The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-29
HARDOR commission
HAS LIVELY SESSION.
Hot Words Are Passed Between
Contractor Lord and Inspec-
tor William Gregor
Big Row Over Work On New
Piers Makes Meeting Rather
Sensational

The crisis of the friction between
the contractors on Piers 3, and 10
and the Inspector for the board Of har,
Dor commissioners, William Treror
hints OF which have appeared in the
reports Of previous meetings of the
hoard, came yesterday morning. when
Charles II. Forbes, chairman Of the
board, called special meeting to con,
slider the action taken the day before
and announced in The Advertiser YES
terday, 10 bring a certain portion of
| the work 10 n standstil.
Two questions came before the
board. The lrst was regarding the nc.
| eeptance OF n concrete pile, driven BY
the contractors, the Lord Young Com.
pany, thirty-eight feet to rrrk bot.
tom, instead Of forty feet ~ he speei.
fications eall for Incidentally there
came question Of vcrAcity between
Edward Lord, of the contruc. no firm.
and Gregor, the board = inv2rctor on
the job. Lord declared wat Grcpor
lad accepted the pile, aad Grcpor de
MED this fatty.
Question Of Veracity
The other important unpn'inn was
whether the contractors were TO he al.
owed TO continue the use Of suction
tredge, the Kewalo, on the II ner line
of piles.
The feature Of the meeting vas the
revelation OF the friction between the
contractors and the inspector. This
had reached sueh stage that Lord re-.
fused point blank TO receive auy
further orders from Gregor. He had
threatened to do this some time ago,
but the matter was then hm rothed over
by the board.
Lord dehied yesterday thnt he had
receiYed any Instructions rom Gregor
reparding tho placing of concrete
cylinder pile, and Oregon explained
that the contractor had thrown the
'etter containing the instructions into
the bay as soon az it was landed TO
him the other day. The Inspector add.
ID that when he gave Lord the letter
he contractor Lost his temper and
brew the envelope into he water
without opening Il.
3oth Men lose Temper
The meeting grew exceedingly hot
tbout this time, Lord losing his TEN.
peI aud declaring that Oregon was not
telling the facts Ia the case. GreRor
also raised HE voice III talking and il
was as much az Forbes, a., ehairman.
l0pld DO 70 bfiaH back = seapt,lene q. 'of
order The discussion yrs a. TO
whether the pile had been driven nc.
,orling TO specifications. lord ,declur
I'd that the idea back OF this specified.
tons was that the piles should be
lriyen TO, solid bottom, HAa that the
rock had been reached ut thirty eight
feet in this instance. a. y.
81 have been told by the hoard to
zee that this cylinder goes down forty
'eet and | am going to do inst that,
Without splitting hairs about the, mat
Ter" said Gregor. "My orders in
shis and other matters have been dis
regarded utterly by the contractors,
he added. .....G|s.
In speaking about the effect of the
work that is being done by the dredge
Kewalo, GregOr declared that the sue.
lion is endGngering WORK the har-
Dor bottom, and particularly the wall
VI that place, by undermining. This,
Ne asserted. will imperil the super
structure of the wharf IL allowed to
,ontinue. lie added tina, the eontrAc.
tors had promised not to 60 INTO that
nlace again with the drcdge, but had
lone so in spite of their rrcmise. Two
cylinders have been placed in split
ground, he continued, and viii have to
be driven deeper to make them secure.
Cylinders Finally Accepted
Lord, in his statement 10 lie board,
declared that the first objection he
rad heard regarding the cyl'nder was
Monday, when tho board appeared and
isAned an order that the work must
D. stopped temporarily. He said that
where the character of the soil is such
hat q solid base can be fonnd in forty
feet the Inspector had tho right to al
lsw the cylinders TO br driven a less
ispth than called for in tho text Of the
specifications. He added TINT he be
lieves that Oregon is enforcing the
rules merely because he has the pow.
ed TO do so.
1t was finally decided 10 accept the
CYLINDER and deduct from its price in
proportion to the difference between
The depth TO which it has been driven
and that called for by the specifiel 1.
tions.
Il. c. Peters appeared as attorney for
the contractors and Arthur G. Smith.
deputy attorney general, Us consul for
the board.