Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-03
Job Continues for Five
MOnths-HOw Much
Longer?

mayor and later became a member Of
the primary organization Of Edward J.
Robson.
The administration, knowing OF How
ards enmity toward It, desired strong
negro representation in his ne!ghborhood
and It is said that It worked hard to get
It, At any rate Wilson, former worker
with Howard, was in line for Thomas e..
Howe II the primary hght.
Wilson got the job Of cleaning the con-
troller's walls The duplicate Of voucher
No. 496, found IN the board Of works
files, dated Feb. 8, 1921. and allowed
Feb. TO- 1921, tells the story OF his pay
ment for this work. The amount OF
S24S5o. for cleaning fresco walls In the
controllers department. time and ma
terial." and 1t itemlzed as follows: La
Dor for three men twelve days at So
per day, S2l6; material and incidentals,
$3.50"
After the completion Of this work VIII
soa wanted to clean the rest Of the build
ing but the board demurred Again some
thing happened to change the boards
mind. 1t was at this time when Hayes
staged what has been considered as one
Of the neatest little comedies the city
hall has witnessed for some time. He
cleaned a small triangular spot at O point
where It would be in plain sight upon
entering the front doors. The board
could not leave the clean spot surrounded
by black dirt, 1t was said, 50 Hayes and
his assistants went merrily to work again
at 50 and IS per day.
MATERIAL BILL
TAKES JUMP.
1t was about the middle Of March that
r
20, he got another voucher past the
board giving him 1912. This voucher does
not state exactly what the money was
allowed for merely bearing Wilson s
name and items of S210 for three men,
twelve days at so per day, one man.
twelve days at So per day and 500 for
material and supplies" There is a pen
cilled note at the bottom OF the claim
reading two weeks ending March 26."
On April 8, voucher No. 1162 gave VII
son 1872 and voucher No 1190 on April
24 gave him S397. The sum allowed for
material and supplies" for the two
weeks ending April "a jumped to SS5.
Voucher No 1882, dated May 8, allowed
Wilson s464, 1t being itcmlzed only as
follows: Hayes Wilson, four hundred
sixty four and oO-1OO dollars, invoice
5-7-21, $464.
Wilson then got no more money until
June 8, when voucher No. 1910 for S464
was approved. This showed that there
We're four instead Of three, men to be
paid at the rate of so per day. On July
voucher No. 2122 allowed him S464; he
got another S46i on voucher No. 2299, ap-
proved July 15 and on July 20 voucher
No. 2420 allowed him S462.35.
All Of the vouchers were made out to
Hayes Wilson personally The city, hay-
ing no written contract with him, has
no direct legal way Of checking up.
While the assistants" scrubbed away
at the ceiling Of the Gamewell headquar-
ters on the fourth floor of the city hall
yesterday afternoon, attempts were made
to find Wilson. Presumably he will
get his $8 for "bossing" the job yester-
day. At Q 80 o'clock he was not in the
room where his men were working. At
80 o'clock Custodian Charles Brown of
the city hall was asked If he had seen
Wilson or knew where he was. The Gus
todian replied that he guessed he's gone
bone"