Show AS TO ENGINEERS One of the assistant sponsors for the grab suggests that the Morris administration should em employ employ ploy a competent engineer to prove that the graft is dishonest Apart from the fact that the contract as let to Moran covered every overy necessity if the work had been done properly and honestly it is worth while inquiring who the engineer of that original de design design sign was because Morans lorans friends have tried to cover their grab by innuendos and indirect accusations of incompetency potency against the engineer in ques question question tion They know better than to make mak maka a dIrect charge because they do not dare in the first place and they know their charges are unfounded in the see sec second ond place George M 11 Bacon ho made the tho plans and specifications of the conduit Is a graduate of the Cornell school of en engineering engineering one of f the best in the coun country country try he has bas had practical experience in subway work in Boston railroad work in Colorado and bridge building in Ida Idaho Idaho ho where he constructed the bridge across the Snake river at Weiser and built one of the best structures of its size in America He has had field ex cx experience in irrigation wo work in Utah and is practically familiar with every detail of the problem which hint him in the Big Cottonwood conduit So much for Mr Bacons professional experience He is ono one of the comparatively comparatively few men in the stat who has the distinction of membership in the American Society of Civil Engineering whose requirements for admissIon are of the themselves selves sufficient guarantee that Mr lIr Bacon Is regarded by his associates f 1 an exceptionally capable man Very properly Mr Bacon has chosen to say nothing on the conduit question unless I I criticised by some responsible man who Is qualified to speak on engineering questions The American jobbers in inthe inthe the council asked him bim no questions and evidently did not want to hear any rca rea reasons sons why the grab should not go through Nothing they can do or say eIther of themselves or through their advocates can possibly affect Mr Ba Bacons Bacons cons professional Standing but It is only fair that his record s should be known when the cowards who want excuse for jobbery are trying to be belittle belittle little his attainments and ability Behind Ur Mr Bacon stands Colonel E EA EA A Wall chairman of the board of pUb lie works at the time the plans were adopted and the contract let Comparing ing Bacon and Colonel raIl rall with Kel Kelsey Kelsey sey Leonard the engineer and chairman of pUblic works who stand for the Moran donation the pub public lic and the engineerIng profession will ha have e no difficulty in making their own conclusion as to which two men are the better judges of conduit plans lans or the better citizens to be entrusted with the expenditure of large sums of city money |