Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-31
Aar::. .astrr fntclliQc1lrer.
TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 81, 1852.
NHair Brushes. &c"

brushes at so a dozen and feather
busters at 50 piece. 1t may or may
not have been this which caused Mr..
Quay to revise the schedules and system
of bidding this year, SO that the contract
was made for Il uniform percentage OIL
the maximum all through the list. But
it will be seen by the following schedule
that the maximum prices were materially
raised over those of last year, so that the
bidder who agreed to furnish supplies at
q per cent. discount from these prices
was still on many articles above the
maximum prices of the 1880 81 schedule.
This is Mr.. Quay's schedule for the year
1882:
..5 boxes Rabbits 4 siddal,' best soap.
per box OF 10 pounds. s.....................Si2 10
IOdoZ. patent 3-String corn brOOnls, per
doZ. best quality Observation-Disclosures. Z W
90 doz. selected bris;lc scrubs, per doz.
.. best qna'iiy q'n. ;:.;; , 10: ;..d: 80
20 doz. black enamel dust brushes, per
dozen. ............................. 30
10 ,loz. I.imch feather busters, per ,Ioz -. 20 70
.duz. 7-inch feather busters. per doz. 10 09
1doZ. long window brushss, per doZ...... IL %
. tiOL. short window brushes per doz..... 10 VI
u ioZ. Il I'm. sweeping brushes per doI.... 10 On
:, dOZ. selected shoe brushes per dcZ...... IL 0o
q dOZ. top shoe brushes per ioZ .......-.... W
IL dOZ. best quality corn whisks per doH. 10
dOZ. chamOi5 skins.
- gross paror matches. per .lo.-, Swift
4 Courtney make. 10 "
- pounds white CASTLE soap per lb.......- 10 %
~ boxes toilet SOAP per dOZ.
Ben H"ro elder Hover. ~
/: doz. French backing per d"Z .......... 3OI
Il boxes sand soap. ......................... 800
- lbs, sal soda ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
lUGoz. Rockingham spiitoons 90 in per
) dOZ water pitchers, No. q, per dor ...... II OU
g doZ. cut glass goi.leis perdOz ........ Oo
doZ hair brushes per doZ, Clinlon's
:, dOZ mai. brushes per aOZ................ Is %
. doz. root and briStic busters per doz.... 90
dOZ. waste baskets per rdoZ............... Is o"
10 lbs. chloride lime per lh................. 10
Gdoz. metallic cuspad"res, to bc lettcred
as directed by clerks, per dOZ ........... ~ W
10 lbs adulnantine candles, per lb.. 80. -
80 yds cotton flannel, per yd.............. -
i, lbs whiting, per H.. h...:................... ID
10 lbs rotten stone, per Ill.,. ............. -
:do2 ball wick-yarn, per dOZ Z.............. | ~
doz combs (SentsD perdoz'.best horned
10 doz huckab,ck towels, per doz
:0x3S Inches tstriicri) ....... ............ u 30
i, boxes carhO.ic soap, per GOX %. 4"
b,toZ Dan,iSk towels .SyID per doZ ...... q CD
, dOz bGrdcTrd towels. ANS. perdoz..... - %
- y.ls crash iowcling, Is inches wide, per
4, do. linen Turkish bath towels, ;,oxGO
per doZ Observation-Disclosures. - %
/. .'toz cotton Turkish bath towels, ;'txto,
gallons lil @ n:.i imported bay rum. per cal. %
agall"nI hair tonic per gal. o'
.doZ shaving muss, with name or sena
tors and state coat-of arms same n
nuA la use. per uOZ Observation-Disclosures. - o.
IHoZ. shaving brushes. per ,!uZ............ IL ~
lbs: rl.saiinc, best quality, per ib........ 60
gallons alcohol, per gal. "
gallons ammonia, per gal. 10
eJewi;,'s nliercrs AMI coolers, and
gallons. each. GJaEd ~ 90
4" furnish these supplies there was
only one bid, f.. W. Chellis: whose offer
To furnish tiiein ut II percent. below the
schedule maximum was accepted. y
reculd is made on the books of the de
l,arlment that tile bid of Samuel Adams
is per- rsnt. Lclor Ire mar;m"n-WaS
put in after the closing of the bids
The facts, as We learn them. are that
Adams had in !. bid in time. but fearing
it might not b.: low enough, undertook
TO Surrehituusly exchange il for another
while the hi.lS we're being opened and,
Geing detected his second bid was ruled
out rs recorded. lie is an experienced
contractor for supplies and his offer to
furnish the above list ut rs per cent. be
low the schedule shows that either its
prices are outrageously high, or that he
knew il was not intended that contrac-
tors should furnish what they undertake
and are paid for. BE that as it may
ChelliS has the contract for the above
goa,lS at u per cent. off the prices given,
and from June to October he had fur
nished enough to put in Il bill for
81 .lHj. 81, and to draw that amount from
the state treasury.
The point upon which every tax
payer 5 attention needs to be fixed is the
number and kind of articles for which
proposals are invited and the prices that
are paid 10y the state. Although no ses-
sion of the Legislature is being held this
winter. and the halls are little used, we
find the usual quantity of brooms,
buckets, etc. dust brushes and spit
toonS, cuSpadoreS and even shaving mugs
for senators, that are regularly called
for. Exactly what Delaney has ordered
aud Chellis has supplied thus far we
have not been able t. ascertain. In the
absence of the auditor general his chief
clerk has refused to allow !, represents,
tive of the INTELLIGENCEH to make Il
copy of the bill on file but it will be
queer indeed if the contractor does not,
before his year is up, find some way to
furnish and get paid for everything that
he has :: profit in. Quay, in the prepara
ton OF his schedules, ut least, has given
Delaney and Chellis chance to make a
fine thing of it. Four tons of
SOAP. 600 brooms and as many
more scrub brushes, 500 pals and
500 dust-brushes, besides $50 feather
busters 10 dozen of which $3.50
a dozen are paid--not to speak of win
dOw-brushes, long and short, sweeping
brushes and cllamois skins, ought to keep
things from ever falling into dirt and
decay around the departments and leg |
islative halls. But why should the state |
buy backing and shoe brushes, clothes
brushes and hair brusheS-at $3l go per |
dozen -nail-bruslies and hair tonics,
shaving mugs-SI3.+j per doZen-for |
state officials : What have become of the |
old spittOOns, that Is dozen of new ones |
are contracted for, some to cost $50 per
dozen The people want to know. They
are going to find out.