Pace 6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 18, 1906, LIGHT ON $2,000,000 CHANDELIERS Bronze Company Worked On the $2, 000,000 Job Before Contract War Awarded. That some persons will wear stripes for their grafting in the state capitol is the forecast of lawyers, basing their opinions upon the devel- opments made up to date by “frozen- out” bidders, and by State Treasurer Berry, ex-Governor Stone and the ar- chitect of the congressional library, Bernard R. Green, not to speak of many other competent witnesses, who, in due time no doubt, will appear be- fore an investigating committee of the state legislature. Simultaneously with the steady Increase in the magnitude of the revelations of capitol plunder- ing come the startling disclosures that, with all the unexpended millions in the treasury, the money could not be spar- ed for the decent housing of the unfor- tunates in the state hospitals for the insane. It appears that the scoopers of the $9,000,000 “extra” for the capl- tol were afraid that If they provided for the thousands of ins: who are erowded {n the corridors spend the night there a st they may, the peo- prominent Ane to ple would have upon the The Ur Green, who capitol commi dation for the ing in every the sion’s president, ex-gover. "mor Stone, in flatly contradicting Build- er George F. Payne's claim that enly the put up the commission contract Green known architects for the ed a foun. his sustain. ' 3 sion has sup; probing by detail the assertions commi “shell was to be by ations had been welares, the work 3 got through with Ally per. nd everything called for in the specifications was fur- nished.” great question for the probers is “What has become of the finishings ch were cons by 80 competent an authority to be good enough? Where are they? They have disappeared. Were torn out or covered up by the Imperial “furnish. ings” which the board of pubile grounds and bulldings, headed by the present governor, procured without a special appropriation? Mr. Green adds: the whi idered they “Every room was complete in all re ts The building was painted throughout, the heating apparatus way in working order, the ventilating pipm ware In place, conduits for electric lights were complete threugout the bullding and the wires were ald. Nor did any of this work have to be torn out and done over again. When the building was turned over by the cem- mission it was only necessary to put the chandeliers in place and move in the furniture to make the building practically as it is today.” Since Green thus spoke Mr. Payne has sald: “The ornamental werk which we did was not In the original specifications.” Asked what work done by his firm was torn out and re- placed with more expensive trimmings, Payne replied “1 ean't say off-hand what extra work we 41d for the board.” Inside Chandelier History, As to the $2,000,000 chandeliers, of which the cost would bulld a magni. cent new road from end to end of the state, or would have prevented the death rate In the insane asylums from being 10 times the normal figure, it Is now shown In private by Philadelphia manufacturers and contractors that even before the contracts had been awarded to John H. Banderson the “Pennsylvania Bronze Company” had been organized by him and work om the chandeliers actually begun, The designs of Architect Joseph M. Hus ton’s artistic brenze fixings were on display in his office for weeks befers the actual awarding of the cemtraet by the board of P. GG. & B, and, ae- cording to ene of the expert modelers by the company, he was sel in the architect's office three before the commission to John Maens, yert modelers: one of the ex- “Two months before the contract for the chandeliers was awarded the Penn- sylvania Bronze Company was organ- fzed. 1 was employed by the concern while the contract for the state's {llu- minating fixtures was being executed, but at its completion the company went out of existence, and the big plant at 13th and Cumberland was later cen- verted into an automobile factory, Even before it was announced that Banderson's company would get the gontract, and while other firms were figuring on the bids, not knowing how to estimate the cost of the chandel- fers by the pound, I was employed by the company and made dally visits to Mr. Huston's office to begin work on the models “At that time I knew nething about the affair, but three or four days after I began work one of the promoters of the concern, who afterward became su- perintendent of the works, came into the room where | was working and with a sigh of relief, remarked: feel better now; the commission's given us the contract.” It was then explain. ed that the company had felt confident of getting the contract all along, but with the award by the commissioners of P. G. & B. and the signing eof ‘the contract, any trace of deubt which might have existed was wiped out, and from that day things went along flour. ishingly. Cheap Make, But Faney Price, “One of the orders which struck me most peculiarly was to make the work heavier. As chandelicrs