Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-19
OPENING OF BIDS.
Commissioners Receive Proposals II
Construction and Supplies.

commissioners Receive Proposals for
Construction and Supplies.
The following proposals were opened at
the District building today:
For construction Of two gatehouses at
the Brghtwood reservoir-D. F. Mockabee,
S25915; ]. F. Manning & Co., s1s93S.
For underground cables for police and
fire telegraph and telephone service-J. H.
Mason, Boston, Mass. item 6, Sc cents; Z,
q 1-3 cents; s, II $40 cents; o, IL 10 cents
Safety Insulating Wire and Cable Com
pany. New York, item 6. 371a cents: I. 271s
cents: 8. 1864 cents; 8. 121a cents. Okenote
Lighting Company. New York, item 6, 81
cents; Z. ~ cents; 8. u cents: o. 20 cents
National Conduit and Gable Company of
New York. item !. 23l2 cents; 2, 2oi2 cents:
3. 1874 cents; i. 1324 cents: ;, 1872 cents;
10. 10 cents; II. S6 cents; T. 531a cents
Hazard Manufacturing Company, New
York. item Il. AZ cents: I, 81 cents: s. 1912
cents; 8. 12a. cents. Chesapeake and Poto-
mac Telephone Company. item l, 22.57
cents: 2. 2025 cents: ). 1928 cents: 4, 25.s
cents; 5. 21.9 cents; 6. 1868 cents: I, 27.7
cents: 8, 1863 cents; 8, 12.6 cents: TO- 80. &c
cents; II. 1876 cents: II. 31.5 cents. Stand
ard Underground Gable Company Pitts
burg, Pa, item /. 1913 cents: 2 p cents; 3,
1919 cents: 4. PAT cents; ). % cents; 9, S:S. 4
cents: I. 25.2 cents: 8, 16 cents; 8. r. cents;
10. 34.3 cents; IL. 30.3 cents; II. 80 cents.
John A. Roebling Sons Company Trenton
N. J.. item /. 81 cents; ., % cents: 3. -
cents; 4, 24.25 cents; ., 215 cents; 6. 1925
cents: I. 1915 cents: 8. 1915 cents; 8, 11.75
cents; 10. 40.2o cents: II. So cents: II. 81
cents
Naphtha street lighting-L. S. Nicholai.
1909 lamps or more. $500 per lamp per
annum. with d reduction to $3.50 per lamp
per annum provided the painting of the
lamps be dispensed with and the use of a
certain burner be authorized: American De-
velopment Company of Chicago, 1000 or
more lamps. ST. II per lamp per annum
Pennsylvania Globe Light Company of
Philadelphia. 1903 lamps or more, go 40
per lamp per annum
Gas burners. of extra size-One hundred
lamps OF more, American Development
Company s25.H per lamp per annum:
Glover Manufacturing Company, $3.50 for
100 lamps and $500 for each additional 100;
Welsbach Lighting Company, $50 for 100
lamps more.
Gas street Neutrality-suspicious. Gas Light
Company $50 per lamp per annum for 400
ington Gas Light Company, $50 per lamp
per annum for 1900 more lamps east of
Rock creek.
Electric arc street lighting-United States
Electric Lighting Company, $115.64 per
lamp per annum. -
No bids were received for incandescent
electric lights for which $40 is now paid
for each lamp per anhum. it being claimed
by the companies expected to bid that they
received no specifications. The pending Dis
tricl appropriation bill provides that not
more than ST. for each arc light shall be
paid per annunf this being the price now
paid. From tie proposal of the United
States Electric Lighting Company, the only
one received To-Day fpf this kind of light, it
will be observed that the company asks
sl15.64 for each, Of SUCH lights for the com
ing fiscal year. The company claims that
it is impossiblef for II TO provide these lights
at the prevailing figure, and as the price
is restricted by the bending appropriation
act to ST. the: corhrany's bid viii be re-
jected. For napftha lamps sls.6O per lamp
per annum is now raid for a light of six
year light ofGtwenty candlepower will be
required. Mr.. z. S.plNicholai, the lowest
bidder today for this kind of light. is a To-
cal man.