The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-23

(C0ntlnueu from Page 1D and the job foreman, Gordon Lin. Der, took part.
 Tho previous day, which was . Sunday, according to SaVln, Q small crew worked lase driving pier piles and Lewis wanted tho work stopped 30 lights could Do installed to pers init him to Inspect the job that night.
 saVin said Llnberg turned to him and saids "Tm through taking his abuse. I think I'm going to leave this job. Lewis iS too con" trary.'
 savln testified Elnberg told him Lewis "had heaped every abuse on him and delayed him all he could Linberg told Lewis od In no ui1- certain terms, I tried to pAcify theEs two fellows and told them you boys have got to build this structure and Llnberg says T won't take any more abuse, I know how to do my job better than he knows how to do hls.'
 Didn't Like Things
 "And then Lewis turns to me and says, T don't like the way things arc around here anyway So l says to him All right, let's have ih I don't want any genefalities, Whats wrong with the job, State the faeI and state them now" Savin said he and Lewis argued for 35 minutes and told the in. spector T can't help it lf you're grumpy and hard to liy6 with," and that Lewis should stop abusing "since that time Lewis don't get along very well with my organiRa- tlon," said Savin.
 All during the argument, aeeord- ing to Savln, Lewis didn't complain ] about the bling and mentioned only lone minor thing"
 Asked by Berry whether there vase "any other altereatlonS" with Lewis, Savln replied:
 "fe'g never discontinued being miserable. He's always tried Go find all the fault he could. We've never had conditions like that with an engineer before"
 His Car Injured
 Bavln attributed the attitude of Lewis to an incident earlier on the bridge job when, he said, "one ot our trucks backed Into his car and ho wanted to be paid for it, I never paid him nothing, He never pfovee to mo his car was backed Into, Any. way, what's Q S2B item on . million and 0 half dollar Job, If had res paired the car it would have beer better than 1t was before"
 As for the cofssr.dam collapse BaVln insisted 1t was caused by the back wash of a passing river tanker
 The accident, he said, cost hii company S40,000 ana "all got from the state was sympathy"
 Defense estimates were that tht hearing, started Ave weeks ago would require another week to con- clude It's testimony,
 Six Weeks or Trial
 If such were the case, the tria will have consumed six weeks, abou double the time predicted by oitl' cialS more than . month ago, Tht hearing now was in the middle ol the fifth week, and A. I, Savln head of the SaVin Construction Company Hartford, was on thu stand, testifying In defense of Com missioner Cox, who Is charged witf misconduct, material neglect Of dutS and incompetence,
 JaVln, whose name comes up seV' eral times in the 22 charges levelet against the commissioner by Alter ney General Francis A, pallotti tool the stand after COX finished teSti' lying in his own defense,
 The contractor testified he didn't know why the dlke slide occurred al Hartford last year, and doubted that hydralio All was to blame.
 The total weight of wet All, SavlH testified under direct questioning bS Chief Defense Counsei Joseph Y Berry, iB less than that of dry i'll He said hydraulic All was desirable for this type of Job,
 Excellent Job
 Havin testified also az to his firm eonstruct'on work on the new Nev London -uroton bridge, The pour ing Of concrete into the piers oI this structure, he said, was 'one O the most excellent concrete Jobs" hi firm ever did,
 The state alleged the savin frn departed from specifications on thiI project. Tn addition, it was charged the highway department failed ( axernleA AdNduAte kunArViAion on 1 cofferdaGn which later collapsed causing the loss of e man.
 Bayin doubted # any cofferdan had been built closer to specihca tlonB than this one. H l Meantime, Luelan N, Beebe, highway department resident engl Yeer ii the Norwich dlstFtlct, fe' signed from the department. I'll reslgnatlon, however, has not ye been accepted by acting Comnils' Bloner Frank Upman, jr.
 Beebe was a Wlsnegs in the Col case, and testified concerning con struction Of two small bridges q f,edyard by the uanimino Con- Bsgmeblon co. an eEnploye ea thl I highway division for iB years, Beehl told department officials he wa ] leaving to go into 'war work"