are usually made rather fragile, we could not un. derstand the strange order, Time after time mi de ls would turned to us and » Id have t vide for mors Re on vw the chan as the en the the chi £ vided fo the met hings Wl : r the lasses rned out in [neulqthg was ordinary tings Bs thing down the avoided and the ir tools fixtures were easiest way Frenc! stipulated, but plain were deemed good or possible was done to expense U'ndercutt and often castings wv chasers did the rest added tion of Treas cut ng was re made with the the elec whom of Its s of won the Maene and the ilar about y one of many meanwhile ne If I'm t to the capi 1 around itteas to at Har. whether thers if there is a law ute the peo- will wear are stripes In hut as to the i it ar it. that 1 will appoint comm investigate every department rishurg We find is corruption, and under which ple involved In It stripes, as sure a the American flag.” out We CAD Prose they there MRS. SUN YUE. Romance of Mrs. Howard Gould's Sister, “Angel of Chinatown,” By the marriage of Ella May Clem- mons of San Francisco to Sun Yue of the same place Mrs. Howard Gould, whose husband inherited many of the late Jay Gould's millions, now has & Chinaman for a brother-in-law. Mrs. Gould was Katherine Clemmons be fore her marriage, and she and her sis ter, Ella May have long been estranged. The latter carried on Clemmons, MES, SUN YUR & work of charity among the Chiness of Ban Francisco, and her rich sis | ter did not sympathize with her, so | the two women went their respective ways. Mrs, Sun Yue was once the | wife of a rich merchant, and as considersd the various propesals Me Charles Overacker enjoyed a se cial standing 1 oan viewcisvy sen like that of her wealthier sister in New York. But she and her husband sep- arated, she resumed her malden name, became a Roman Catholle and took up mission work among the Chinese of the city When the bubonie plague broke out among them six years ago she was the only woman to patrol the plague stricken streets on errands of mercy, and she became known as “Angel of Chinatown.” BShe took an active part in the relief work among the Chinese after the earthquake Mrs, Sun Yue is living in a tent with her husband pending the erection of a more substantinl home She declares that she Is happy and in reply to a question about her marriage said: “My husband Is in the ruins yonder clean- ing bricks. He earns $2 a day. He labors hard, and I love him.” A $100, 000 EDITOR. Arthur Hrishbane of Hearst's Evening Journal, The prominence of Willlam Randolph Hearst, Democratic and Independence league candidate for governor of New York, has brought into discussion his able editor, Arthur Brisbane. Mr. Brisbane Is sometimes called “the £100,000 editor,” as he Is supposed to enjoy a salary of that amount as ed itor of the New York Evening Journal He is sald to receive the largest sal ary paid to any newspaper man in this His editorial the are read by milli and exer le Influence in behalf of the country Journal cise a wi articles In ns “etor of He hy ‘ of in which Mr. Hearst as “the of hinsis great: intell of dissatisfac- this gent improvement, es LUA LS Dus Been” IT tne some Bru e he predicted Mr, Hearst's election us president of the United States Mr. Brisbane started with a splendid physical equipment for the duties of his career, yet at forty-two he shows in his careworn brow the result of the wear and tear of his strenuous life in the journalistic world Ie has done work which would long ago have killed men of less power of endurance, He is a son of the late Alfred Bris who was a millionaire and a student of so cial problems, n writer and ao associ ate of Hawthorne, Hugo, Goethe, Karl Marx, Willlam Lloyd Garris and Emers The younger Bi wis educated at the best this country and abroad amd In early manhood started Journalistic work In New York When he was a student in Paris, where he took a in French Charley PAINS IN THE BACK are the first signs of Kidney trouble. 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Harris ints on favorable terms, Acts as Administrator, du ardian, Assignee, Receiver and Trustee, Prompt attention given to all banking matters entrusted to it What Bullock Has This Week ITIS A RARE CHANCE, YOU CAN BUY AS FOLLOWS : | One full Jeather top, JRatiorm gon, twossented Carriage, good TY full leather top, regular goar, i i new, cost MN0.00 ! condition, cost I) One fall leather top, regular gear, twoseated Carriage. never used rubber and steel] in first class condition, cost My Price, $ 55.00 Hut onoe, has two sets of tires i twoseated second hand Surrey i Hw * My Price, $225.00 two-seated Carriage. in elegant My Price, $125 00 My Price, $235.00 cost £0 00 | A fall Hine of the Columbus Buggy Company's CELERRATED VEHICLES | The only Light Plante THE SUNLIGHT OMEGA We do earriage and 5 minutes out of work, and don't forget the location, the MeCoy & Linn Chain Works, lefonte Telphone connection Bullock Swing & Carriage Mig. Co., L. C. Bullock, Jr. Mgr. i
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