St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-22
BIDDING FOR SUPPLIES.

BIDDING FOR SUPPLIES. N
Various Firms Wish to Provide
the School Board With Material
During the Year. -,
Bids. for furnishing the sehoul board
with fuel and supplies for the.ye euds.
ing Sept. ], > 1891, were opened at the
mayors Office yesterday afternoon. Tue;
advertisement for the proposals gave IA
list of the articles and supplies desired,
and included almost everything imagin-
able from $50 cords of dry pine slabs to
tour gross of three-legged magnifying
glasses. The advertisement stated that
bids would be received up to3 O'Clock
p. M. and at that hour Acting Mayor
Hickman, City Treasurer Miller and
President WaIterStOrtf, of the assembly,
who are made purchasing committee
by the charter, began the work of OPEN
ing the bids.
Bids for furnishing five thousand tons
OF coal and two hundred cords of wood
were received from Edmund q Carlson,
K. l.. Uoty as receiver of the Lehigh
Coal and Iron company. John Dowlan
u Son, Northwestern Fuel company,
ohio Coal company and the Pioneer
Fuel company. The bid of the Pionee
fuel company was evidently the low
est, it agreeing to furnish the fuel at
the following figures: Youghiogheny,
S4.47; Hooking Valley, s4.32; egg. stove
and nut. S749; coke, (Connellsvillel
1913; dry maple. s6.95; dry pine
slabs. S3.4S. The bid of the COM
pany was accompanied by
letter stating that the prices
made were on cash basis. ane tn con-
tract, if made with them, would have to
provide that the bills for fuel be paid on
the first of the month following the de-
livery of the fuel. In case this was not
done 10 per cent per annum would be
charged OH all bills not paid at such
time. The representative of the COM
pany who was present said the COM
pany had coal to sell, but it did not in
tend to have its bills tied up in council
committees for several weeks after the
fuel had been delivered at the prices
bid.
When the bids for furnishing sup
plies were reached there was some dis
cusSion over the admittance of two bids
submitted by r. j. Maybell, one OF them
being for stationery supplies and the
other for printing. Mr.. Maybell stated
that he had been present at the office
before 3 O'Clock, the hour mentioned in
the advertisement for bids 10 be put In,
but as he knew the mayor was out of
town supposed the bids would not be
submitted or opened. d. S. Sperry,E of
the firm OF Brown, Treacy IL Co. obs
jected to the bids presented by Mr.. May
bell being received, and called on the
mayors secretary to state what time tile
bids of Maybell were received. The
secretary promptly said the bids were
not handed in until 500 O'clock;
Just twenty minutes after the time
specified in the advertisement. In vain
did Mr.. Maybell explain that he was in
the office before O'Clock and endeavor
to make the secre tary say the bids were
on his desk at that time. Mr. Handy,
who had not the least idea that Maybell
represented the well-known firm of
Wright, Barrett & Stillwell, would not
be budged from the statement about the
time the bids were handed in by May!
bell, and the city attorney and the COM
mittee ordered the bids returned. re
The firms sending in bids for the fur
nishing of supplies were j. f. Schulze,
Bros, j.. L. Hertz d Son, st. Paul
Hardware company, d. S. Sperry and
Adam Decker d Co.
Those putting in bids for printing
were Z. ID. Scannell, st. Paul Dispatch
and Rich & Clymer, but this last bid
having been handed in at the same time
as that of MaybelI's, was rejected.
All the bids were referred to Secre-
tary White, of the school board, to tab
ulate and report back to the committee
at another meeting to be held Thursday
afternoon at 80 o'clock, when the CON
tracts will be awarded.
r. j. Maybell, whose bid had been re-
jected, made quite talk to the COM
mittee, and argued that the specifica-
tons for supplies were very improperly
drawn, and could not be bid Oh intelli-
gently. For this reason he advised that
all OF the bids be thrown out, and the
proposals for school stationery and
supplies be advertised for again. Sew
eral of the bidders who bad their bids
filed in time laughed at this, and called
Mr.. Maybel's attention to the
sealed bids which he still held in
his hand as evidence that he at
least had come prepared to put in bid
even if the specifications were not as
explanatory as they might have been.
City Treasurer Miller, who evidently
knew who Mr.. Maybell represented, was
in favor of throwing out all bids and re-
advertising over again. but he was not
supported by the other members of the
committee. After some discussion be-
tween Mr.. Maybell and Secretary White
as to what ought to be done in the mat
ter of preparing specifications for future
bids, the city attorney was directed to
look over the bids and ascertain if they
complied with the requirements OF the
advertisements, and, if so, to allow the
secretary to taDulate them.