Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-28
wAALnERe SAYS a Few TAlNes.
Nothing Rotten in sweden-Throws
Responsibility on Mcclure.

Nothing Rotten in Sweden-Throws
Responsibility on Mcclure.
To the People OF Marshalltown: Be
lieving that it is due the people of Mar
shalltown who are paying the heavy
expense of the construction of sewage
disposal plant that they be rightly in
formed as to the manner in which the
work is done and the material is used
end who is responsible for the same, and
feeling that my reputation as a citizen
and and workman in my particular
line is concerned desire to make these
statements:
On May %, 1901, I was employed to
inspect 400 sacks of Portland cement
that had been stored by private parties,
that no cement should be sent to the
plant except such as was in good condi-
ton. OF the 400 sacks passed 2,02s
as being in good condition. and these
We're hauled from the warehouse pre-
sumably to the sewage disposal plant
There We're subsequently delivered to
the plant 1871 sacks and 400 sacks were
stored temporarily In barn on Marion
street and afterwards delivered to the
plant at the expenseso the city, but not
in good enough condition to be used in
being delivered at the plant while was
employed at the oil mill were no.
checked into the cement warehouse. The
house at the sewage plant was the 2,241
sacks subsequently, hauled.
went to work for the city on June
as superintendent of the cement work
at the sewage plant and presuming
would be held 10 some Accountability for
the cement and on authority of Council
man MCGUIRE employed competent
man at $3.50 per day as Waterman.
About the 21st day OF June Mr.. MCGUIRE
discharged this man and employed Mr..
William kennehan as Waterman at So
per night, expecting to hold me respon-
sible for the cement, I suppose, while
had nothing to say as to whether he was
satisfactory to me or not. would state
further that this man never stayed at
the work until we came in the morning,
hut always left the material and plant
at some time during the night or early
morning entirely alone and unmatched,
and yet understand they expect to
hold me responsible for the material left
in his charge.
did the work on the septic tanks in
thoroughly workmanlike manner, in
strict accordance with the specifications
and Engineer Persons instructions.
and am perfectly willing to have him
PASS on my part of the work. The only
deviation from the above was on in
structions of Engineer Marston to
make the concrete thinner or wetter,
and on this Mr.. Pierson said 1 was
wrong.
The whole trouble at the plant has
been caused by too many bosses or over
Gseers. If was not competent to dc
this work why was I employed? If /
was to be held to strict accountability
for all the cement and sacks. why was I
not SO Informed that might see to 1t
that no one else had free access to the
cement at any time instead of furnish
ing others with keys to the warehouse
and employing Waterman who came
to the work and went away when he
felt like 1t, leaving the cement house I'M
watched? If any one is to be held re-
sponsible for the full amount of cement
or sacks it in my opinion should be Mr..
MCGUIRE, who had the cement in his
charge or the charge of his Waterman
all the time except in the day time.
when the men We're all on the work and
the few nights that Mr.. Anderson was
employed as Waterman.
II you are looking for rottenness you
do not need to go to Sweden. You will
lind it quicker and more of it in the En-
erald Isle. GUST WAHLBERG.
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