Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-02

sion taking for all these years, either
with public or private work and re-
main in business to-day?
II state most positively and un-
equivocally that 1 have not acted in
the capacity intimated, namely, that
of an agency for collecting commits
sions for Mr.. McIlhenny from con-
tractors or from other persons. Nor
have l collected or arranged to col
lect any commission either for my
self or for Mr.. McIlhenny, or for any
school or other schools. Neither Mr..
McIlhenny nor any other person has
profited a single dollar by any such
arrangement, for the very good and
sufficient reason that no arrange
ment or even tacit understanding of
| that sort existed at any time. In
short, Mr.. McIlhenny has never ask
ed me to collect or arrange for COM
missions from contractors, subcon-
tractors or material men, and if he
had asked me to do this, 1 certainly
would not have complied. In this
connection 1t may be stated that Mr..
Mcllhenny has never had a single
suggestion to make, apart from in
formal suggestions ds to the desira-
bility of using local materials and la
Dor Wherever practicable, in which
| most heartily concurred; nor has
he ever asked me to take care of
any material or material man in my
specifications. To the best of my
knowledge and belief, he has never
even seen single one of my specifi-
cations. l have had little time to
get full evidence bearing on the
above, but have secured o. very fun
line of affidavit from concerns hold
ing contracts on the last school built
here, (the Steele). / have also pro-
cured affidavits from the principal
material men and subcontractors,
also from contractors and subcon-
tractors on some of the older build
ings. With more time. l could pro-
long the list of affidavits indefinitely.
and cover every building have
erected here or elsewhere. Copies
or these affidaVitS are appended to
this statement. / ask il Ittner's in
timation sounds plausible in the face
of this evidence, all collected in a
day?
His Commission
MY commission for schools is 5
per cent. and not per cent. This
commission of 8 per cent. | earn in
the legitimate service l render. One
| per cent. has never been added to any
charge for disbursement TO any per-
son, and whatever may be the Gus
tom of others, ethical and moral
considerations would not permit me
TO be party to any such plan. |
have never arranged with Mr.. Nc
llhenny to pay him a fifth of my
commission or a single dollar of it !;
he has never aske it; if he had asked,
| should have reused most positive
ly TO do so. AnSH in order that my
statement may be perfectly clear, |
want to repeat as forcefully and en-
phatically as | am able, that 1 did
not at any time, share my commits
sion with Mr.. McIlhenny, either in
small or in great part. The fact
should not be overlooked that salts
factory service is an asset of value,
and that by no means all public
work is given out through political
preference. And the service render
ed by me to the Harrisburg school
board has been satisfactory service,
which resulted in my holding the
business, just as l have through sat
istactory service, been retained again
and again by private clients. 1t seems
curious that in Ittner's case his ten
ure of the position of school archi-
tect in st. Louis for fifteen or twenty
years should be attributed here to
his surprising ability, and that the
term OF NJ service in Harrisburg
should be attributed purely to poll
ties. | have found that orSs is oblig-
ed to furnish competena service to
long. continue in any capacity here
or elsewhere.
Now the work in question is of
Importance to me, of course, but
1t is of minor importance as COM
pared with the reputation for busi-
ness integrity which [ am very sure
| have earned right here in Harris
burg. 1t is of vastly greater i'm
portance to me to convince the gen
eral public that my hands are and
nave been perfectly clean in all of
my professional work, than to Sc
cure the school work in Harrisburg.
II, however, it is tie pleasure of the
board to have their work done by
some other architect, l am perfectly
satisfied, if, on the other hand, it is
their pleasure to give it to me, my
best service shall be enlisted to give
Harrisburg well-planned, economi-
cally constructed and honestly ad-
ministered buildings. And l want to
say in closing that the aspersions on
my reputation by competing archI-,
tect are absolutely unjustifed aud
without the slightest foundation in
fact.
&C. HOWARD LLOYD"
sworn and subscribed before me
this second day of May. 1917.