The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-08
BRIDGE TICKET SCANDAL,
TIE RANK NOTE COMPANIES WILL
EACH PUT IN THo BIDS.

Martin Through Talking About the Matter
Does Every Pack age Ticket mean Two
Cents nud II aIT to tho BridEe Treasury
Bridge President Howell says he changed his
mind about replying TO Comptroller myers
aharp rebuke for his trick In putting little
Joke into his new advertisement for bids Tor
furnishing package tcketA Yesterday MIR.
Howell said:
II do not want to be quoted In this matter at
all. have not written 60 Mr.. Myers ut all, and
shall not do 80. The Board meet Monday. and
they can do as they please about the matter"
DO you propose to change the advertise
nent to conform TO Mr.. Myers's viewsp" was
asked.
The advertisement is all right as 1t stands.
Tho Board may do as 1t pleases about 1t. 1t
will be for it to decide whether the bids that
come in shall be opened or returned. OF course
Uo have the highest respect for Mr.. Myers and
Rlyo great weight to his opinions. MIR. Martin
went over to New York yesterday to see about
some OF tho statements that have been made in
regard to this matter. He says the American
Dank Note Company deny having stated. as
was published, that they left tho bridge ofilce
disguised with their treatment On the con-
trnry, they say they have always been rightly
treated here. They did not bid because they
knew they could not compete for the work. Nlr.
Martin also learned, he tells me- that the
United States has its work done by the hand
press process as do also private concerns 6hst
have for tickets of tins kind.
Mir. Martin would say nothing except. am
through talking about the matter"
Nearly all OF the bank note companies which
nut in bids on Monday VIII submit Two propo-
titlons one to Furnish tickets exactly ike the
Rampes submitted. saying nothing about the
process by which they are 10 be made; and an
other oller to furnish hand-printed tickets AZ
Il is feasible iuruny OF the bank note companies
10 buy an old fashioned hnnu press ana print
modern machinery II the strange whim oil me
bridge managers REQUIRES IL. But me otner
bidders 20 not intend to be made the victims
OF one feature Il the trick to which attention
has not yet been raIed Under the last RdNer-
tisemcnt. contractors would certainly be re;
UuiIu4 t. do tho printing entirely on hand
press. This never has been done, and to do it
would make it necessary to chnrRe much
lion t6mpnnyN 81 cents per thousand which
was afterward rcduced 70 ~ cents in order
10 match the lid oil tho Homer Lee Company.
nr,ntei on Il hand ~ css. The other bank note
cOmuHpieS do no, nieud 10 allow the Hamilton
tile hanI. ro.s condition and then furnish
tickets which d. not fully comply with the new
AMI ahsurrt requirements; "
beers OF the Board Of Trustees to settle the
whole lisg acefUl COMPLICATION on Monday by
awarding tue contract according 10 the bids as
orig.nuIiy presented in the first competition.
Such r1u So seems 10 be tho only lair one In
the premises. those bids we!o opened by
Comptroller Myers OF the Finance Committee
of the Board. whose. duty 1t was so to do. and
they wore then referred TO President Howell.
wi h Instructions e. award the, contracts to the
lowest bidders. This he failed to do. The
hamilton Bank Note Colnpanys bid for pack
age tickets was 80 cents per thousand. The
Homer leo CumpaEys bid was "a cents per
thousand.
Tho singular state OF affairs existing has
within day or two raised an interesting in
guiry. namely: Doe, "a cents go into the
goes into the cancelling boxes ? such was
discovered not to be the case at one time. THE
garding bridge management within O. few
weeks, but the story has not all been told, by
any means.