The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-18
.DR|SCOLL MUST
attend Meeting.
Investigators Want to Hear
from Contractors and
Sewer Inspectors.
ABOUT PARK DRIVEWAY
Road to Pump-Housc MARRIED
by Zigzag Line Of
Guttcring.

Contractors for a number of sewers
nov in course OF erection for the city.
and number of sewer inspectors have
been summoned by Sergeant at Arms
Ruskell to attend the session of the
Investigating Committee which is In
curing into the affairs of the City En-
gineers Office, and which will meet
again tonight. rumored contro"
versy between Contractor II. L. Dris-.
coll and Inspector James A. Bailey
Is to be gone into II Mr.. Driscoll can
be induced to attend. He failed to
obey the summons served for tho
former meeting, and resolution was
adopted directing that he be formally
respond he will be reported to tho
Police Court.
Fountain in Chimbornzo.
Another matter in which members
of the committee have shown great
interest and which will form the basis
for further inquiry, will be the char
acter OF work which has been done
in some.of the parks OF the city. Re-
port has 1t that the ornamental foun
tain in Chimborazo Park cost moro
than II should have done, and that it's
electrical apparatus was defective, and
has never been made to work satisfac-
torily. Then there has been patchwork
grading In that park with earth haul
ed there merely to be later hauled
away and the committee wants to
know who did It,
While the Committee on Investi-
cation was appointed from the Street
Committee 1T has in it's membership
Alderman Don Leavy. who Is an at
tive member of the Grounds and Build
ings Committee. and it has been held
that In order to get at n definite basis
for reorganization of the work OF the
Office the inquiry must be on a com
prehensive scale, embracing all of its
departments. including parks and city
grounds. and the work Of improve
ment of the James River, even though
under other committees,
Several members of the committee
have been out to William Byrd Park
and have seen some curious pieces of
construction.
Pump-House Driveway.
On the Pump-House driveway. laid
out as a grand. sweeping curve, more
than half-mile long, there has been
laid an irregular zigzag curbing and
guttering. Those who have IAN eye
to the landscape, think 1t an eyesore-
| that there had better have been no
curbing than to have had the great
curve of the driveway so married Mem
bers of the Investigating Committee
say without reservation that they will
endeayor to ascertain who laid out that
| work, and II II was done by one of
| the assistant engineers, will recon-
mend that he be relieved OF I'll park
work. as evidently having no appre-
citation of landscape gardening, and Is
| consequently not a man who should
| be intrusted with the funds spent an
| nually in beautifying the parks. The
curhng and gutterins cost several
| thousand dollars, and according to
some, will have to be entirely replaced
before the driveway can he restored
to It's natural beauty. a member of
the committee said yesterday that ii
was such slipshod carelessness among
the young assistant engineers in the
/ office that had prompted him to favor
the investigation; that he was con
WINGED that contractors were being lief,
to put in work almost any way, with
out regard to its permanence or ap-
pearanco-and the taxpayers pay the
bill.