Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-28
hoard OF EDUCATION.

The Bids for the Mason, Carpenter
and Plumbing Work, Together
with the Painting, ON the Board
man Manual TrainiDg School
Union Labor still Demands That it
Only be Rfred in the Construction of
the Building.
A special meeting of the board of educa-
ton was held last evening, at which the
bids for the mason, carpenter, plumbing
and painting work on the Bosrdman Man
usl Training school were opened. Archi-
tect Robinson announced that one bid had
been brought in at twelve minutes past
five o'clock, which was too late to be re-
ceived according to the time stated in the
advertisement. The board voted to receive
1t, however.
The bids were as follows:
Masons-George M. Grant $50. 548.
Charles D. Kinney $33, 1893 81, Smith,
Sperry & Treat $33, sol, George Baldwin
& Sons s34, $50, Patrick J. Lyons $40, 036,
Bates & Townsend 1874 AS, D. g. Csrmi-
chsel 1872. 1T, A. w. Burritt & Co. $685.
1924, Patrick Maher & Son s36, 245.
Csrpenters-David 81. Clark $27, 493,
McWilliams & Arthur $29, 447, William J.
Healy s32, 400, Charles Il. Brown $31 1918,
James E. Todd $2s. 1856, James A. Church
Iarkins & Sons Co. $29, 29l A. W. Burritt
& Co, of Bridgeport $50, 9l4, Smith & Mo
Queen $27, 4S7, James A. Fogerty $34, $50,
William q. Robertson $28, 1926, John 8. o.
born see ,464.
Plumbers-Joseph Buckley 81, 465, Cur
tiss & Pierpont So, $3.50, New Haven Heat
and Plumbing company s., 900, Sheahan &
Groark $s,O39, T. W. Corbett 50 923, the
Arnold company $4,015, DE-. Kelly 50, 1853,
J. J. Sullivan $2,050, Foskett & Bishop
81, 927, Rourke Bros. s., 240. F. A. Garlic
ton 50, $50, Hayes & Rourke 81, 240.
Painters-Wolcott & Parett company
Lowest bidders-D. G. Carmichael, John
S. Osborn, J. ]. Sullivan, Wolcott & Parett
company.
The bids were referred to the committee
on construction and the awards will be
| made later.
Mr.. Fitzgerald, with about dozen
others, representatives of labor unions, at
this point in the meeting appeared before
| the board and Mr.. Fitzgerald, as spokes-
man, was granted permission to be heard
| He said that he represented the union
| labor organizations of the city
and he appeared even at this
| late hour, to enter a protest against the use
of prison made goods in the public schools
and against the awarding of the bids with
out the specification, that none but untor
labor be employed In the construction Of
the building. He desired that in spite of tn.
decision of the eminent counsel to the effec
| that the former action of the special dis
trict meeting was illegal, the matter be re
| considered and another district meeting b
called. He said that the board might b.
surprised at their presidency, but it wa
for the principal involved that they wer
struggling. The non union laborers wer
those to whom reduction in wages wa
principally due, and therefore 1t was thei
duty to oppose them.
Mr.. Whitney asked Mr.. Fitzgerald If
appreciated the fact that If such specif
cation was pat in the bids Mrs. Bosrdmal
might indennitsly withhold her gift. MI
Fitzgerald did not seem at first to exactl
comprehend what Mr.. Whitney meant, an
he made an entirely irrelevant answer
Mr.. hitney put the question to him tw
or three times, asking him If he meant tina
they would rather have the gift withheld
than not have such clause put in the bids
Mr.. Fitzgerald answered that that was Whs
he meant.
| There are now two petitions before th
board, one asking that a special distrie
meeting be called at the earliest possibl
date and the other asking that prison mad
material be not used in the public school,
and that clause providing for the en-
ployment of none but union labor be DIT
in the bids, and also asking that speci'
meeting of the district be called to conait
er those questions. Each petition hs
several signers. The board deferred tt
consideration of the requests to some f,
ture time, and then went into executi,
| session.