Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-27
CONTRACT WITH PAVING
COMPANY IS RATIFIED

, Leland. corner Center and Lincoln
streets; Cora A. Coppock South Ninth
street, between Church and Main
streets; Ed Myers, corner Third and
Grant streets, and H. c. Wilson, cor
| ner Second and Grant streets and
corner First avenue and Grant street.
Just What 1t Means.
When it is contemplated just what
the entering into of this contract
means, and the money involved the
sum, based on what it has already cost
the city, and what the contract price
of the paving was, is nothing short OF
surprising. Had the city been forced
to defend all of the forty or more
cases brought and carried to the fed
eral court at the rate per case that 1t
cost it to defend the Brown and CAL
houn cases in the district court.
which was $3.50, the total cost for
both the lower and higher court would
have been more than $4,000. This IL
only small part of what would have
to have been paid out by property own
ers, $50 of whom aoout year ago
entered into a contract with an at
torney to bring individual suits
against the Barber Asphalt Company.
BY extending the guarantee on the
paving five years the Barber Asphalt
Company in reality increases the value
of it by approximately 40 per cent,
since it agrees to keep the paving in
repair all that time. The contract re-
deems all property sold for taxes,
wipes out all litigation and brings the
payment of all paving unpaid for to
the original seven year plan, excepting
of course those who have already paid
for their paving. These, however, are
given an advantage in the extension
OF the guarantee and the increase OF
the paving company's bond. In fact
the contract looks to taking care Of
all interested in any way in the paw
ing, who are parties to the contract;
those who have waived all right to OBJ
Ject to the assessment, those who have
paid, and those who have not paid for
their paving, those whose property has
been sold for paving taxes unpaid.
those who have had interest accumu-
late against their property because
they have not paid the paving tax as
sessment, and those who have brought
suit.
New Assessments to be Made.
The assessments for the paving on
North First and Second avenues.
which will be made within the next
Few weeks by the council ends the
holding up of the assessments on
those streets, which Mayor Ingledue
refused to sanction, ard did veto early
IN his term. While these assessments
will be made and the paving company
will be paid for its work it is interest,"
ing to know that So per cent of the
property owners on these streets have
signed the contract
lngledue's Successful Fight.
To no one so much as to Mayor In
gledue is due the credit of untangling
the paving difficulties. It has been
the one chief endeavol' of his term of
office to bring about settlement and
avoid lawsuits both for the city and
the property owners. He first appear
ed as a champion of the settlement
out of-court idea by vetoing, soon after
he was elected, the resolution which
sought to levy the assessments for the
North First and Second avenue paw
ing. He proposed at that time to pre-
vent the paving company from receiv-
ing any pay for this work, done in
settlement for all the paving. For
months he endeavored to get some
promise Of compromise out of the paw
ing company without success. Then
in an effort to bring the pressure of
many lawsuits to bear he called the
owners together, and induced
$50 of them to Inter into a contract
with am attorney to bring individual
suits against the contracting company.
because of defective paving.
After more months of delay, on
April IA, 1906, he secured from the
Barber Asphalt Paving, Company the
contract, which was entered into Mon
day night. The paving company, how
ever, agreed to become party to it,
only on the provision that every own
err of property signed it. This clause
it valves in the contract entered into,
and accepts it as signed. Mayor In
gledue then set about getting sigma
lures. Time after time the period |
during which the contract was to have
been signed up was extended thru his
until eventually He had $50
signers. Still there was no move on
the part of the paving company.
About ten days ago Mr.. Ingledue noti-
fed the company that unless some ac-
ton was taken soon the contract must |
be considered null and void Action
quickly, eliminating in the |
acceptance.