The morning call., 1892-09-13
DkVE ! E1EN II DkW ~ AAIh0
City Printing BOedlers Re-
CeiVe a Severe Blow.
no MORE CIECH on LOF.OWNERS.
Separate Bids MuSt Be Made for Each
Class Of Work.
EyTCRT!OIiTE CHARGES AXE GBEIlTED
The Supervisors Adopt Report That
Will Greatly Please These WhO Have
Fears Of Further Robbery.
EyTCRTIOyiTE CHARGES ARE ODEIiTED

A stop will soon be put to the street.
work advertising steal.
The Supervisors at their meeting last
night adopted the report of the Printing
Committee, by which each bidder TO do city
printing must make separate bids for each
class Of work.
This puts check on the system Of rob-
berry that has been going on for the past ten
years.
The Doodle printing ring had its own way
for about that period of time.
1t has cinched the property-owners right
and left.
1t put in bids through its organ, the Stock
Report. paper whose leading editorials re-
late to prze-fghts and abuse of respectable
people, to do the city printing free OF charge.
Now there is one strong reason why the
old system OF "}ree" city printing is not
popular with the property-owners.
Il costs too much
That is a strange thing to say, but it is
true, nevertheless.
The Doodle printing ring has done the city
printing Tree" at a cost TO property
owners of nearly Sl,o0o,00O in the past ten
years.
month. Twelve months in the year.
That is $4,000 in year.
In ten years $4,000
Not far from n million, anyway.
How was ii done?
The Reports bid for the city printing is
"nOthing year"
What is the proportion done for notnlngr
tl4on
How about the rest?
Il is all charged for at top-notch rates
81 p square.
This is what is called the balance scale
invented by Boss Tweed.
Itis tile worst kind Of cinch on the
pTODeIty-OwueT.
Let L take a look at some OF the cases in
point
They let out small job for maeadamiEing
On Iwenty-siXth street
BlanchfeId & Ford did the work. They
charged SlC9 90 for il.
Nobody made any complaint about that
Tie engineering cost SIS.
That was not costly.
Then came the pruting-S46 80.
why. let's see" said one proper ty-
owner Printing, $40 so; engineering S.
that's S54 90. Now the whole bill is Sl64 10.
That makes the printing and engineering 80
per cent"
A jJb of remacadamizing on Turk street
cost the pTOperty-OwneTs Sl22 70. To tell
IN the siCkiy Daily Report that the job WAS
going 10 be done. and who the successful
bidders were. cost 500 A..
The engineering cost SIC.
The total expense Of printing and en-
gneerlng was $40 10.
That was IS per cent Of the whole cost of
the work.
~ big steal"
That is what the Turk-street people think
It's.
To Law pipe sewer in Octavla street, be-
tween Vallejo and Green, cost the property
owners S662 20.
The printing cost SIS o. and nobody
wanted Ii done anyway, except the Report
people and the rest Of the printing ring.
The engineering was S4S. That made q
total OF Sl35 s. or . per cent.
"A swiudiing game is the way Octavia-
street people regard.
1t cost only SlS7 y to remacadamiZe a
portion OF DeYssder0 street.
SixIy-OBe dollars and forty cents, OF 80 per
cent, IS what the printing cost
AS bad as footpsdery.
The Page-stTeet people paid s3i4 81 for
some macadsmIZng. The printing bill, in
Guided Ia that cost. was SIS ., added to
which was S27 for engineering, or total of
SI02 %.
Ihlr,y-twO Der cent.
1t cost $50 40 to tell the people about
$500 job Of pipe Sc wering In Lott street
On Cherry street, where a little grading
was done, il cost almost as much TO tell
about the JOB as it did for the job itself.
The printing bill was $50 So.
he bill for the grading was S74 60.
i; cost SIS 80 for printing and engineering
$3.50 Job Of plank sidewalking on Capp
street mat was over 20 per cent
II cost $50 20 for the printing and engi-
neeTlug for Sl35 job Of sidewalking on Shot
well stTeet. The total cost was S196, and
the proportion OF expense for the printing
and engineering was 81 per cent
A JHD OF grading on Lombard street cost
S54 81. The printing and engineering cost
$50 80. The total cost was STA %.
engineering.
That was all-only 40 per cent.
1t make it 90?
Three thousand square feet Of macadam-
fzing at Bartlett and Twenty-sixth streets
cost the property.oWners S109 SO. The print
Ing cost $40
F0rty-iye per cent.
A steal within steal lies in the fact that
the composition on much Of this streetwork
advertising is almost clean pick-up
The specifications for each class of work
aae nearly the same In each case
All That has TO be done to make them cit a
certain JOB IS to change few figures and
words and then they are ready for publica-
ton.
1t doesn't cost the ring anything to sneak
OF. but 1t costs the property owneTs pretty
sum.
The Printing Committee nt the Board of
Supervisors, consisting Of Supervisors
Carnes, Aver and Curtis, yesterday morn
Ing considered the resolution introduced by
supervisor Carnes week ago regarding the
public printing contract.
The resolution directs that bids bs in
vlted for doing the public printing of all
Kinds. the bidders 10 state Specifically what
the charge will be in each class of printing
Tbs would effectually prevent the cnch
system which has prevailed in certain cases
In the absence of any check upon charges
ne committee cordially approved of the
resolution, seeing that by its adoption
thousands Of dollars would be saved to the
taxpayers.
Last evening the committee took further
actloh Dy Recommending the passage Of the
reS0!ution TO the Board of Supervisors.
Inc resolution embodied in the report of
the committee is as follows:
kesotred, That the clerk be and he Is berebv
authorized and dl ected to advertise for nro
pOsals TO do the public printing In Gativ na w.
paper published In the city and conntv
In The English language from January 1saS
10 January i, 1895, In accordance win ths
specifications 10 be prepared bv said eIeri1
which specifications shall set forth thar ali
printing as hereinafter defined shall be eiassed
under one head as public printing and sbaIi
Invite bids Tor doing said work as follows.
Bidders shall bid a specific amount per fhou
sand ems agale type for each and every InseT
tlon for all public printing and said sDeeiDca
lions shall otherwise conform 10 the terms
provisions and conditions herein contained and
prescribed.
That said public printing shall comprise and