South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-06-12
WANT MORE MONEY
To FINISH DRAF 7
Of BUILDING CODE
Safety Board Finds $500 Ap-
preparation Exhausted and
Committee Suggest Need of
$1,000 More to Pay Expert.

That the expense OF compiling a new
building code for South Bend will. if
pushed to completion along present
lines. cost the city nearer $4,000 than
the $500 already appropriated, was
the virtual conclusion of a report OF
the code committee made 10 the board
of safety at its meeting Friday. There
are AZ subjects covered by the code,
and only about three-ffths Of the work
is complete, while S419 of the $500 ap-
prOpriated has already been spent.
ROLAND Adelsperger, in direct charge
of the drafting, was present with the
committee, consisting Of Chairman T..
r. Austin. Ernest Young. Chris. Fass-
nacht and II. c. Christman. all Of
whom agreed that a further apprO-
priation will be necessary.
At the time of the $500 appropri-
alton, turned over TO the board of
safety for the purpose OF employing
expert help in framing the code, there
was a meeting of the above commit
tee originally appointed by the Cham
ber of Commerce, and the understand
ing was that so much OF the work had
already been done gratis that $500
would be ample to finish 1t. 1t was
understood that the committee should
go ahead and complete the job, and
then became committee of the board
of safety. 1t was after this that AdelS-
perger was called in, it is said, by the
committee, and he has had $100, the
other 1919 going for expenses. lie
was told. and expected that he could
do the work in so days but has now
been at it four months. He says he
ought TO have 81 500 for his work
alone.
To Put 1t Up to Council.
While it was apparent from DR.
Adelsperger's report that he has an
enormous job on his hands and that
the city would be left in bad shape
for completing it should the council
refuse to make the further appropri-
alton, the board decided that the COM
mittee had better appear before the
council itself when the hearing on the
matter comes up, probably at the
meeting in the hole" next Tuesday
night Members of the building com
mittee themselves mad very little to
say on the subject. Adelsperger did
most of the talking. His point was
that he had undertaken a bigger con-
tract than he knew, having given all
of his time except three days since
early February, for which he needs
better pay.
1t was the principal matter to come
before the board at its meeting Friday
aside from the charges received in the
matter of the death of Dan Medic, re-
garding which suspicious Of foul play
hav been thrown around PatrOlman
Fred g. Madick and which is to be in
yestigated Monday.
After Northern Indiana.
OF course, there was the usual re-
ports, among them one from City Seal
er Miller, that the city market will
probably be thrown open three days
week after June 27. Mayor Keller
with Miller has arranged a meeting
of the truck gardeners for next Sat
urday, at which market problems will
be taken up and discussed.
Supt. Hardy. of the Northern Indi-
ana passenger department, must
henceforth clear the tracks, or hold
his cars for all military and civic pa
rades and funerals. The latter is
state law, and has always been re-
garded, but up to the present time
street cars have been permitted to slip
through other paradeS when they could
90 so without too much interfering
or lack of courtesy Hereafter though
a civic or military parade mile long
or more. may be crossing the COM
pany's tracks the cars must wait until
il has all passed-and though they be
loaded with passengers, anxious to
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