The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-07-10
TEST BRICK AND
STAG At j. OF NJ.
Council Committee Reaches This De-
cision--Mayor Has Knockout
Message for Tuesday Night.

After wrangnng for more than an
hour, Monday noon, the council COM
mittees on claims and accounts and
streets, which met jointly, approved
Aid. Fields resolution, providing for
tests Of paving brick and Stag by the
engineering department of the Uni
versity OF Michigan, with certain
amendments, and turned down Aid.
Lodges resolution. calling for an In
vestigation OF the brick paving ques-
OF public works.
II was one OF the most animated
committee meetings held In several
months. The aldermen In attendance.
including several who were not mem
bers OF either committee, all wanted
to talk at once. Everyone had diff
ferent suggestion and motions were
made only TO be amended.
Aid. Gilman wanted the council to
instruct Public Works Commissioner
Haarer not TO purchase any more
brick until the present controversy
Is settled and offered motion to that
effect
"You might as, well make that a
little broader and instruct him not to
lay any more brick pavement pending
this controversy" suggested Aid. Gut
man. 'Nine-tenths of the brick that
will be used this year have been pur-
chased"
Before Aid. Grindley could put the
motion, Aid. Merritt broke in with q
motion to adjourn.
"Yes, let's adjourn and put stop
TO this grand stand play" said Aid.
Littlefeid, seconding the motion.
which was then put and carried. The
aldermen were still talking brick"
among themselves az they filed out OF
the city hall.
In this connection. II develops that
the mayor Is getting ready to veto
some more paving brick bills Tuesday
night, and he will give the aldermen
some facts concerning pavements that
have been laid IN tfG last four years
that will prove very interesting. 1t is
hinted. The mayor has ben delving
into the records for week past, and
there is every reason to believe that
his next veto message will be a cork
err" .-l K. t4l
One of the suggestions that came
out OF the meeting, Monday. was that
Commissioner Haarer and w. II. May
buy be delegated to go to other cities
and secure samples of the brick being
used there and test them In the De-
troit rattler, thus making compari-
son between the brick being used here
and those used elsewhere.
Under the Field resolution, as
amended on Aid. Merritt's motion, the
Detroit brick and Stag used In founda-
tions will be submitted TO a chemical
test at the University OF Michigan.
and representatives OF the engineering
department of the university will also
be asked TO come here and make tests
Of brick In the rattler The experts
also will be asked TO give an opinion
as to whether grout or a tar filler for
brick pavement IL the more desirable.
On the Lodge resolution, calling
for an investigation OF the paving
question by William II. Maybury
alone. the vote was as follows:
For-Ald Thompson. Ostrowski,
Skrxycki and Mccarthy.
Against--Ald. Owen, Mason. Gin
nan, Littleheld, Merritt and Grind
ley.
To start the ball rolling. when the
committees got down TO business, Aid.
owen wanted to know Of Aid. Lodge
what special uuaftfcatfon Mr. May
bury possessed that he should be Sc
Iected over all others to make an
Investigation OF the brick question.
Aid. Lodge replied that he had talked
with many about Mr.. Maybury and
that no one had questioned his abil-
ity. He spoke OF Mr.. Maybury's ex-
perience as a former commissioner az
one qualification, but said he would
consent TO the substitution Of any
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