Show WANTS ARD TO HIRE HIM AGAIN ii Dockendorf Insists That Chief Inspector Is as Guilty as ast V t Himself KELSEY FOR AN INSPECTION t. Old Ord Effort to Place prace in Hands of j City Engineer Will Jill Be Renewed I X Tho The city board of public works was to havo lucid held a ii meeting Friday evenIn evening evening even even- In ing hut but no nu quorum howe Allowed up The meeting deferred until next week wook The Tho only matter of Importance to come conic up I fu is the tho request of Paul Dockendorf tho the inspector who was dismissed re- re for r reinstatement Dockendorf was vas fH discharged followIng following follow follow- tn ing a t. t report from the thc ell city cn engineers engineer's office that he hc had allowed tho the contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor who whoa was a putting in a sewel connection for fot the Utah LI Light LIcht ht Hail Kail- wa way company compan ut at the tho new hew ear car barns larns to toIs tolay Is Ia lay the pipe wron wrong en end foremost Tho The Tho inspector now comes forward with rith a statement that tho the chief in inspector in In- of or the board bad had seen tho tim progress of or the work and arid must havo known as us well a as ho that tho the job was wash h not t being properly done dono Ho Ito further rays 1 s 's that ho he was never novel properly In Instructed hi- hi I in ii his duties h by the tho chief in- in and thought if Jf that o crucial has pa pl cd the job It must bo he all aJI tight light tic TIo aJ also o makes somo other charges S against Chief Inspector Mike Uko l Fitz- Fitz patrick jpatrick Tho The mem members ers of Qt the tho board are aro scarcely prepared to accept these theos statements of or Dockendorf Fitzpatrick has in many uila-ny wa ways wayt s 's shown hown himself a a. competent official and If Jr he ho had gono over tit the work as Dockendorf states io Ti nouk havo known that it was waa radically wrong Jcl ej l s LUWi Wrangle the tho city's engineers engineer's of- of fice is enjoying the tile troubles of tho the board with its inspectors Tho The city engineer has Ion long Iou wanted to handle handlo the tho ln inspection or of city work himself An ordinance was iris at one time tinie Introduced introduced Intro intro- putting this in the hands hand of thu tho engineer but either cither tho the city clO at attorney attorney at- at torney advised against It or it got lost hi tn the tho shuffle Most people arc not disposed to ac- ac pt this as iLS tho best of the problem The Tho elt city engineer now has hns tho biggest t department dc of ot the city and it IL js is constantly Increasing Kel- Kel scy Is reaching out Jut at over every for more thou though h It is an open charge charie that his office Is altogether too loo friendly to the thc contractors The anxiety of City Engineer Kelsey Kel- Kel se sey to increase e the importance of his f 4 office was nas again f shown hown recently in th the tho electrical Inspection ordinance Had HadJ hadit J Jt it not provided for fol the Inspection be being be- be jn ing In control of oC Kelsey's office it would have been passed lJ by the he coun coun- P cil dil That It so provided pro was the l principal prin iwin- rin- rin cipal reason for tOI Its rejection Watching Cp Inspectors Tho city engineers engineer's men are constantly con con- alert to find something wrong with the work of or the tho board of works works' s' s inspectors It was Assistant Engineer who found out that Davis 8 Heuser had pipe inspected at the ry Instead o of o on the tho ground This c who are known as hu o o especial friends of the con con- combine a 3 chance to attack these contractors who are not cd with the tho Moran Kennedy outfit Now some lome of these councilmen anxious to have this Inspection in the tho hands of the engineer are arc preparing In another wa way to get ct It placed there They represent that the tho men employed 1 by the thc board loard have shown themselves I incompetent ami that they are arc hired in such a a. manner manuel that any sort of Ignoramus may get oct oi on the tho list The rue he only onh way in which tho the change can be legally made is to have havo the thenet thenet net act relating to board of works amended amend amend- ed b by the l legislature to put the In Inspection In- In in the engineers engineer's Tim The councilman will try to get through a resolution in tho the council expressing the tho tho belief betic that this thiH is the thc proper method meth math od and the legislation will follow tollow It will wm then be a great thin thing for the contractors' contractors combine to have o esti- esti mates prepared h by the tho engineer In Inspection In- In p done ono b by him stakes furnished oRne nd everything done dono in connection with city work worl orI after it is ordered Surely Sureh City Engineer L. L C. C Kalsey alscy will m then be he In a a. position to be good to Jils friends |