Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-17
Bids Opened by School Trustees
Last Night.
THE CONTRACT NOT AWARDED
The Bonrd VIII Let This at Its Nicotine
Friday Night. Bids Received from
Messrs. Lash, Buxton, Cox and Nor
gan, All Local Furniture Firms.

The committee on supplies of the
Hoard OF School Trustees met in the
First National Bank Building last
night for the purpose of opening bids
buildings.
president Cooper and Mr.. J. J. o.
Donnelll. of the committee, opened the
bids.
Others present were Superintendent
Of Schools L. T. Powell Professor Fl.
~. Epes. Principal Of the Hight
school; Prof. Jeffcrss principal of tha
East END school: Messrs. NJ. II. Lash
J. A. Buxton Theodore Cox, and III.
"a. Morgan. representing local furni-
ture houses
The committee announced that be-
fore considering the bids, !, would herr.
the dealers statements as to the
merits OF their respective desks. Each
OF the dealers explained his desk to
the committee and it is needless to say.
cach thought his desk the best for the
money. TWO of the bidders submitted
estimates for two grades Of desks.
The committee did not award the
contract for furnishing the desks. b,1t
Immediately after opening the bids it
went INTO executive session and decd-
ed upon a recommendation to be made
70 the school board Friday night That
body will award the contract AL Of
the bids submitted We're for oak desks.
Following are the bids received by
the committee:
Chicago House Furnishing Company.
Theodore Cox. Manager Forty No L
Eclipse desks. set up ana screwed
down, s2.o5 each: forty No 2, $3.50
forty No. 8. S2.s5: forty No. 4. s3;555
forty No. ,, $50: sixty-tive No. 2.
s2.s5. Forty No. 1 Harvard desks, 1885, !:
forty No. >. 500; forty No. 3, s2.s5S
slx5y-tive No; 3, s2.S5. For Proiesso..
Jeftress school-forty No. 3 Eclipse
desks. $3.50: ten No >, $3.50. Forty 10
:; Harvard desks. $3.50 ;ten No. ., so.555.
e1tty-three chair seats and castings
Tor rear. $1.3O each. One 5-foot rplle:.
cane seat and back and arms. s4.5c:
eleven teachers desks. oak, $3.50 each;
eleven bent wood chairs. cane seats.
each Sl.09.
NJ. ~. Lash-Forty No. Columbia
Standard desks. 1915 each; one hund :
red and forty-five No. 8, sis: ninetv
No. 2, $500; forty No. !, $500 Fifty
three rear seats. $3.50 each Eleven
teachers desks. $3.50 each; eleven
teachers chairs s1.1s ell; office roil
top desk. $780, Office revolving chair,
IS; three arm chairs. sl.G62-3 For
and rear seats, 10 cents each. Mr..
Lash offered a cheaper desk of maple
instead Of oak at the following figures:
Nos. and 4, s1.so each; Nos Il and 2.
S-.Uu: rear seats, SI.io each. for SET
ting up and screwing down, 10 cents
each.
NJ. H. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ivy
Brothers Grand Rapid desk-Nos. l
and , desks. s1S5 each. set up aud
screwed down: Nos. 3 and T. s2..5 each,
set up and screwed down; ffty-thrac
rear seats. s215- Eleven teachers,
desks. S5.15 each: eleven teachers
chairs. $l.35 each: a five-foot roll-top
desk. quartered oak top, s2a; revolving
chair $4.io; three cane seat oak chairs,
Hainey desks. ss.15 each; one hundred
and forty-tive No. 3. $3.16; ninety No.
2, $3.25; forty No. 1. 1925; tifty-thlea
rear back seats. $3.50 each Setting up
and screwing down. 10 cents each
Eleven teachers desks, Sc each; eleven
teachers chairs, S1.09 Ill each: roller
top desk, $3.50: revolving office chai:.,
$3.50; three arm chairs $1.S3 Il, each .