St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-22
FREDDY S LATEST CRAFT.
GETTING IN HIS W0RK ON SCHOOL
SUPPLIES 8Y PR0XI.
PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE BID.

Awards Made for Furnishing
School Supplies - A Bid for
Pens at 23 Cents a Gross Re-
jected to Work in a Mayoralty
Pen at As Cents-What Will
Prof Pond Do?
The purchasing committee having in
charge the bids for school supplies have
awarded the contracts to the ST. Paul
hardware company, Adam Decker, ID.
5. Sperry, of Brown, Treacy d Co., the
st. Paul Herald. Rich &c Clymer and F.
A. Bristol. City Treasurer Miller was
In Chicago, and only the mayor and
Mr.. WolterstOrff were present to make
the awards.
There ought not to have been any diff
hculty in making the awards. for the
tabulation of the bids showed clearly
who bid lowest on the articles specified:
bur, in Keeping with his policy of look
ing out for the interests of Wright, Bar
rett d Stllweil, the mayor got in his
usual tamperlng with the returns.
In the matter of pens, there were
three bidders. their proposals being for
90o gross of pens. ID. s. Sperrv, of
Brown, Ireacy IL CO., turned In two
samples. his bid on one being % cents a
groSs, and on the other, % cents. The
latter pen Is identically the same now
supplied the schools by Wright, Barrett
u Slilwell, under last years contract,
at 10 cents gross. 1t is made by the
same firm, is of precisely the same
grade. but bears Sperry's stamp instead
OF the mayors firm. Another bid
der was Rich 4 Clymer. who offered the
same pen now in use, made by the
same firm, but bearing the stamp of
Rich IL Clyiner, instead of Wright, Bar
rett IL Stilwell, and at As cents a gross.
the same price now paid Wright, Bar
rett Il Stilwell. The third bidder was
f. A. Bristol, who offered a different
pen. at 50 cents gross. The tabulation
showed these bids clearly. and the
mayor well knew that the Sperry pen
was the same lie is now furnishing the
schools at 10 cents gross. yet when the
award was made by himself and the
president of the assembly Sperry's
bid was erased from the
list of the supplies awarded
to Sperry. 1t was decided by the COM
mittee to leave the matter of pens to
D. ID. Bond, supervisor of pennanShip
OF the public schools, and il was under
stood that he would decide in favor of
the bid of Rich IL Ciymer, the meat of
which is that Rich IL Clymer is to
all intentS and purposes the firm of
Wright, Barrett IL Stilwell. 1t Is,
then. for Bond TO say whether the low
f.Sf los Slt Il
furnishing the pen which he decided
last year was good enough for the
schools. or whether Wright. Barrett d
StiiWeli, 10y proxy, shalt continue to
furnish the same pen. with only the
stamp OF Rich IL Clymer upon il instead
of their own, and at nearly twice the
figure OF the lowest bid.
The tabuiatIOn Showed that the Pio-
neer Press company and Price. McGill
IL Co. were the lowest of the bidders to
do the school printing and to make the
scnool manual. There were three other
bidders, but they were so much higher
than these two mat they were left out
of consideration. The bid of the Pho
neer Press company was: School
printing, S56L63; manual, Sl4S
The bid of Price. Mctill Il Co.,
was: School printing, S527.25; manual.
$500. One thousand copies OF the
manual are wanted; but Price, McGif
y Go, specified 100 copies. The bid of
this firm on school printing is much
lower than that of the Pioneer Press
company, but its bid OH the manual is
much higher. The aggregate of the
Pioneer Press bid is S515.G5, and of Price,
McGli x Co. S5l4.7J. Price, McGili u Co.
have announced that they will not ac-
cept the contract for the school printing
unless they are also awarded the manual.
Price McGill &Co.wiil unquestioGably be
awarded the contract for both the school
printing and the manual. aud wilt be
required to print only LOCO copies of the
manual.