The Indianapolis times., 1924-06-02
EXAMINERS ARE
NAMED FOR QUIZ
INTO BUILDINGS
Commissioners and Con-
tractors Agree Upon
JuIietta Structure.

An investigation of new buildings
at the county poor farm and the
hospital for the insane, Julietta, will
be started Tuesday by Field Exam
iners U. NJ. Frazer and w. P. Cos
grove, Lawrence f. Orr, head of the
State board of accounts, announced
today.
The examiners will begin at
Julietta and make thorough tests to
ascertain whether specifications have
been complied with, and whether the
ceilings are in danger of collapsing.
as charged by county councilmen.
The new poor farm building ard
Julietta wings cost s26S, 900
Possibility of grand jury investi-
cation developed. Deputy Prosecu-
tor Daniel V. White said he dis
cussed the Situation with Cassius l..
Hogle, president of the county coun-
Gil and will present it to Prosecutor
William H. Remy.
Investigation PetitiOned
I'VE are going into the examina-
ton thoroughly" said Orr. We
won't stop until we hit the bottom of
the whole thing. If there is any
thing wrong, we certainly will bring
it out into the daylight. The build
ings will be examined minutely."
Petition to the State board asking
the investigation was circulated by
Hogle and was signed by prominent
business men, farmers and bankers.
Signers were: A. V. Brown, presi-
dent Union Trust Company; Fred c.
Dickson, vice president, Union Trust
Company; Frank D. Stalnaker, presi-
dent Indiana National Bank; Viii
liam Bosson, farmer; Eli Schloss,
Schloss Brothers Company; Otto N
Frenzel, president, Merchants Ma
tional Bank
Bert A. Boyd, grain dealer: Evans
Woollen, president, Fletcher Savings
and Trust Company; A. L. Block,
president, L. Strauss & Co.; Carl
Taylor, president, Taylor Carpet
Company; Charles Mayer Jr., Wash
ington st. merchant; Frederic NJ.
Ayres, president, L. S. Ayres & Co.,
Charles J. Orbison. lawyer; c. A.
Baker, Sol Meyer, president, Meyer
Kiser Bank.
To Meet Contractors
William S. Frye, transfer man; L.
G. Rothchild. George ]. Marriott,
shoe dealer; William Gale, president,
Irvington State Bank; Felix Nc
Whirter, president, Peoples State
Bank: J. F. Wild. president, J. f.
Wild & Co; James Lilly, William
Kothe. wholesale grocer; Lewis E.
Morrison and Herman P. Lieber,
Washington st. merchants.
Hogle conferred with White
primarily on charges that county
records in the auditors office of the
sale of the old workhouse grounds
for s150.0O0 to Fairbanks, Morse &
Co., were charged after sale to show
the county keeps .35 acres less than
intended.
Agreement Reached
After a conference today with
George A. and Windsor Weaver, of
the firm that built the new buildings.
county commissioners announced
their investigation will be pushed. A
board of three arbitrators will go
over the building and determine
what the contractors shall do
Commissioners appointed John J.
Griffith, county engineer, as their
member of the board Weaver
named Lynn b Millikan, contrac-
tor The two will select the third
man. The plan is provided under the
contract to settle difficulties. Griffith
was instructed to take the contract
to the State board Of accounts and
have it approved.
Commissioners John McCloskey,
John Kitiey and Albert Hoffman ex-
pressed views that the entire second
story floor of the Julietta wing
should be torn out and rebuilt. 1t
says dangerously, they said. Where
mortar is soft, the walls must be re-
built, they said. The final decision
viii be with the board. The exami-
nation will take place Independent
of the State investigation, it was
thought.
The contractors, county commits
sioners and architects for the Juliet
ia building Saturday looked at the
sagging ceilings and soft mortar in
the new mems wing at Julietta.
Cause of the sagging still is mys-
terry, all present agreed. The con
tractors propose a weight test for
the ceilings, which are specified to
hold twenty-five pounds a square
inch. The test may be made by the
State board.
Prisoner inmates are living in the
wing at the Julietta asylum, which
County Engineer John J. Griffith de-
clared Saturday might fall in"
The new building at the poor farm,
termed a "cow barn" by the county
board of charities and corrections,
was accepted from the Weavers~ last
Wednesday by commissioners, who
said it has been brought up to speci-
fications. 1t is empty, awaiting OUT
come of the State investigation.
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