Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-05
IG.h.R. DECORATORS
|REPUDIATE CONTRACT.
Lively TILT in the Izenyon Hotel This
forming Over an Agreement
y For Bunting.

When the Pan American Decorating
$scorlpanY throu gh Its a gent. H. II, s1or--
sreaux, tried to take an advantage over
Sam Porter OF the Kenyon hotel it
slipped y cog, in fact, it slipped several
cogs, and there might have been a btok-
on nose and a, couple OF black eyes had
( not peace loving newspaper man
poured oil upon the troubled waters.
The difficulty was all due to a con-
tract signed by Sam Porter Of the Ken
syon, and the accredited representative
of the Pan-American Decorating COM
spany, which contract the company re-
fused to fulfil. As
~ Yesterday the company wrote to Mr..
!! Porter. making a proposition for decor
sating the hotel. A design, made on:
Ia proporttonate SCALE was submitted,
and IT was agreed that the company
would take down the decorations at the,
end of the g. "A. r. encampment. 1t
was also stipulated that no unnecessary
nails or brads would be used. The final
paragraph OF the proposal reads as fol-
lows:
81 Mr.. Porter agrees that if decora-
Sttons are put upon building as per de-
sign to pay to the order of Pan-Anleri-
can Decorating company the sum of
800, after decorations have been care
fully removed and building left in good
order This was signed by zorneauS,
as agent for the company.
1orneaux called upon Mr.. Porter with
a stereotyped contract. one portion of
which stated that the party of the sec
ond part-meaning Porter-would pay
the company 500 .tas soon as decora-
stions are put up This did not suit
Ni,,Fa TOrx,,t ~
changed to read: AS soon as decora-
}tions are down 2 55ils
This was agreeable to the agent of
the company, and he signed the same.
+ But the decora lions did not go up
There Was nothing done, and people be-5
gan to complain to Porter that he was
lacking in patriotism, and demanded to
know, why he did not decorate the hotel.
Porter got busy with the company and
was then informed that the contract
would not be fulfilled. The boniface
became angry and wrote the following
letter to the company:
81 have been advised by your agent
that the contract he signed yesterday.
he would not be able through you to
fulfill. This is a notice that II the
work Is not commenced and finished
according to contract, tho matter will
be placed IN the hands of our attor-
sney,s with orders to begin proceedings
against You at once"
In reply to this, w Hintze, '.proprie-
tor" of the company, wrote to Mr..
Porter, sending th- communication
with Zorneaux, to the effect that my
agents have no power Of attorney but
are under contract with me, that in
order TO make a contract perfect and
legal. must accent contract. He
then goes on to say. that If Porter de-
sires to go to law, etc, it Is agreeable
& to Hintze.
b After zorneaux presented the COM
5munication to Porter he asked the lat
for ifzthere Were q my re RI The hotel
man replied that he would stand by
the contract and would hold the COM
Gpany to the same, ZorneauX insisted
that q new contract be signed by lPor-
ter whereby the latter would be bound
to pay as soon as the decorations are
up. Porter refused to do SO and then
Zorneaux became insulting until Por-
ter, flushing with anger, threatened to
give the decorator a correct imitation
OF a cloud burst toying with a tumble