The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-01-31
THE TRUSTEES
OF POOR.
They Hold Their Quarterly Meet
ing.
THE CONTRACTS AWARDED.

Wilmington City Electric Company TO Light
the AIn,sLouse Tor Tive Years.
The Trustees of the Poor met on Wed.
nesday afternoon, aud transacted the fol.
lowing business;
Messrs. Willets Salmons and Toman
spoke on the subject OF lighting the Aims.
house with electricity DR.. Springer want
ed the bonrd TO give him authority to sign
CONT act with Electric Light Company In
writing. Tho Electric Light Company
wanted the ,Almshou5e and Farnhurst to
GU rantee the Company that tnsir bill for
lighting these premises should reach $s5
each per month.
Mr. WilIetls moved that committee
including President Springer as q mem.
Der ex-ollicio be appointed to act jointly
vita the committee Il ON the State Hospit-
al be authorized to Sgn the contract with
the Electric Light Company for lighting
the Almshouse.
On motion of Mr.. wlllets tho commit.
tee on house and grounds was instructed
to draft contract to present TO the VIII.
minRton Electric Light Com pany prote ct.
ing thls Institute in case OF non perform.
ance of their contract In lighting the Alme-
house.
Messrs Willetts. Salmons, Springer and
Tobin returned and presented the fol-
lowing: Gentl5men; That when we do
appear to enter into contract between
the Trustees OF the Poor and tho Will
mington Electric Light Company, that
we do hereby bind your company to fur
nish US with light for three hundred and
sixty-hre days In the Year. aud through
your failure that the Wilmington Electric
Company will forfeit anu pay to the
Trustees OF the Poor the sum OF i've dol
lnre per day and In case of further failure
OF 10 days the contract shall be null and
void.
Messrs. Husbands. DR.. Enos and Mr..
Vllictts' terms as Trustees OF the Poor
expired on Wednesday. The Levy Court
Will appoint their successors before the
hexi meeting IN February. The board as
now composed consists of some fourteen
Dem ocratic members
Mr. Sulmuns, chairman on accounts read
tho following report which ended tho
year OF 1894 corresponding with the three
months OF last year;
OUTSIDE reltef-BraEdywhe hundred
S6i5S; Wilmington, SI,24060; Christi
ana hundred s3s5U; New Castle, $40 SIS;
NH creek, slU.25; White Clay Greek,
sl32 a.; lied Lion. Sl.90; ST. Georges,
Si4l 81; Pencader, S7l rs; Appointments.
sl55 81; Blackbird, SliiS9; total, S62 S12.-
So making net decrease during the year
with the corresponding year OF s3l9s with
ono less Inmate only In the institution.
The grocery bill was s29i less than during
the corresponding year which was owing
to the present uperientendent having a
store room lifted up with lock anu key
on 1t.
The corresponding three months last
year tho outside relief was: Branuywine
Hundred. SO; Wilmington, s2l23 Chris
LANA. s55; New Castle, SS2S Mil Greek.
$50; White CLAY Creek. Sl3S; Red Lion,
sl59; st. Georges, s27i; Pencader. st33.
Appoquinimink. $3.50; Blaosbird, sli2;
total, :i06S. Total the present three
months ending with January, 1875, 81.
i5l.CJ
lie following contracts were awardsdr
Gasoline-Domeslic Trade Company at
Il cents per gallon.
bread-John b. Taylor at 81 cents per
ID.
Tobucco-Jas. A. IIafklns. at 90 cents per
ID. Tor RonghlaHd keudy. There were Lwo
other bidders; Geo. Steinicken, ~ cents
per ID, aud Bn,z and Sharpley "a cents
per To-, who offered to furntsh the tobacco,
'}eef-Ihere were three bidders: Fred.
Kienle, Wells & Bro. aud Mathew }. Gala.
CHER. Wells X Bros bid was S4.37 per
hundred weight for both fore and hind
quarters; Fred. kienle, 40 per hundred for
same. and Mir. j. Gallagher, $3.50 for both
hind and fore. On motion OF Mr.. Lawson
ths contract was awarded to MIR. J. Gala.
Cher,
Alutton-J. A. HarkIns. 81 per hundred;
PatIl3k Monahun ~ per hundred. The
contract was awarded to L. Mona.
CHAN.
Dry goods-W u. Sharp 81 Co, and w.
Huber were the only bidders. Sharp was
ona hundred per cent lower than Huber,
who received the contract.
ohoos-D. McCusKer was awarded the
contract.
Groceries G Gray.
Drugs-J. Harvey Sprua Collecting
then adjourned.