The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-24
STATE ,INSANEI HOSPITAL BOARD
OPENS Kids FOR SIT. PETER
ADDITIONS.
THE CONTRACT. WAS AWARDED.
r.. M'MH4LAN &g CO., THE LOWEST
BIDDERS. wIfd. DO THE
,s,-~l WORK.
ROCHESTER'S rLIGHTING PLANT.
Bids Also Received for This I'm.
prOvement, ubut Held to BE
Classified.

The state insane hospital board met
at the Ryan hotel yesterday afternoon
10 receive bids for two new wings to
De added to the asylum at st. Peter,
each wing being 40 by 60 feet in size
and three stories high. These new
wings are to be used for dining rooms.
The contract was awarded to r. Nc
MILAN & Co., their bid being the low
est. Following were the bids received
for the construction of the two wings.
~ McNlillan d Co Observation-Disclosures w, zOO
uletzeh ........ ....'........''' % 90 ' oSo
n a. Leck & Co ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 22,60
M i1oise ;'........ ................. 20 aoo
mos Kenneday DOM. ............... %, 240
For many years there has been need
or a eommodious dining room at the
st. Peter hospital The erection of this
ADDITION will 90 away with the ward
dining rooms. twill enable the asy
lum authorities to assemble all the in
mates in two large dining rooms and
thus do away with a great deal of un-
necessary work 1t is thought with the
room vacated by the fifty inmates
transferred to the Fergus Falls asylum
and the two new wings, adequate &C
commodations will be round for those
remaining at the hospital. 1t will at
least relieve the crowded condition Of
that institution -..
The last legislature also made an ap-
preparation for the construction of an
Independent electric lighting plant for
the Rochester asylum. The board re-
ceived dozen bids for work of this
plant, there being a number of compel
frnr t-iI Of thn Txxyiyo
Owing to the many items included in
each bid and these being very techni-
cal, the board took no action, but laid
them over until their next meeting,
which will be held in week or ten
days. This will enable the secretary
to classify all the bids and get them
in shape to be presented at the next
meeting. The construction of the wings
for the st. Peter hospital will be push
ed, as the board realizes the necessity
of doing something to relieve the
crowded condition. The contract for
the electric plant at the Rochester in
stitution, will be let at the meeting of
the board
The bids received were as follows:
For complete electric plant
General Electric company, of Chicago. .$23, 81
j. Holt Gates & Co.. Chicago. ........... %, 152
Westinghouse Electric company. % $50
For wiring building complete
Western Electric company ........... 81, $50
Thomas Kennedy 80. ................. $3.50
J. Holt Gates & Co Observation-Disclosures. r. $50
National Electric company .sg........... II, 035
The average bids of the several COM
panies bidding on simple and COM
pound engines and generators for the
new power station are. as follows.
Several firms submitted several bids
each:
Electrical Engineering company. sc, 975
Fort Wayne Electric company .......... 5000
Crocker. d wheeler OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. g. 365
Western Electric company, six bids, low
COZ $50
De 11olC GdteS az 20 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5,652
There was a full meeting of the
board and the members expressed
themselves as satisfied with the bids.
Most Of them left on evening. trains
for their homes G. l.. Wells and Supt.
T. H. Titus, accompanied ]. w Mason
to Fergus Falls to look over the hos
pital there.