| Show A BIG BLUNDER there has haa been a great deal of talk during the last few days about 0 ail o alleged extravagant blu blunder odor by the city waterworks water works department on the north bench in laying the high watoru water wa torp tp line lost last summerland aum sum merand fall and it la ft skit that a determined but bat effort was wag set act on toot foot to h hush ash it up during this period a representative of we the DESERET NEWS has been inquiring into the case and so aa a result has found that the eight miles of pipe laid on the north bench during the last year gig at a cost of were put pur into the earth without reference to grade now that the discovery has been made nobody willIng ia lo to shoulder the responsibility lity blame has haa been immediately thrown buthe on the city engineer cornot for not havil lit established the me grade A reporter made several at to interview that official today blithe be WAS wa oo 00 at as this office when the newspaper X man eaher councilman hardy aroy I 1 rl A hi however wever took it upon him belt elf to defend mr doremus lie he eaid aid that gentleman was not responsible in any degree for the costly mistake it was a matter of record that mr doremus had bad opposed the laying of the pipe on the mortn bench which was entirely uninhabited the city engineer performed his work I largely under the direction of the city council and had bad never been instructed to give the grade sade for the north bench system ryan yan laid the pipe and no one else had anything 0 10 o do with the matter s sj lar far as he know knew A MILE MILB OF PIPE EXPOSED mr J K gillespie of the real estate firm of kelsey gillespie was seen today and naked asked for a it t of the cases case chessid he aalde time and again the council was petitioned by property owners for the fixing of grades on the north bench beach before the new water system was built but no attention was paid to their appeals 1 61 I see ee 02 said the reporter that in the boulevard on eleventh 0 street you have uncovered the w water ster pipes 01 that is right we were com compelled polled to do it and it comes from the council ignoring the property owners the boulevard had to be out down to grade and acting under the direction of the council it took up tar far below the pipes as am much as an seven or eight feet in many places 11 how much of this pipe have you exposed s A little more than a mile about one mile I 1 think the city will have to replace it will it not mr gillespie certainly and for ne me other reason than the foolishness of its members mem bera the cost of relaying could easily have been avoided by laying the system to grade As it is it will have to be tor torn n up whenever a street is graced V SHOULD HAVE BEEN LAID ON THE SOUTH li P kelsey who in connection with mr gillespie Ull lespie owns a great deal of north betich bench property and who has bad charge of the boulevard construction up to date reaffirmed what mr wiles gillea pie pleiad had said the whole difficulty could have been prevented even althe ignoring of grades provided that pipes had been baid on the south mouth side of all queets running east sad and wt this is because the south mouth side of the streets to Is much lower than the north there would have been no cutting or na filling in glading the streets af WHAT SAYS aye ye P 1 said superintendent of wat ryan byan kelsey and gillespie have uncovered a mile of water pipe a part of the new system on ElOV eleventh eDth street in constructing their part of the boulevard and left it hanging in the air I 1 then ordered the joints burnt out and had the pipe rolled up on the hill bill to save it under whose direction was wa the pipe in question estion laid mr rana byan Ran 1 asked the reporter athe the work was done under my supervision no attention was given to the matter of permanent grades the ground being followed over the entire eight miles of the system ss has hae the system ever been used l no sir air water has not been turned la in it yet J by the way mr ryan byan were not these pipes laid by the force of elec election tiou hobba boboc you had 0 aloniza lo niza in the fourth precinct last falls fall to this question mr ryan byan hung his head and smiled faintly butwid but did not dot reply councilman kelly declares that it will cost at least to relay the pipes torn lorn up along ane route of the boulevard and commenting thereon an anti liberal councilman said today the rho entire high line water system was wall put in to give employment to election labares labores last landmark fai my word the same kind of a gang will relay the pipes bipes before the next election it to is a part of the game P 0 it if the statements of certain city officials count for anything there will be a lively time before this matter is satisfactorily explained |
