Show Of OE I PAYROLL METHODS PRACTICALLY OVER OVERBoard Board Members Have Lively Lively Lively Live Live- ly Sess Session on at Geo Gen M. M Bridwell Hearing The investigation of the alleged irRegularities ir ir- Regularities of George Geore M. M I. I Bridwell superintendent superintendent su suo of buildings s and grounds rounds of the board of education is believed to bo be practically at an end na the tho fifth session of the board hain having been held hela last ni night ht Mr Ir Th Thomas Thmas mas who was responsible responsible re re- re- re for the starting of the investigation investigation in in- stated that other alleged irre irregularities had been reported to him but bul that thaI those furnishing the information information in in- formation did not care to appear before before be be- fore foro the board At the tho regular meeting meeting meet meet- in ing of the board next Tuesday night ht the tho members will deci decide e if they care to togo togo too go o further into the matter Four witnesses were examined Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day evenin evening the most important of which was E. E If H. Evans Bridwell's foreman Bridwell has been trying to tolay tolay tolay lay the blame for the employment of David Newman under the name Dame of of David id Crockett upon his foreman but Evans wouldn't accept the H buck promptly passing it back to his supe supe- Bridwell declined to be sure whether he ordered Newman to be placed on the payroll under a fictitious name but Evans set the doubt at rest bv by emphatically declaring that he placed paced young youn Newman n on the payroll under the name of Crockett at Bridwell's Bridwell's Brid Brid- wells well's orders Evans admitted however the placing I of Edward and Arthur Newman on the payroll under fictitious names attempting attempt attempt- in ing to justify this bit bil of juggling with the statement that Mr Ir Newman had extended extended ex ex- tended him many favors and he wished to return them i I I Members in Scrap Mr Thomass Thomas's demand to know Inow if any workmen are employed under assumed assumed as as- umed names now J precipitated a tilt between him and Mr tr Newman in which Mr Ir Thomas told Mr Ir Newman Kewman to sit down and alluded to his tactics as scurrilous Quiet was restored by the chair The introduction of the record of the daily temperature at several of the schools last winter showing that several sev- sev eral oral rooms had to be vacated anc and school hool closed temporarily on account account o of lack of heat aroused the anta antagonism of Mr Ir Giauque chairman of the buildings build build- in ings s and grounds committee which has jurisdiction of the tho buildings and precipitated pre pre- I what was considered a t veiled attack on Superintendent D. D II Chri- Chri The reason for Mr r. r Giauque's Giauque caIlin calling the superintendent to the stand and directing a lot of hostile questions at him appeared to be that the temperature temperature tem tem- record showed Mr Ir Giau Giaugue's u s 's son Clarence Giaque who is a janitor janitor jani jani- tor at the Lincoln school up in in no no favorable favorable light Several times the children were compelled to wear their wraps in school hours and four times limes a total of twelve twel rooms had to bo be absolutely closed and operations suspended on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of lack of heat Several other janitors showed up little better than young Giauque the record showed how iner ever Hadn't Heard of It Mr Ir Giauque said he had never heard of any trouble lack of heat theretofore there there- and attempted to hold Mr Ir Christensen Christensen Chris Chris- responsible for his own professed J ignorance norane The TIle information was WaR contained contained con con- I in a special report made up from the daily temperature records taken b by tho the teachers in vo vogue for years and arid Mr fl wanted to know where Mr Christensen got ot his authority to compile and furnish the the report Mr Ir Hammond the author of the report I satisfied Mr Giauque on this point who displayed ed considerable hostility in asking asking ask ask- in ing Mr Christensen if he had bad notified noti noti- fied Bridwell of the lack of heat to which an affirmative answer was given cutting off Mr Ir Giauque's last avenue of removing tho the blame from where it belon belongs s on Bridwell's shoulders Noah Koah Boothe at al one time janitor of the testified that thaI Bridwell had once told him that he did not conic come ome ip lip like tho other janitors Boothe I doesn't know what Bridwell meant U by the expression come come up Soon afterward afterward aft aft- erward he was fired for incompetence it it seemed Boothe also told how J. J J. J Bridwell bossed one man for a da day dav or so in digging digging dig dig- ging in a cesspool at one of the schools Mr Moyle got Bridwell to retell his reasons for pla placing the Newmans on the payroll under assumed names Tho The first was on ac account of the Murray judgment mEnt the second political to fo I cover up their identity as bein being sons of Mr Newman Dont you iOU know this this' board isn't in polities politics asked Mr Ir Moyle It is not supposed to be was Bridwell's rejoinder |