The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-22
THE HOLLY co. GETS IT.
TO BUILD THE WATER WORKS EN-.
GINES FOR 500. 400.

Rourke 81 Son Awarded the Boile,
Contract for S13.975-The Holly
Company's Bid $1,000 Above Its
Previous Bid, But the Enginss to bs
OF Greater Capacity-The Price to be
Cut Down $500 if a Railroad i:
Built to the Water Works Site-How
the Contract Was Awarded.
The water committee yesterday awarded
the contract for the two pumping engine
for the new water works to the Holly com
pauy of Lockport, n. Y, for S92, 400, and the
contract for the six boilers to John Rourke
& Son of this city for sl3S75.
The Holly company agrees to reduce the
price 1880 If the city will build rnil-
road track to within 200 feet of the pro-
posed works, and this will most likely be
done.
The Holly company's first bid was $751;
400, with the same proviso, which brought
it down to $4,000. The last bid is there
fore just $1,000 over the previous one, but
the capacity of the engines are increased
accordingly.
The engines which the Holly company
will build under the contract just awarded
are to have surface condenslug apparatus
attached with a capacity for pumping ~
900, 900 gallons a day instead OF l0OO0,OOU
gallons, as called for by the Specifications.
The engines will have two 21-inch high
pressure steam cylinders, two 54-inch low
pressure steam cylinders and two 30-inch
double acting pump plungers, all having
forty inches stroke. The first engine Is TO
be completed aud delivered in twelve
months and the second in eighteen months.
THE BOILER CONTRACT.
The boilers, to be furnished by Rourke &
Son, are to be Of the horizontal tubular
type. set with full flush fronts The shells
are TO be 10 feet inches long outside and
66 inches in diameter measured at the out
side at the smallest ring. The shell plates
are 10 be three-eighths of an inch thick, of
the best quality of marine steel, having
tensile strength of not less than $500
pounds nor more than $4,000 pounds per
square inch Of section, with not less than
Sc per cent. Of ductility as indicated by
contraction Of area at the point of fracture
under test and by an elongation Of % per
cent. of a length OF inches.
Rourke & Son agree to insure the boilers
in the Hartford Steam Boiler and Inspector
Insurance Company for $4,000 for three
years from date Of completion, without cost
TO the city. The boilers will be completed
and ready for delivery in eight months.
IL will be remembered that the Holly
company was awarded the contract for the
boilers, together with the engines, July IS,
end this really was the reason the time
question was raised by the other bidders
which resulted In the setting aside of the
award. The Holly company offered to
furnish the boilers for $40, 600, and Rourke
& Son for S13,S75. The other competing
companies Incorporated Rourks & Sons
figures IN their bids, intending, il success
full, TO take the contract for the entire
work, and then sub-let TO Rourke 81 Sons.
WOULDN'T DIVIDE THE CONTRACT.
The Holly Company wouldn't do that IN
less The Savannah firm would do the work
for $4,000 This it wouldn't do, and then
came the kick on the time and the success
full fight against Confirmation in the ooun-
Gil, which brought from Alderman Cam
at the time the tart remarks that the re-
fusal TO conform was 1.-THE successful DO
ntical pull Of an unsuccessful biddern
This time both the Holly company and
Rourke d Son offered exactly the same bids
as those originally rendered and the water
committee and Mayor McDonough, after a
two hours meeting, decided to reject the
Holly boiler bid aud accept that OF Rourke
81 Son.
Alderman Cam, chairman Of the water
committee. was asked by a MORNING News
reporter for an explanation Of this change
OF front. He replied that the reason the
bid of Rourke & Son was accepted 10
preference 20 that of the Holly company is
that the boilers offered by the Savannah
firm arc superior TO those Of the Holly, and
the difference of 1885 in price represents
the difference in material, workmanship
and other advantages.