The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-20
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ASYLUM
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been prepared We're withheld. There
was, in fact, no other bidder but the
Concrete Construction Company When
the bids We're opened and the low bid
of the American-Hawaiian Company
was read, a contractor present was
heard to remark:
1.-The suckers bit, didn't they?"
! This remark gave no indication of
the plot concealed at that time against
the contracting company, and the bid
was signed.
| Later, when Amweg has examined
the specifications more closely, he
found evidences Of the alleged fraud,
and it was at this time that Beardslee
is charged to have made his damaging
admission. The representative of the
contractors says that he tried, at that
time to get Beardslee to go to Mr..
| Holloway and admit to him as much
as it is claimed he admitted to the con-
| tractors, but this the architect re-
fused to do. The admission of Boards
lee, or what is claimed to be his adj
mission, the representatives of the con-
tractors say they are willing to make
| oath to-
| 1t is said that Beardslee admitted
that the asylum job was manipulated
so that the contract would go to the
Concrete Construction Company, and it
would have gone to that company if
Amweg had not butted in with his
cheap bid.
/ ST had great difficulty" Beardslee is
reported to have said in the documents
in the Governors hands, "in getting
Mr.. Holloway to get the department
to specify the work as 1 did. MI.
Rowland could not see why building
constructed by methods in use ir the
United States was not good enough for
the Territory of Hawaii. So / had to
run a bluff by telling them THAI it was
very necessary, in a building of this
character to have the blocks dense,
so as to keep out moisture.
Mr. Beardslee denies all this, but
that comes later along in the story.
The contractors. discovering that
there was no machine made that would
press and lamp a concrete block at the
same time appealed to superintendent
Holloway to tell them what they
should do in the matter. He, it is said,
gave them the names of four compa-
MES who were making machines to do
company at once proceeded to look up
the machines 1t was discovered that
no one of the companies was making
machine that would lamp and press
brick at the same time.
But before the case for the contrac-
tors is closed, it should be noted that
the claim is advanced that, in calling
for plans for the building, Superin-
aSIyQ Mig
specifications for a brick building, like
wise. in the event that it was found
that a concrete building was not prac-
ticable, and the claim is made that
Architect Beardslee so drew up the
specifications for the brick building as
to make it incumbent upon the Super
intendent of Public Works to call for
the bids in the way that he did and for
a building such as the Concrete Con-
struction Company could build.
Here. with the allegation of fraud,
and the further allegation that the
specifications were not drawn SO that
they would be clear, thereby trapping
the contracting company into a con-
tract that was impossible of fulf1lment,
the case as it was laid before the Gov
ernor virtually closed.
HOLLOWAY'S OFFER.
Pursuing his Investigations, the al
legation of fraud having been specif-
ieaIly laid aside. according to the un-
derstan ing of the Governor, Mr.. Car
l-ca1.ad upon superintendent Hollo-
way for a statement of his side of the
case. Mr.. Holloway, as has already
been noted, offered to submit to two
arbitrators to be chosen by the con-
tractors the only question that he I'M
derstood was at issue, namely, the am
biguity of the specification relative to
the manner of concrete block to be
used in the construction of the build
ing. incidentally, Mr.. Holloway says
in his statement to Governor Carter
that it is nowhere, so far as he can
see specified that the concrete blocks
to be used in the construction of the
asylum building shall be tamped and
pressed at the same time. The specif-
ications call for a tanped and pressed
bIock-but do not say that the block
shall be tamped and pressed at the
same operation. The blocks to be used
must be dense enough to shut out
water, or they will be useless. In fact,
it would be better TO have a brick
building. And he said that it was not
UP to him to tell the contractors what
to do They had presumably read the
speciffca tions. 1t was their business to
go ahead and build the structure. He
was willing to leave the matter of the
clearness of the specifications to any
expert. Besides, he had seen the kind OF
clocks he wanted, and the contractors
nad seen them. His sole aim in the
natter was TO get the building started.
BEARDsLEE DENIES.
Architect Beardslee. called before the I
Governor. said that he had told the
nothing of the kind at
ributed to him.
Il would have been either q fool. or {
razy, to have said that Mr.. Boards
ee remarked land I am not ready to $
o to the insane asylum yet. What I t
id do was to offer the American-Ha- q
yaifan people all the information in