The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-24
l. O. 0. F CONTRACT LET.
The Jungclaus Company Will Put Up
the Sky-ScraDer.


The contract for the construction of the
new ten-story Odd Fellows building. at
Washington and Pennsylvania streets. on
the site of the present building, mas been
awarded to the William p Jungclaus Com
pany, of this city. The contract was let
| last night by the building committee of the
l. o. o. F., after a half day spent in the
consideration of bids.
When the committee met yesterday after
noon to look over the different estimates
| submitted 1t was seen that the bidders con-
| tempiated structure much too costly for
the committee to undertake. 1t has been
| the understanding with the committee and
| the members of the order over the State
that the building could be completed at a
cost of not more than $250.000. After looking
| over the six bids the committee decided to
! call in the architects, Rush & Sons, and
have the plans so modified that the esti-s
mates might be materially reduced The
architects. took the plans and made minor
| changes in the specifications sufficient to re-
| duce the. cost from. $1,000 to $4,000. The
committee then invited the three lowest bid
ders to submit new estimates on the modified
plans These firms were w. p Jungclaus
| of this city Caldwell & Drake of Columbus,
| Ind, and II. p. Mccormick & Co.. of Column
| bus, o. All of the firms except John S.
| Schumacher & Co, of this city, included In,
their estimates the plumbing, electrical work
| and elevators. The bids were all based on
| three different sets of plans. Plan No. pro-
| vides that the three first stories be con-
| structed of granite, with the remaining sto-
| ries in brick and terra Gotta to correspond
Following were the bids as finally submit
| ted:
Plan No. John S. Schumacher & Co., OF
| this city. $2465g0; Caldwell & Drake, of Co
lumbus, Ind. $272.o0O George A Fuller &c
Co, Of Chicago, $2s4, S2s; William T. Jung
claus Company, of this city, $25S, SSS: p. H.
| Mccormick & Co., of Columbus, o.. $273. 75S:
the Moulton-Starrett Company. Of Cincin-
Plan No 2-Providing for red stone for
| first three stories, with red brick and terra
| Gotta for remainder: John s. Schumacher 6s
| Co., $22S, 266; Caldwell & Drake, $3.50, 900;
George A. Fuller & Co, $274,562; W. P. jung
& Co, s246, 900; the Monlton-starrett Com
pP Plan No S-Providing for Indiana stone
| terra Gotta: John $. Schumacher & Co.,
$226, 5SS; Caldwell & Drake, $249,O George
Company. $237, 1888: P. Il Mccormick, s24S.OI2:
the Moulton-Starrett Company, $26O'SOO.
| AS stated. the bid of John s. Schumacher
| & Co. did not include the elevators, electrical
| work and plumbing which brought their fig
ures much lower than the ether bids. While
| the committee was unanimous in awarding
| the contract to the Jungclaus Company, it
| was not decided last night which of the
three plans would be adopted. Some of the
members of the building committee favor
| the red stone as described in plan No. 2,
| and it is thought this style of building may
be adopted. In addition to the bids for the
| steam heating were submitted as follows
Electricity - Ten bids from the Sanborn
| Electric Company, of this city, ranging from
$7,976 to $1l,251; four bids from the Advance
Electric C, Company; Of this city, ranging ing
from $12,ls27O to $iS44s; eight bids from 1. the
cinnati ranging from S10OS364 to $12.1470S;
Indianapolis District Telegraph Company,
| $11, 49S.
Elevators - Crane Elevator Company, of
Chicago, three hydraulic cars, 900; steam
| cars, $500; electric cars, 50, $50. Smith Ele-
$1O.73s. Sulzer-Vogt Machine Company, OF
this city. $12,774; H. G.. Crane, Edgemoor
Clarke & Sons, of this city. $500 J. S.
| Farrell G. Co., of this city, Edgemoor boil.
ers, SIG. 500,c regular pattern. $4,000: The
L.aidlaw- Dunn-Gardner Company, OF Gin
| lumbus, o.. $12. AIS; Healy q O'Brien, OF this
Plumbing George w. Keyser. $11 es4: H.
| G. Crane, SIS, AIS; Clarke 4 Sons, $16.29O j.
| 8. Farrell 6. Co.. SIS, 520 Sanders q Esswein,
| $40 663; Healey & O'Brien, $4,000; Freaney
| Bros. $1,000.
The bid Of the Jungclaus Company hav-
| ing included elevators, heating and plumb
| ing, the building committee found 1t unnec-
essary to consider these special bids. The
| bid on the general structure provides for
the building complete Last night the con-
vas hddr e bond o5 Is for
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| $500 900, with the American Bonding and
| Trust Company. of Baltimore, as surety.
| But one thing now stands in the way or the
new building, and this is the suit of Center
| Lodge, of this city, to enjoin the building
committee from carrying out it's plans The
suit is set down for hearing in the Circuit
Court Jan. 8. w. Fl. Leedy, grand scere-
| tary of the Order of Odd Fellows, says that.
| with this suit out of the way the work or
| tearing down the old building will be com-
| menced in a few weeks Mr.. Leedy, as well
! as other members of the building commit
ic ha "
| against the compliments The committee
| hopes to have the new building complete
/ and ready for the November meeting Of the
| Grand Lodge.
| According to the present plans the new
| building will be 1856 feet high. The first
| floor Will be used for business purposes and
| the second to eighth floors, inclusive, Tor
| offices The ninth floor will contain two
| subordinate lodge rooms and the tenth the
| Grand Lodge room only. There will be six
| business rooms and seventy-seven offices in
| the building. The entrance to the building
will be on Pennsylvania street, the foyer be-
| ing sixteen feet wide. The structural work
| will be of iron and the building will be
| fireproof. Marble is to figure prominently
| in the finishing of Railways. Light from It's
| own machinery. water from its own wells
and heat from its own boilers will make the
| building wholly Independent The building
| committee is of the opinion the structure
| will be the handsomeSt in the State Fol-
| lowing are the members of the committees:
| George Shirts, of Noblesville; U. u. Wiley,
of Fowler; H. G. Thayer, OF Plymouth; I.
! II. Stevenson, of Greensburg; j. f. Wall
lick James A. Wildman. w. FL. Leedy and
| Benjamin Franklin, of this city.
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