Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-07
ABANDONS TIE JOB.
Berry and Kidder throw up the
contract on the streets.

contract on the streets.
Have employed counsel and will sue the
town. The council is not afraid and
will file counter suits-They can show
that the work was never satisfactory
and that the engineer repeatedly re-
fused to accept it-Report of White
will come in to-day and the whole
matter will be settled tonight.
The street paving about which
there has been Sc much talk is still
a fruitful source of news. The con
tractor has given the wheel another
turn by leaving the job. All the
men that we're connected with the
work have gone home and the street
which they had torn up is in a CON
dition to become a mud hole this
winter if something is not done for
it.
Berry and Kidder have retained
Cox and Baker as their attorneys
and will bring suit against the town
for the remainder which has been
held back on the Main street job The
council paid them only fifty percent
of the contract price and the other
twenty which is due under the con-
tract will be sued for.
Their attorneys will not say what
the steps are which are to be taken
but they state that the town will be
sued unless they come to time.
The members of the council who
were asked about the matter said
that it would be taken up to night
at the meeting Of the council and a
decision reached then. They expect
to have the official report of the
consulting engineer before them and
they will decide what is to be done
They may take up the paving
themselves and finish Front street
this fall. Peasants may also be
finished. AS Front street stands it
will become terrible mud hole or
it will have to be close entirely un=
less it is completed by the council
itself
This will not be a hard job as the
street is almost ready for the brick
The city fathers may decide to en-
ploy men to complete the work on it.
The people who live along the street
want this done and their welfare de
mands that the action be taken.
The council affirms that they
have a good case against the con-
tractor. They can show that he was
repeatedly warned that he was not
doing his work right and that he
knew all the time that in case he
did not pull up that they would not
pay him the full price. He claims
that Engineer Samsel accepted the
work and that in consequence the
town is in for the whole amount.
They can show that the work was
not accepted and Mr. Berry will
have to lose the difference.
The secret Of the whole matter is
that the contract was taken at too
low rates and the contractor has been
losing money steadily. In that case
he wanted to get rid of the job before
he went in too far and he has been
playing for cancellation of the agree
ment ever since he began the work.
Seeing that there was no other way
out of it he quit in the middle of the
work.
The whole matter will be straight
ened out tonight and the town will
be heartily glad Of it. They want the
council to get move on as there will
be but little more time to fe0l over
the matter before the weather stops
every thing and leayes ussin worse,
place than we were last M15Ster. .
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