Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-26
WHEELING REGISTER WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1896

on July 14th, 1894, he settled with c.
w. RiXey again and paid aim 1or
32939 rs bushels coal at 75c per 100
bushels, amounting to $247.04. lnclud-
ing in said settlement, the aforesaid
1875 bushels coal already paid for
/ making an Overpay to the said Rixey
of $4,000 and $107S2. Total. $157S2.
And in Sept. 1st, 1894, settlement, ne
overpaid him $40G making the total
amount Overpaid c. W. RiXey $161.S2.
We also find that the secretary, w
H. Fee, has collected from 9. w. Rixey
for coke, 1913 twice, and has turned
it over to the city but once.
As we understand the contract with
Geo. w. Harvey & Co., for the new
process, they were to put everything in
| complete running order, the city 10
pay for nothing until everything is
complete and satisfactory. We find in
the order book of the Gas Trustees
an order to draw a check to pay c. p.
Hamilton & Co. S1705S Said check,
! (Which you will find with this report,
| also bill for same approved by the
Board) was drawn for the above
amount, payable to Cash and not to
c. p Hamilton & Co.. for S17O.5S and
endorsed by J. A Holiday & Son. The
money was paid to the said J. A. Holli-
day 6, Son by the secretary, w. Il.
! Fee. and the check deposited to cover
the cash paid out Of the drawer. We
! call your attention to this for the rea-
son the city did not order the work
done and should not have paid the
bill and, therefore, the Gas Trustees
have erred in their duties and should
! be made cover that amount back in the
City Treasury.
LOW BIDS REJECTED.
We would call your attention 10 the
way the contract was given out. and
as Mr.. Dunlevey has been in the board
! for the past six years, we take It. for
granted they have been following the
! precedent established by them. On
Feb. 7th, 1898, Henry FlOersheims bid
to furnish coal for the electric light
plant was $1.14 per ton of 1900 lbs,
actual railroad weights as weighed on
B. & O. railway scales at Finlayville,
| Pa. Floersheim's own words were
that he had the man at the scales
fixed to weigh to suit him That was
TO cover something else, but it suits
here The bid of the Elm Grove Coal
Co. to furnish coal for Electric Light
Plant was $11212 per ton of 1000 lbs,
delivered in your coal house at plant.
The cost of hauling was 1884 per ton,
which makes the Elm Grove Coal Co. S
bid Just 20Hc less per ton than Henry
Floersheim's bid. But still the Board
of Gas Trustees awards the contract
for furnishing coal for the Electric
Light Plant for that year 10 Henry
/ Floersheim, che being the lowest bid
der"
After this contract was awarded 10
Henry Floersheim, we have a letter
from the Glendale Coal Co. saying they
would furnish run of mine coal Tor
Soc per ton.
The minutes of the Board Of Gas
Trustees of Sept. 18th, 1895, shows that
the contract was awarded TO Henry
Floersheim. "he being the lowest bid
der as per former precedents, only
worse. His bid was taken out and the
secretary, w II. Fee, and Henry Floor
! sheim went into the Office of John \.
Howard the prosecuting attorney for
this county. and there dictated prop
cSition to Miss Kate Howard, when
she reproduced on the typewriter on
one of Henry FlOeTsheim' letter heads.
The bid we found in the Gas Office and
that bid he was given the contract on
as the lowest bidder The gas works
uses clean lump coal. Here are the
bids. You can see how the said Henry
| Floersheim is the lowest bidder:
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