The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-01-13
srsrsations h adopted.
fsmain. yours truly.
4. A. THURsToN.
BrATEMENT MADE ny JOHN
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fNANNAfAAF NWNAN" ANWANa
l.. a. THURfTON.
BTATEMENT MADE ny JOHN
oCDERKiRK.
Mr. Pinkham and Mr. ncnrdslee
were NJ that time business associates.
occupying Offices In the Eiit. building
on Hotel street. when DIR. Cooper re-
tired from the presidency OF the Board
OF Health ana Mr.. Pinkham succeeded
him and while he CPinkham) was ac-
tuslly serving as head OF the Board
OF Health Department he sent for me
ana informed me that he had Just In
vented a machine for the pressing OF
concrete blocks. and that he desired
me to go into partnership with him.
Mr.. Pinkham stated that he would sell
me a half interest in this machine for
$4,000. cash. and that for his half in
terest he would put up $500 In cash,
and the remaining $500 was to be paid
him as bonus for his invention. He
stated at the time that this machine
was invented especially for the pro-
posed Insane Asylum building, bids
for which building were soon to be
let, and he informed me that he would
have considerable to do with the
awarding of this contract, and was
sure that the contractor who had this
machine would be the successful bid
der. He said that the appropriation
was too small and the building could
not be built for it, except by using his
machine; that he had invented this
machine for the express purpose of be-
ing able to build the asylum within
h. iat TOW, No. LII fp11
me that the profit made out of this
machine on the asylum contract alone
| would more than reimburse us for the
money put out. He imposed one con-
dition, however, that IL should take
half interest in this machine that
would not be allowed to take any out
side bids for concrete blocks unless
through the Concrete Construction Co.
/ told Mr.. Pinkham that would think
this matter over and did so and gave
him my reply. l told him that l did
| not care to have anything to do with
| the machine for several reasons-one-
that the machine had not been tried
| and therefore could not be depended
upon for practical work; another that
could land a well-tried machine from
San Francisco for this work for $4,000
and would own the machine all myself;
another that I did not like the condi-
ton put upon the machine in which I
was to have a half interest restricting
the bids for outside work to come
through the Concrete Construction Co..
in which 1 always understood he was
large stakeholder. This closed my
interview with Mr.. Pinkham.
| IA g. Il; Il
contract for the reason that l knew
that an outside contractor would be at
a disadvantage in the making of these
! concrete blocks. 1 felt that whoever
President Pinkham of the Board of
Health entered into a partnership with
in his machine. that party would have
an advantage over outside contractors,
and therefore, 1 did not care to enter
into competition for the work against
| such odds. I stand for fair play and
/ have nothing to fear from, govern
ment officials. / am willing to take
the stand, If necessary, and tell just
what 1 know about this matter and
you can depend upon me telling the
i whole truth about it.
The fact that the American Hawai-
ian Company bid had nothing to do
with my not bidding. I have bid a
number of times against them. The
reason 1 did not bid was because
felt the specifications were fixed to run
the work into one channel and 1 did
not want to waste my time. 1 am
friendly to Mr. Beardslee but I do not
believe in boycotting one contractor in
favor of another. If Mr.. Pinkham had
ity to figure on his machine there
would have been some fairness about
it, although there is no model and no
proof that it will ever work.
JOHN OUDERKIRK.
THE GOVERNORS REPLY.
| Governor Carter, in giving out for
publication his reply as below to the
latest communication from the Amer
lean Hawaiian Construction Co.. ex-
pressed some hope that the matter had
reached a stage where the Asylum
contract might be brought into the
courts for the settlement of the dis
puted points.
What concerned the Governor most
was the further holding up of the al
ready long-delayed and very necessary
improved accommodations for the in
stitution. He feared that there would
not be funds on hand for the work
unless it were very soon put under
way.
incidentally, Governor Carter made
1t known that the failure of Mr.. Tur-
rell, agent OF the United States Mort
gage and Trust Co., to get here in the
Alameda with the bonds OF the second
million of the Territorial loan was La
BILE seriously to handicap public i'm
provements.
There is but about $4,000 left of the
first million, while the rate of expen-
diture of the fund is about 100000 a
month. AS. owing to the agents de-
lay, the money or credit cannot be
obtained on the bonds until well on in
February, it is easy to see that there
is likely to be hiatus in the progress
OF public works from the loan appro-
priations.