Stadium Construction Hits a Roadblock
City police arrest two contractors for tearing up pavement while hauling piles for the high school stadium construction.
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Contractors Hyde and Horich, employed by the Western Engineering company in managing the construction of the High school stadium, were arrested yesterday afternoon on warrants sworn to by Captain of Police A. S. Read, charged with tearing up city pavements. The contractors are driving piling at the west end of the stadium, and it is charged that in dragging the piles over the pavement, in order to get them into position, the contractors ripped up several feet of pavement.
“In order to get them into position, the contractors ripped up several feet of pavement.”
Tacoma's historic Stadium High School has long been a crown jewel of the city, but its construction in 1909 clearly involved its own share of public works conflicts. Modern residents know the stadium as a landmark, but these archives remind us that even the most celebrated civic projects once relied on messy, litigious, and sometimes destructive labor practices.
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