The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-02-14
THEY OPPOSED
ARBITRATION
Proceedings at the Borough COun-
ci'S Special Meeting.
SEVERAL BILLS REJECTED.
The Investigating Committee Wanted the
Quinn & KernS Matters Arbitrated.
Council Objected.

The Borough Council held a special
meeting last night to consider and dis
pose of bills contracted in the construcs
tion of the public water works and which
have been laid over from time to time
pending investigation. The session was
quite lively one and the mem bers seemed
evenly divided on all the points brought
to issue.
An effort to bring about an arbitration
of some of the claims was defeated after
a wordy warfare. This point was raised
in connection with some claims of Quinn
& Kerns, the original contractors of the
>74,blic water works. The Council now
withholds S. 900 the firm claims and the
money is withheId penuiGgs j4e As sti51t +
ment of the dispute as to who
shall bear the expense of repair
ing the reservoir at Brandonville and
pending test of the pipes laid in town.
Quinn & Kerns also claim $500 for a fee
paid George J. Wadlinger, the Pottsville
lawyer, and $297 for taking up and piling
pipes distributed in the town in the fall
OF 1898 and for re.distributing the pipe in
the spring of 1894
The water committee met and con-
sidered these claims on Tuesday night
and as a result of that meeting Mr..
Gallagher, chairman of the committee,
last night presented recommendation
in writing that all the matters in dispute
between the borough and Quinn & Kerns
be submitted to a board of arbitrators
annufatinu of thran not m pivil
engineers, one to be chosen by the Coun-
Gill; one by the contractors and the third
to be selected by the two thus chosen.
Mr.. Gallagher urged the arbitration
measure and argued that if the borough
went into court, according to past eX-
perience, it would lose He thought an
arbitration should be tried, to see if the
borough would stand any better show.
After considerable discussion the recon-.
mendation was defeated and the three
claims specified were rejected.
A claim of P. j. Cleary for extra ser
vices in laying the pipe line from Brandon.
Vile to Fowler's Run, amounting to
$26l SO was also rejected The Council.
men .wefe about evenly divided as to
whether or not hecleim was just one.
Mr.. Kane didn't vote and tt ~ f6a
vote for and against payment. W.
Lamb, who was acting as chairman, de
cl ared the motion to pay lost.
The following payments were made
| Quinn & Kerns, on account of old dupli
Gates, $1,s2s79; Shenandoah Feed &
Lumber Company, on account of a claim
of s., 500, s., 600; A. w. Schalck, Esq, or
account of legal services, $780, ]. H. Pom
eroy, Esq, for extra legal services, $3.50
A. j. Womelsdorf, balance of per cent
commission, S1,lO5.2O; National Tube
Works, $647 n.
A bill of 1928 presented by the Nationa
Tube Works for extra services of tn,
company's superintendent was rejected
Council also rejected bill for extr
services amounting to 1909 presented b.
Engineer A. j. Womelsdorf.
The engineer who is in charge of tn
pumping station at Brandonville pre-
sented bill for his services. The bill
was made out at the rate Of S. per da.
and during the discussion it transpireC
that 81 so goes to the engineer, rs cent
for his board, i5 cents for the use OF :
mule in travelling to and from his work
and 81 goes to the JeaLesvile Iron Works
who secured his services. The waite
committee reported against the bill, bu
the Council passed ii.