The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-05
M'ktNNA IS 6UUD WITNESS
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stand when the hearing was resumed. in order that the other witnesses sum- moned by the defense might have a chance to testify and get away.
 Attorney Hayes testified that he was employed by City Attorney Gull linan in tax lien searchings, and his bill for the work was $36. He came
 to City hall, soughts McKenna who ad- vanced him the s3b personally, as a favor, and Hayes then authorized L..
 J. Gill, the then assistant city clerk,
 to arrange the payment of the check
 which would come to him in due time,
 to Mckenua. On the witness stand Mulvihill said he didn't know who Hayes was. Satisfied with this ex-
 planation, Judson didn't cross ex- anime
 Sewer Inspector Daniel McPadden
 testified briefly as to the Seaview ave- nue sewer and the MOrehOuse street sewer. He acted for the city. He nev- CT heard complaint of the sewers fail ing to work properly.
 Otto H. Klein, chief engineer of the department of accounts of New York city, attracted widespread attention
 when he was called from among the spectators. He is more than feet tall, of distinguished appearance and military bearing. Few knew the pur- spectators had forgotten the name of o. H. Klein in Connection with $50 check with which his name had been coupled early in the hearing.
 Attorney J. B. Klein qualified him as an expert, in wood block pave ments. He said he was civil engi- neer, graduate of the University of Munich, and d chemist His duties in
 New York are all investigations by the city into the probable cost of work. His expert knowledge of wood block paving leads to his frequent employ ment in consolidation as an expert. He has been consulted he said both by City Engineer McKenna and by the Sewer and Paving Commission of Bridgeport.
 He said that in the Spring of 1910 MT. McKenna asked him to come to Bridgeport to consult regarding wood block pavement. He came here twice so as to allow free competition in the bidding. He had gained the informa- tion that made it possible for him to prepare specifications so as to allow the free competition during a special investigation he had conducted at the city. He received $50 for his work with the city engineer. the witness identi- flying the check for the amount.
 He recalled that there was a boat load of wood blocks which had arriv- ed here before his visit, and McKenna reJecCeQ them at n1S aOVlCe. linen ne was retained by the Paving and Sew
 CT Commission. In response to Kleins inquiries he said it was customary for engineers to consult with experts in particular lines. Further questioned he said he had an experience covering 25 years, he admitted that he was considered an expert in wood block paving and also that his general pay. for consultation work was $1O0 per day. That was his charge to the com mission for later work, he safd,s but 1t was reduced at the request of MT. McKenna. I was ashamed because it was so small, he said. "I'm ashamed of it now, and I asked MT. McKenna not to tell that 1t was so small" He recommended that the city engineer should have an inspector in Virginia where the blocks were prepared, and for that purpose recommended a chemist named Morton.
 Cross examined, the New York en- gineer said the difficulty in wood paw ing specification was that they re- quired a treatment of the blocks by an oil with a specific gravity of one twelfth and this oil could not be ob- tained in the open market. He added that Mir. Judson was mistaken if he believed McKenna brought him here to prepare his specifications. He was consulted only with regard to the oil. The question of consultation was a matter of chemistry rather than en- gineer1ng, he said. Few engineers he said are chemists and the information which he was able to supply to MT. McKenna was not generally known to engineers
 It was $50 when McKenna was re-, called to the stand by Attorney Klein who took up the various specifications in the general charges of Mulvihill and others. He asked why catch ba- sins were ordered built in Livingson place. McKenna said he understood at the time the walks were to be built at once, for that reason he wanted proper drainage facilities. When he learned the walks were not to be built he ordered them removed. He said he had never received from Silliman & Godfrey bill for the work at the curb was reset twice and had never authorized Silliman & Godfrey or any of their representatives to charge the bill to him.
 AS to the alleged needless work in locating monuments in the boundary line of Bridgeport and stratford, he said he did this work personally AS to the counting of automobiles by a man whose reports it was alleged had been thrown into the waste basket. he produced card system record showing daily traffic reports over Fa1rneld avenue rom July 50 to Aug. 31, a. m. to p. m. The cards were prepared from the mans reports and when they had been prepared the ori- ginal reports were discarded Maca- dam road said McKenna is not perm anent pavement, just a temporary road. We presume that permanent pavement will be laid in Fairfield ave- nue some day. It is the custom for the State Highway Commissioner to furnish the grade on plans for the work but the grades are, always de- fined on the ground by the local en- cross sections prepared by the high | record It was important he added that the engineer should have infor- nation as to the traffic over the road, | and that period of the year was chos- | en at the time of heaviest traffic
 Then the question of Engineer Will l liam H. McKenzie's employment was l taken up. MT. McKenna said he had ] known McKenzie's father as a con- sulting engineer on a water works in | 'It was necessary said | MT. McKenna, that we should have such a man as MT. Mckenzie in our | office He would not work for s1, 800 | which is the highest salary I am al- l lowed to pay. But he did consent to 1 come for S1.500 and I decided to pay him the additional $350 personallyl "We have a large city, continued thei witness. ''There is no living man who | can cover this entire city as city en- gineer. For that reason I felt the ] necessity of employing Mr. Mckenzie. | Some of the men I had were not ex- |