Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-30
EVERYBODY knew,
SAYSEDLORDO OF
that PIER BULGE
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he alone know OF the bulge, says Lord,
"for the bulge amounted in one place
10 five inches in a length Of four and
one-half feet Anyone with a meChani.
cal eye could see it.
IF Bill Greger, inspector for the
board. could. not see the extent to
which the wall is out, continues Lord,
"he is certainly not qualified for job
of that size .-..-.><. ri.
"Why. it was common talk on tic
work. Our men know OF II. from the
head superintendent TO the boy that
carries water. never thought that
the territorial officials would say they
had no knowledge of the bulge"
Morean's Loyalty" ..r.:.-.
Lord declares il is foolish for MCr.
gan still to try to shield others OF
those who worked on the job.
"He came to me one morning sew
eral months ago, telling me he was go
Ing to quit. that Greger had struck
him Then he stood by GTeger in the
police court case that came up over
the scrap with Victor Ives That was
the way his loyalty TO his chief
showed up-his chief on that job had
been Bill .Greger-". ~.
That the crack at the corner for
an inch or so came from the fill that
was put behind it is denied by the
contractor He says that all of the
men came to the conclusion that the
jar of the pile driver hammers on the
piles was the cause. Driving was
stopped until after the corner had
been bound in again with steel
beam. The fill had been in. several
months before, in July or August
you can feel the jar of those ham,
mers over the whole area" he eX-
plains, "and the crack at the corner
spread quickly under the pounding.
We drove again after the wall had
been fastened"
Lord stands by his previous state
ment that the wall is as safe as II
ever was, but does not go into de-
tails OF whether that means complete
stability. He says the contractors
have followed the work according to
specifications and the job is exactly
what was called for. The anchorage
system which has been designed for
the piers is useless. he believes, how
ever. He is not willing to go on rec
ord that the pier is as. safe as ii
should be-
The board of three engineers, APP
pointed by the harbof commission to
inspect the three piers and get at all
the facts of things concerning them,
has already begun work. 1t is be-
lieved that their investigation will
take several days.
"No Politics." Says Mccarthy
Commissioner c. j. Mccarthy con-
dennis The statement made yesterday
by Morgan that there was political
motive in his motion to discharge the
engineer dishonorably.
Says Dirty Move
He believes that Morgan and Lord.
Young men worked together to hide
the crack from Forbes and the com
mission, and that this would probably
have been done had not he himself
stumbled across it one morning early
when lie went down to the work and
saw a two-inch crack at the junction
of Piers and 9.
Il consider it dirty proposition on
Morgaa's part, says Mccarthy, Ito
accuse me of playing politics in dis
charging him. He deserved to get off
the job mighty quick. I've told the
board lots of times that the legislature
will want us 70 give an account oil
how we have handled things they gave
us TO 10 but | fail to see where the
politics comes in that.
Order Dredging Stopped
Shortly before noon today Acting
Chairman w. c.. Woodward forwarded
letter to Ed Lord instructing him
to abandon all dredging work at the
piers antiI the board Of examiners has
declared itself as to the stability of
the wall. 1t is understood that Lord
is willing to do this.
Forbes Knew of Crack
Morgan made an additional state
ment today that Forbes knew of the
crack in the wall before he went on his
trip to Hawaii last November, and that
he learned it through a report which
Morgan himself made to the chairman.
Il took Forbes out and showed him
that the corner was cracked" says
Morgan. This was before Col. Nc
Carthy made his find. | do not
think though chat Forbes knew the
wall was bulged out, he says. Meth
er did Greger, or if either of them
knew Of it they did not say anything