The Washington times., 1895-06-11
Waiting FOR CONTRACTS
Those Who Made Proposals
knxiOusIy Await Results.
ABOUT 100000. INVOLVED
Bids Were Made for Furnishing Gen.
eral Supplies About Fifty Inter-
ested in the Report-Drinking Foun-
tain Offered by Humane Society.
Building Permits.


There is considerable anxiety manifested
among the aspirants for contracts to know
the result of the tabulation recently made
by Mr.. Daniel Curry and others, of the
Commissioners force of the bids recently
submitted for furnishing the District with
supplies for the ling year. F. o.
Beckett, property clerk, to whom the re-
port made by the committee was sub
mitted, has just made his return to the
Commissioners, and they Will to-day for
ward it, with their recommendation, to
the Treasury Department for further con-
sideration.
Under an act OF Congress q committee
OF the Treasury DEPARTMENT, of which
Assistant Secretary Curtis is chairman,
has TO pass upon the schedule before it is
finally adopted, and upon its return to
the District authorities the names of the
successful bidders will be announced.
The amounts involved in the purchase of
the various supplies will aggregate an
nually about 100000 There were about
fifty bidders represented in the list Of
aspirants for next years contracts, some
of them bidding in half a dozen classes
EACH
Property Clerk Beckett's report is vol
luminous and bulky. II embraces the names
of the bidders, the articles to be supplied
and the amount represented in each pro-
posal. The several classes of the articles
to be furnished embrace stationery, school
books, blank forms ard printing, furniture
hardware, tinware, plumbers materials,
groceries, boots and shoes, drugs, forage,
paints and glass, lumber, meat, miscellane-
Gus castings, fuel, dry goods, ice, electrical
supplies and saddlery, with incidentals
that may be classed as miscellaneous.
1t Will probably be ten days before the
awards aremade.
/ PARTNERSHIP DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
The Commissioners yesterday notified
President Pratt, of the Washington HUI
name Society, that they have ordered the
erection OF a drinking fountain at the
northwest corner of Massachusetts ave-
nue. and North Capitol streets The To-
cation of the fountain was made in response
| to the suggestion of the society, and upon
its offer To furnish a fountain free OF cost,
the District TO pay all expense of erecting
| the same.
made the lowest bid yesterday for the con-
tract for hauling pipe, its figures being
| SO cents per long ton inside of the city
! limits, and sc cents outside. The other
| bidders were the George W Knox Express
! Company at 6S and IS cents per ton, re-
! spectively, and +. Springman, SO and SO
| centsperton.
| Poundmaster Einstein reported for the
week ending Saturday, as follows: Col
! lections-One horse, one cow, eighty-four
dogs Disposed of-Redeemed, three dogs;
| horse and COW sold; dogs killed. seventy-five
Remaining in pound-Thirty-fou dogs
Receipts-For food, 81 80; fees, Sc; sales,
| ST; total, S14.50.
The contract for sweeping, cleaning and
sprinkling the paved alleyways in the city
limits, from July /, 1896, to June 80,
1896, was awarded to Albert Doggett
The bids for cleaning Penns ylvania avenue
by hands Were rejected.
MoRTUARY REPORT.
Record Of deaths reported TO the Health
! Officer for the forty-eight hours ending at
l O'Clock p m. yesterday:
White.-Henry c. T Semken, aged sixty
nine years; Catharine Waters, aged sixty
one; Thomas o'Neii, aged fifty Five; George
Nealy, aged twelve; William Lenahan, aged
nine months; Marshall E Davis, aged
six months.
Coiored.-Armistead Crump aged forty
nine; Harriet Hill, aged forty-five; Manda
] j y II,
aged twenty-eight; LaudOna Gilbert, aged
two years.
Building permits issued yesterday: ].
c. Walker, dwelling, No. GIG Nineteenth
street northwest, $500; s. E. Powell
dwelling, No. 500 Spruce street, LIE Droft
| Park, $1,000; Henry Hurst, addition
and repairs to dwelling at No. 1925 P
street northwest, $1,000; N. w Cheshire
| brick addition to dwelling No II Eleventh
street southeast, $3.50; William Cook
frame dwelling, near Hamilton road, Gar
field, $500
Permission was given yesterday for the
establishment of a carriage stand, to be
occupied by not more than three vehicles
at the junction Of Eighth and East Capt.
tol street
The inspector of marine products made
report for the past week, as follows: Her.
ring, $4,000; shad, 3 1888; Spanish Mack
erel, 1,500: sturgeon, 80: sheephead fish
69; carp, Sc; sea turtles, s; clans 27O,-
600; crabs, 21,o00; fish, 11,911 bushels
Condemned: CLAIMS, $4,000; crabs, 42-
! 600; fish, 3.S1S bushels
Steam engineers license of the second
class was granted yesterday To W Saure,
and of third class TO j. S. Diehl aud Pat
rick Stanton, respectively.