Show r INSPECTION F FARCE ARGE AT GITY EXPENSE r Pipe Laid Wrong While Official Watcher Sleeps on Job DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT A Contractor Will Jill Dig Up UI Sewer Connection Before Work i I Is Accepted Tho hc board o of works yesterday discharged dis I char charged ed ono one of its Us Inspectors for tOl tho the thew w trifling matter of or allowing a half block of or pipe to bo ie put In wrong en end to tu on a sewer connection for tor the Utu h to Il Its Light and Railway Hallway company copan car catS barns The Time work would probably v havo have passed had not nol L L. H. H of City En Engineer B staff happened j. j Paul Dock- Dock onn one f along Th TIIA Inspector Clot made the tho excuse thal that the time contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor had disobeyed his orders order but afterwards admitted hiM bin fault Cault to tho the 1 hoa hoard board nl The job was a private private- ono cue and walh was wai wasI 1 h bring done for Cor tho the Utah Light neil I h Enoch Smith by R Railway comp company n S 'S Small as iras the connection to lo be bo trade made tho the hoard loard of or it was still necessary for fot 1 works to keep a man num watching It at a acost acost cost to tho the city of or 3 3 a da lay day TIme The inspector hail had been n watching the thc Ii pipe down wrong en nIl end first for Cor several sev e- e 1 go hO t oral eral days aim and part pait of or It was waR covered up tip It will o of course courll bo lie remedied i atI at atthe I the contractors contractOr expense e n for tor The Tho incident Is interesting as S It I brings prominently forward for Cor the tho hundredth time the tho vexed of ot Inspection of or city work Lyon Lvery time it I Is D necessary to tn dig dlF a l hole or ot la lay a aT apic T pic of ot pipe an III Inspector pedor must watch S i ft the Job f for or r tho boar of ot worl works lf Even If Sf it only takes ft one out man to do tho timo work AU aim Inspector sta stands 11 1 It or It or J ra U 3 a day from the thC city for tOl so o. o Many of or these aro liro not worth thair salt according to somo some o orho or of rho ho contractors contractor City engineers engineer's 11 men frequently follow tollo up an at in th the nt nc a and lid find lind the work worle beIn be- be tho the sort ort of or style Tints Thim In done in tn an any city dt- pays 1111 tho the coSt coat of oC two Inspections out onto time timo an was prepared pre L At A In Jn tho Inspection pat pared ted d putting tho the This sya- sya andu of ot the city ell were pointed which r. r tern tem had its Us faults the tho elt city l- l out JIlt nt Lit the time Now Tsow ow imas to Ic keep hI his oyes-on oyes on the work though it iff Is not nol un under or MH hit control City Engineer lt IM IK holding aloof suggest Je t AllY any Jut just now und amid will not remedy emedy If It tho the work bo be under r s Jt control ho hl Is 18 n itt t going to r lint but his men keep a a. careful u iiO o out for lor or mistake oc for CI Ch Chil II 11 t Jt it IB Is probable that the council will y tAO take up the matter maUr An n or ordinance Is the tho Inspectors Inspector prepared putting p no f something the time same plane piano as civil inspectors The will lit he required to pa pass 5 an un asI as I Ii lo In their qualifications to 10 serve tene an as in inspectors In- In before tho board of ot works can cat appoint them The rite Inspector of the board are aro 1 re required re- re to make makl detailed reports On Oil those these le the engineers engineer's estimates ar ore supS supposed sup sup- S posed Dosed to bo be based As a n. matter ml of fact I tho the engineer dO does doos fi not nol care In at all cases to trust the Inspectors and has 1118 his own men Teen look over o the work vork Inaccurate reports an arS frequently chocked h c cd up tip b by the thc chief Ins Inspector and nothing is said about them When the th- engineer sends out his men melt to Inspect work that has already d been passed b by bytho bythe the tho In Inspector of tho the bo board rd of works its It ItIs s Is ill of or course on time that belongs to tho city Thus tho the city pays twice for work amo I k t The rime amusing spectacle of or an inspector one otie man dig a 1 post o t hole hoh 1 is 18 not at Lit all uncommon uncommon antI and tho the city pays tho the Inspector 3 53 a day dao whether ho homay homay may maJ be bo competent or otherwise It will ho bo remembered that thal ono one of ot tho tim inspectors last rut month put In time I for 34 da days g in the month saying that thattie t tie the c extra time was 1 on work where the contractors were working their men miten overtime There Ther arc are in all 16 15 of or these Inspectors p under tho the boards beards dir direction and others aro are frequently employed |