The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-05-28
the STATE HOUSE ACCEPTED.
Final Payments Made to Archi-
tect and Contractors.

Columbia, May 23.-The work on
the State House has been accepted by
the State House commission. 1t cost
the. State s173, 623. The final war
rants were issued and paid today. Col.
J. O. Marshall objected to the accept
ance of the work on the grounds that
it was not satisfactorily completed
and on the detailed objections which he
has already filed with the commission.
The seven other members Of the com
mission, who attended today's session
of the commission, all voted to accept
the work and to pay the Mcllvain q
Unkefer Company for the work and
Nh. Milburn his fees as architect.
This no doubt closes up the whole
matter, although there is likely to be
considerable talk hereafter as to
whether the State got its full moneys
worth or not and whether Col. Mar
shall's continued protests were with
merit or not.
IT LOOKS HANDSOME.
The State House certainly presents
a handsome appearance, and it is to be
hoped that the work is as substantial
and satisfactory as the majority OF the
commission think and not as Col.
Marshall views it.
When the board took up the matter
of final payment this morning Attor-
ney General Bellinger moved THAT it
appears to the commission that the
work is satisfactory and that the con-
tract has been substantially perform
ed. -
This motion was seconded by Mr..
Geo. S. Mower.
COL MARSHALLS' PROTEST.
Col. Marshal offered the following
substitute:
"That in the opinion of this COM
mission the work done under the con-
tract for completion of the State House
has not been performed by the con-
tractors according to the plans and
specifications, and, therefore, the work
done is not satisfactory to the commits
sion.''
This was lost, the vote being: Yeas
-McSweeney, Jennings, Mower.
johnson, Wilson, Bellinger and Der
ham. Nays-Marshall.
Mr.. Bellinger's motion was then
adopted.
It will be interesting to note the
cost of the work and how the payment
decided upon today was reached. The
original contract was for Sl5S, 3O6.
This was supplemented by a second
contract, after it was decided not to
use iron on the dome, but to encase 1t
in granite, and the second contract in
cluded the closets and other work and
aggregated s677, and then subse-
ouent contract was made for S7OO for
a stairway into the dome, for hagstaffs
and the like. This made the total
contract s165, 7O6. A deduction of $500
was made on account of the breaking
of one of the granite columns, which
left the amount to the Mcllvaln-
Unkefer Company s165, 106. A spe-
cial contract was made with the
Lorick & Lowrance Company for addi-
tional pipes, making the total cost OF
the building improvements Sl65, 326.
Mr.. Milburn, the architect, was paid 3
per cent. upon all contracts awarded,
and this made his commission So, 261,
and the total cost of the Improvements
was Sl73, 623.
HE lNaG IA IHGN lO.
The State House commission held
back SIS, 900 with which to meet the
final payment to the contractors, and
of this amount it was agreed to hold
$500 for the brass tablets that are to
be erected, $50 for the lights that
were put in and $50 for granite used
out of the broken shaft, and the con-
tractors were allowed s25 for a broken
glass that is to be replaced. This
made the final warrant s14, 615 to the
contractors, and the final payment to
MI. Frank G. Milburn today was
$3.50. The warrants were all issued
today, and this closes up the entire
State House work.
The electrical work that is new 60
ing on in the State House is being
done under an entirely different and
separate contract, and is in no way
connected with the contract closed to-
day.