Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
|N5LEY CHARGES
GROSS INABILITY
To CLAYTON
! eaI Estate Operator Accuses
|CHy Construction Chief of
Nepotism in Office.

Nep0tlSfn III UIIiCe.
rsvIa f. .Ansley real estate operator
,romoter of AnsleY Park, ad-
Lassed today an open letter to r. NJ.
,,,on. chief Of construction, in which
made charges of glaring incompe-
., uuon the part of the construction
p.rncnt Of the city, growing out of
| work. in Ansley Park. He charges
W. \. HanselL employed as a
,e~ exoort" and who is a nephew Of
o,atn CLAYTON. was responsible for a
If the inefficient work. and goes
. detail regarding the ''misfit sewer
stan" cid out by Captain Clayton
l. rudolph Herring. an engineering
,-- caeaged by the city several
IS ago.
Cf5ss Overcharee Claimed.
Part Of Mr.. Ansley's ietter follows:
.v.a- department has rendered me a
IN. LOO for laying q sewer from
vaer.a street to Peachtree Circle,
a;.a would be Eighteenth street,,
.r is III least twice the reasonable
-o. same | have laid nearly $4,000
If 4nk and oysg 25,000 feet of
rsI sewers in AHsiey Park. and this
more ,rar twice the cost of any sim
rive that have laid
|"Tn- #aason this pipe Vas re-Iaid was
ta.. property owner that was
n- ON his 10. N Peachtree street
'.a connection With this pipe and
e.. This olatcion 40 within a
s.-. Of his house, and before il was
.t.. hea sin washed shay
ao3 pieces o. scrap timber Conc
.ye. teet 'onsl into II and
M e to bee, HE choNed up where
connection was made, and naturally
aa Il 10 break. Another property
.. ~. q heavy wall and large
~. -oger il without reinforcing 1t,
wis also ceUsed it 70 break.
Nsuhew's Ncrk Criticised
}9. ana Your nepne"' Inc CITY sewer
\ .at 20, had complained that be-
ta~ pipe was lald al the natural
hsgr point IN TINS secloh. ana
bGelore had some slSht hnlnaterlai
N.s I1 IT, therefore IL dlo not
BE- city specifications aHd shoula
.e-.2-' was the uutlA sewer II
louJ of his home curved IN order 10
Fold sewer assessment ~ lhat oloek
4 Ii Bill inc sewers are t'stihs douole
p reo7ona ole cost OF same II Is no
|ond'r lnal the pond money IS nearly
Pc and sun there are nnileS OF open
'H1 sewers IN the Guy ilHlitS'
Il NAeh you ana your TREND huooIpl
ieriOs planned the misflt sewer sys-
b. that YOU have put off on the city
,t-p+s tbaf-vo,, nov, admit will NOT
- .,..,.s.,-s,,,T,. ,..4i,, .,+,,o,, ~.
-,
6Gble system is laid, | had civil En-
eneer :. Z. Ruff and Major Bolton, the
staut citv engineer of Richmond,
N oo-l-c =, survey and nlan show
!. .......,.. .I..-.-.5 - o.,
FipA h'r"hg Tor the extension OF inc
4 ll.r street sewer was wrong and
Ena.l not lake care of the sewage with
liz ,,....anr civ limits NOT IN sneak
4 ,t,. --......,..', -. ,,,,4-,.. aai,ir,
''eH -,
IL on me cas3 ana north that VIII
\ taken into The city limits, probably
| iluu me next Ave wears. and certainly
E,otr g.,
,, o...-,L
f7''''
the sooner the engineering depart
Pent ealns to cooperate with the de-
kiopar in place of antagonizing every
Nm s.r ,,,. i,,,,,.o,,,,,,o,,t I'D ,,ea,,+if,,
~, 800 - ny - CIV XIV,
vi our Guy as you nave uolle WIN
Hf'F development ! have undertaken,
l sooner we will have a modern city
Y" get Fid Of the Dissatisfaction Of the
PAF .lefS at the way your department
o'lG 3 run. The property owners and
L Inc CONTRACTORS. should be taken
r "'
i@r city mas paved only two blocks
/ NN@.eE Park in three years. and done
repairing, but unless it comes in and
ans mp the streets and repairs them
nm the next thirty DAYS. l shall De
CsQ to do so at my own expense,
hen | told you | expected to deVel-
! wv acres of land Immediately north