The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-24
CITY HALL MIDDLE
Commissioners Becoming
Uneasy at the Amount
OF, Extra Work.
CONTRACTORS WANT $4,000 MORE
No One Obeys Orders and No At
tempt Is Made to Remedy De-
tects-Glazed Brick Scandal.

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luton yesterday directed $4,000 Archi-
tect Broome to instruct Carpenter
Herman to place wainscoting on the
stairways in the hall. Mr.. Broome has
been trying to get the City Hall Com
m~issioners to order all extra work, but
the Commissioners ARE onv to the game
ana are placing the responsibility just
where they believe it belongs.
The specifications call for wainscoting
In the halls of the basement and stair
ways of the first. second and third
floors. Nothing is said about the base
ment stairways. and Mr.. Herman frank
ly told the Commissioners he would do
only such work as the specifications call
for.
If the specifications are defective, :
says Mr.. Herman, 81 am not to blame.
| have been bounded about following the
specifications. The city must pay for
errors of the architect"
UNEASY ABOUT EXTRA WORK.
Commissioned Burke intends asking
Broome to explain the oversight of the
basement wainscoting. The last time a
defect was found in the specifications
Mr.. Broome Thought it was due to an
error of the typewriter. So MANY de-
,fects have been found that the Commits
sloners are beginning to get a little un-
easy about the amount of extra work
that is being done to give. the building
the appearance of finish,
one OF the largest items of extra work
the city will have to pay is to Contractor
English. The specifications OF the ST.
wv architect called for a 2O-inch founda-
ion wall; His plans. showed that the
e be IS sim Inches e S wide ieia Fl This she wo wall' b was
NJ. ~ Ene G1xsrlap Of eight, inches had not
2 y hh''E Mail a s1h i ahea %Id and Made ra the
nsn has that he will sue TIE
ALL HAVE CLAIMS
Every contractor in the h,si1dirn go
claims against the city for extra ~, mhs
s Sp oa ITO the present time they aggregafe
work is necessary to furnish the Helm ni I5Gr e
The Jersey City ~N Sesasti0o of g Wass BY
Baroome has told the COMMISSIONER that
hhiEs SPECIFICATIONS have been gone over
pennsylvania and pronounced so perfect
mat the contractors cannot get away
from them, It will be interesting for
who passed this opinion is the same
gentleman who sold Broome the glazed
bricks srS MT; English has used in the halls
and color" as told in 1.-THE News" are
q variety, of colors and sizes and have
been condemned by the COMMISSIONER
a half dozen times.
eff the Judge don't know any more
about specifications than he. does about
bricks of inform size and color, his
opinion does not amount to much de-
clares COMMISSIONS Burke,
NO ONE OBEYS ORDERS.
No move has been made as yet by
Contractor English to remove the glazed
bricks, although ordered to do so.
1t is also a notable fact that the broker
lintels on the Montgomery street side
q, the p aaldr En hays not been remS eyed
instructed to cause their removal.
Broome has reported to the Commits
sioners that Herman refuses to put UP
the elevators. MI. Herman communicate
ed with the Commission yesterday and
knocked Broome's complaint int a
cooked hat by showing that he cannot
put the elevators up until Broome di-
reefs Contractor English to make an
excavation of 2 feet 6 inches in the ele-
yatOr shaft.