The herald., 1897-10-12
AS TO FIRE HOSE
Why the Supply Committee Rejected
All the Bids

The supply committee reported as fol-
lows with reference to the matter of pro-
posals to furnish fire hose for use by the
| fire department.
Your committee, not being conversant
with the various brands of hose and the
desrability of same for use in the fire
department, referred the bids to the fire
commission, asking for such suggestiov,s
as they cared, to make regarding the ac-
ceptance of bids. In reply to this re-
quest we have the following communi-
| cation:
"At meeting of the board Of fire com
missioners, October 2, 1897, it was rec
commended to your committee in the
matter of proposals for supplying the
department with hose that awards be
made as follows: Harper, Reynolds &
Co.. 1000 feet Victor jacket at so cents
per foot; w. C. Furrey Co., 1000 feet
Glenwood arad 1000 feet Dragon at so
cents per foot; California Hardware
Co., 1000 feet Mastiff at so cents; Cass-
Smurr Stove Co., 100 feet Bay State at so
cents"
Under ordinary circumstances it would
have been the pleasure of your commit
tee to have recommended the adoption,
in without any suggestions on our part,
but our affection having been. called to
the fact that the state law now requires
that all bids for supplies shall contain
| the provision that products of home
manufacture will be given the prefer
er.ce in awarding contracts, price and
quality being equal, and the advertise
ment calling for the bids in questot1 anG
having contained this provision, we
deem the irregularity vital enough to
, demand that bids be again advertised
| for, and that the provisions of the law
be fully carried out. We therefore rec
ommend that said proposals be rejected
and that the city clerk be instructed to
| readvertise for bids for five thousand
| feet Of fire hose, Incorporating statutory
provisions above mentioned. The report
was adopted.
| The report of the finance committee
as to the matter referred to it at the
last meeting of the council was approved
by sections. The report Of the sewer
committee was adopted.
| MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS
The city attorney, in accordance with
instructions of the council, submitted
an ordinance Of intention for the widen
ing of Sixteenth street between Hoover
street and a point 146 feet west of Bush
street. The ordinance was adopted
Similar action was taken with reference
to an ordinance of intention for the
Strengthening and widening of Stanley
avenue from the intersection of San
Pedro and Jefferson streets to the west
ern boundary of the city
| Nv, Nn1f o;t,
be instructed to establish the grade of
Twentieth street from Union to Bush
which motion was adopted Mr.. Grider
offered similar motion with regard to
McGarry street from Ninth to Four
teenth. which potion was also adopted
Alexander Gum was granted an ex-
tension of thirty days in which to COM
plete the work now in progre ss
on Bauchet street, the delay having
been caused by the impossibility of Sc
curing iron pipe needed to complete the
work.
CHAIN GANG CHAINED
Councilman Nickel started a small
storm by moving that the chief of po-
lice be ordered to have the chain gang
put to work on the Downey-avenue hill,
to make excavations and grade that
street. the material taken out to be used
in strengthening the sides Of reservoir
No. 5. In support of the motion Mr..
Nickel stated that the whereabouts of
the chain gang was sometimes a mys-
terry to the council, as they were at times
taken to some remote part Of one of the
wards at the request OF Individual coun-
cilmen, and that their work, while good
enough of its kind, was not always for
the benefit of the whole city, but of only
certain portions of 1t. What l want"
said he, "is to chain this chain gang