The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-10-13
ARE UPHELD BY THE OFFICIALS
Contractors Say That Concrete Work
in the Building Though Laid But a
Few Days Will Now Stand Test De-
manded of Matured Building.

The officials of the General Construc-.
tion company, contractors for the new
city hall in answer to the charges made
bv Douwe Gaastra in which he alleged
that the cantract is not being lived up
to in the construction of the new build
ing entered decided denial to the
charges on Tuesday afternoon and sum-
moning the building committee and the
architect the contractors declared that
they were ready to turn the building
over to the committee or to Gaastra
or in fact to any commission or commit
tee that might be named for test OF
the materials or workmanship in the
building. GIVE have built this build
ing with greatest care, y said the super
intendent of construction, "and every
single provision of our contract with
the city has been lived up to. The
cement used III the concrete>is In the
exact proportion demanded by the con-
tract and every bit of this work has
been done under the direct superinten-
dence of either Architect Lindl or
Chairman Filbin Of the building COM
mittee. Our contract demands that the
reinforced concrete work shall stand a
certain test and while under the con-
tract this test would not have to be
made until after the building is com
pleted we are so sure OF our grounds
that we &re willing to have the test
made now and are certain that the
floors and all of the concrete work will
stand much better test than is de-
manded by the contract. When we
took this contract we got the best pos
sible men to have charge of the rein
forced concrete and we pride ourselves
on the work. 1t is as good a piece of
work of this kind as could be put into
any building and we can see no cause
for complaint except it be a malicious
one. The only danger we see in this
movement on the part of Mr.. Gaastra is
a possibility of the building being tied
up at this time when we are bending
every energy to get it under roof be-
fore the coming of cold weather. Every
bit of the work in the building is open
to inspection today. Some of the
work has been in but few days but
it is so much better than demanded by
the specifications that we are willing
to have a test for finished and matur-
ed>work applied to the green work.
do not see what fairer offer we could
make to Mr.. Gaastra or 70 any other
citizen interested"
The~protest of Gaastra will be taken
up at the next meeting of the council
but statements made by members of the
council indicate that the council will
either lay it on the table or give it a
reference to q committee which will re-
suit in its being lost in the shuttle. The
building committee and Architect Lindl
both declare that there is no cause for
any objection being made to the con-
struction work being done by. the Gen
eral Construction company. "We made
careful measurements of the cement,
stone and sand that went into every
part of the construction, said Arch
tect Lindl, "and it is certain that the
contract has been followed in every
way. l regard the protest as one with
out any merit and l do not believe that
any court official would issue an in
Junction to stop the wo2k on the build
ing on such protest
Officials of the city believe that any
injunction that might be secured would
fall far short of the mark as ~ is de-
clared that an early hearing would be
granted and that any court after hear
ing the facts in the case could not but
decide in favor of the continuance of
the work without further delay. The
contractors are now rushing the work
on the building with large force of
men and they are confident that they
will be able to get the building under
roof If not hindered by injunctions.