Show TLe Tuiuklcrs Alarming Dib covery Wd learn froa a source that mar be con Eldctcd reliable that some very luditcicet business Is being done br onr City Fathes in connection wth the new water work building Instead of letting the work out by contract and there are several of our architect who would like u bid on the w rU It U1s given to a certaltnmn la which several of the Councilors are Interested and they are allowed to charge what they choose Recently a bill was sent In tot placing the new roof on the building and though it amounted to 117000 or more It WM paid without question Several architects archi-tects nave since looked at the wore and on a rough estImate they think they could have built It for 8030 on tho outstae U is a public work and It should be done by pub Ue contract TviUgkl TiclnUer This is ono of the hugest things of the season and illustrates fittingly what stuff these gulls will swallow in their eagerness to find fault with the city authorities The roof on the new city water works cost exactly 1740 02 a HERALD reporter saw the itemized hill I In Recorder Wells possession last evening It was just GO under the estimate originally placed on the cost by the committee and only the trifling sum of f 1025003 less than the TtctnLler says it was The grave statement that several architects think they could do the work for 8000 on the outside is too funny We should think they might whole families of architects might at a pinch I c |