The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-15

ness and I'll tend to mine. This thing
is not done yet"
replied the street commissioner.
i am not going to be run down and
let you pick flaws in me-
GO on. Go on" yelled Snyder.
Il know something about my bust
ness" continued Sheahan who was
to be told how to do my business by
a man who just moved to town off
Of farm. You and John Rogers will
have to retract something or else I
will follow you right up
Don't you fool yourself, Mr. Sheahan
about my retracting anything. I will
never retract anything" came back
from the street commissioner.
Il was never discharged for incom-
potency in my life. I know as much
about street paving and excavations as
John Rogers and Frank Snyder" said
Sheahan as he walked out Of his Of
flee and across the hall to the office
of the city engineer. Mr.. Rogers was
not in. Sheahan said: Il want to talk
to Rogers and tell him to his face.
have been quiet long time. I was
wrathy at the newspaper reporters first
when these stories came out critics.
ing me but 1 don't blame them now.
That's part of their work but I am
Frank Snyder
well Mr.. Rogers is not in," said
w. ]. Arnold, assistant city engineer.
Appeals to the Mayor.
/ Mr.. Sheahan next called on the
mayor. Il want this thing aired. It's
all uncalled for the way John Rogers
and Frank Snyder have been going
fights should be brought up. Why I
have harassed these plumbers and the
gas company. The gas company has
been fixing excavations that were out
4 ~, ne f1<r, fixyn
years old. When this newspaper ar
ticle came out it worried me SO that
didn't sleep a wink last night"
They have sent me chasing around
to little holes all over the city and 1
have tried to do my duty,
''You are under the directions of
the city engineer" said the mayor.
Il don't know of course what those
directions are
Eyes, 1 know. And I am following
his directions. But when I haven
anything to report and these places
are being fixed is there any sense for
me to report?" asked Sheahan. 81
am willing to do anything that's done.
Mr.. Rogers should have given noe
those places that he gave out to the
newspapers. I can't be expected to
be at every excavation and see what is
doing. If 1 had wings I couldn't get
around fast enough to attend to all
that" z--.
SneandH THEN SldtSd ne Wod0I III
vestigate the charges made by the city
engineer relative to improper repair
work of pavements where they had
been torn up by plumbers. Eight of
the places were reported in state
ment filed yesterday by the city en-
gineer.
ST am going to have my desk moved
from out of that office just as soon as
I can get some men to do 1t for me.
I don't propose to be harassed be-
+xxyo a
said Sheahan, who has picked out Of
Ace room on the third floor of the
city hall.
II have brought up my office so that
IT is paving the city from $24 per month
I'D to S125 in collections. have been
trying to make the office pay the sal
ary. I had q list of those places which
the State Journal called attention to,
ninety of them, and they have been
fixed. 1 had them on my books Tor a
couple of months and now not one OF
them is on there. The fact is that there
are a whole lot of these places tnae
have been outlawed.
D. B. johnson. Thomas Wolr ana
John Sheahan, who compose the poaro
of plumbing examiners. want the pres
the plumbing ordinance revised SO that
the office will not be subordinate TO
that of the city engineer. They also
want the matter of inspection of exca-
yations given to a special inspector
who will be appointed by the city engi-
neer or street commissioner. Their
recommendations may be brought up
at the next council meeting