Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
SHERRERD HITS
MAYORS VETO.
CONTINUED from First Pase5

"bNJ
pound above or below this amount
when treated before shipment from
the plant
Wording of Specifications.
"This wording of the specifications
is contained in an insert on page 7,
which was a modification from the
former specifications to meet the very
contention raised that it was impos-
sible, in the present state of the
manufacture of wood block, to turn
out individual blocks whose varia-
ton in treatment would not be more
than this limit, therefore the modified
form of specifications was adopted to
provide that the entire batch of blocks
constituting charge in cylinder
should be treated with the right
amount of the preservative so that
the average should not vary more
than one-haif a pound from eighteen
pounds per cubic foot. This is a pro-
vision in the specifications which re-
lates to the manufacture of the blocks
by the successful contractor, and such
provision cannot, on account of its
pie blocks:
",rhe other question raised is the
analysis of the oil where the mayors
expert claims that his analysis
SHOW 4.52 per cent. of fixed carbon,
while the specifications indicate that
not more than $50 per cent. shall be
present" is also a variation from the
requirements of the specifications
where the clause reads mot more than
3.5 per cent shall be insoluble by
continuous hot extraction with benZol
and chloroform." The report of the
boards chemist in regard to this mat
ter was that the amount insoluble was
| $50 per cent and therefore, the state
ment that the boards own analysis
that the samples do not conform with
the specifications, has no substantial
foundation in fact.
Other Misstatements.
There are other inaccuracies in the
report submitted with the veto mes
sage, to which reference may prop
erly be made. In the third para
graph the statement appears that the
present specifications do not permit
the use of standard genuine creosete
oils of gravity from LOB to l.o7, but
require a product of coal tar of
heavy gravity of los to 1.12,' whereas
the limits fixed by the specifications
are from 1.07 to LIZ, and not from
| LOS to LIP, as stated In the fourth
paragraph statement Is made that
the provision that the oil when tested
shall not vary more than one-half a
pound above or below eighteen
pounds per cubic foot of wood is
practically and commercially impos-
sible to be complied with is also
reading into the specifications that
the limit of variation in the treat
| ment of an individual block shall not
vary more than one-half pound
above or below eighteen pounds,
whereas the provision in the specifi-
cations, as above recited, is that the
| treatment of a batch of blocks-mean-
ing all the blocks placed in the CYL
inder for treatment, which would be
several thousand blocks--shall have
an average of eighteen pounds to the
cubic foot, and shall not vary more
than one-half pound above or below
this amount.
This paragraph four further states
that the impossibility of the enforce
ment OF this clause might create legal
grounds for the non-payment of as
| sessments, and seems to be the basis
| of the Mayors contention in regard
| to that point. The reading of the
actual wording of the specifications
would seem to clear up the matter
| entirely" sedrg