Show PARTIAL PAYMENT ORDERED The Mayor Orders the Pavers to Be Paid Tho Mill Mens Case Today Jlr Le Sieur and his seventyeight pavers pa-vers and the mayor had a big talk yesterday yester-day afternoon trying to straighten out the question of paying the workmen The city council it will be remembered in accordance with a recommendation of the board of public works placed 1950 to the credit of the mayors contingent fund to pay the asphaltum workers on the CulmerJennings paving contract Both the board of public works and the council shaped their resolution in such a manner as to throw most of the responsibility responsi-bility on the mayor and his honor was obliged to proceed with due caution In fact nothing but the urgency of the case Induced the mayor to take so much of the responsibility as he has done Mr H L A Culmer was there to Clmer oppose any payments pay-ments being made to the men and contested con-tested every point in a very ingenious in-genious manner For instance he urged that the men employed preparing the asphaltum and hauling i should receive no money as such work had nothing to do with the actual paving and a the men who are engaged in that department in the proportion of 30 I to 7 actually laying the asphaltum the adoption of that viewivould be a decided victory for Mr Culmer The fact however how-ever remains that the mixers and haulers are just a much entitled to their pay as those who spread the material on the streets and they are just as badly off His honor ordered that the men employed em-ployed in spreadingthe material be paid today and there will be another meeting at 1 oclock today t decide on what course to pursue in reference to tho others The mixers or mill men as they are called were greatly disappointed at not getting their money along with the pavers as they are in many cases actually starving and did not know where to get either their supper last njght i or a meal today and when they thought of their wives and little ones at home with nothing I I noth-ing t eat left the city hal with tears in their eyes The sum ordered oaid by them the-m yor amounts to about f and it iso is-o sincerely honed his honor will see his way t orderth mill men to be paid today The sooner the i50 specially appropriated appropri-ated to Mr La Sieur is paid also the better bet-ter as the work on Second South street is stopped pending the payment and will be resumed immediately the money is handed over |