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Show I In submitting his annual report regarding the performances of the board of public works, ex-Chairman ex-Chairman E. A. "Wall was unable to refrain from expressing his wrathful disapproval of the obstructive ob-structive policy pursued by former; City Engineer En-gineer Riter while the big improvements of the year were in progress. While the injection of personalities into a public document of that nature na-ture may be one of questionable official pro-j pro-j priety and taste, it is not in the least strange that Mr. Wall should deliver himself of a parting robust ro-bust swing at the former city engineer. Everyone familiar with the work which resulted re-sulted in the splendid paving achievement of Contractor Con-tractor Moran on South Temple street, knows that it was only accomplished over the most petty and peculiar barricades from the engineer's of-I of-I fice. Basking in a momentary but magnified ce lebrity, the then engineer apparently thought he could, best arabesque his features upon the Brig-ham Brig-ham street concrete by meddling with and childishly child-ishly delaying the work being achieved by a competent com-petent contractor and an efficient board of public vorks. Although he was ignored and snubbed in all these obstructionary efforts, both by the city these obstructionary efforts, both by the city council an dthe executive responsible for his appointment, ap-pointment, his ardent revolutionary work still proceeded, until its farcical termination was reached in a midnight sortie with an axe from the portals of the University club. In the mean time the young and ambitious official had been responsible re-sponsible for serious loss to the city, and had reaped a rich harvest of righteous wrath from the abutting property owners. It will also be remembered re-membered that in this work he was aided and abetted by the church organ, which naturally saw the encroachments of "enemies" in anything so startling as the Brigham street pavement. It is a little bit late now for the rechurning of this old grist, but the expose of the real facts has done no harm, and emphasizes the necessity of having a competent and experienced man at the head of the engineering department. Colonel Wall, in the recent polemics, certainly has all the best of the controversy. |