The San Francisco call., 1908-11-08
jEREMlAHLYNCH
PLAYS TAG WITH
His ARCHITECT
EgyptolOgist of Bohemian Club
Files Cross Complaint in the
Suit of Henry R. Hedger
Demands S76,l97 as Damages
Because Building Cost Twice
the Estimate
Authority on Pyramids Objects
to Paying the Architect
S4,225 for Services

Jeremiah Lynch, eminent Egyptolo-
gist of the Bohemian club and equal
ly eminent landlord of the Press club,
is in on the game of tag day with
Henry H. Hedger, eminent architect
to the eminent Egyptologist, etc. But
their tag day is not philanthropic nor
disinterested. Hedger wants to tag
Lynch for S4,225, and Lynch would
pin document on the architect call
ing for S76,197. The superior courts
have been called upon by the two
controversalists to settle the dispute.
Hedger appealed first to thes courts
and Lynch has come bravely and
learnedly back with a cross complaint
filed by his attorneys. Arthur H.
Barendt and MCGOWAN, Westlake &
Squires.
While Jere Lynch'sF answer to
Hedger's suit is not so long as his ex-
haustive study on the auintescence OF
the Nile and the psychology of the
Sphinx, it is a commendable effort OF
10000 words and is sworn TO before
notary public, an honor never before
accorded Lynchs works, even by the
sapfent and assured author himself.
1t describes the building of the
structure in Bush street between
Kearny and stockton, now occupied by
the Press club and gay Partisan res
taurant with somewhat the same de-
tail that Lynch has heretofore devoted
to describing the idiosyncrasies of pyr-
amid architecture.
ESTIMATE TOO Low
Lynch's chief objection to Hedger's
reputed methods OF architecture is that
the architect estimated that the build
ing would cost $4,000, when the fun
expense was double that sum, or s1TO.-
600 Therefore. Lynch claims damages
for approxima tely the difference be-
tween those sums, or sT6,197. He says
that he leased the building on the un-
derstanding that it would cost but
$50 00o. so that the sum he now re-
ceives does not represent an adequate
return on the investment necessitated,
as he declares, through Hedger's i'm
perfect reckoning.
Lynch goes into elaborate details on
construction. He thinks that since 1t
took Chembes or Suphis /, employing
100, 900 men, only 80 years TO construct
the great pyramid OF Cheops. his Bush
street edifice should have cost less than
it did He swears that the architect
neglected TO provide for the crucial
item in the restaurant part of the
building, namely, the panel work at
the ends of the bar.
He also says, quite harshly for such
a cheerful c1ubman as Jere Lynch is
reputed to be, that the defendant archi-
tect so carelessly, negligently and un-
skillfully made, prepared and fur
nished" the plans and specifications for
the building that the contractors were
unable to understand them and that he
Lynch, had to employ other architects
to make those plans palmer.
AND NICE WHITE BRICKS
Lynch also finds fault with the esti-
mates of the architect for the placing
of the sculptured panels in the building
and of the number of white enamel
bricks required. Lynch claims to have
a choice selection of $3.50 pure, i'm
maculate, white bricks, valued at $500.
on his hands. The author is getting
writer's cramp from this excess bag
gage.
Then there was no asbestos, or even
mummy cloth, as an Egyptologist might
prefer. on the hot air pipes in the
building. In substance, the eminent
Egyptologist believes that the archi-
tect made a bad job of this modern
building, and he claims to know, for
he is the only man in the Bohemia n
club who is on friendly terms with the
Sphinx and knows the christian names
of the heather contractors who worked
for the Pharoahs in the middle king
dom.