Evening journal., 1891-01-14
The Successful Ridders.

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/ X. h CFumlish ..... .... 3a0O9
| Ihomas Pagan ............. ....... 3S0G 55
The Successful Bidders.
The successful bidders were as follows
First district-Fred Winchester.
81 $50
Second district-Lelion Collins 80. IT'S.
Third distriet-Thoinas Faqan. 81. IT'S
Fourth district-Thomas Fagan
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Tho Ring At Work
To the initiated the above figures have
much significance.
The members Of the Board of Health
are AZ follows: DR.. John p. Wales. presi
dent; DR.. Evan G. Shortlidge Dr.
Willard Springer port physician. David
q ooyle,. treasurer; james C. Van
Trump. plumber.
All of thu members Of the Board of
Health are Republicans with the excep
tlon of DR. Willard Springer. who is port
physician and BY virtue of his office Is A
member Of the board
Registrar William 8. Lee ia secretary
Of the board and Is appointed by CITY
| Council. This accounts for the fsct that
he is y Democratic secretary TO a Repub-
lican body, as the Board Of Health is ap-
pointed by the mayor.
Samuel W shutz is the executive
officer for the Western district and Hugh
Mcconnell is the executive officer for the
Eastern district. Both of these men are
partisan Republicans. Il Is their duty
to see that the garbage contractors
properly perform the work in their re.
spective districts.
Ignoring the Secretary.
William H. Lac. the Democratic secre
tary of the board. Is practically ignored
by that body. When James h. Draper.
Democrat, was president OF the board
the notices for the acceptance of pro-
posals read as follows: "Sealed pro-
posals will be received BY the secretary
Of the Board of Health at s w. corner
Sixth and King streets Under the
star chamber rulings Of the Republican
board, however, the notices read .
Sealed proposals will be received by the
President Of the Board Of Health, at the
s. E. cor Eighth and King streets "
This ignores precedent that has existed
for years.
The secretary is also ignored in that
he no longer has authority to remedy
complaints Of non removal o. garbage BY
the contractors. IL has also been the Gus
tom in the past for complaints to come 10
the secretary. AS soon as the COMPLAINT
came he would engage a cart, have the
garbage removed, and charge the cost in
CURED to the garbage contractor in
whose district this de5eiiction of duty
was found. The Republican board
changed all this, however 1t was pro-
badly taking too much from the con
tractors. The secretary was ordered TO
keep register of complaints There COM
plants are placed before the board and
the word of the executive officer and gar
bage contractor is taken as authority in
the question as TO whether there is good
ground for complaint
This register was examined by a re.
porter, and 10 shows hundreds upon hun-
dreds Of complaints from all parts OF the
city. Some of them say that "gafbage
has not been removed for two or three
weeks, and some complaints are even
stronger than that.
Laying the Pipes.
This action by the Republican Board
Of Health practically shut out the Demo-
cratic secretary from the inner workings
of the body. The bids all went to the
private Office of the president and the
complaints came 60 a secretary who had
left the way open for the ring.
The bids of LeliOn Collins. Fred Win
chester and Thomas Fagan were all filed
in by the same person and the amounts
Of the bid on each one had evidently been
Eiled in after the bids hai been filed ia
other respects
Prior to the meeting, one OF tie negro
contractors asked the executive officer.
who was fixing his bid up for him. if
he thought it would be advisable for him
TO Increase his bid $500 The executive
officer told him that he did not think it
would be we'll for him to do It, BE went
into the Office Of the clerk and had his
bid filed out H. made his mark and
Secretary Lee witnessed the signature
After that was done be had to get a
bondsmRn. Instead OF getting one bonds.
man he had the firm name Of Jester g.
Mcdaniel in the bond, which made IL il
legal. BE should have had their individual
names trading under the firm name of
Jester & Mcdaniel.
Hugh Mcconnell (Rep,) executive
officer for the Eastern district signed for
Pagan. He then took him over to the
post Office and got Gilpin B. Underwood.
superintendent of letter carriers, to 90
on both bonds. The law requires that
the bondsman must be a freeholder 1t
is asserted that Underwood does not own
one foot of land and is not a proper
bondsman. And besides this, the sus-
plcious thing about the transaction is
that Pagan is a Democrat and Hugh
Mcconnell and Gilpin B. Underwood are
Republican politicians.
II is further asserted that the ring did
not let these bidders know what figures
were upon their bids. but that they were
filed in afterwards by the ring.
Bids Before the Board
These bids were opened and read on
Tuesday night of last week IL was
plainly manifest that something was the
matter with the figures
Fred Winchester bid for removing
| the garbage from the First distIic',