Wichita eagle., 1889-09-21
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
College Hill Likely to Get School Building TO
Cost Sl6.50

College Hill Likely TO Get School Building 10
! Cost $1,000.
The board of education met last evening
pursuant to adjournment, to consider
mainly the bids for the new school build
| in the Sixth ward. President Levy called
| the meeting to order at O'Clock, with
Messrs. Sawyer, McNair, Howard, Piatt,
Fegtiey. Campbell and Martin present.
| The chair announced the object of the
meeting and called for the report Of the
committee on buildings and grounds. MIR.
Piatt reported that in the matter of bids
for the construction Of the Sixth ward
school house they were opened and consld-
cred by the committee, the lowest bid being
SIS, 100 and the highest SO, 80. Mr. Nc
Nair asked what the amount OF the appro-
priation for the Sixth ward was, and was
answered by Mr.. Martin that, includ-
ing heating and ventilation, the amount
was ST, 800 The variance between the
architects estimate and the bids was as
tonishing, and the chair gave 1t as his
opinion that there was mistake on the
part of the architect or collision amongst
the bidders The committee did not
seem inclinod TO give the names
of the bidders and explained the lowest
bid quoted was made up of different bids
Mr.. Proudfoot said the estimate was made
on the Irving, and that the new building
contained more brick and cut stone which
might account for about 81, 900 of the varl-
ance Of about $500 on each.
Mr. Piatt said it was stated by the
builders that material was higher than
several months back
E,ar ,aeti hafnra
house moved the committee be instructed
to close contract for the building at
SIS, 1000 in the aggregate.
Mr. McNair seconded and after some
discussion the motion was finally amended
making the amount SIC, 500. Carried.
Mr. Piatt stated that the various bids +.
We're not brought up before the board as
they were all beyond the estimate and be-
ing of a complicated nature would take up
time TO no purpose. Many of the PROPOSE
items were detailed and would necessarily
take up considerable time to arrive at tie
total amount, the only matter of interest
at present
Mr.. McNair said he understood about
81, 900 could be saved by reducing the cut
stone work, and $500 by not furnishing the
entire basement. and $500 on the heating
and about s., 500 by dispensing with the
tower, which would bring the matter down
to the financial ability of the board.
Mr.. Martin said his constituents would
never agree to dispense with the tower;
they must have the tower at any expense.
The plan of the building was displayed
and it seems that some one had already
christened it the Lowell school. No one
would acknowledge they named it but it
was generally acknowledged it would
never be known by any other name.
Mr.. Campbell said that brick could be
put in the wall for 81 at the outside, where
as the bidders had calculated evidently on
brick at 50.
Mr. Martin said brick could not be esti-
mated in school building the same as in
a store room.
Mr.. Campbell thought the proper course
to pursue in the matter was to change the
specifications and readvertise. 1t was
finally understood that if the committee
could not make the arrangement contem-
plated in the motion that it Should reject
all bids and readvertlse.
On motion the committee was instruct |
I'd to have the dirt of the excavation haul
ed to the school grounds where it was
most needed.
In answer to the question Mr.. Piatt
stated all the bids for the Burton Car
school had been above the estimate and
had been rejected.
No further business coming up the
board adjourned to assemble again at the
call of the president.
THE BOIs D'ARC PAVEMENT.
During the paving excitement new
kind of paving comes to the notice of the
public whose claims attract attention. The
Bois dare or Texas Usage orange has fire.
quently been spoken OF and its advantages
and drawbacks pretty well ventilated. Mr.
j. d. Trammell, of Dallas. Tex, arrived
in the city yesterday and registered at the
Carey, bringing samples OF the Usage TO dis |
tribute amongst the citizens interested in
paving. In an interview Mr.. Trammell
made the following statements in answer
to questions. Practically the only Usage in /
Texas is the one belt several miles wide /
and about one hundred miles long. The |
first | knew of its use is matter of forty ]
years ago, previous to the Mexican war
when the Spanish surveyors used |
the wood for stakes. These as
many of them as are not taken away are |!
in a perfect state of preservation. This !
sample which ! have in my hand is just /
cut and dressed in the proper size for a
paving block, and weighs five pounds and /
two ounces. Those samples are blocks of /
pavement that have been III service for |
nine years. We claim that the wood is |
practically indestructible. The object Of |
my visit here is to draw the peoples attep- |
ton TO this wood for paving purposes, and |
to see If an alteration cannot De made in |
the specification. It is on account of this I
flaw in the specification that | did not /,
bid for the contract. 1t states that bois /
d arc shall be laid on a concrete base, which /
shall be covered with cypress lumber be- /
fore the bois d arc blocks are laid. 1t is /
simply ridiculous to ask Us 10 put this |
wood, which we claim is indestructible, on /
cypress, which we know wont last for /
longer than few years at most.
\ MERRY Party.
1t was not band of vigilantes, neither |
was il a band Of Mexican vaqueFos and |
Senoritas that formed in line in front OF |