The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-26
MT. Jones Was Not Bene- ficiary Of Contract. CHARGES OF MIR. BROWN Mir. Thrasher Borrowed Teams
 to Haul Gravel. Amdayits of Parties Concerned in Country Club Contract Will Re
 Forwarded to the City
 Council.
CHARGES OF MIR. BROWN

Acting Mayor c. P. Mcintyre yester- day announced that as a result of his investigation of the charges preferred by J. c. Brown. aAeontractor. against A. Campbell Jones. City Superintend- ent of Streets. MT. Jones was exoner- ated completely of any wrongdoing.
 MT. Brown, 1t will be remembered, charged that MT. Jones had accepted a contract to furnish, haul and lay gravel for the Country Club. and that the material, wagons and teams and isborers of the city were used in per- ofrming the contract.
 In performing his investigation MT. Mcintyre required all of the parties concerned to furnish written state ments of the transaction.
 MT Mcintyre has prepared report on the matteer which will be submitted to the City Council at its next meet ing.
 Exoneration of MT. Jones.
 The statement of Acting Mayor Me- Intyre Is as follows.
 "To the Honorable City Council of
 Montgomery:
 "Gentlemen-The charges preferred against MT. A. Campbell Jones, Super intendent of Streets, by MT. ]. c. Brown, have received at my hands most careful lnveStigatlon.
 From the sworn statement of Mir {. Brown the gravamen of the charges against the Superintendent of Streets Is that MT. Jones had agreed to fur n!sh him .(Mr. F. B. Fisk). some gravel for a dollar per cubic yard and that this work was done at the expense of the city of Montgomery. ''The affidavit of Mir. Campbell Jones verified by afidavits of Mir. F. B. Fisk, Mir. Phil Thrasher. and of the negro laborer. Frank Alexander. and the statements from the City Treas lurer. convinced me that MT. Jones was not in the slightest degree the beneh- lSiary, either directly or indirectly. of the contract for graveling the drive way of the Country Club. and that the work was not done at the expense of the city.
 Tn support of this conclusion. I sub init the testimony upon which it is based. and attach as a part of this re- port the affidavits of every party con- cerned. Very respectfully, ~"C. P. Mcintyre, Acting Mayor"
 with this communication was attached communication from A. Campbell Jones. superin- tendent of Streets. P. H. Thrasher. F. B. Fisk, president of the Country Club; City Treasurer R. S. Williams: Willie Fitzpatrick. negroes, and the af- fidavits of MT. Brown.
 Charges of Mir. Brown.
 The affidavit of MT. Brown was as follows:
 State of Alabama,
 Montgomery County
 Before me, R. M. Sands, a Notary Public in and for said State and Coun- ty. personally appeared J. c. Brown. who' is known to me. and who being first duly sworn deposes and says:
 During the early part of March, as we'll as I remember. I was asked by MT. AIolt. the secretary of the Country Club, for a bid for furnishing gravel We were speaking of graveiling at that time, the tennis courts of the club, After had given Mir. Holt a bid of $1.35 per cubic yard delivered, laid in place and packed. I was asked by Mir. Holt to attend a meeting of the direc- tors of the club. and after telling him that I did not think I could come, he told me that he wanted me to come and make bid on spreading the gravel on the court. I told him I had given him a bid for delivering and spreading. He then told me that MT. Fisk said that
 
 nish him some gravel delivered for $1 per cubic yard. and that he wanted me to go before the Board of Directors and make them a price on spreading, roll ing and packing the gravel. made him a bid on that for 35 cents per cubic yard. stating that If they had asked me for a bid for gravel deliver ed. could have delivered' it at s1 per cubic yard and could have competed with Mir. Jones. Mir. Holt did not say that he had contracted with MT. Jones or made contract with MT. Jones, but he only said that Mir. Jones had agreed to deliver 1t for $1 per cubic yard.
 On the following day. Tuesday. March fl. 1905. MT. Holt called me up over the phone. and told me that they had decided to let me go ahead and do the grading on the courts, and asked me if could go at 1t at once. as they wanted the work done as soon as pos sible. I told him that I would start the next day. March IS. He said the club was anxious to have the work done at once. then asked him what they had done about the gravel. He said the finances of the club were a little close, and that MT Fisk said he would get the gravel delivered at $1 and have the janitor spread 1t, and save the club the 35 cents per cubic yard for spreading.
 Was City Doing WOrkf
 The following day, Wednesday, March Is. went out to the Country Club as I had business on the ground to begin work on the grading of the tennis courts When I went there to put my men to work I saw there had been some gravel delivered and spread on the driveway in front of the build ing. After leaving there. going back home and on my way to Capitol I overlook three gravel wagons that took to be the city's teams. From what I had heard that Mir Jones was to deliver the gravel, I took these teams to be the city's teams. That afternoon-after o'clock-I came back to the club to see how my men were progressing with the work, and I found an extra man standing there where my man was putting up his tools. asked this man who he was and he said his name was Frank Alexander. asked who was doing the work, and Alexander re- piled that the city was. told him he must be mistaken. and asked him who he worked for. He said he work ed for the city. then asked him who put him out there to work and he said that MT. Campbell Jones had.
 "I said, Who is hauling this gravel and be said, Two of the city's teams, and one of MT. Thrasher's.' l said, What ThrasherT and he said. Mir. Phil Thrasher, who lives at Chisholm I said. How much have they deliv- eredT and he said, Thirteen loads two wagons hauled four loads each, and one wagon hauled Aver