The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-28
Gives Order for Material When
Board Does Not Act
A. Bundesman Is Sewer Inspector
But Official Records Recognize
A. FRANKIE.
STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT

| Had not Mayor Yeiser come 70
the rescue this morning, the sewer
pumping station might have been Sc
riously hampered in Its work, If not
stopped for lack of oil and waste fol-
the engine.
| According to A. Bundesman, sewer
inspector, Mr.. James e. Wilhelm,
president Of the board of public
works, declined to give him an order
for the supplies, saying he did not
recognize Mr.. Bundesman's creden-
tails.
When Bundesman appeared at the
city hall and informed Mayor Yeiser
of the urgency of the matter, Mayor
Yeiser made out an order for the
supplies on his own responsibility.
81 do not usually interfere in these
departmental squabbles," said Mayor
Yeiser, "and hereafter you will have
to look to the board, bat l do not in
tend that a little matter like this
shall jeopardize the work of pumping
out the sewers at this time"
A Bundesman was elected sewer in
|speotor by the general council and
Qualified. Afterward the board of
public works appointed A. FRANKIE,
and a lawsuit followed, Bundesman,
with his co-defendant Charles f..
Bell, marketmaster winning in the
circuit court.
An appeal has been taken but in
the meantime Mr.. Bundesman is the
sewer Inspector.
Mr.. Bundesman Speaks.
we had to have oil or smut down
the engine at the pumping station"
said Mr.. Bundesman. "If we should
stop the engine every cellar in Pa
ducah, practically, would be flooded
in little while. The custom has
been to go to Auditor Kirkland and
get requisition for oil or waste or
whatever is needed. This time Mr..
Kirkland informed me that he had
received orders to issue no more re-
|qulsitions unless directed to do so by
the board of public works. He told
me to go to President Wilhelm. l
did so and asked him for a requisi-
ton for oil and waste. He said, Mr..
Bundesman, the board of public
works does not recognize your au-
thority to act as sewer inspector, and
I cannot give you a re1ulsition.'
81 said What shall l do. We must
have oil and waste for the engine
"He replied, 4 do not know.
can do nothing for you
"Then went to the mayor and
told him the situation. He gave me
a requisition at once.
Had simply depended on the
board of public works the cellars
would have been flooded"
Pres. Wilhelm's Statement.
President Wilhelm, of the board OF
public works. stated, when seen in
regard to the matter:
"When Mr.. Bundesman called on
me for an order, I said, MIR. Bundles
man. the board OF public works has
not recognized you in the capacity of
sewer inspector and have no au-
thority to give you an order
1.-THE situation is just this-during
the interims between meetings of the
board, the president is given certain
discretionary authority in order that
work may not be i'm
peded, and to meet emergencies; but
where the board is on record. as in
this case, recognizing A. FRANKIE as
sewer inspector and not Mr.. Bundles
man. could not do anything. The
board has taken no official action
since the case was decided in the cir
cult court and the appeal taken, and
the records show, that as far as the
board of public works is concerned.
A. FRANKIE is sewer inspector. 1
shall bring up the matter at the next
meeting of the board"