The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-21
3OOLY'S TRAP CAUGHT
Chairman of Public Works
Board Feigns Joy.
KELSEY'S WARM REPLY
BANKERS FAVoRITE TARDY
CONTRACTOR UNFRAMED.

Engineer Kelsey. and that the engineer
had fallen into it. Il don't know why
/ should feel bad over this" continued
the chairman, forcing another bubble
of mirth as he received back from the
members of the board a letter from the
engineer which he had handed them
for perusaL
It was apparent in the expressions of
Messrs. Clawson, Fabian and Kahn
that the boards chairman had been hit
hard
Truly City Engineer Kelsey's letter
to Chairman Dooly was a scorcher. 1t
was drawn out by a caustic epistle
from the chairman to the engineer last
Tuesday, stating that the board of pub
lie works was at a loss to understand
why in the Moran contract, pipe is re-
quired one-sixteenth of an inch thicker
and LOG podnds per length heavier than
was intended for the proposed new
water main from City creek. So So
licitOu5 the chairman appeared to be in
his letter of the welfare of P. ]. Mo-
ran. the contractor fov the construction
of a series of new water mains in the
eastern and northeastern parts of the
city, that the missive bearing his sig
nature characterized the engineers ac-
zion in prescribing heavier pipe for the
Moran work as rank Inconsistency
The records of the board show, as
matter of fact, that the engineer made
no specifications for iron pipe for the
City creek project, which was aban
doned. Wood stave pipe was specified
and recommended by him. However,
the engineer prescribed 2 lighter pipe
for general purposes than for the work
in the Moran contract, and ii was TO
this point that Engineer Kelsey's reply
was directed.
Engineers Sharp Reply.
After acknowledging the receipt of
Chairman Dooly Gu, letter. the en-
gineer's reply stated that there were
several reasons for fixing difference
in the weight and thickness of the re-
spective lots of iron pipe. the principal
reason being that when the improve
ments contemplated for bringing Big
Cottonwood water into the city are car
ried out, the upper portion of the six
teen-inch main on Fifth South street
Will be taken up and relaid wnere the
pressure is greater. The difference in
thickness is only One-siXteenth of an
inch, which increases the cost about
Il cents foot, and the engineer de-
clared the pipe is we'll worth the differ
ence
But here was the spicy part of the
engineers rejoinder that fell upon the
meeting in a way suggestive of the
members asking their chairman if he
thought he could stand now withOu;
tying.
4 will further state" the letter con-
cluded, that if the chairman of the
board would devote as much energy in
discharging the duties of his office an
forwarding the city work as he does
in meddling with affairs in the engi-
neering department and trying to dis
up something against the city engineer
the completion of the distributing re-.
ervOir and other important work wOulC
not have been delayed as it has been
IF you have any complaints to make
or criticisms 10 offer go to the proper
officials with them. l do not desire tC
have any controversy with you Over
this or any other matter and request
that hereafter you cOufine your com
ness between the departments"
Another of Dooly's Lectures.
Tho records Of the board also show
that Engineer Kelsey is not disposed
10 take q leCturing from Chairman
Dooly About ten days ago the chair
man sent d couple OF letters to the en-
gineer requesting that the latter ioi1
him IN permit for tunneling to Sewe
Contractor Giauque, who. by the way
was permitted TO raise the amount O
his bid after opening on the plea tina
he had made q mistake in calculating
Before the engineer had time to inves
tigate the matter, the chairman sen
the boards clerk for the letters, ard il
response to a demand the engineer re
turned them. Then Chairman DOoI
wrote the engineer a letter which state
that it would have been in better tast
for the engineer to have signed tn
permits or have given some reason 10
refusal if one existed.
Engineer Kelsey thought this sort @
business was crowdin~ the limit. an
sent a reply telling that he had no
had time to look into the matter vine
the clerk demanded the letters bacl
and by way of rebuking the chairma
the engineer wrote:
Your suggestion as to what cOnsti
tutes good taste in such a matter
from such a source"
Tardy Contractor Left Alone.
The business considered by the boar
last evening did not amount to mucT
Contrary to the expectations of tn
people who are suffering from ineffi
Gent distribution of water nothing wa
done in the way of lacking up" tn
derelict contractor. who is. it is claimed
failing to keep his obligations with IN
city in the matter Of furnishing pip
in time to complete his contracts with
the required periods.
All that was done in the direction {
forwarding the work of making tn
city canal do duty for sprinkling tn
streets was to approve Clerk Whit
aker's revision of the city engineer
draft Of specifications for laying tn
10000 feet Of twelve-inch kalamien pip'
formerly used 10 convey sewage acrOs
the river along Fourth South stree
from Ninth East TO Third West.
list Of names. including that of p
Moran, whom Chairman Dooly facet
ously referred to as his partner. wa
made out, and the reporters were RI
quested 20 announce that those who's
names were on the list and other
would be invited to make bids on III
work in accordance with the engineer
plans, which are on file in the office
the board of public works.
Other Pipe For Canal Water.
AS TO the matter Of the city buyin
some of the six-inch pipe belongin
to the Utah Light and Power CON
pany and claimed by II. l. Driver an
other litigants, the engineer reporte
that such of the old natural gas pipin
as is serviceable would do for tn
laterals to carry canal water. The eI
gfneer's report was filed.
Chairman Do0ly stated that II
board had segregated the engineer
plans for the new street sprinklin