The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-15

cost was about one-tenth of the amount
charged per square yard,'' he said. 4
think its cost was not over 10 or Is cents
per square yard. This mattress was sunk
in the work.
Did you inspect any other mattresses"
was asked.
4 inspected two others. The first of
these was like the first mattress / in
spected, but there was some more brush
IN II, and it was more compact. The
.hiIu mattress was one built under my
instructions by the assistant engineer. ac-
cording to the third design in the spacifi-
cauons. Those were the only Instructions
gave him. had these two mattresses
MeShed by measurement of the water
displaced by them, the one made by the
contractors according to their ideas of the
thlrd design, and the other built according
10 the third design under my instructions -
Capt. Gillette was not present when the
mattresses We're weighed, and he was pre-
vented from testifying with regard TO the
result. The mattress he had built contain
ca four courses, or four separate mat
tresses while that furnished by the con-
| tractors was an S-course mattress. In this
Capt. Gillette said there were not eight
complete mattresses, because If they had
been taken apart. three of the mattresses
would have fallen to pieces, as they had
no grillage poles
Capt. Gillette explained the meaning of
grlllage poles and identified a photograph
OF the first mattress he inspected at Cum
berland sound which was introduced as
evidence Another photograph was of the
same mattress as it was being slid off into
the work. Capt. Gillette said it was poor
photograph, as the twigs were magnified
The photograph was introduced, as was
also photograph of mattress of the
third design, made in accordance with his
instructions.
va
work when you came here?'' Col. Barr
asked
Il examined the rock at Cumberland
sound" Capt. Gillette said. II saw sew
eral barge loads of it, and the majority of
1t was loose, light limestone. | made no
test of it personally but did make OBJ
jections to the use of that rock in the
Savannah harbor works, as rock that was
not in accordance with the specifca tions. 5"
The inspectors, Capt Gillette said ex-
anime the rock, mattresses and other ma
terials entering into the work, and make
their reports to the local officer in charge
or to the assistant engineer. A jetty built
of stone alone on a sandy bottom is liable
to sink into the sand. and the mattresses
are designed to spread the stone so that
there will be as little sinking as possible
and so that waYe action will affect the
jetty as little as possible
The brush that had been brought into
the court room was then the object of
query by the judge advocate.
do you know what those bundles are
on that PLATFORM" Col. Barr asked.
''They are part of a number of bundles
of brush brought into my office by one
inspector and one clerk a my ORDERS" was
the reply.
What would you call one of those bun
dles?'' Col. Barr asked.
Il would call it a bundle of brush"
was the reply.
Gould bundles of that character be
properly termed fascines?" Col. Barr
asked
mot without a great deal of specifca-
ton,' Capt. Gillette said IF an officer
wanted to construct a work of bundles of
brush of that kind, and described them
he might without doing violence to the
English language, possibly, call them fas-
clnes; he would, probably, call them bun.
dies"
I understood you to say they could
not be called fascines under the language
used in the specifications
Most emphatically not; they could not &"
Capt. Gillette said.
was the mattress about which you have
testlf1ed constructed of bundles of that
character" Col. Barr asked.
Apparently of bundles similar in char
acter to the lower one; it was finer brush.
L saw no poles or sticks, anything like
as large as those in the upper bundle: il
was of very fine material Otherwise the
system of construction was apparently
about the same as those"
AT this point Col. Barr asked the court
to adjourn until to-day at II O'Clock. He
called attention to the fact that recent
Iy adopted rule dispensed with the neces-
slly or reading the record when the court
convened every morning, and that he said
was a great saving of time. He had
gone as far as he could conveniently for
the day, he said, and for that reason re-
quested an adjournment. No objection
being interposed Gen. Otis announced that
the court would adjourn until Il o'clock
this morning.
Capt. Gillette will take the stand again
and his testimony will be continued. Col.
Barr indicated yesterday, however. that
he had little more to ask the witness. and
would finish with Capt. Gillette in a COM
paratively short time. The cross-examina-
ton, however, may occupy some time
There is much speculation as to how
of the members of 1t hesitate to speculate
on that question They have been on
courts they say, where long proceedings
were expected and which wound up after
two or three days. and, on the other hand,
apparently Insignificant courts have drag
ged out to unusual lengths. Some believe
the present court will be in session two
or three weeks, while others think iudg-
ing from the present rate of progress, that
it will go on for month or six weeks, and
perhaps longer. That is a question, it
seems, that cannot now be determined.