Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-30
4 PECULIAR PLAN.
Advertising For Lowest Printing Bids and
Awarding 1t to the Highest Bidder.

Advertising For Lowest Printing Bids and
Awarding 1t to the Highest Bidder.
The board of immigration met yester-
day morning at ten o'clock, Messrs.
Baumbach, Kittelson and Nichols being
present. Mr.. Won Baumbach was called
to preside, and after the reading and ap'
prevail of the minutes of former meetings,
the board proceeded to open aud make
lists of bids for printing the pamphlets
and folders, the latter to be printed on
the back of maps The bidders were as
follows:
For the English edition: Pioneer Press
company, St. Paul; Hoppins, Palmer d
Dimond, Minneapolis; Harrison, Smith
& Johnson, Minneapolis; T. S. White q
Co., St. Paul; John Jay Lemon, ST. Paul;
E. B. Mitchell, St. Paul; J. W. Cunning
ham, St. Paul; o. G. Miller, St. Paul; n.
NJ. Smythe, ST. Paul, and Bintliff 81 Hall,
Minneapolis. The two latter were not
received till after 10 o'clock, the closing
hour specified for receiving BIDS
For the German edition the bidders
were the Democrat Printing Co.,
E. Printing PAUL Co., 'h st. P rsa1s'e''a ana
the Freis Prssss Printing company, Min
neapolis.
For the Swede edition bids were re-
ceivcd fromsCol. H. Mattson, Stats It'd
ming, Minneapolis, and Skqfersa Pub
fishing company, St: Paul.
The Norwegian edition was bid for on
ly by the Budstskkeaa Printing company,
of Minneapolis; and for the French edi-
ton, Mr.. Alichaud, of lie CanGdsen, st.
Paul, was the only bidder.
The bids in detail were as follows:
10000 ENGLISH PAMPHLETS.
J. W. Cunningham-No. ! paper,
el,o6725; No. 2 paper, el,0s725; 1880
folders, a44.50.
J.J. Lemon-No. / paper, sl,Q03.60;
No paper, sl,066; No. 3 paper, 81, l2S-
80; 81, 500 folders, s36.
.. G. Miller-Pamphlets, Sl,ol3.sl;
folders, s5l.
Hoppin, Palmer 6 Diamond-No. !
paper, 81, o29; No. 2 paper, el,l29, fold
ers, $3.50.
Bintlif 6 Hall-No. paper, sl,o75;
folders, s35.
e. NJ. smythe-Pamphlets, sl,o25;
folders, $3.50.
True s. White-Pamphlets, $500; fold
ers, s4s.
West Publishing Co.--No / paper,
$1,000; No. 2 paper, sl,l35; No. 3 paper,
sl,120.
johnson, Smith & Co.-Pamphlets,
l,075; folders, $50.
Pioneer Press Co.--No. paper, 81 100;
No ? paper, sl,l75; folders. $50.
$4,000 GERMAN PAMPHLETS.
Die Folks.ettung-No. ! paper, 81 ,046;
No. paper, sl,oSl; Nos. 8 and paper,
81, 100; No. paper, l,13o; No. 6 paper,
81. 1856; No. :, 81, 235; folders, $50.
Minnesota Observation-Disclosures ST.
200, folders, $50
Free Presae-No. paper, sl,0l5, No
2 paper, 81 ITO; folders, $40.
10000 swEDE PAMPHLETS.
STATS Tidning-No paper, s465; No. 2
paper, e475; No. 3 paper, $500; 10000
folders, S25.
lSkatdren-Pamphlets, $4,000 10000
folders, $4,000.
$4,000 NORWEGIAN PAMPHLETS.
BudsHAken-No. paper. se74.36. No.
paper. s723.l2; 1850 folders, $3.50.
$500 FRENCH PAMPHLETS.
D. Michaud-Pamphlets, s275; $500
folders, $50.
Tie board decided not to allow the
bids to be made public, and after long
secret session the following awards were
made:
Two thousand FIVE hundred French
pamphlets and 5000 folders, including
translations for both, for 1925, to Mr.. D..
Michaud
Fifteen thousand Norwegian pamphlets
and II, 500 folders, including TRANSACTIONS,
for s7S1e2, to the Budstikken Printing
company.
Ten thousand Swede pamphlets and
10000 folders, translating included, for
$500, 10 Col. Hans Mattson.
Twenty five thousand German PAM
phlets and 80, 500 folders, translatiDg in
cluded, for el,O55, awarded to Mr..
Naegele, publisher of Freie Presss.
Thirty thousand English pamphlets
and 81, 500 folders, tor 81 ,226, to the Pho
neer Press Printing company.
1t will be seen that the board carefully
avoided all the low bids for the English
pamphlet and awarded the contract to
the highest. As the meeting of the
board was secret, the process by which
they reached such result is not known.
1t could not be that any valid reason
was alleged, for they could have called
upon any of the lower bidders to give
bon Is for the prompt and faithful ex-
ecution of the contract. True. White was
the lowest bidder. AS he is in the
midst of fitting up the board might, per-
haps, he able to claim that he could not
make time, but this argument would not
apply to the next lowest bidder, MIR. Lem.
on. Mr.. Lemon has a Job printing office
surpassed by none in the city. He Is a
most competent and reliable man and Is
prepared to supply the work better and
quicker than the P. p.
To advertise for bids and make the
awards to the highest bidder Is not very
encouraging to the promotion Of compe'
tition In the future.