The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-05

The board OF health met yesterday
afternoon at o'clock. A \
There were present President w
o. Smith, DIR. Andrews, John IT
Wsterhouse, Jr, Theo. L. Ian
sing, and Agent g. Z. Reynolds. \
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
President Smith announced that
the board had received from Wash
ington the annual Report of the
Supervising Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service of the Uni
ted States for the fiscal year of 1892"
Weekly abstract of Sanitary Reports
for 1892 &c." and other tracts relating
to sanitary matters.
President Smith brought up the
matter Of the bids made for drugs to
be furnished to the board of health
by local firms. He introduced the
matter by reading the following let
ters from local firms:
HONOLULU, Sept. 2S, 1898.
Mr.. G. Il. REYNOLDS,
Executive Board Health.
SIR We hereby enter a protest
against awarding the board of health
contract to Messrs. Hollister & Co.,
for reasons as follows:
In regard to item of alcohol, we
claim that it is irregular and unprece-
ha q
price on alcohol in bond instead of
alcohol duty paid.
This modifies the whole tender, as
they assume no risk of increased du-
ties, and can therefore figure closer on
remaining articles enumerated.
On the other hand, we submitted
price on alcohol, as duty paid, as has
always been customary, thereby as
Stunning the risk of having the duties
increased.
From the fact that we assumed that
risk, we did not figure as close on the
othe- items as we might have done
had there been no risk.
Consequently, we claim that, in
this way, the item of alcohol affects
each and every item on the list.
Submitting the above protest to-
your consideration, we are yours res
pectfully,
HoBRoN, NEWMAN & Co., Id,
Per L. Z. NEWMAN, President.
HONOLULU, III. l., Sept. 80, 1898.
The Honorable, the Board of Health,
Honolulu, III. L.
GENTLEMEN: L am instructed by
Messrs. Hollister y ca 9lst3ls city,
"a s3lt 1tef ~ their behalf, a formal pr
-. .Nr Of l,xN
able board, in regard to the sever
tenders for drugs and medical SUI
plies opened by your honorable boar
on the 9th instant. / am advised b
NV clients that their tender In tt
PREMISES was several hundred dolla
lower land consequently more favo
able to the public) than the onl
other tender made, viz, that
Messrs. Hebron, Newman & Co., an
vet nv clients show the letter of yOI
Secretary wherein he informs theI
that ait was resolved to very respec
fully decline their tender" Upo
teIeponing to the secretary he furthe
Informed me that the contract ha
been awarded to Messrs. HobroI
Newman & Co. upon their tender.
The circumstances of this case ar
as Il am advised by my clients pecu
liar in more respects than one, an
NV clients feel themselves so ia
agprieved by the alleged action c
your honorable board, as to justify i
their belief the most vigorous an
effective measures they can adopt a
q means of preventing the presen
apparent purpose of the board bein
carried into effect. In this connec
ton, am instructed to suggest tina
two members of your honorable boar
are stockholders in the corporation q
appears Dy its exhibit on file in tn
interior Officer to which the contrac
has been awarded in the face of ,
lower tender, and that the presiden
of YOUR honorable board is closely re
lated to one of the two principal stock
holders in the corporation mentioned
1t NAV be, gentlemen, that there i:
no legal restriction upon the action o
YOUR honorable board in the premises
and that you are at liberty to disre
GARD the merits of the respective ten
ders. and to award contracts at you
discretion, without regard to the eX
istence of circumstances of the pecu
liar character above reclted. But
Nessrs. HOLSTER * Co. are prepared
to test in the courts, if such course
shall seem necessary, the right of YOU
honorable board to follow the course
above indicated, and propose TO 50
test it. in case no arrangement salts
factory to them can be reached in the
premises.
L therefore respectfully request, gen
tlemen, that you will take such action
herein as will secure to Messrs- Hollis
ter & Co. the contract to which theil
bid Justly entities them, in case there
shall be any contract awarded in the
premises.
In view of your secretary's assur-
vance to me (by telephone) that your
Memorable board, as such, has as yet
iaken no action upon the said tenders
except to refer them for action to a
Committee of non-meubers of the
Ioard and though this position re-
tntes the position talso taken by your
seeresaryj that one tender has been
Elected and another accepted, and the