The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-20

street to Washington having expired,
the clerk was instructed to advertise
for bids for building the sewer at a
stated price per linear foot.
Bid for the construction of the pro-
posed new fire station at Mercury and
Arizona streets were pm the clerks
table. Knowlton thought IL was too
late now to start on the building n
moved that the bids be not opened. but
that the matter be deferred till spring.
Bowman thought the building should
GO ahead. and IL was decided to open
h bids. which were as follows:
Lawrence Burke, SIG, 500; NJ. ID. Nc
Sherry. s1s.475: additional iron work.
s1.6s9 extra; c. G. Goddard, ST. 1855:
John Strunks. sl4. 800. not including cut
stone and box Orders; Charles Landon,
S14.975.
Rowan moved to award the contract
TO Landon as the lowest bidder. The
mayor called attention to the fact that
the appropriation already made was
only $4,000. or nearly $1,000 less than
the lowest bid. Medin moved an
amendment To reject all bids inc read
vertise for bids to come within the ap-
preparation. sL
Mayor Harrington said he thought
the plans contemplated too much fancy
work. which. If left out, the building
could be built at considerably less ex-
pense.
Melcher said IL the building had been
erected as IL should have been in the
early part of the eason it could have
been built far cheaper than now. as the
days were so short and men could not
put i'm a full days work. The cost OF
materials had also gone up of late.
Noyes said the expense of building
had gone up about 25 per cent. yet the
lowest bid was 80 per cent in excess
of the proposed cost. and he therefore
seconded Medin's motion.
Architect White. who drew the plans.
was present and asked to give his
views. He said the expense Of build
ing had gone up. and besides the COM
mittee under whose direction he had
drawn the plans had desired to have in
Guided several items he had not figured
on when he drew his original estimate.
He took issue with Mayor H~arrington's
view that there was any unnecessary
o"rnamentation contemplated in his
plans. and strongly urged putting up
the building according to the plans. A
vote was taken on Medin's motion.
which was defeated. Mayor Harring-
ton. who had spoken several times
against the building to cost more than
$40. 600. ruled at this time that before
Alderman Rowan's original motion to
let the contract to Landon would be
the order, the former action OF the
council in deciding the building should
cost $1,000 would have to be
cred. Bowman moved to reconsider
and the mayor looked up the rules and
found three-fourths of the council u
be present and voti~- before the mo-
ton could be entertained, and then un-
der suspension of the rule which pro-
vides that any reconsideration must be
had not later than the next subsequent
one to the one on which the action TO De
reconsidered is taken. A count OF those
present revealed nat n less than the
necessary t~wo-thirds were in their seats
and the mayors opposition TO the in
creased expenditure triumphed at least
for the time being.
Bowman thought h matter shouid
conn to a les at an early date ana
moved that when the council adjourn.
II he to Friday evening, which carried
and the council adjourned.