The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-07
WILL INSPECT
SIDEWALK WORK
Citizens Committee Moves
Board of Public Works to
immediate Action.
CONTRACTOR HAS HIS SAY
PROMISE OF NEW HAT BY
PROTESTAHTS

IF you gentlemen come down to look
al this work and you don't say that it's
mighty poor. I'll buy you all a hat"
said S. E. Hamer, a member of the del
egation that waited on the board of
public works last night to protest
against the way in which the work in
sidewalk extension No. los is being
done. from their point of view.
Aren't you taking a pretty big con-
tract?" asked Mr.. Barlow.
well. I know you've all got swelied
heads, but at that if you don't say this
work is not according to specification,
I'm damned if ! don't treat.
So in order TO win or lose hat or
a treat. and. incidentally, to see for
themselves how well or how i'll the
work is being done by the Kennedy
company in the big sidewalk district.
the members of the board will go to the
scene this forenoon at 10 o'clock. They
viii be met at Belmont and Ninth East
streets by the delegation representing
the complaining citizens and with them
win inspect the work.
Chairman Mcmillan. while not ex-
actly opposed to doing the inspection
work in conjunction with the citizens,
said that he believed this board is en-
firely competent to judge of the char
actar OF the work for itself There is
no objection 10 the gentlemen meeting
the members, however, if they so de-
sire"
Wait on Board.
1T all came about when a delegation
of eight or ten citizens from the south
eastern section of the city where the
new sidewalks are being laid. walked
into the boards meeting roOm-at least
as many of them as could get in. The
u - IL
He stated his objections, which reflect
ed the views of all. in subdivisions,
substantially as follows: That the
proportion of cement to sand and gravel
is not according TO specification; that
protection is not made according to
specification: that tamping is not done
according To specification.
Mr.. Badger said that sidewalks laid
on Ninth East street and Windsor ave-
nue. showed evidence of extremely poor
work There were heel marks and dog
tracks, he said. and the only protection
was the wooden horse with a lantern.
DO you mean that contractor
should fence in every part of the
work?" asked Mr.. RoOkledge
II certainly do" replied Mr.. Badger.
Here is the specification
The specification read fence" just
as plain as anything.
The delegation complained more
strongly about the proportion of cement
that is being put into the concrete COM
posing the sidewalk. Fl. s. Sheets. who
said that careful watch had been kept
on the mixer had noticed that when
protest had been made Improvement
was shown.
Mike O'ConnOr. superintendent for the
Kennedy people. who was present was
invited to address the meeting.
There are parts of the walk on Ninth
East that are admittedly bad. / said
so at the time. did l not. Mr.. Hall?"
You did" said Mr.. Hall. who is not
a member of the board of public works,
but who is member of the city coun-
ell You told me that three or four
weeks ago"
Will Repair Defects.
II also said that ] intended TO tear
out the parts Of that walk that were
bad. It was laid during the storm. and
we surely couldn't help ii. We can't
keep people off the newly laid walks if
they persist in walking on them. One
Sunday night | had three men down
there to look out for a piece of walk
we had just put down. When church
was out, hundreds of people fiocked
onto that sidewalk, and my three men
were as helpless as if they hadn't been
there at all. There was mud more than
blame them.
L have laid lot of sidewalk in my
time, and l tell you. gentlemen, that
you are getting better sidewalk out
there now than you have in any part of
Salt LSke. My company has a repu-
tation TO sustain. and l want to say
that there is no one authorized TO cheat
not for a minute. / court investiga-
tion."
Some Other Worries.
That is one Of the trifes that worried
the board of public works last night
and which are going to be looked into
today. The big explosion on the inter
cepting sewer didn't exactly come. but
the copcussion cap is fixed. Chairman
Mcmillan has been delegated a repre-
sentative of the board to make a per
sOnal examination of the famous, or.
perhaps, Infamous piece of work. and
he accepted the task with his Jaws set.
This matter came up when a commu-
nication was read from City Engineer
Kelsey. in which he recommended that
the Campbell Building company be no.