Show RUNNING UP THE COST COSTI 4 I Board of Pull Pub ic c Works Adds ads to Expense of Reservoir t wAITT AN IRON FENCE F NCE 4 I KELSEY XE EY INTENDS TO KEEP PLANS FILED PILED j 1 The board of public works met last evening to take action toward calling for bids for a fence to enclose the new reservoir at the head of First South street and for valve houses at the point of diversion there and on the line Une of ot the conduit but nothing was done The board believes that it should have havethe havethe havethe the plans of the city engineer before it preliminary to calling for bids and andE Engineer E Kelsey takes issue on this point In a communication to the board the engineer stated that the plans were on file in his office the proper place of inspection where any person who desires to see aee ee them theta or to have any anything anything anything thing explained may be accommodated Since the engineers specifications for public work have been revised by the board to suit contractors Mr Kelsey Keisey claims that he has no assurance that the board will not attempt to further interfere with his prerogatives by re revising revising revising his plans which have already been approved by the city council co As to the matter of having a high tight board fence erected around the I reservoir by the lowest bidder as di directed directed I by the council the board con concluded concluded eluded to do what it could to suit the wishes of residents in the extreme east eastern eastern ern em part of ot the city and a communication tion was WM ordered addressed to the council suggesting that the fence on the south and west neat sides of the reser reservoir reservoir reservoir voir be of iron pickets the tha cost of which would be about To cover coyer the stored water with an iron roof in accordance with Chairman D olys idea would cost over Cost of the Reservoir Engineer final estimate to the Excelsior Wooden Pipe company on account of ot the construction of the reservoir was considered to the extent of recommending to the council that the claim be paid passing up to that body the question of whether the penalty of 1200 for days delay on the work should be enforced notwithstanding that it was admitted by the board members that the fault for the delay was with P J Moran who was nearly a month behind filling his part of the contract ct to furnish the special castings for the connections with the pipe system In the course of the discussion it was confessed that the board was for letting a contract to Moran MoraY without providing for a time and penalty clause Adding to the has already been paid to the reservoir con contractor contractor contractor tractor the sum of the amount of the engineers en final estimate inclusive Inclusive inclusive sive of the penalty for delay it was as found that the cost of the improvement is in excess of the original contract price which was Tie The T e excess is almost t all attributable to the fact that the reservoir was wad made deeper than was at first intended Other items amounting to are charged to the reservoir account but these are for the expense of in inspecting inspecting inspecting and supervising by the board the work as it progressed It was decided to call the councils attention to the advisability of having haYing the water meter that are now being installed near the th curb for large con consumers cOnsumers consumers sumers of water enclose in brick basins Instead of rough wooden boxes and that the work should be done by contract contrat on blanket bids covering a along along along long period A t G Giauque Gianque contractor for the ex extension tension jensiOn Jl of sewer laterals gave notice that he would lay l y the Evans Howard HowardI pipe which he deems of Inferior infer lor quality qualIty quality I ity under protest The communication was merely mer y filed v |