Show CITIZENS READY HEADY TO ENTER COURT Taxpayers on South Side Hear Heal Reports on Poor POOl 1 t. t Sidewalks L J. J i INSPECTION IS A BIG JOKE I iI it I Quality of Cement Work De- De t dared dared by Investigators Below Standard i That the cement sidewalk James IT- IT 1 l Kennedy enned ft m n Ninth East laid by streets It walk walle under the tho big bl Bl aide aide- et e- e t I extension Is decidedly bail bad t and b by no means up to the thc I. I is tho gist of tho the report ma made by the citizens' citizens r committee to toa a meeting meet meet- ing of at the r Thirty first property owners In tho the ward e Satur amusement hall hail Saturday ay evening The fhe committee was vas appointed at tho the preliminary the meeting of resl residents In i southeastern part Jart of the city on Thursday to evening c It was instructed I I in ill investigate thoroughly the rum regard reg-ard to the sidewalks and report last ast evening The committee appeared before the board Loard of at works on FrIda Friday evening e an and complained to that bad body that the work vas not flot up to the thc stan standard ard On Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- morning with tho board of If f works and city engineer the members of at the committee went over t V work olk It was found that at least two blocks in Ninth East street would have ha to be bo torn up and Lind This was as Jai laid during the col cold snap und end the thi F contractor blamed the weather for th tho th bad work The Tho walks had not been properly protected however ho h an and I were covered with footprints ma mado mank when the tho cement was soft In spots pot the tine surfacing was entirely gone Salle A largo large portion of the work In Ninth l East street tret Is bad nn and some of or that g in Windsor in sor street will not bear In- In t J J t Inspected i b bj City Chr It ha had all been Leen inspected b by th Ih inspectors injectors of the board of works and no ito fault had be boon been n found It lew re le- w for the citizens to take up r L. L the matter which they have o done ono In determined fashion Mike OConnor O'Connor Kennedy's Kennedys 8 states stales that he had plenty of or ca' ca cement an and material there and if Jr tho the work was badly dono done the eft city inspectors had not objected to lo what th tine men were doln doing The committee found that there thera was as not the proper amount mount of cement with faith the sand an and gravel el and that in other wa ways wars s 's the specifications had not slot been complied compiled with On ln receiving the report of or th the tho committee a 8 finance committee was appointed to ralso Ole tho amount nece ary r to see ec that tho the set et they iney are arc paying for or and d' d 1 another not ci co corn coin to 10 draft a proper complaint to the board of worl works If the inspectors and officers of ot the board boar of at works worl-cs will wm not do lIo their dut duty and Ind compel the contractor proper properly to carry out Ills his contract tho the committed will put an ln cr on tho the Job L and uel iid If th r work I Is 18 not done don ris us it should b be owners will refuse I r r jt nay tho n take tine the matter to the courts 1 s n l ly for o or Action on 1 v h W foI h the tha bc fa ts v bo to signed By y aU the tho prop prop- 1 own owners rs in the Iho district lct and these thos o WIn will to a ma man Join in the expense necessary t to take the matter mailer to th tha courts City Engineer L L. C C. C and und WJ W V I J J. J Halloran of ot the board of ot works work who went over the work yesterday with the committee admitted that admitted that the tho i J job l h was a n bad ad one and that the property prop prop- erty owners had a grievance The board of or works has a fairly large corps of inspections each of whom hom hoin draws 3 a day lay from the city trea treas treasurer Not a single Insle man of them has had any experience whatever el In Inthe inthe the work which they draw raw pay for In in- in ape One One- of oC these inspectors a tt former bartender r allowed pipe for oI a sewer connection to be laid wrong enl end foremost recently Ho Ito was as discharged d but was taken tal back baeli at the order of at A A. J J. J Weber an American party poli poll He Is now flOW Inspecting for tho the I board Loard of or works wo In th the matter maUel of the Intercepting sewer sewel outlet the Inspectors have apparently ap ap- apI ap- I been displaying the samo am amt sort ort of inefficiency and anti the work there i e eIs Is lB under suspicion And nd there ar are ar many other instances o of neglect walk side on lower low There is a cement 1111 1 Main Street t where n a line of for cow tracks track nearl nearly r block of or the mars the s symmetry cement T In 1 n none nono no Of at tho work do the recent I inspectors the seem to reI re- re work to ho I SPecifIcations require fenced as the thoa |