Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-21
couRrmousE rrRNIrInE.
Commissioner nnrdon states Facts
OF Interest to All.

"a u" I d.
''e H1ls'I Oh the bA@ette ana CID
Aehs OF Idrrant County:
In Yesterdays NInl-TeIc-r1r nm
uasrs an at-t.i.. si,r,...t t.,. -
-. - ~ 'N''7'
o1' 'e'-is eHlAHAHAs from MT y L.
Lowe, cri.ic!slng the commissioners
court FOR their u.fh,l OF rr,,,t,,r.
VA PROCEDURE
go '1'''"s 'Ns tOo'' mousse furniture
contract. Also appeared In this morn
iug's Gazette "a resolution u1ssoJ nv
the ppurtJfs. -,,..tI,,.. i..,....,,...- -.
''''7 us''''"ulHs 'nat
we SHoutI employ an architect and ad-
Nertise for bids. Now / think the peo-
plc's party folks TINT r.gsset those rs,
,I,,tt..,. 80. -.
~'S JUN HoHest ana sincere
hut passed the resolution without Civ
ing the matter SUFFICIENT thought For
"Hen they attempt to critcise the
court they must assume that the court
is either dishonest or incompetent
plhef wise We would have to think
mat ihey we're 1Ctua.ed by some sell
llsA motives, Whtrh i have no Idea to
De lue case NOW the court We're
unanimous in their opinion that sollcl-
ing designs with bids was the proper
method OF procedure. Hut [ viii say
IlEht mere mat some people say the
lNpullst members Of the court are 10
be held responsible for 1T: that Il any
Ihlng has been done wrong l am more
10 blame for 10 than any OF the other
commissioners FOR as near as / can re-
luruher u was myself that suggested
this way Of procedure. Besides | am
lh" only member ut the court that has
mao experience IN such matters.
My roasuus for suggesting this
method We're;
]. That 1t is the usual way OF letting
furniture contracts according 10 my
observation. and as was stated by the
Oldest and most experienced man that
mas appeared before our court ID Is the
method that ~ pursued nlnety-nine
eases out of every hundred. This
statement went uucuntrudicfed by any
OF The bidders that were present.
y. Ey this method We save an arrhi-
tcCts fee, which would prubtI,Iy
amount to $500.
.. We think we would get more COM
petition and better designs. For in.
stance there are now four hOusps rem
resented here, each one Of which viii,
present three sets OF designs and bids
one u low bid ON "a CHEAP class OF fur
niture, "a medium class hid and de-
Sign and also q higher bid and t-lrber
design. making ia an Twelve acts ~
designs and twelve seuaIsta blds for
US tu select from. And ID Us universallv
acknowledged that amy factory can
work cheaper from It's own design,
using Its own forms and 1noulda tbnr
they can work from the design of
others. whereby they wOuId have "a
make new forms ana moulds. There.
fore we could get lower bid this yynv
than We could though an arehitect II
IS also REASONABLE 10 suppose we cottId
get better design ont OF twelve de-
signs than we would from one
more especially when we consider Inc
fact that the furniture designers ars
specialists In their line and a snecIal.
ISL always eXcels a general man In anv
profession. or course an architect can
do this work just the snne az a farmer
can do gardening. but guppose Tarrnnt
county had a botanical garden wonId
It be proper for the oommlssIoners'
court to employ q farmer or n gardiner
to superintend Il? II is true by en-
plOying an architect we would gel more
accurate competition, but when Won
say this you have said about ali that
can be said for this method, Now as
TO Mr.. Lowe, the bidders tell me that
he went to them yesterday. TELLING
that he had Influence which no would
use for them and retire from the field
under certain conditions aud nisn