The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-18
PERMIT WILL
BE ISSUED FOR
JAIL BUILDING
BUILDING INSPECTOR NOTIFIED
CONTRACTOR THAT PLANS
WILL BE PASSED UPON coNDl-
TIONALLY BY HIM.

be used as a county Jail, have been
partially reported upon by George
H. Hopkinson, the New York con:
crete building expert, and City Build
ing Inspector Johnson yesterday tele-
phoned the head of the contracting
firm, the Keynton Construction Com
pany, that the plans would be pass
ed upon by him, and that a condition
al permit would be issued for the
construction of the new building
The building inspector is in receipt
of advices from y Mr.. Hopkinson,
which stated that the plans had been
carefully checked, and that they
came up to requirements Of the city's
Auilding laws. The checked plans
have not been received as yet, but
the letter of the New York man has
reached here, and it is upon that in
formation that the inspector advises
of his willingness of granting a con-
ditional permit.
The above information was plac-
ed before the board of county com.
missioners at the meeting held last
night, but Mr.. Blount, of the Keyn-
ton Construction Company, said that
he was not ready to appear before
in regard to the change in plans,
and he was satisfied that another
week would pass before being heard
from. The architect, Mr.. Benz, of
Mobile, was on hand, with plans of
the heating. wiring, plumbing, etc.,
for the building, and he placed these
plans and specifications before the
body, at the same time asking that
they be passed upon and that ad-
vertisement for bids for these neces-
stiles be inserted, to be published
for the next thirty days. Commits
sioner Johnson asked If the plans
had been approved by the city cleo
trician and the plumbing inspector.
The architect said that he could
answer for the electrician, and said
that the plans had met that officials
approval, but that he had nothing to
show for it. The commissioner
moved that the plans be held up I'M
Then the plumbing plans were offer
ed, with no approval from the plumb
ing inspector. The same sort of mo-
ton was made by Commissioner
Johnson. The first motion was Sec
onded by Commissioner Davis, and
the second one by Commissioner
McQuarrie. Both of them prevailed.
The architect then asked that the
board arrange for a special meeting
on Tuesday night of next week, when
he proposed to have everything in
readiness, for presentation to the
board Mr.. Blount said that he would
also be ready for the board at that
time. 1t was decided to hold meet
ing on Tuesday night OF next week.
Commissioner johnson called at
tention to the fact that the commits
sioners were in no position to vote
intelligently upon the jail proposition
and he cited the practice in the city
council. when an ordinance, of
whatever sort is introduced in the
council. and before it is voted upon
| every member of the council gets
CODY to see what he is voting upon.
Even copies of resolutions and all
amendments are placed in the hands
of the councilmen, and always at the
expense of parties asking for any
| thing from the city through an Or
dinance. Therefore l move that
| COPIES of these sets of specifications
be made up and copies be furnished
| to each member of the board, at the
expense of the architect"
The motion prevailed, and Archi-
| tect Benz said that he would have
| copies made for each member.
| Architect Benz, speaking of the de-
| lay in the work, stated to the board
| that he was sorry the delay had oc-
Cured. as it was his desire to hurry
things to a conclusion just as sooE
| as possible. In reply to him, Com
missioner Johnson took occasion to
| remind him that there was no desire
TO rush things through; that the
! nroposition was of such Importance
| as to affect each taxpayer of the
! county and it was one in which eX-
! IRENE caution should be used in it's
! furtherance He said that, according
| to his best information, the eyes Of
| the entire county were en- the board
watching actions on the question.
The chairman said that the city
was doing like things, in making
plans for more taxes, referring to
| the proposed new bond issue, but
Commissioner Johnson said that the
| citv would issue not bond until an
expression at the polls of the tax
pavers had been secured. He paral-
| ielled the action of the county board
in thus saddling the citizens with a
debtwhich, he believed if submitted
| to them for expression at the polls,
would be overwhelmingly defeated.
| Commissioner McQuarrie took &C.
casion to say that the law gave the
board the right to fix such assess
ment through legislative act. I'm
glad, though, to see the people wax
ing up and taking an interest in
such things"
you may believe it, too, that the
people have walked up" retorted
| Commissioner Johnson.
| Commissioner Davis asked the rea-
son why the plans had been ship
ped off to New York, but was inform
ed that the man to whom they had
been submitted was an authority on
concrete matters and buildings, and
the board was fortunate in having
such an expert to pass upon the
plans.
The board then voted to holding
the plumbing and wiring plans until
next week, when the approval of
both the electrician and the plumb
ing inspector will have been secur-
ed.
Adjournment was taken at 9