The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-14

suggested Judge Hudspeth.
II know It 49, replied Mr.. McDermott,
wants 10 get it before@I am through with
i ne VIII have to institute replevin pro-
1t was finally arranged that Mr.. May
nieke should take the report and bring
II back his morning without any of Mr..
MeDermott's memoranda ohliterated.
AT nine O'Clock this morning the jury
IN charge of Constables Locke and Meyer,
and accompanied by Expert Maynicke,
Holman and Counsellor Thompson, IN
spected the monstrosity. Mr.. Maynicke
showed the gentlemen through the build
struction as he went along, He had only
time to show up the work Of Richard
English. the mason contractor.
Before entering the monstrosity at all,
he intimated to the jury that there was
not a good piece of limestone in 1t. He
showed the cracked stills, and broken
had been omitted.
He called their attention to the glazed
several hundred glazed bricks of the KIND
speeified Several Of the iurymen laughed
lave been laid and are supposed to be
Of uniform color. The reason that they
are o~ff-colcr appears. to be that English
the face of which was glazed. As a re-
suit the red clay showed through the
thin covering of glaze. The bricks Eng
beyond all doubt Of uniform color. Archi-
tect Broome, however. says it is necessary
for English to remove all the bricks he
inspected, one or two jurymen inspected
the much talked of elevator shafts. In
compliance with a written order, Carpen-
ter Kiernan has made the necessary ex-
~cavation. A new dilemma now presents
itself however The ,yitrifed pipe sewer
ifV rms through fhp hOtfnra of thn sha aft
and rests on a brick foundation about
three feet high. Before the elevator can
lowered by using siphon connections. This:
several of the contractors contend. will
cause a constant choking up of the sewer
and consequent flooding, of the building.
The thing in the Railways was ex-
amined. II is commended BY the. expert
that it is not up to the standard speci-
different. Architect Broome offset one
ing has been used Brooms pointed out
Judge Hoffman asked Mr.. Maynicke to
point out the vitrified and encaiist'c thing.
4 am not on examination here was
lyon are showing us what you call de-
fects," replied the counsellor, ..and l
would Ike you to give US some informa-
Mr.. Maynicke turned on his heel and
walked away. totally ignoring the re-
quest.
There was another squabble when the
examination of the alleged ashes-con-
crete was examined. The expert had a
torn up and the ashes were found safely
hidden beneath the pine flooring. On the
m rh5rd npop; ieneF wss T yonsd. sh gSs la es-
yers of the indicted Commissioners cali
ed the attention of the jury to the fact
brick.
Show us some more of this concrete
said Counsellor Thompson to Mr..
concrete about the steam pipes, and it
was as hard as could be desired.
That was PIT in since I made my re-
Mr.. Thompson.
Assistant Prosecutor Noonan objected
to the expert being put under examina-
ton.
He has made charges, now let him
The expert became excited and INSISTED
upon having a hole cut in the middle of
the floor. The concrete was found to be
fairly compact. 1t was a little loose on
the top.
The clustering throughout the building
was condemned by the jury.
They had a hearty laugh when the ex-
pert showed them chimneys which ter
inmate. inside the roof. They were puz-
zled when shown chimneys which to all
front of the monstrosity. The chimneys
end at the base of the turrets. This was
only a little mistake of the SIT, 0e0 archi-
tect in locating the chimneys where thew
might be Of some use. The jurymen
only fourteen inches. They were dumb
founded, however. when the expert
pointed pom ed ont to them were secondhand
Ior some other building were in view,
where, hollow girders instead of solid
eirder nave cerr neen q bssl;v and finally where
tically tied fast to other girGers and are
apt to fall at any time. In many in
stances heavy iron beams are held in
screwed in a beaver girder. ''u's
Some OF the botch work is due to the
The back stairs were examined and found
not to pc In accordance with specifca-
tons. The carpenter work was not in
marked that it was doubtless frst-class
The jury returned from its inspection
minutes later before the Court con-
vened. Expert. Maynicke resumed the
Mr.. McDernnott's request he had looked
at the Smith building in CORTLAND street
ana I9und tour cracks. In answer to
the carving over the windows didn't
represent anything in particular. On the
nerth to y c,s on the aed Grove street SIDE the
"You looked at it from a distance Of
fifty feet?"
And YOU could tell that it was crude
Il looked ct it with a fleld-glass."
in harmony with the other work.
Mr. McDermott put him through a severe
croSs.examinatio as to his knowledge of
Don't you think asked Mr.. McDer-
mott; that the building is a pretty good
Eyes. but the work is bad,
The witness went over the drawings
again; Mr.: McDermott asked if It was