The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-01
LOOKS LIKE A COAL COMBINE
PRICES ARE SUBMITTED, BUT THE
BOARD OF CONTROL RE
JECTS BIDS
Secretary HeaIey Says Prices Are
One-Third Higher Than They
Were Year AgO-COmmittee
VIII Award Contracts Today.


Mayor Kiefer, City Treasurer Horst
and President Dix, Of the assembly, con-
stituting the purchasing committee for
fuel and supplies for the public schools,
met at the mayors office yesterday af-
ternoon and opened bids FOR fuel and
supplies, ranging from pins to school
desks. The fuel bids made it apparent
to the committee that the coal dealers
had been looking in each others hands,
as the figures submitted were practically
the same The advertisement asked for
bids for furnishing 5000 tons of Youghio-
gheny LOCO tons of Reynoldsville, 1000
tons of Pocahontas, 1000 tons Of New
River, 400 tons each of CRATE, egg, stove
and nut, 100 cords each of pine slabs and
edglngs, and % cords of maple wood.
Bids were received from the Youghio-
gheny & Lehigh Co., Ohio Coal Co.,
Pioneer Fuel Co., Adams Coal Co.. North
western Ice and Fuel Co, Northwestern
Fuel Co, and Philadelphia & Reading
Coal Co. The bid of the Youghiogheny
& I.ehigh Co. was the first opened, and
the figures We're as follows: Youghio-
ghcny, 81; Reynoldsville, 1855; Pocahon-
tas screened, $3.50; run of mine, 1855;
crate, $7.25; stove, egg and nut, $3.50; pine
slabs, $50 per cord; edgings, So; maple
wood, Sc. The other bids were the same
with the exception of the Northwestern
Ice &c Fuel Co., which cut a trifie on the
wood offering to furnish slabs for $3.50,
edgirgs for $2.75 and maple wood at $50
per cord.
The fuel bids, as welr as those Cor sup
plies, were referred to Secretary Hea]ey
of the school board, to tabulate, and the
committee will meet this afternoon at
o'clock to award the contracts.
The prices for fuel are just one-third
higher under these bids. than year ago"
said Secretary Healey, 'cand it means an
additional $4,000 to, the amount the board
had figured on for fuel. Last Year we
got Youghiogheny for $685. Pocahontas
for $50, and hard coal for IS. 80. With
the council chopping the life out Of the
budget and the coal dealers boosting up
the prices for fuel, it does not look like
pleasant sailing for the board
ALL BIDS REJECTED.
The board of control opened bids for
furnishing the aims house, city hospital
and the city poor with coal and wood yes
terday. Owing to what the board con-
sidered combination among the fuel
dealers, all fuel bids were rejected and
the clerk directed to readvertise for bids
There were seven bidders for furnishing
fuel, but as A. N. Davern failed to en-
close certified check, his bid was re-
jected. The other bidders were the Pi-
Oneer Fuel Co., Northwestern Fuel Co,
Youghiogheny & Lei}gh Co., Ohio Coal
Co, Adams Coal Co, and William Sails
bury
The bids of the six were the same
Youghiogheny delivered at the hospital
81, at the aims house $3.50; egg, stove and
nut, $50; maple wood delivered at the
aims house, s.. 80; pine slabs, 81 %; maple
wood for outside aid, $3.50, and pine slabs
for outside aid, $685. The board uses
about 500 tons of soft coal and 100 tons
of hard coal. The prices paid last year
were $2.7O for soft coal at the aims house,
1896 at the hospital, and 1915 for hard
coal at the hospital.
The contract for furnishing the city hos
pital with bread, about 1900 pounds per
month, was awarded to Horejs Bros at
212 cents per pound. The Arlington ba-
kerry bid was 2a4 cents per pound The
bids for furnishing the city hospital with
meat were four in number, Eisenminger
| q Co. being awarded the contract at
$20110 per month.