The San Francisco call., 1897-10-27
The Carpenters There Can
Rush the Work Night
and Day.
The Fair Estates Lawyers Pay
Their Respects to the
Harbor Board.
Contract for the Big Tower Clock Is
Awarded to the Howard
Company.

Colonel Chad bourne asked his fellow
Harbor Com missioners to fal! dead yester-
day afternoon. The request was not based
on the North Beach fasCo the dav before,
the colonel stating that he had himSe.f
received a nearly fatal shock and supposed
that when his colleagues met similar
one they could not survive it. 1t was
about The new ferry-house. The con-
tractors for the carpenter work had, it p
pears, notified the architect that they de-
sired to put night shift on and rush the
work day and night continuously TO COM
pletion. This ii was that nearly killed
Colonel Chad bourne and moved him to
ask President Colnon and Major Harney
10 shuffl. OH their mortal coils when
Architect Swain at the regular meeting
yesterday requested the board to author
ize the imm diate installment of a tenn
porary electro light plant for the special
accommod dation of the carpenters. There
was an interval Of one mute, uurin 2
which the board sat bereft OF sp ech, and
il was Colonel Chad bourne who broke the
spell by asking the two other Commits
sloners to iall dead.
Engineer Holmes was Instructed 10 see
to 1t that not an nour De lost n the work
of cutting in the electric lights. Tonight
or tom orrow night the long building at
the loot OF Market street will be illumi-
mated from north TO south, and the music
of hammer and saw Will then keep time
with all the hours.
The Harbor Commissioners had nothing
10 say about their failure yesterday at
North Beach. In fact any reference TO the
subject was painful, and therefore avoided
by all parties. In the morning during an
informal session they had a call from At
nj,
Enerney, representing the Fair estate, VINO
gave the board very hot roast on account
OF its action on MONDAY. Mr. Knight
went so far as to charge the Harbor Com
missioners with allowing themselves to
be trans oTmed into monkeys and their
doing the traditional chestnut ana ire act.
Mr.. McEnerney was also unsparing IN his
Language, announcing the nduct OF the
board and advising its members 10 leave
TO the courts The business OF settling con-
troversies between private pari1 s. The
TWO lawyers retired after serving the board
with a copy of Judge Hebbard remodlhed
M moditicauon of the order restraining II
from doing any more pile pulling al NoTtn
Beach until all the parties had had an
other day In court.
There were Two bids for furnishing a
clock for the ferry-house tower. The Seth
Thomas Clock Company offered clock
Tor $4- so, but the award was carried off by
the Howard w atch ana Clock Oom pdHy, ,
It's bid being $3.50.
The contract Tor Burnettizing the docks
and wharves was let 10 Darby Laydon d
Co. at the rate of $l4 per 1000 feet.
All the bids for furnishing piles to the
State for one year were reject ed and ad-
vert sements for new proI osals ordered.
The bids were: Pacific Pine Lambe Com
pany, Tor II and 13 inch piles II cents per
ineal foot; Tor ID and Is inch piles, l33z
cents; FOR l6 II and Is inch piles, IN
cents; Darby Laydon & Co., IL. 1871 ana
II cents respectively; Healey, TlboIts d
Co., IL 40 cents, u 81 cents and IA 9-l0
cents respectively.
The bidders were represented by gentle
men who, having their hammers out for
each other, blurted out some scandalous
charges. Contractor Healv, during an
emotion OF wrath. accused Darby Laydon
d Co. with delivering Old and rotten piles
TO the State under a contract 10 supply
new ones. He offered to prove it, too, but
the Com mlssloners stood mute under the
startling revelation.
Ex-Supervisor p. +. Dnndon, of Darby
Laydon d Co.. said that this wa, news
10 him and that HeaIy had incriminated
himself If what be stated was the truth.
If Mr.. Dundon had not just be fore insinu-
ated that Healy carried his office and his