The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-04
TALE OF NO. 7'S
 NEW SIDEWALK
LabOTers Employed by Elusive Firm Can't Get Their
 Money
New Haven Contractor Assigns Claim to Burns & Go. Leaving WOrkmen to Whistle For Their Wages

Many improvements are made to the city from time to time and amongst of the progress of Bridgeport is Num- Der Seven engine house at the corner of BoStwick avenue and Pine St, which has boasted of its new gran olithic pavement since the early part of August. But few cities, however. are favored with such advantages this instance, although amongst the ranks Of the working class who by the sweat of their brows enhanced the
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 Yet it is a fact that while the city government stands ready to meet it's duly vized obligations the actual laborers employed far back as June last are yet unpaid And thereby hangs a tale.
 Now listen reader and you shall hear will listen to a local request from the aforesaid engine house to the Board of Fire Commissioners for the pave- nent. You will learn that the re- quest was granted and that the Board of Contract was authorized to let out the work You will hear Of one P. J. Coker, of New Haven, who as the pres ident of the Granolithic Stone Com pany, of far away New Haven, came all the way to Bridgeport to bid $40z on the work in question You will hear that considering the work Of Ht- tie importance the contract was awarded on June 10 by the Board of Contract and Supply to the said F J. Coker and the Grano1ithic Stone Com pany, without bonds-this being small piece of work, on which the city would not be liable to 1os@and the eventual such an extent that no record of it's incorporation could later be found among the State archives at Hartford
 And as you progress along the tortuoUs paths of the forest depths & little bird may whisper that not alone were the iaborers utilized in the con- struction work inapel1ed to give their 1aborS to the elusive corporation which had come all the way from New Ha- ven to do Bridgeport work, but that such a well known firm as the Burns Company of which George Burns. the we'll known commissioner is president, was induced to furnish supplies for which in the general dissipation Of the Granolithic Company they were conn peIled to secure an alignment to pro- feet their own loss. Yes, andfthis on the 22nd day of July. after Ernest Adams: had filed minor attachment upon the twentieth day of July.
 And then cometh dependent who relates how seven Of the masses and classes, to-wit John H. Dolan, Harry Dwyer Michael Corcoran. Ronald G. Galussi and Charles McGowan, did en- ter suits for claims aggrega ting s82-s5 through their Attorney Henry Green stein, attachments which are yet un- satisfied.
 All of this you will hear along the n1gnWdyS anu ~tfIG OS ways anu 0POi close scrutiny you will see that on the fifteenth day of October the bills be- ing duly approved were sent to the Auditors office by the Board Of Con tract and Supply, where through the elamor. for payment on the part of assigaees and attachees it was thought better to turn the matter over to the City Attorney for disposition and set tlen ent. And there hangs the matter to this date.
 At one angle is Attorney William E. Redden who demands the amount for his clients. the Burns Company who furnished supplies; at another point Of the triangle is Hotel Proprietor Adams who wants his attachment fquidated, and only restrained from violence at being unable to find the Granolithic heads awaits the army who 1abored for the city and are unable to secure payment for the brawn and muscle required to improve the engine house which alone rests secure in it's pos session Of a new pavement.
 The maze is further complicated by the circumstance that MT. Burns is, as it were, both supervisor and credi- tor under the job, for being a member of the board of fire commissioners and the contractor who furnished the ma terials he occupies dual relation to