Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1921 — Page 10

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JEWETT THROWS DOWN GAUNTLET TO BOOKWALTER Challenges Robison Supporter to Produce Name of the Crooked Worker. *MADE OF WHOLE CLOTH’ Denial of the charts of former Mayor Charles A. Bookwalter that daring the last city primary an emissary of the Jewett organization was sent to Chicago for the purpose of obtaining fraudulent ballots and that in some of the preclncta these ballots were substituted for the genuine tickets was made last night by Mayor Charles W. Jewett at a meeting at Twenty-Fourth street and College avenue. Mayor Jewett, in connection with his denial, challenged Mr. Bookwalter to make public the name of the man he says made the trip to Chicago to obtain the ballots. "The statements of Mr. Bookwalter are untrue and slanderous in their nature," Mayor Jewett said. "Nothing like that ever happened. I challenge him to make public the name of the man he says went to Chicago and brought back fraudulent ballots to be used in the election." BOOKWALTEK'S 0 MOVE NOW. In a recent speech Bookwalter made his charges in detail and declared that if Mayor Jewett denied them he would make public the name of the man who made the trip to Chicago. Mr. Bookwalter, when told of the mayor's challenge, declined to make public the name of the man who went to Chicago. "The man who went to Chicago," he ■aid, "told me so himself. A relationship exists between us which I do not rare to betray. I do not care to cost tny man his Job. I know their tactics. “If there were no fraudulent tickets where did Henry Fleming get them, and not only Henry but other committeemen in the black district? Certainly, Henry did something or his honor would not have been quite so effusive and affectionate when they met that night." x ln his second speech of the evening, at a meeting at Hoyte avenue and Laurel Street, the mayor undertook to explain the purchase by the city for $175,000 from former Governor James P. Goodrich and others of the garbage reduction plant, which was valued for taxation at $13,000, and which its owners told the county board of reviews was not worth Junking. Mayor Jewett, in hts statement, quoted ■t length the statement of the State board of accounts for the first seven months of the operation of the plant in which it was shown that the plant was operated at a profit. He did not mention the second year of operation when only a loss was shown or the third year when the report of the sanitary board showed the city sustained a loss of $30,000 from the operation of the plant. PUZZLED THAT PLANT IS MADE AN ISSrE. 0 In opening his discussion \>f the garbage plant, Mayor Jewett said that.Samnel Lewis Shank, a candidate for she Re-

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'pnbllcan nomination for mayor, bad been making extravagant statements concerning the plant. He said be did not know why the plant should have been dragged into the campaign. He ex- ; plained that the garbage must be coli lected and if the city “did not get a ■ nickel out es the garbage" it would be i Its duty to collect it The mayor’s prepared statement on the subject follows: * “Reference has frequently been made In published statements and by speakers in this campaign to the purchase of the garbage plant by the sanitary commission in 1918. At least three complete statements of fact have been published by the present administration In the Indianapolis papers, setting out fully the reasons for and the details of this transaction. DECISION WAS BLADE BY MEN OF INTEGRITY. “At the time the garbage plant was purchased by the sanitary commission Mr. Henry W. Klausmann was city engineer and chairman of the commission. Mr. Charles H. Hurd and Mr. Jay A. Craven were the other members of the commission. Mr. Edward Daniels, of the law firm of Baker & Daniels, was the attorney for the commission, who for many years was master of chancery of the United States Federal Court under Judge Anderson, and a man whose character and reputation for honesty in this community Is beyond question. The board of work* who sat in consultation with the sanitary commission was composed of Mr. Schuyler A. Haas, Mr. George Lemaux and Mr. Thomas A. Riley. Mr. Samuel Ashby was at that time, and la now, corporation counsel for the city of (ndlarapolis. Mr. Ashby and Mr. Daniels advised the commission and the board of works and myself, * mayor, not only upon the legal procedure taken in the matter but on the advisability of purchasing the plant. Each and every one of these men is well known to the city of Indianapolis and their characters for honesty are well recognized. The criticisms and insinuations which are being used in this primary campaign are directed against these men and their actions in this transaction. • “Mr. Lucius B. Swltf Is now chairman of the sanitary commission. Mr. Swift has published a complete statement of this transaction in his reports of the conduct of the department and has fully approved the action of the board in the purchase of the garbage plant. Mr. Swift has recently returned from an Inspection tour of sanitary equipments and reduction plants in the East. He states that the city of Rochester. a smaller city than Indianapolis, has Juat completed a similar plant a 240-ton capacity at a coat of $750,000. of 160 tons and was purchased for $137,000. This transaction was the only available eolation of the garbage collection and disposal problem at that time, and experience has Justified this statement. REFERS TO BOARD OF ACCOUNTS REPORT. “The best statement of the facts relative to this transaction is contained in the report of the State board of accounts for the year 1918, under date of Dec. 3L 1919. on pages 87 to 89, which report is cn file in the city controller’s office, copy of which is aa follows: “ ‘The city contract for the collection and disposal of the garbage of the city was for a five-year period, the expiration of it occurring May 25. 1918. On Oct. 23, 1917, bids were asked preliminary to the making of anew contract by the board of public works. But one bid was

