The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-01
HAS THE EUREKA A''PULL?'
No Other Hose Company Has Ever Sold
Anything to the City Authorities.
Bids on Fire Apparatus Opened, bnt No Con-
tracts Awsrded-Quecr Financiering
BY the Business" People.

expired. twelve companies had submitted
bids on hose and five OF engines. In some
cases tho same fire-hose company submitted
two or three different bids. The bids were
not opened until 3 o'clock In the afternoon.
and by that hour the Office of the Depart
ment of Safety was crowded with and
somely-dressed gentlemen. each company
bidding having q representative on tho
ground in person.
The bids on hose ranged from 80 cents to
81 o foot, and the DO ard had before 1t for
inspection q sample of each kind. Shortly
after 8 o'clock all the members Of the board
had arrived. and the audience of agents
and reporters having been provided with q
sufficient number of chairs by the thought
full ~janitor. President Hawkins announced
that the bids on hose would be opened first
and read by clerk Steeg. The bids on hose
were as follows:
THE HOSE BIDS.
Boston Betting Company, represented by
Taylor d Smith. of this city .0c0 feet of
woven jacket hose. guaranteed to stand
pressure of 400 pounds to tho square inch.
warranted for four years, two and a half
inches internal diameter. per lineal foot.
So cents; Niagara jacket knit hose, 400
pound pressure. four-year warranty, per
lineal foot. 55 cents; Excelsior rubber fire
hose. 400 pound pressure, four-year war
ranty, per iineal foot. IS cents.
Empire Rubber Company, Trenton, M,
1000 feet No. l brand OF hose, two and q
halt inches internal diameter, fOur-ply. $50
pounds pressure, warranted for four years,
per lineal foot, Sc cents.
Cornelius Callahan Company, Boston.
Mass. George w. King. aGent-7.o00 feet of.
Adriatic jacket hose, 4OO-pound pressure.
warranted for four years. per linsal foot.
so cents.
Fabric Fire-hose Company, New York,
Z. b. Preston 81 Co.. of Chicago, agents
1000 feet of jacket hose, .400-pound pres
sure. two and one;half inches internal di-
ameter. warranted for four years, per lin
cal foot, sic; Worlds Fair brand, 400-pound
pressure, warranted for five years. per
lineal foot. 59h cents: Keystone brand, wax
and gum treatment. 400 pounds pressure,
warranted for five years. per lineal foot.
so cents: Unique brand. $50 pounds pressure.
warranted for five years, per lineal foot. 30
cents.
New York Betting and Packing Com
pany. represented by Thomas w Plnm-7.000
hose, warranted for four years, per lineal
foot. 50 cents.
Boston Woven-hose Company, Chicago,
represented by j. w. H~ardy-seven thou
sand feet of Boston fire jacket hose, weight
fifty to fifty-two pounds to section of fifty
feet. four hundred pounds pressure. war
ranted for fOrty-twO months, per lineal
foot so cents.
Revere Rubber Company. of Chicago
seven Thousand feet. American jacket hose.
for four years. per lineal foot 60 cents.
Cleveland Rubber Company, represented
by the Chicago Fire Hose Company-seven
thousand feet. National jacket hose. seam
four years, per lineal foot 80 cents.
Mineralized Rubber Company. j. G..
Phillips a~gent-seven thousand feet. st.
Andrews X brand hose, lined with extra
quality of rubber. per lineal fool Is cents.
by T R. i. B1c hHSof S" feet of ' Columbia
jacket hose, 400 pounds pressure, warran ted
for three years. per lineal foot. SO cen Is:
half order, per lineal foot. 55 cents; less
than half order. per lineal foot. 81 cents.
Akron Rubber-wOrks represented by Hull
e. Thomas. of Chicago-7,0OO feet of White
Anchor hose. 400 pounds pressure; war
ranted for fOrty-two months. per llneal
foot, 81.
Eureka Fire-hose Company. represented
by Charles II. Landy-7.OOO feet Surprise
hose. 400 pounds pressure, warranted three
years, per lineal foot. Is cents; Eureka. null
t~iple-wOven fire hose, 400 pounds pressure.
warranted for four years. per lineal foot. 90
cents; 1900 feet Paragon hose. 400 pounds
pressure, warranted for four years, per
lineal foot. so cents.
Gutta Percha Rubber Manufacturing
Company, New York. represented by c. Fl.
Smith-7.00 feet Maltese-cross carbolized
hose. 81; three-ply Baker fabric hose. SO
Gets; four-ply Baker fabric hose, SO cents.
Each bid was accompanied with any
number of references. each bidder agreed
to furnish resident security for the faithful
performance of his contract and the bids
were oil on hose delivered on board the cars
III this city.
BIDS ON ENGINES.
The bids on fire-engines were as follows:
Manchester LocomOtive-wOrks, Man.
chester. n. Hone double extra. first size,
se]f-prOpeller, $1,000: extra or special size.
completely equipped as follows: One Rms
sia-irOn sockets. one engine, s~4.O00-two en-
gines. $1,000; nickle- plated, red metal trim
mings, one engine. S4. 1OO-two engines, S.
100; full nickle-Dlated finish. one engine.
S~4.250-two engines. $3.50; No. 2 size. 4
class, one engine. $3,150-twO engines. ST.
400; Is class. one engine. SS.e5)-two en-
engines. $500; No. 3 size. A class, one en-
CINE. So. 500-two engines. &c. 900: B class. one
engine. s. ,650-two engines, 1920; T. class,
one engine, 81. 750-twO engines. $500. No
offer was made for engines No. 3 and ) and
to rebuild engine No. 2, which are owned
by the city.
Clapp a. Jones, New York-One first md
two second size engines. warranted for ten
years. $1,000; S1.5C0 for Engines 3 and s.;
1000 to rebuild No. 2.
La France Fire Engine Company, of Ell
mira, n. Y.-One first and two second size
engines s13, 400; S.. 900 for Engines 8 and 8; no
proposition to rebuild engine No. z.
Ahrens Manufacturing Company. of Gin
cinnatl-One first and two second size en-
gines, $3.50 81. 200 for Engines Sand 8: prop
osltioE to rebuild engine No. 2free of charge;
engines to be delivered in fifty. seventy
and nInety days.
Silsby Manufacturing Company, of Sem
eca Falls. \. Y.-One first and two second
size engines, S1l.400; warranted for ten
years: $1,000 for Engines 3 and 5; no propO-
sition to rebuild engine No. 2.
When the bids on engines and hose had
all been opened President Hawkins asked
the agents TO step into the next room and
they would be called for when wanted. 1t
was decided to hear what the hose agents
had to say first, as they were the most
numerous. They were called in one at u
time. according to the way the bids had
been mum bered, md were allowed TO tell
Just as big ~'whoppers' as they liked about
their respective kinds of hose. Most
of them took advantage OF the op-
portunIty, almost without exception
prefacing their remarks with the
intend TO bore the board with any ~elongat-
ed %harangue. President Hawkins asked
each agent some pertinent questions about
his hose and his company, and not a single
one escaped without being asked if he had
sold any hose to the Chicago lire depart
ment. AS all the agents were provided
with small samples of the kim of hose on
which they had submitted bids, each one
demonstrated to the board why il would
be an act of economy TO purchase his hose.
1t was after G o'clock before the board got
through hearing what the hose ayeats had