Show CONDUIT LEAKS According to Contractor Morans or organs organs gans the imperfections of the con conduit duit which were responsible for its J leaks aks are due to the engineering plans According to the men familiar with the plans and specIfications such leaks as a existed were due solely to Imperfect concrete work put in by the contractor j tor That is all there is to the dis discussion on thIs point If the plans had been at fault the whole conduIt would have leaked from one end to the theother theother other whereas the council showed that only certaIn sections ot of the work failed to hold wat r rAny rAny Any first l ss engineer k that the biggest conduits In the country country fol follow low mw exactly the same construction as thE Big Cottonwood concrete with grout Inside There is no big work of rf recent cent years ln n which a plaster linIng was as tie Ule St LouIs session of the American Institute of CIvil En Engineers Engineers brought out a consensus of opInion that plaster was a useless ex ax expense pense because no means of holdIng it itin ItIn in place in runnIng water could be do de devised So much for the plaster The pro proposal proposal to thicken the walls is only an excuse CHUSe to Moran more mone money The strength of the concrete reen forced b by sl el bars as de designed designed signed Is ample it follows the best practice of modern engineering and simple tests would have convInced an honest council that an any additional thickness of walls waits is unnecessary The same thing ma may be said or of the line adopted the proposal to carry the con conduit conduit duit on piers to save SIlve embankments and the proposal to cover the conduit w ith earth When hen it is remembered that the city 1 engineer hRs has always made it a to side with Moran against the city when there was tUt ny qU S lon of extras as the of the board of public Works show It Is only n natu natural tu tural ral to believe that tile the city engIneers judgment when ben Morn Moran Ia concerned is cut on the bias blas With Kelsey as the of the Ule job and A T J Davis DavisT T R H Blade Black and M lor IL E Mulvey as chief sponsors the public may be pardoned for Its firm conviction that the city treasury Is being jobbed to the tune of for no good purpose It should be understood too that the end of the grab is not yet in sight It is proposed to let the cIty pay for forthe the forms which Moran will use In Inh h his Is change of the walls That means several thousand dollars extra No job Moran has ever er done under Kel 6 S supervision was as paid for without e a big bill of o ru Further If the record means anything no job Moran ever er will do for the city under olsey ill HI lack extras and plenty of them If the party likes that sort or of bUsiness so much the Worse for the tho party The people iio ho foot the bIll kno what is beIng done they wIll have haye an opportunity to know It better when whon they come to pay taxes this fall faU |