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received—tbst of the Indianapolis Reduction Company, in the amount of $58,000 for collection from May 28, 1918, to Jan. L* 1919, and $94,000 per year thereafter for a period of five years from Jan. 1, 1919. This was considered much too high and was rejected by the board of public works Oct. 29, 1917. “ ‘ln February, IMB, bids were readvertlsed and but one bid was received. This was submitted by the Indianapolis Reduction Company and was in. two parts: For the collection of the garbage with the privilege of disposing of it and keeping the by-products—the amount of tne bid was $87,900 a year. The cost to the city under the old contract and the same condition was $49,000 which, beesuse of additional territory added to the city, amounted to approximately $51,000 during the last year of the contract. For the collection of garbage alone the bid was $112,900. Under the last bid the city would have to dispose of the garbage as It saw fit. Both propositions were for s three-year period. They were considered mnch too high and were rejected. BERIOI’S PROBLEM WAS CONSIDERED. “ 'This was the status of the garbage collection and disposal question in February, 1918, with the contract expiring in May. “ ‘Following the rejection of the last bid by the board of works serious consideration was given the problem both by tbe board and the board of sanitary commissioners. The latter board was given the power to acquire a reduction plant by the sanitary act of 1917, tout no provision was made in this act for the collection of the garhage. With thla serious situation confronting the city many Joint meetings of the two hoards were held to work out thla problem to the beet Interests of the city. The board of sanitary commissioners Investigated other plant* and engaged the services of two engineers to report upon the erection of anew plant and the condition of the plant owned by the Indianapolis Reduction Company and to make a valuation of the existing plant. “ ‘Mr. George Fuller, a consulting engineer of New York, in his report upon the existing plant, estimated that “in order to increase the capacity of the existing plant,* to improve the opeaatlon and efficiency of the same, it would be necessary to make a number of addition! and betterments." Hts estimated cost of tihs was $150,000. This allowed for an Increase In capacity from the present normal capacity of ICO tons per dRr to 240 tons a day. This, he atates In his report, would provide a plant adequate for 1930 conditions. The addition recommended twenty-six digesters, an increase of ten over the present number; an additional 300 horse power In the boiler room, a second percolator and a second dryer, with tbe necessary rearrangement of the conveyors, etc., to fit the new condition!. This contemplated no improvements nor enlargements to existing buildings. ESTIMATE FOR NEW PLANT. “ ‘ln the consideration of anew plant for th city, after a discussion of the different methods in use be states: His estimate for anew and modern plant of 240 tons capacity wav $550,000. “ ‘Operating against the building of a new plant or even against rebuilding the present one was the condition existing, due to the war. Material and labor could not have been the Government would have placed such a project In the list of nonessentlsls, even if materials were obtainable, which was not the case. “ ‘Mr. M. A. Hofft, the second engineer,

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of Indianapolis, who had had extensive experience In the erection of garbage planta, was engaged to make a valuation of the existing plant. His valuation of the garbage plant proper was $187,410. His allowance for depreciation was about 33 per cent, making the existing value of the plant aa it stood in February, 1918, $132,130. In addition to this, an inventory of collection equipment submitted by the Indianapolis Reduction Company and checked by engineers of the commission, with fair prices as agreed upon by the company and the board, was $46.665—the main thing in this being sixty-six head of hyrses, sixtyalx wagons, 246 steel boxes and eight railroad cars. This figure, together with the value of the reduction plant represents a total of $178,795. PLANT IB PURCHASED. “With these figures in mind, It was greed at the Joint meetings that the inerest of the city would be best preserved by acquiring the plant then existing, by the board of sanitary commissioners, with the board of public works making the collection, for which it had funds provided. The plant Including tbe collection equipment wua bought for $175,000, which by later adjustment of Items reduced the cost to $174,442.65, of which $187,005.69 was for the garbage plant proper, Including the eight flat Cara and $37,436.96 was for the collection qulpment. The operation was for a ■even months period, covering the balance of the year 1918 and Justified the stepa taken. The amount expended by the board of works in that period was $29,765.81 —adding thereto Interest at 4V£ per cent for aeven months on the cost of the equipment and the depreciation at tbe rate of 25 per cent and $1,876.35 advanced by the sanitary commissioners to the board of public works makes a total cost for the balance of the year 1918, $38,084.47 or at the rate of $57,337.76 for tbe whole year. Deducting thik from the $112,900, the amount of the bid for collection, leaves a saving of $47,612.32, more tha enough to pay for tbe cost of hauling equipment. “ ‘The board of sanitary commissioners fn Its operation of tbe reduction plant during the seven months of 1918 paid out of tha revenues derived from tbe sale of i

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the,, by-products, all operating expenses, laid aside depreciation ut the rate of $2,500 per month and the interest on the bonds sold to purchase the plant and laullng equipment and advanced to the board of public works $1,876.35, and still Showed a net profit of $14,896.90.’ MAYOR DISCUSSES ELECTION ETHICS. The mayor also spoke of many things besides garbage. He started by saying that he had been criticized for taking a part in the campaign but that it was the first time that Republican candidates had ever repudiated a Republican administration. He then went on to blame high taxes and the lack of improvements on the war and declared that despite the war tbe new administration would coma in with $200,000 in the treasury and Its bills paid. Mayor Jewett declared that all that is neeesary to say about Shank is to review his record. He recalled the street car strike and declared it was a result of a complete breakdown In’the city administration. In discussing Prof. Thomas C. Howe, former president of Butler College, and News-Jewett candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, Mayor Jewett pointed out that he Is not responsible for any of the acts of tha present administration. \ GAS, STREET CAR RATES. The mayor discussed at some length the question of gas and street ear rate*, declaring that the public service commission and not the city controlled them, and that the city is opposing increases. Professor Howe himself made short speeches at a number of meeting, including a negro meeting at Sixteenth street and Martlndale avenue. A Shank meeting was being held a short distance away and the parades of the opposing forces for the second, time in the campaign met head-on in the street. There was no trouble until tbe Shank calliope was stationed in front of the Howe meeting playing loudly. The Howe negroes proceeded to tear the signs from It. Mr. Howe repeated largely what he has said at other meetings. He declared high taxes are due to the war condl-

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