The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-13
f,ntracss for Reftting Port Ste
phens Made Here.
TACOMA FAR ~ THE REAR.
nnrtesmasteP Reblns0n ODens BIDS
Ter the work On the TSansDsrt
Witch Ii % Carry Males oaa 1op-
piles 20 Manils-AAvantage h
Wifh This City Ia Extent Of Over
eo,e00-Taeeas Chains DfsDrovea.

eeattie has again iYiumphed In the
sward OF the contracts for re1tting gov
eminent transports employed In transport
ins animals and supplies from this coast
"a the Philippines. bids were opened yes
tsYaay b. Assistant QuartermAstee w. w.
Robinson. jr., for the refitsinx OF the
transport Port Stephens and the awards
vent TO Seattle firms. who we're the lowest
kdders for sais important work.
AGAINST the Seattle firms were pittsd
those OF Tacoma. which city has lately
. made repeated demands on the quarter
usnsterss department. for prefermeat. The
work To be done by the government en- the
tfsnsport Pof, Stephens u similar 10 THAI
psfformed on the Victoria. Port Albert.
Asbentan and GAT0nns on which free and
cpen competition vas invited by tae quar-
isfinaGer, and the result Of which COM
petition was the placing of the largest
hare Of the contracts with Seattle firms.
The advantages possessed by this city
a. compared with Others ard especially
Tacoma, arr well stated IN ,he abstract Of
the bids furnished Quartermaster Robinson
Tor the work on the Port Stephens Bids
were invited for supplying the transport
with yentilating apparatus aud for erect
Manila. and the placing of condensers
aboard The bids received were as follows:
Moran Bros Company. OF Seattle. for all
work save ventilatfng plant 81. ~
i
wax including ventiiAsing plant iss.4 AZ.
Puget Sound Dry Dock Company. OF Ia
emma, for all work save ventllatfng plant
H1Mo: for ventiiating plant 1880; total
Union Electric Company. OF Seattle. fur
nishlng vertiiating plant. SO 800.
The award was made last night by Capt.
Rohinson to the Moran Bros. Company and
the Union Electric Company, of Seattle.
bcth OF which performed the major part
u the work on the four transports which
lefs this port hast August for the Philip
Pinss. carrying the men and horses Of the
Il win BE- Immediately seen tina. the
combined bid Of Moran Bros Company
and the Union Electric Company amounts
70 0s.1s - compared with the bid of the
Company. which was as so. This IL a
Inference IN favor OF Seattle Of over 1900
Morsover, the Tacoma arm asked to be al
nwed thirty days n which to completes
the work. whereas the Seattle firms will
compaete tho contract IN han that time.
When u r. considered that the daily ex-
gsnse Of the government for charsering
sna Transports averages about s7n per day,
lAe advantage Of Seattle AZ compared with
Iecoma - an outfltttng port and point of
@arkation for the Philippines may be
Ia the Offices at the euartermastsr esn-
sral at Washington ,hefv are . series o.
erninunicAtfons, letters ana kilograms, al
~ ey the merchants association Of Ia
coma, protesting against the department
giving any work to Seattle and claiming
nat that city could do the work cheaper
90 better than II could be obtained in
cptfIe.
The qna'rserra ster's department has
@und the reverse To be the cas- The
Mewing made In the above abstract OF
Md4 tor the work on the Port STEPHENS
confirms al the representations that have
hten made regarding Seattle's advantages
and thoroughly disproves the claims ad-
vsnced In behalf OF Tacoma