The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-15

L y
prices for each room and submit them
for your inspection and when that is
done and you wish to enter into con-
tract, if the workmanship and prices
are satisfactory, l say, then if you
wish TO enter into a contract, 1 will
then give you the schedule along side
of the contract specifying in q separ-
ate sheet the schedule for each piece
of furniture and the price for each.
and that 1 have figured in the sched-
ule.' Well he says, am not going
to have that ct all, l will not have it.
If l cannot have the price Of one chair
l will leave it alone and he turned and
walked away"
DIDN'T WORK ON HIM.
Would not have any more to do
with your
L told him 1 was sorry, but 1 could
not go over the instructions of the
house, the rule that we follow. Well
he says, I will have nothing further to
say
Did you so to work on him after
ward?"
mo sir
You didn't go to work on him?"
mo sir .
Didn't have anything more to do
with him?'
No"
Did he ever come back?"
He come back. We had a meeting
of the board of education. l was re-
quested to be there and submit my
schedule and a separate schedule of
prices as 1 had given it. 1 made an
explanation to the committee-the
whole board, rather were in session. L
made an explanation and explained to
the committee why it was, and they
looked it through, and eventually, you
know, accepted my contract, and
Colonel Nelson signed with the rest of
them; all Of them with the exception
OF Mr.. Baldwin; and after the thing
was done l wrote the contract, and the
contract was signed, and Colonel Nell
son signed it, and that is all there was
TO it..
At the time they signed that con-
tract, did they or any OF them know
the price Of any individual article that
you had there?"
1T was priced in the contract be-
cause they could not see otherwise than
that; it was scheduled right along side
OF the contract
so that it was plain to be seen by
| them as to what you We're charging?"
Yes, sir, exactly"
Now, you charged the board of edu-
you did the county, didn't you?"
mo. There were some items, Judge,
which the city, neither the county had;
there were a few items; there We're,
Judge, for instance, there was one that
1 remember, a large filing case; the
city, neither the county, had anything
like that at all. That, of course, l
made the price higher than for the
other; then again the finish of the
desks and the construction of them;
but don't think there were but two
or three items that the board of edu-
cation paid more in proportion than the
city or county.
only two or three items that they
paid more for?"
Il think only two or three more"
You think then that the prices that
they paid on the average were the
same as paid by the county?"
Yes SIR
Now have you told us all the con-
versation that you had with Colonel
Nelson?"
Yes, that was all I had at that time,
you know"
And after he turned and walked out
of the room and would have nothing
to do with you you didn't do anything
more TO attempt to convince him and
bring him over to advocate your
cause?"
mo sir, 1 did not
NOW WORKING THE CRANK.
Now did you state to your firm that
you were working this old crank
Colonel Nelson?"
We'll, 1 didn't say Colonel, by any
means: L said I was working the
crank
well, we Wilt call him the old crank.
Why did you call him the old crank?''
We'll, l thought it was an unusual
proceeding to aske me to do that what
he wanted"
You thought that man that would
come in and ask you the price of a
chair that you had on exhibition, and
because you refused to give him any
! information concerning it refused to
have any further business transactions
with you was an old crank?"
Not necessarily
What was it that made you think
that he was an old crank?''
We'll, | was told that he was"
You was told that he WASP"
Yes SIR"
so you come back down to the pro-
position that it was nothing that he
did and nothing that he said that in
duced you to call him an old crank but
simply because you were told sop
mo, not simply that, but the ex-
perience 1 had with him thought it
was the same thing
Now Morris told you ne was an old
crank didn't hep
We'll. 1 don't want to say that he
did"
why don't you
Because could not swear to that
TRY to think, Mr.. Hayken, and see
if you could not?''
mo, / could not try to do it,
Wont you attempt to do that?''
mo, / would not attempt to do any
harm to Mr.. Morris and tell you that
thing at alIa'
Wouldn't you swear that he was the
one that did it?''
No, sir, / would not.
Who did tell you that he was an
old crank; name any man?''