Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-04


7----=-
( YOU not to do it over again? lou have
been doing work that did not come up
TO the requirements?
No The stone was passed on
VIII request that the board ask Mr..
Boiling to take three streets in which
| granite spalls have been laid and TO
! permit me to take up portion twenty
feet square. and I will bet 5000 that L
amt up TO specifications. and relay the
spalls free of charge"
/ HIRSCHBERG AND SMITH
| EXCHANGE SOME IDEAS
In reply TO n question from Commits
sioner Folkes. Mr.. Smith said that John
Wcinbrunn was contractor who was
not required so thoroughly to observe
the contract. Mr.. Weinbrunn later de-
Med that such favor was shown him
In such fashion. with MIR. Smith al
ways on the defensive. the cXamina-
zion continued. lie said that IL all the
inspectors had been as strict as Mr.
Mcmahon. who mas been oil the Broad
Street work. that the city would have
saved money. and then stated that he
would not have allowed spall having
TO be put down in utter disregard OF
the specifications
ncn you want to put down the
spalls according 10 the ideas OF the
contractors" inquired Mr. Iirschbcrg.
I NO. sir"
I Well. according 10 the ideas Of the
. city Engineering Department.
No" replied the contractor. The
ciiy Engin"ering Department hasn't
any ideas" Mr.. Boiling laughed
Mr.. lIirschbcrg ask cd Mr.. Boiling II
/ there were any method by which il
/ could be figured how much street paw
! Ing Mr.. Smith had done since the
board has been In existence Mr.. Boil
Ing said i, could be done
/ Then said MIR. IIirsChberg. II sug-
Eest that the board have 1t inspected
/ and II necessary. have Mr.. Smith re-
pair IT at once according to the origi-
/ tractor repeated his bet to MIR. Boiling
and agreed that he wou.d take one
/ Of his oan streets
: In brief statement Assistant En-
/ gtnser Taliateryo informed the board
I that all tnc inspectors were strict in
! theiT requirement that specifications be
/ followed. bu. that there had not been
| enough Inspectors in years gone by
! and that IN any piece of work some
f, defects would be found. There Is no
I Partially on lie part of the inspectors
/ he said ana al contractors are re-
/ qurcd to Keep their obligations
! INSPECTOR MCMAHON
4 MAKES STATEMENT
I Inspector Mcmahon. who has charge
, or the Broad Street work. and who
/ he says, has been q practical stone
| man for thrty-four years, testified that
! he had not asked Of MIR. Smith to do
! more than the specifications required
J Mr. Maynard. contractor. said that
! much OF the stone he had used came
| from I'll" quarry from which Mr.
| Smiths stone mad come. that he had
! first trie l |" cu'i il himself, and even
I then had had inspectors Gull more He
J would not object. he said, to having
Mr.. smith inspect some of his work
! Blanchard $. Forbes, owner OF a
f, quarry. said that he tried to follow
as possible. that occa sionally he lost
/ some stone and that the loss was his
Pile said that cullinE was no new idea
John Weinbrunn, contractor. said tina [
| he had not done a single piece Of work
| in which he had not lost stone, and that
: some carloads sent to him he had not
had the nerve" to haul to the work
He admitted that nc had used faulty
/ stone sometimes when inspectors were
not looking. Charles NJ. Weinbrunn,
= contractor, said practically the same,
and confessed that nc. too, had some :
times used stone that he should have
discarded. when he was in hurry.
Inspectors liazelgrove, Taylor, Eu-
bank and Bass said that they had never
disseminated In favor OF any con-
tractor.
Mr.. Armbrecht an employee OF l. J..
Smith & Co. said that he had never
been so closely watched as by Inspector
! McMahon He thought that the worl,
on Moshy street had not received such
, close attention.
but Mcmahon is right on the job at
our work., said Mr.. Armbrecht 'ue
lays right on top OF il, and won't even
move into the sunlight in cold wea ther. -
we ought 20 have medals for fbeSe
men, said Mr.. Mccarthy.
! SPECIFICATIONS SAID
NOT TO he SPECIFIC
/ Mr. Mann, quarryman. said that n.
I had quarried stone ,or Mr.. Smith and
lost more for him than any other con-
tractor. He said that the specitica-
tions were not clear. that the words
from three to six inches wide" might
mean that the stone should be three