| Show THE JOINT BUILDING JOB the collapse ot of contractor bowmans contract on the joint city jand and county building in IB one of those annoy ing occurrences that will thrust them helves upon us now and then even when we are careful and are a matter of course when contracts are concluded and work commenced as they were in this instance the way the case stands just abt now to is also a logical sequence of at that disposition so frequently exhibited under the present rule ot of making it easy for favorites to co get places for which they are not qualified and aid easing them down when their heir dh abilities can no longer be ignored the NEWS took a position against being let as it was to mr bowman when it was all before the public band and a proper subject of controversy we were not alone in this iou OO iy ay toj any means meane but it all amounted to nothing and the oi deal rs as concluded amid a cl md of scandal if not a volume of suspicion being glone done hov however vever it was useless to prolong the opposition and the work was begun as the powers that be ordained at it it has been a misfit transaction from the start and can no longer be kept from the public instead of carrying on the work according to sealed agreement the pseudo contractor Is S relieved of his bis onerous position and the business is carried on by those for whom it is being done even with this state of developed the wrong done is not righted so far as may be but another aud and more serious erious one to is established aud and continued to hide bide the original our one bowman to is kept on the building bulJ ding as 98 though he be were discharging his stipulated duties by prosecuting the worn work according to specification and paying while in reality he to is obly overseeing it and 0 king K ing bills to ta be paid by the city and county treasurers treasur ers there is hardly a tramp between the oceans that could not take at a contract on such terms terina and dise discharge barge re Ite duties jiu aa it to is sin an imposition oo on the tn public nut not the only one buc among the most moist conspicuous cona plo |
