Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-12-10
Mr.. M'CaRTHY IS ALL RIGHT.

mr. M'CARTHY IS All RIGHT
Contractor John Mccarthy. who has
recn doing the city's strrot.rcpair
work. said Wednesday that Comp
irOllcr Walters statements were either
false or grossly exaggerated. The con.
tractor insisted that his measurements
were correct: that they had been made
by experienced and honest men. ana
that 10 fault had been found with their
easurements In his corporation work.
He charged that Comptroller's walters
sO.callcd experts were private detect.
ives. who never had had experience In
paving or repairing streets. lie charged
Deputy Comptroller Halsey with hav-
ing hired these men with the under
standing that they were to find the
measurements not correct.
Mr.. Mccarthy accused Comptroller
Waller of seeking nOtoriety by posing
as 1.-THE watchdog Of the treasury but
his chief defense was that after few
weeks 1t was impossible for any one to
| find u patch In u pavement.
II have written to II. +. Conway 4
Co.. rs the largest paving contractors
In the West: Smith. Moss h Brown. the
Garden City Paving and Post Com.
pany. and James II. Shepard-all prom
inent paving contractors" said Mr..
| Mccarthy, land asked them how long
after the work had been done was 1t
possible to measure repaired places In
street paving. They said that such
work could not be accurately meas.
urel one month. ana. in many eases,
one week after It was finished. The
testimony Of these persons has been
sent to Mayor Harrison.
Against this testimony Is the state
ment Of two detectives, who were en-
plOyed not to lind my work. One Of
these detectives, Andrew j. Reid. wa
given In the city directories as II labor
or In 1904, detective In 1895, and 1890
collector In 1897 ana 1893. The other
Robert II. Reid. is down rs a printer
In looking up the records Of these mel
and their line Of business n local dc
tective agency hired one of them for {
friend who wished his wife Swallowed
That's the kind Of detective th'
comptroller has sent out to measure
my work. Against that IL the tcsti
mony Of General Inspector CoOney AM
Civil Engineer Kellogg, one for fiftecl
years and the other for thirty years !,
the employ OF the city.
"The value Of Mr.. Walters lnvestl
CATION Is worthless, from the fact tina
his detectives reports and his IN
glneer's reports differ rs widely from
each other rs they do from my bills
This can partly be accounted for b.
the difference In time which elapsed
I also charge that the detectives delhi
erately suppressed every report tina
could be construed as favorable to me
The Comptroller misstated the case.
he said that there would be differenc
according to his reports and mine Q
= over $4,000, against which the cit
Z owes me $4,000; tho difference bein
. unjustly retained by the city to fore
me to n One-sided agreement.
= II have In my possession the afiidi
Wits of each and every one Of my foul
teen fOremen that my bills are true IN
/, correct in every particular. The
measured each days work ut the en-
OF the day, ana are In every way con
petent and impartial witnesses. The
= are under no obligations to mo, rs the
!, were discharged when had no furth'
y work. Yet several months after the
!" were discharged they have signed u
affidavit that my bills are correct. Tn
they did after comparing them wit
the original entries In their books
The details Of the controversy b.
tween Comptroller Waller and Mr.. Nj
j. Carthy, from the contractors point {
/" view, are given In letter addressed
The Mayor by Mr.. Mccarthy o
u Nov. Is. The letter In It's esscntl'
u features was as follows:
Yesterday l signed an asrcemel
I with the comptroller to remeasnre I.
r 600 square yards of cedar-lAOck r
Is pairs made by me this year, TO he use
II as a basis Of settlement. consid'
!. the agreement as made most unjust
me, but signed 1t for the reason TIL
the city owes me about $4,000, nj
tuut 1 CuuHot uHuuN"hy o""' " W
~ longed and expensive law suit to o
tain the same.
~ ".All repair work was made betwe'
March 90 and July -, 1898. The Ia
!, patch for the street department WI
u laid four months ago: the first Gig
~ months ago. claim, and ] belle
that every practical payer and expo
- enced Inspector and engineer will c
lncldc with me, that street patches GA
a. not he accurately measured on III
street of considerable traffic AFT
IT. from two or three weeks, and on stree
Of less traffic five or six weeks III
u was clearly proved when the superl
tenders Of streets assigned civil j.
' elncrr Kellogg 10 measure wal
Up trench on the east side OF Halls,
~, street. between 18th and Goth stree
ls"l also the patches on the west side OF /
%. same street. between the same pOln
The street was first thoroughly clea
]. ed, and detail of men assigned 10 n
Kellogg To clean further whcrcv
&. necessary. After thorough inves
CATION he said he saw evidences