The Sunday globe., 1901-06-09
GIGANTIC JOBS. J."
Emanating From the Supervising
Architects Office.
PROPOSED MARINE HOSPITAL.
And What New Workers Saw in 1.-THE DeOap-
tatlOn Of GareiSOn Seriously CrppIIng the
BraIny Projects Of J. Knox Tayor-FouChe
the Mining Stock Seer-HOw LeeCh & Com
pany We're Beaten and Worried.

H'""J ''VJoO'S VI y NhOh IdJlOl TOuOnb'
the Mining Stock Seer-HoS LeeOh & Com
pany We're Beaten andWOrrled.
The Supervising Architects Office is
nest Of official rascality, which the
Globe will endeavor to exploit and re.
form or go broke in the attempt. Re
Gently the tool Of j. Knox Taylor, the
Doss OF the concern, had to be discharg-
ed, together with a young lady. The
tools name, the Globe has no objection
TO state, is p. S. Garretson, the young
ladys Will not be given. Mr. Garret.
son is sore, and he ought to have call.
ed at the Globe office and made a clean
breast. Because he hasn't done so. we
puDllsh his name, but not the offense
Tor which he was fired" Mr.. Garret
son holds the whip hand Of Assistant
Secretary Taylor, and also of Super.
yising Arcntect Taylor, hence he con.
iidently looks forward to reinstate.
ment, as the 'skulldudgery' of the of.
nee can not be safely or even scien-
tihcally carried through without his
fine Italian hand to guide the machine.
Mr' Garretson, needless to state, was
the brains Of all the peculiar"
schemes for which this office has at.
tanned a national reputation. He did
the hguring, the phraseology, and the
uneXampled sOphistcal conclusions for
the Architect, and after Mr. Garretson
got through with a prepared statement
Tor the public, the devil himself. nor
our luminous Supreme Court could
ma even pin hole to hang an obiec.
tiOn on.
There is also a running mate named
touche Ga lineal descendant of Ma.
poleons duke and detective. who wears
the title of inspector. What Garretson
and Fouche could not accomplish in the
matter of beating the lowest bidder
out or a contract or worrying him if
ne succeeded in getting it, wouldn't be
even worth printing in one Of the
Washington subsidized daily newspa.
pers.
This morning, The Globe prints the
lhltlal chapter Of deliberately plan.
ned assault upon the office Of Hon. 7
Knox Taylor. To mcidly Law the mat
ter before our readers. it might inst as
Well be stated that there are "possibil-
lues' in the office of the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury. Every pub.
lac building in the greatest country in
the world Is erected and under the CON
troll and supervision Of this office. Bids
are regularly invited for all such
structures, and the contractors who
hld on them must be not only mas. ers
or their business but backed by money
sufficient for the completion Of their
contracts; and some Of these contracts
are stupendous undertakings-such for
instance, as the present New York cus.
TOM house. There is a firm Of Chicago
builders and contractors with a ma.
tonal reputation for big undertakings
in the architectural line. The nrm is
named Leech & Co., or Leech G. Son. as
father and son comprise the company.
This firm has in its employment. as
counsel and man OF affairs. a Washing
tOnlan whose name was a terror in the
days Of Secretary Stanton. He is no
less a parsonage than w. L. Wood. the
man who organized our present Secret
Service under Secretary Stanton. Mr.
Wood has, probably no peer in the
United States in the matter OF inside
information OF and concerning Wash
lhgton city, its Government DEPART
ments, and happenings for the past
Iorty years. He is a mine The Globe
would like very much to have a CON
trolling interest in, that the rich ore
thereln might be presented to its read
ers, Accosting the Colonel, we asked:
Were Leech G. Co. the lowest hid
ders for the New York custom house2"
They were"
Why did they not receive the con-
tract?"
"Swindled and figured out Of it by
Garretson's mathematics"
who are the contractors for the Bu-
reau Of Engraving and Printing!"
"Leech & Co., and see the fine Job
they have made Of It, They had time.
and you can't make a good job without
time"
Who does the rush act, then, Col
onel?"
"A fellow named Fouche. He caused
serious loss to Leech & Co. in the Kan
sas City Government building and
compelled the firm to go over the work
several times, as the settling of the
structure, from the foundation up,
hadn't been given the necessary time
and the consequence was it was great
and unnecessary expense to Leech &
Co."
But why does Fouche do this?"
"Oh, well, Fouche had mining stock
he wanted Leech & Co. to purchase.
They wouldn't bite, and Fouch wor-
ried and annoyed them. He tried the
same dodge on the Bureau of Engrav.
ing and Printing, but I was on the
ground to watch him, and after trying
every trick in his locker, the office sent
him over to New York, where he Is at
present working his peculiar racket on
the new custom house"
$50 you think the office is behind
Fouche, and that the lately decapitated
Garretson figured the firm you repre-
sent out Of the New York job?"
"Yes"
"Why?"
Nothing in Leech & Co. but an hon.
est fulhllment of their contract.
Fouch has tried, as | told you, unsuc-
cessfury every trick Of his trade, and
failed hence we we're swlndled out of
the contract after being the lowest bid
ders on the exasperating calculation
on time"
"How, timer"
"The computation Of the extra time
at so much per day forfeit for the non.
completion Of the contract. Every con-
tract made by the States, and the ma
tional Government, has this perfume
tory clause, Of a forfeit for each day