Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-08
PSEN|CKA IS PICKED
70 SAVE GRANNO|D
FIFTH WARD COUNCILMAN, WITH
LAST VOTE, TRIES TO SNATCH
VICTORY FROM DEFEAT.
VOTE FOR GRANIToID is
LOST; THEN CLEVER RUsE
Because There Was No Remonstrance
For Thirteenth Street Petition Looked
For, Then Majority Vote Will Rule
Council Meeting Lecture on Grantoid
BY sinek.

BY Sinek.
Seeing their pet resolution to pave
intersecting streets with patented
sranitoid pavement lost for failure of
a three-fourths vote, clever ruse was
adopted by the granitoid crowd of the
council Monday night when Mr.. Psen-
icka, of the Fifth ward, whose name
is called last in a alphabetical order,
moved to defer further action because
there had been no remonstrance filed
on Thirteenth street. Such a motion
While a vote was in progress was I'M
precedented in council session, and
the exact object did not dawn upon
the minds of any excepting those who
been put and voted. Psenicka spoke
his piece nicely, had the motion COM
mitted to memory, and from all ap-
pearances had been well drilled
Resolution Orders Paving.
Despite the objections of property
owners who have TO pay for whatever
pavement the council sees fit to order,
the resolution ordering fifteen blocks
OF patented granitoid on the streets
named in the resolution of necessity on
Aug. 8 was presented. According to
the resolution the work was to be fin
ished by Nov /, unless the time was
otherwise extended. Chairman Her
man, of the streets and alleys COM
mfttee, moved the adoption of the mo-
rion. and Mr.. Clark seconded it.
Why People Should Pay BIome G. Co.
While members of the council talked
on the subject, Gregory and McCarten
against the ordering of granitoid in
face of the objecting property owners,
and the other members and the mayor
all urging that the work be done de-
/ spite the protests, most of the evening
was given over to W. j. Sinek, of the
Rudolph S. Blome Company, owners of
the patents claimed for granitoid pave
ment
Mr.. Sinel gave a rosy view of the
granitoid business, and told how glad
the Blome company would be to stay
out of the local field if it We're thought
/ that their absence would increase con-
petition. He wanted to tell the coun-
ell how TO provide for competition. 1t
was easy to 40. The Blome people
would stay out, they would handicap
no one. They would retire from cir
culation as far as Marshalltown was
mountaineering that they would
ask q mere pittance. of % cents per
/ square yard, as royalty on their pave
ment. But they would render SER
vice for this demand. They would fur
nish an expert to see that the work
4 was done properly, in order that their
business would not be hurt because of
some poor granitoid construction
they would also test the cement used
and in their laboratories would test the
surfacing product. The bid here might
be as low as sl.25, and then simply add
% cents. making it $3.50, which he
said was reasonable price for the
paving.
Mr.. sinek said that the % cents
asked as royalty netted his company
about II Y cents. However, this royal
" which he asks. or rather demands
under threat of litigation, would mean
that the property owners of this city
pay his company the little sum of s4.-
500 or more for the fifteen blocks the
council wants to order as a sample
a 25cent royalty means SIS per lot
and twelve lots to the block would be
$500. The fifteen blocks in reality con-
tain more than twelve lots to the
block, as some of the blocks are g
square and a half in length.
More Threats Than Suits.
The Bloom conlpanys talk of suit:
are more threats than action for the
mayor of Fon Du Lac says that hi!
city council was threatened by the
Bloom company, both last year anG
this, but as yet have not been sued.
Could Lay Cheaper Pavement Here.
Mr.. Sinels reviewed at length the
prices paid for granitoid in other cit.
les, which We're as high as $3.50, anl
spoke about the price of s1.65 paid a
Gary, Ind. In order to explain ava,
his bid of s1.9S last spring, he said tina
conditions We're more favorable 70
paving at Gary, where there was {
sand foundation and no grading wa.
5 necessary. Here there was clay sub
= SOIL grading was necessary, and tn,
, handling of the certificates in small
, dribbles all combined to bring TIN
price up to about s1.95.
But we can give you a cheape
pavement at s1.25 per square yard
which Will give you just as good serv
! ice as in other cities that nave ia i,
! it," continued Mr.. Sinek Mr. Sinel
! also said that he thought that OF
, streets where there was lighter traffi
this pavement would be just as serv
: iceable. The reason he hadn't suggest
ed the cheaper pavement here, how
ever, was because the council had sal,
: that they wanted the best.
Gregory Raises Point.
;. Mr.. Gregory raised the point of TIL
Fond du Lac, Wis, paving, which h
declared was laid at s1.32, and whic1
called for practically the same speci
f fications as called for in Marshalltowr
: on which the Bloom company bid 81 IS
h Mr.. Sinek said that the specifica
: lions were not the same and that an
+ information so received was incorrect
II Mr. Gregory then read from tn
h Fond du Lac specifications for wear
J. ing surface, and declared the specii
cations identical with those on whic
the Blome company had bid s1.9s here
Mr.. Sinek replied that the grooyin
or the top into blocks was not calle
= Tor at Fon du Lac. He said that if tn
= council was willing to do away wit
:, the blocking he would come here an
put the paving in at $135.
Raises 10 Cents in Ten Minutes.
Ten minutes before, in referring t
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