BLAMES ACT OF PROVIDENCE.
Barber Asphalt Company Still Inter-
poses Plea Touching Repairs.
Property owners on Eight street, between Santa Fe and Hickory, are going to have a conference with the attorney of the Barber Asphalt Paving company with a view to compromising with the company which has raised the point that the washing away of the asphalt in the flood of 1903 was "an act of God."
The company has all these years resisted restoration of the pavement, although it agreed to maintain it for ten years, always interposing when called upon to comply with its contract that it did not consider itself responsible for something over which it had no control.
The questions involved in the argument were thrashed out before the board of public works yesterday.
