The age-herald., 1897-11-09

had only been in the business four years and did not claim to be an expert plumb CT, hut he thought a practical man should be inspector:
 Would 1t require an expert plumber to pass on the work of an expert plumb err" asked MT. Lowe. .Yes." came the reply.
 A Montgomery Man
 "Then are you competent to judge Mir Kendrick?" .#
 Another affirmative answer and laugh ter from the spectators.
 H. Hinds, of Montgomery, was intro- duced by the plumbers as an expert. He said that in his experience civil en- gineers did not make good plumbing in- spectors and that a man not acquainted with the practical side of the business was not competent. He said that there were several "blind passes" that aneimpractjcal man would not become acquainted with.
 He was then turned over to the de- fense
 'It would take pretty good man to get onto those blind passes ?" asked MT. Lowe.
 Yes"
 "YouF F.thsory is to have thief catch thief. iSit?" rejoined the attorney, and everybody laughed.
 The attorney next pulled from hts packet the copy of the afternoon pap@r which fgured in the trial Saturday night. Mr. Gayle looked sympathetically at the witness as MT. Lowe read the paragraph d. ,f elevation or depression a pipe must be to become self 1f-fussfng and at what ve- Iocgty per mi ute wil be the flow through it MT. Hinlds was confus q, but said this was one of the arts the craft would not divulge He got hlmself in the good graIcss wi,h the spSctaItors when he said that whisky barrel could be flushed through a quamter-inch pipe in an hour.
 MT. Lunsford csine on the stand to say that he had never slipped in any work and MT. Gayle was mistaken in his statemert Saturday night that all plumbers had done so. The plaintiffs concluded after brief statement from MT. Wright, who was introduced the first night.
 Witnesses for tha Defense
 Mai Charlss Wh :elock was first intro duIce'd He said he had bsen an architect felrty years, was Familiar with work passed. on by MT. Kendrick, and con- s,dered him competent insp ctor.
 He told of an ins ,ance in the plumbing work of the Lee property. The work was completed, butt had not been paid for, because plumbers had not turned over certificates. Several weeks afterwards he went to one off the houses and feurd the work had been disturbed. He asked the real estate agent who did the work. He was told Lunslford. He then found that Lunisford did not have parmit He did not consider the work properly done.
 Architect Carlton was next Introduced. He thought Mir. Kendr.icl< competent
 Tn the oss-exa minaltion he was asked if bs had ever seen Kendrick inspect a job. He answered in the negative. When asked by what standard he was judging, he replied that competent man should do competent work.
 MT. Kirkpatrick was introduced to re- but the testimony of MT. Gayle in regard to the MoEison place alluded to Saturday night.
 MT. Towers was introduced and con- firmed the questions put to Barber by City Attorney Lowe..
 City Treasurer Eustis was introduced to explain why it appeared that the Alabama Gas Fixture and Plumbing company had over-drawn. He said that it was an errcir of placing the figures in the wrong column.
 In the cross-examination he was asked what became of the mon9y that was de- posted for permit fees. He replied that it went frIto the general fund.
 Mir. Kendrick was put on the stand to testify in his own behalf H explained every case that had been alluded to by the plumbers.
 He also said that he had gone to the president of the Master Plumb srs' asso- citation and told him that it was utterly impossible to get plumbers to testify against each oth;-. He proposed that they appoint two men to go and examine each doubtful pi5ce of work and then appear on the witness stand either for or against him.
 MT. Kendrick said nIo one was more anxious to give up the office than he. There was no more in it and when the charg:s were preferred he was then at tempting to arrange mat,els to get out.
 Little of interest was brought cut in als cross examination, except another ludioroIs situation in regard to the question in the afternoon paper alludEd to above. All had to acknowledge that 1t coupi not be answered in the shape it was put.