Rock Island Argus., 1895-06-08
HEBUILDING BIDS.
Those Submitting Propositions
on the New Postoffice.
CONTRACTOR KING INTERVIEWED.

CONTKACTOk KING INTERVIEWED.
The Difference In the Price Between the
Oner and the Appropriation VIII Ad-
init Of Many General Improvements in
the Design-The Court House.
The complete list of contractors
bids on the Rock Island postoffice
building, that were opened at WASH
ington Yesterday and the lowest of
which was given in The ARGUS of last
evening, is appended:
o. j. King, Omaha, Neb., $S7 OFT:
material, Ashland, Wis, sandstone;
time, 200 working days. Charles w.
Gindele, Chicago, $39,950; material,
Ashland brown stone; time S25
working days. Northern Building
Company, st. Paul. Minn., s4O,95O;
material, Portage Entry red stone.
or Kerber Jacobs stone; time, 170
days. NJ. Yeager & Son. Danville.
Ill, $41, $50; material. Lake Superior
brown, or Portage Entry red stone;
time, 800 days. Charles W. Gindele,
Chicago, $I2, 400; material, Portage
Entry stone, time 325 working days.
Charles A. Moses, Chicago, $42, APO;
material, Excelsior, Ashland. Wis,
sandstone; time, nine months. l..
L. Leach & Son, Chicago, $40, ,994;
material. Wisconsin brown stone:
time, twelve months. Cuthbert &
Sargent, Topeka. Kan, $1,000; ma
terial. Portage Entry stone; no time
mentioned. c. j. w. Schreiner,
Rock Island. ILL.,, $49.5lO; material
Portage Entry, or Kerber Jacobs
stone; time, Is months. Anderson
Bros, St. Louis, $49.772; material,
Wisconsin brown sandstone. from
Ashland; time, IL months. Busse &
Gleason, Chicago, S46,775; material,
Portage Entry, Mich, stone; time.
seven months. Opfergelt & Turner,
Chicago, $40, $50; material. Wiscon-
sin brown stone; time, Is months. W.
NJ. Crilley, Chicago, S49,967; ma
terial. red rock, Portage Entry or
Lake Superior stone: time, Is
months Matthias Schnell, Rock ISL
and, $51, ,526; material, Portage
Entry or Kerber Jacobs stone; no
time mentioned. Sternberg & Dodd,
Wichita, Kan, s53,262: no stone
mentioned; time, Is months. Johns
ton w. Monteith, Rockford, ILL.,,
$50. .6SS; material. Portage Entry.
Mich, or Ashland, Wis, sandstone;
time, Is months,
The bids of G. J. Larkin for $i4,-
923 and Collins Bros. $i5,7OO, were
for some reason omitted from the
list officially furnished.
The Lowest Bidder.
Contractor King, who is the low
est bidder, and who is in the city pre-
pairing to submit proposition on the
Rock Island court house, was seen by
an ARGUS representative this morning
Mr.. King has been engaged in public
building work for years and he states
that the Rock Island bulldog has one
of the finest superstructures he has
ever seen. Furthermore" he con-
tinued. "two years ago that building
would have cost at least $45, 900, the
difference in conditions now existing,
being responsible for the low fig
ures." Asked if the plans would be
cost was so much below the estimate,
Mr.. King said: "Well, hardly. You
know the government always counts
on about $1,000 for contingency
fund, temporary works, etc.. and
there will be 5000 more in heating
apparatus; that will leave still about
$54 900, and the difference between
that and the lowest bid will be ex-
pended in what we call '.better-
ments"-such as the quality of the
woodwork, plate glass and possibly
the general material, substituting
stone for brick and terra Gotta. In
any respect Rock Island is to have a
very nice building fully up to the
standard and better than many re-
Gently erected. The new supervis-
ing architect has q reputation for
good buildings, and Rock Islands is
to be sample"
Mr.. King stated also that the
building could be built within a year
from the time the contract was let,
and that it would be about 40 DAYS
before that was done.
! Notwithstanding Mr.. Kings views
as to the expenditure of the $4,000
between the amount OF his bid and
the unexpended balance of the ap-
priation. there is strong prevailing
feeling today that an effort should
be made to have the entire plans al
tered and larger and better build
ing provided for, inasmuch as it is
demonstrated that the present one
can be built so cheaply and that
there is such a pronounced difference
in the cost.
THE COURT HOUSE.