The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-14
AN OPINION ON BIDS.
REPLY TO VEST fridays SCRIBE
THEREON.
As to the Lowest Bidder-who Would
Employ Island Labor-The A. UP.
Not Committed.

EDITOR STAR:-In answer to a letter
published in your correspondence col
umn, and signed Community Interest, "
would like to state few facts which
think the writer OF said letter does not
understand, or probably does not want
to, but, however, | will enl ghten him on
the subject he is Offering his suggestions
on. He says in the first place, to quote
his words, at is understood that this
establishment referring to the Honolulu
Iron Works. is lowest on the tenders for
the pumping plant.
Now, the Honolulu Iron Works have
in tao bids for the pumping plant
erected, No. /, being $4,000; No.
being $2S,2J0, and in looking through
the various bids for the whole plant
erected we find four bids from W. T..
CARAT & Co. of San Francisco and
Honolulu, No. | being $lS,90l, No. 2
being $90,044, No. 3 being $50 $40, No 4
being $l8,Sll, Any one with the slight
est Knowledge Of arithmetic can see at "a
glance that instead of the Honolulu Iron
Works being the lowest they are APP
parenty speaking about $4,000, or 90
per cent above the lowest bidder.
/ would therefore beg to suggest that
should Community Interest feel like
digging down in his own pocket and
paving the difference in the above
prices to the Honolulu Iron Works,
that the Government should at once
award the pumping plant to them and
no DOUBT he will be forever blessed and
remem oered by the tax payers of the
town of Honolulu, and | have no doubt
that I. II. Davies & Co., would have a
brass plate engraved suitably and placed
in prominent position in the engine
room for his benefit and as regards the
contract tor piping Community Inter
est will find upon figuring out the bids
that the Honolulu Iron Works are ten per
cent above the lowest bidder. He goes
on TO say that should the Honolulu Iron
Works get the contract the force will be
increased and there will be full time for
all for months. again | will give him a
little information, Free"
Should this firm get the contract the
pumping plant would be bought ready
built in "A foreign country with the eX-
ceptiOn of the boiler aud smokestack,
which represents about one-eigh;h of
the whole bid, and the labor employed
from these Islands would be no more
than if the firm of W. +. C. & Co. got
it a. | am assured from reliable
source that they would employ all Isl
and labor aud mechanics in erecting
the plant here, and no doubt purchase
more material in the way of cement,
bricks, etc, than the IL |. w., rs We
know that they never have favored
Honolulu in making their purchases
for any contracts heretofore executed.
Now | have no desire to hurt the
feelings of Community Interest" but
1t certainly looks 10 me, as it does to
most of our prominent citizens who
have expressed their opinions on his
letter, that community" must mean
not the taxpayers of Honolulu, but a
few of the followers of T. IL
Davies & Company, or some OF
the sore head community who old not
get some fat political job and are trying tc
scare the heads OF Government into
awarding the contract to the Honolulu
Iron Works under threat of the Ameri
can Union Party; but hardly think h'
is fair representative of that body.
TAXPAYERS INTEREST,