Arizona republican., 1909-07-14
KNIFE PLANS
 ARE CHOSEN. For Bridge al Foot of Gen.
 ter Street AFTER STORMY SESSION
 3 nf There Was Some Subse- quent Talk of an Injunc- tion But It Is Not Thought That It Will Ma terialize.
AFTER STORMY SESSION

The board of supervisors yesterday | afternoon. after a rather temptuous session of two hours accepted the
 plans of Knipe and Davis for the Gen. | ter street bridge. By the opinion of Assistant District Attorney Lyman the day before, the plans of the Raymond Concrete Pile company had been prac- tieaIly eliminated and it may be said that the plans of R. R. Ryan for a bridge of the arch type had been auto
 matically eliminated so that there were left in contest only the plans of Knipe & Davis and those of Mayberry
 & Parker of Los Angeles.
 Though Territorial Engineer Grand to whom the business of tabulating data regarding all the plans had been left had recommended the Mayberry & Parker plans as a second choice, there was an impression that majority of the board favored those of Knipe & Davis.
 There were present several members of the original Center street bridge committee headed by Mir. B. A. Fowler to speak in behalf of the plans of Mayberry X Parker and the small room of the board was filled to suffo- cation. In the beginning Chairman Hoghe said that it had been reported that he had been influenced first in favor of the Raymond plans and after that in favor of Mayberry & Parker. He would say. however that he was not in favor of either of them. for that reason.
 Mir Fowler criticised the chairman for the manner in which he arrived at that reason and in the course of the hearing there were several sharp tilts between those gentlemen.
 MT. Fowler urged the adoption of the Los Angeles plans. declaring that if the others were chosen it would mean a delay of a year in the beginn ing Of the construction of the bridge, the inference being that Messrs. Knipe & Davis would be unable to make good with contractors.
 Thomas Armstrong Jr.. addressed the board not as a representative of any firm but as a taxpayer and sub scriber to the bonus. He urged the adoption of the plans of Mayberry & ! Parker and argued chiefly against | those of Knipe & Davis that no pro- vision had been made in them for a 1 street car track It was not, he said. | provided that they would support a road way much less car of sixty | tons
 MT Knipe. replying said that in the l preparation of his plans. though hay ing in mind the building of a bridge | that would support a railway track he1 had conformed to the call for plans for wagon and foot bridge" He referred I the matter to Mir. Lyman who said | that the call included nothing else. Mir | Knipe added that he believed that | there was sufficient factor of safety | in his plans for a railway and to make | sure of it safety would be furnished | without a material alteration of the !! plans. already in the hands of the board.
 In the opinion of Engineer Girand. | expressed in reply to question by | MT. Armstrong. the plans of Knipe & I Davis would not support street car track and MT. Knipe repeated that | while he believed they would. and he had given the matter the most careful | attention and had had the opinion of | competent engineers. the alterations that would be made to insure the | greatest safety would add very little to the cost. He estimated that it would be not more than $500 for steel.
 Mir. Mayberry spoke briefly in com parison of the plans after which he stated the conclusion. that if the fac tor of safety in his plans should be re- duced to that of the plans of Knipe X Davis. he could build the bridge at a cost not exceeding s75,OOO instead of i s95.0O0
 MT. Knipe replied that he had not | given the plans of Mayberry & Parker