| Show GRAVITY SEWER SYSTEM There was a Joint meeting of th tb members of ot the City Council an and board of public works held beld In the council chamber laet last night Mayor Baskin and City Olty Engineer Young were also present President occupied the chair chai The meeting was called for a special puro purpose to to e-to to discuss ways and means to bring about the completion ul of the gravity outlet sewer as quickly as pos pos- possible sible Mr Doremus as chairman of the board of public works stated that the work would not noC be anywhere near completion by December let the time specified by the con coo contract contract tract There seemed to be no prospect that the contractors would their free force sufficiently to ao- ao o ao-o o the desired end within the he De 6 e and It tt was as most important thao thame tha o me cause of ot action be decided oo on without delay As AI to the present status tatul of 01 affairs Mr Doremus said laid that the supplemental contract was signed on June 5 The contractors began beKan work on June 15 since which they haJ hai completed the section Immediately north of Ninth North street Work was begun on the section south of 01 Ninth North street on July 9 and on July 15 excavation be began an and from to at time to the present ft feet et oJ of tr trench Da had bad been opened feet teet of which has been completed To com com- complete complete the feet teet occupied eighty days daYE or equal to an ao average of ot eight elgut three three feet teet per day To finish the trenching of 01 the balance 2900 feet would require n fl quire ten teo days more There is still sUU untouched feet of trench trench- trench lug lug to be lode done which at the same rate of ot progress would take 97 days and the ten days to complete t e 2900 feet teet partly dune done would make which would be after January 1 I before the whole trenching would be done As to concreting it was started on 00 August and aDd feet leet completed I Iio io in fifty days equal to feet per lIer day Of the part uncovered there Is ts a dIs- dIs dIstance distance dis distance tance of feet teet to do which would tak take forty five days jays There is 18 a total of feet teet to concrete to bring the sewer to its HI destination at the foiL Joist t city and county building The rhe total tota length of or finished concreting south of 01 Ninth North is 2200 feet teet which oc- oc occupied occupied oc occupied fifty days equal to tour four forty feet per day and at the tile same rate it would require day days to complete the sewer Mr Doremus declared further that the contractors bad had been behind all 1111 tb the time especially with the ex- ex excavating ex excavating It walt wait within the province of DC the city cuy to take the work in its Us ow own D halide banu and it n at the expense or of the contractors but he did not l ad- advise ad advise vise vlee such a course as the city having to provide plant and machinery and matte malte preliminary arrangements could coula not oot make as good time as the contractors tor tors could from this on 00 provided tb the 1 latter were as anxious to get on with the work as ae the city authorities were that they should City engineer Young was asked for fora fora or a a of up to tate date and aud an estimate of ot cost COlt for tor completing the remainder of the system In lu re- re response re response thereto he be presented the follow t following following ing InK Work to be done Bat nal ance ante due on work done Hold-back Hold of II 17 1 per cent on work work- work EngineerIng and inspection Cost to procure balance of right of way Sewer f farm rm and erection of bouse house for overseer 00 Total cost to complete the sewer Expended to te date Total Bonus allowed contractors under sup sup- supplemental supplemental sup supplemental contract Total cost of completion Mr Hooson Honson one of the contractors In defending the slow-going slow course OJ of himself eU and colleagues attributed all the delay to the beard board of ot public works the city engineer the City Council and the railroad strike To the Ur first t named because they wouldn't allow the contractors COD tractors to open up and work on 00 three or four different points of ot the sewer at the same lame time lime but In Insisted on 00 them completing certain portions before opening up other portions portion to the en tn engineer because he nauD haunt given them grades and Itne lines as u tu fast a as they hey the wanted to the city council because the they hadn't paid them the bonus quickly enough and to the railroad strike be- be because be because cause caule it 1 had hied prevented d- d them from getting their material along The changes in the specifications had bad also hindered them and so eo bad the change in the proportion of ot the Ingredients from which the concrete is made ID In answer to the question from the Mayor Can coan you complete the sewer by December let I if it given all the sea room you want wani Mr Hobson re- re replied re replied plied phed in the negative and added But CI But with favorable weather we could In ninety days Clawson offered uttered a resolution provid provid- providing providing ing that the board of ot public works and city engineer be instructed to give the contractors the line and grade of at the Newer to Filth South and State streets and permit them to open up the trench the entire distance if it necessary Lost Clawson then offered the following resolution which after considerable de- de de debate bate bote was wa a Resolved That the sum of be beseL beset beset set seL aside by the city treasury for the com com- completion completion completion of the gravity sewer to Filth Fifth South and State streets Doremus offered the following reso reso- resolution resolution resolution lution which was WIlS also ado adopted Resolved That it is the sense of the CIty Council and board of public publio works in joint session assembled that work on the the- gravity sewer outlet be prosecuted with toe utmost dispatch in order to complete the whole of the work within the contract time if it possible The m members of the board of pub pub- public public lic Hc works withdrew from the meeting and the Council appropriated to the contractors on 00 last months month's es- es estimates estimates es estimates and adjourned |
