Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-04-05
WRANGLE OVER BIDS.
THOSE FOR ClTY-HALL FURNITURE
AND LIGHT FIXTURES OPENED.
Awarding of the Contracts Postponed
Until This Evening- Other Proposals
to he Advertised For.

The Council Committee on Grounds and
Bulldogs held q regular business session
in the Chancery-Court room last night.
There were present Messrs. Taylor (chair-
MANI. Carter, Curtis. Epps, Mountcastle.
Seay. Tanner, and Turpin, besides many
others who were more or less interested
in the business to come before the body.
The meeting was long and animated
one, as tie bids for furnishing the new
City Hall. as well as for the combination
fixtures for gas and electricity for the
building, were opened.
Shortly after Chairman Taylor had
raped the committee 20 order the City
Engineer suggested that the bids be list
ed and passed upon, and that the samples
which are stored away in the new City
Hall DO looked at TO-DAY or tomorrow.
On motion OF Mr.. Curtis the regular
business of the committee was disposed OF
at this juncture.
SOME ORDINARY BUSINESS.
The bid submitted as TO the repairs to
the house at the corner of st. Peter and
Leigh streets, whereby the work IS to be
done for s136. was referred to a sub-com-
mittee consisting Of Messrs. Turpiin and
Carter. This property was recently pur-
colored armory. but IS row unoccupied be-
cause of it's defective condition.
The petition of property-owners IN JET
terson Ward asking that the roadway
through Jefferson Park be made 80 feet
WIDE was, on motion OF Mr.. Epps. rejected.
An appeal from the carpenters at the new
City Hall for an increase of their pay was
referred to superintendent Gibson for
report. They now receive $3.50 per day.
The claim of Messrs. Broomell. Schmidt
Il Co., the contractors TO furnish the boil
ers for the new City Hall. tor 81 900 on &C
count of delays. &C., caused them. was
laid upon the table until the next meeting.
when the City Attorney will be requested
to give bis opinion concerning the matter.
PROPOSALS. TO BE ADVERTISED FOR.
On motion of Mr.. Curtis Clerk Bates
was directed TO advertise for proposals for
furnishing ice TO the municipal offices
during the coming summer. The bids will
be opened at the next meeting.
The committee approved the usual bills
and pay-roIls.
The City Engineer was instructed to adj
vertlse for proposals to furnish the neces-
sary stone 10 finish the areas around the
new City Hall. This granite Is to be cut
upon the City-Hall grounds by day labor.
The Engineer was also authorized to ad-
vertise for bids for the furnishing of glass
for the doors of the hall, tor additional
iron steps. for the floor lights over the
boller.room, and for some granolythlc
pavements.
The opening Of the proposals to supply
the City Hall furniture. &c., was then pro-
ceeded with.
Mr. Turpin stated that he had received
a telegram from Captain A. PiZzlnl, Dr., IN
winch the latter said that there was
strong possibility OF break IN the trust
now existing as to the furnishing of the
combination gas and electrlc-hght h1-
lures. The Captain thought that the CITY
would save money by postponing action
upon these bids for a month. Colonel
Cutshaw remarked that the city would lose
nothing by such postponement. but that
he was of the opinion IN case this were
done that the proposals, which bad been
handed in in good faith, should be re-
turned unopened.
A number Of the bidders who were pres
ent emphatIcally denied the existence or
any such trust. They admitted, however,
that there was a combination OF various
firms in this connection.
NE. CURTIS MAKES MANY MOTIONS.
A motion made by Mr.. Curtis to open
the bids was defeated by vote of B TO 0.
Mr.. Curtis then moved that the proposals
submitted be rejected. This evoked fur
Their discussion on the part of the bidders,
and Dir. Tanner moved q reconsideration
Of the vote on Mr.. Curtlss first PROPOSE
ton. THIS WAS loRt -,
At this iuncture Mr.. Epps, who had
been temporarily excused, came IN, and
on motion of Mr. Curtis the rules were
suspended and consent was given to the
opening Of the bids by the following vote:
AYEs-Messrs. Carter, Curtis, Epps, Ian
ner, and Tavlor-5.
KoEs-Messrs. Mountcastle, Noble, Seay,
and Turpin-4.
Proposals to supply the combined gas and
eectrlc-light fixtures were then opened as
follows: The Horn, Brannon and Forsythe
Company, $S.755.J0; second bid from the
same firm. Sl4.231; J. i. Philips, 3d.
SOL; CassiGge 4 Son, S2i, 4lS.4O; John
Bowers. Sl4 $3.50; the De Kosenko and
Netherington Manufacturing Company,
SIS. 500 second bid from the same firm,
$ls,133.5O; Southern Electric Company,
SIC, 5O2. Is. and A. Pizzini, Jr., $4,000.
Mr. Curtis moved that all the bids for
both furniture and gas and electrlc-llght
fixtures be entered on the blackboard and
that the committee meet at l o'clock this
afternoon 10 hear argument and inspect
the articles sent on. This was lost and he
then moved TO refer the bids TO sub COM
mittee of four 70 report TO the full com
mltteo this evening at O'CLOCK. Adopted.
Messrs, Curtis. Carter, Tanner. and Epos
were designated TO do this work.
CITY-HALL FURNITURE.
The following were those who submitted
A e. &c.. a