The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-09-01
PAVEMENT INVESTIGATION
MAYOR DRISCOLL BEFORE THE
 COMMITTEE LAST NIGHT.
He Offered Testimony in Regard to the Church Street Paving Muddle- Rues- toned About Syracuse Brick City Engineer Kelly also Heard-AlI the Witnesses sworn- another Hearing Next Thursday Night.

l The special committee on the investi-
 gation of the Church street and East
 Grand avenue paving matters met last night in the city hall. The matters to be investigated, according to the reso-
 lution, were why the Cattskill brick or
 dered for the Church street pavement
 were removed before the pavement was finished, leaving the order passed by the common council unfufilled so far as Church street, between Elm street and Chapel street, was concerned. A large number of citizens were present
 at the meeting, it having been expected that the hearing would be a very lively
 one On the contrary, it was a very
 quiet one and before it was concluded
 nearly all the spectators had departed.
 Mayor Driscoll, Director Troup, City
 Engineer Kelly and R. w. Turner of
 the firm of Rice & Turner which had
 the contract for laying the brick on Church street, who had been subpoenaed
 by the committee, were present A stenCgrapher was in attendance to take verbatim report of the testimony of fered The persons who appeared to give testimony were sworn, the oath being administered by. Assistant City Clerk Martin
 The first witness called was City En- gineer Kelly. He produced for inspec- tion by the committee copies of the spe- cifications and contracts for the brick for the Church street paving and for the laying of the brick on Grand ave- nue. In reply to questions asked by Alderman Atwater, who did the ques- tioning of all the witnesses for the com mittee he said that of the Catskill brick furnished for Church street and Whitney avenue about 17000 were re- jected as not conforming to the specifi- cations. They were rejected by the in- spectors, Christopher O'Brien and Mi chael D. Brennan, who were hired by the city and appointed by the director of public works, and who were, in MT. Kellys opinion, experienced men and thoroughly competent to inspect paving brick He thought that it was between the first and the middle of July when he first heard that the mayor proposed to stop the laying of brick in Church street The mayor had not consulted with him in regard to stopping the work. Asked if he had talked with Di- rector Troup about the stopping of the work, MT. Kelly said that he might an- swer that question "yes or mo-" In his opinion the Church street and Whitney avenue pavement was now in as good condition as could be expected He thought that to complete the work of laying the brick pavement on the street yOII1d cost abOut S2, 000
 The mayor was the next witness call ed. MT. Atwater asked him: Previous to the passage Of the order for a per manent pavement on Church street and Whitney avenue did you have any con- versation with any brick company rep 
 Mayor Driscoll-"My impression is that I did not. The Catskill people, I think it was, came to my house while I was sick, after the orders were passed and the bids were in.
 Was he the only party representing paving company that you had conver- ;ation with?'
 q don't recall any other"
 Were you present at any time at any est of brick to be used here?"