on rec
ord as having condemned "dt from the
day it was started.
AS to the doors on third story. being
hung on poor light butts. 1 condemned
them before the work was fairly com
menced.
AS to galvanized iron. copper and tin.
where poorly done I am on record of
having found fault and condemned it.
Electric wiring has been condemned by
me many months ago The hues not
topped out above roof are not finished
nor accepted as yet.
The trusses and girders. where not
strictly according to scale drawings. are
stronger and contain more iron: no sec
ond- handed iron has been used. and the
ion s1
NOT paid for. Carving of stone work is
not completed. l am sorry the expert
did not report in what manner more work
was done than shown or called for as a
fair offset to his findings The bolts
were not placed there to protect and care
for cracked stone, but were always way so
intended SO that the expert was either
badly misinformed or jumped at conclu-
sions.
Steam pipe radiators, boilers, etc.. are
still all exposed in the rough and will
be. properly finished before acceptance.
As to tiling being cheaper than the
cost of specifcaions-cont en-
bodied this work twenty months ago.
Amy well informed builder will say, la
Dor and material is from twenty per
cent. or more cheaper than then. Plans
for tiling were submitted to the Commits
sion and adopted.
The plumbing work is far from even
starting the finished work. therefore is
not passed on nor accepted
Closets were omitted or changes of
aHy AIilu were oIdeESu IN the proper
manner by resolution of the Commits
sion. He says. glazed brick or English
brick were called for. deny this.
Brick equivalent to an English brick
were called for. Most of the present
glazed brick have been condemned some
changed, others to be before accept
ance
Concrete under tiled and wooden
floors. he says. was of poor material, on
iy ashes and sand, taking him at his
word. l wish to say no sand whatever
was used only sugar house ashes and
cement, nothing better for the purpose.
/ refer to any mason builder in Jersey
city. What concrete was damaged by
electric wiring men and others 1 con-
demned, and it will have to be made
good before acceptance.
Partition where changed was done by
resolution at the request of heads OF
different departments, Walls of elevator
to do so now
AS to the change of York Metal Lath
instead of Roebling this was done by
resolution-and it seems q pity that the
following prominent buildings in New
York should have the architects OF
seney Hospital, New York, Seventh
street and Seventh avenue
Catholic Protectory, Westchester coun-
Flatbush Hospital, Brooklyn.
Postal Telegraph Building, Broadway
and Warren street, New York.
Hall of Records, Brooklyn.
Equitable Life Assurance Building, Bos-
ii Hotel s' Marie Antoinette, sixty-sixth
street and boulevard, New York.
Hotel Empire, Sixty-third street and
Boulevard, New York
Five. hundred lodge rooms, Tenth ave