Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-13
BIDSRECEIVED FOR TIME
THE SUPERVISORS ORDER NEW
COURT HOUSE CLOCKS.
A Local Firm Gets the Contract-Re-
port of the Superintendent Of the
County Hospital--A Watch
man Appointed.

The court house clock question has
caused the board of supervisors number
GUS bad quarters of an hour, but yester-
day each member screwed his courage
to tie sticking point and tackled the
matter again. As President Perry
naively remarked: "The Brady system
OF clocks had proved quite failure,
inasmuch as the stranger within the
court house doors has been rendered al
most bewildered by the extraordinary
time of day which has been kept there" "
The president might have made his re-
mark stronger. He might even have
INDUCED in cuss words, 60 vexatious
has been the experience of everybody
with Contractor o. E. Brady and his
high-priced system of the Wenzel pneu-
matte electric patent.
There have been a number of bids be-
fore the board for several days awaiting
consideration, and they went over them
yesterday, awarding new contract to
Montgomery Bros, of this city, condi-
tionally, for $1125, !and, if the firm is
obliged to put in new dials, 5000 more.
1t is the object of the board to secure
permission from Mr.. Brady to use the
dials already in place, and they are in
correspondence with him on the SUBJ
ject.
The various bids before the board were
by Montgomery Bros, S. Nordlinger,
agent, E. Berman and the Standard
Electric Time company, L. T. Clemans.
agent. All of the latter bids were
higher than Montgomery Bros. The
Western Union Telegraph company put
in bid for sixteen room dials at a
monthly rental of 81 each. The system
to he introduced in the building by
Montgomery Bros. will be an electric sys-
TEN, that is, the various clocks will be
electrically connected.
The report of the superintendent of
the county hospital for August shows
the following: In the hospital August
let, males 10S, females A; admitted
during the month, rs males and 16 fe-
males; born, 2 females: died, IL males /;
discharged, 80; remaining, liz males
and AZ females; treated, 244. The su-
perintendent states that the admission
was the largest OF any summer month
since the hospital was opened; that it
is not due to any prevailing disease, but
to the increased number of people in the
county.
The board OF supervisors is authorized
by state law to expend money, in its
discretion, for INDECENT poor people over
60 years of age. There is now awaiting
the county for this purpose, in the
hands of the state comptroller, $397l. 80,
and Supervisor Cook was yesterday au
thorized to receive and receipt for the
amounts during his visit to Sacramento
on private business.
The board yesterday filled the vacancy
caused by the removal of Capt. E. Blen-
nerhassett as night watchman at the
court house, by the election of J. G.
Murray. There were ten applications,
as follows: B. Tuomer, John W. White,
j. Van Dam, j. @. Murray, w. H. Hoag,
Wm..H. Bell, E. A. Parker, Samuel T.
Hensel, J. G. NJ. Spencer and T. M.
Mcclellan.
During the afternoon session of the
board Supervisor Hubbard received
telegram from the north, announcing
the death of his father, who has been
sick for some time. He started last
night for San Francisco.