The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-20
BIDS FOR CITY SERVICE.
Commissioners Review Proposals for
Street Lighting, Etc.

/ street Lighting, Enc
| The following proposals were opened at
the District Building yesterday:
For construction of two gatehouses at
| the Brightwood reservoir-D. F. Mockabee.
| S25,915; J. F. Manning & Co., s1S,99S.
For underground cables for police and
| fire telegraph and telephone SERVICE. H.
Mason, Boston, Mass. item 6. sc cents; I.
| % 1-3 cents; S, IL $40 cents; 9, 13 is
| cents. Safety Insulating Wire and Cable
Company, New York, item 6. 81 1-2 cents:
Z, 81 IL cents; s. Is 3-4 cents: 9, IL IL
| cents. okenote Lighting Company, New
York, item s. 90 cents: I, AZ cents: s, "a
| cents; 9, 20 cents. National Conduit and
Gable Company Of New York, item l, % IL
cents; ., 90 1-2 cents; 3, 1S1-4 cents; 4,
Is 81 cents; 5. 13 1-2 cents: 10. 40 cents /:
1 II. Sc cents: II. SO 12 cents. Hazard
| Manufacturing Company. New York. ilem
6, AZ cents; Z, 81 cents, 8. 10 IL cents; 3,
| IL "a cents Chesapeake and Potomac
| Telephone Company. item 1, 22.57 cents:
2. 2e.25 cents; 3. 1926 cents; 4, 25.S cents:
5, 21.9 cents; 6. 37.6S cents: I, 27.7 cents;
| 8, 1913 cents: 9, l25 cents: 10. 1876 cents:
| IL, 1876 cents; IL. Bis cents. Standard
Underground Cable Company. Pittsburg.
| Pa, item /, 2S.9 cents: 2, q cents; 3.
| 1919 cents; 4, PAT cents; 5, 90 cents; 6
33.4 cents; Z. 25.2 cents: S. 16 cents; 9.
| 12.1 cents; 10. 34.9 cents; IL. 30.3 cents:
| u. 2S.5 cents. John A. Roebling Sons
| Company, Trenton. N. j., item l, % cents;
2, % cents; g. % cents: 4, 24.25 cents; S,
215 cents; s. 35.25 cents; Z, 25.75 cents; s..
1915 cents; 9, Ills cents; 10. 4o.25 cents;
IL, 35 cents; u, 50 cents.
Naphtha street lighfing-L. S. Nicholai
1000 lamps or more. 1920 per lamp per
annum. with reduction to $500 per lamp
per anrum provided the painting of the
lamps be dispensed with and the use Of a
certain burner be authorized; American
Development Company. of Chica go, 1 GOO or
more lamps. s22.14 per lamp per annum:
Pennsylvania Globe Light Company, of
Philadelphia. 1.C9e lamps or more, so. 40
per lamp per annum.
Gas burners, of extra size-One hundred
lamps or more, American Development
Company, S25.44 per lamp per annum;
Glover Manufacturing Company, $3.50 for
100 lamps and s26.5o for each additional
1c0; Weisbach Lighting Company, $50 for
100 lamps or more.
Gas street Hghting-Georgetown Gas
Light Company. $50 per lamp per annum
for 400 or more lamps west OF Rock Creek;
Washington Gas Light Company. $40 per
lamp per annum for 1900 or more lamps
east of Rock Creek.
Electric arc street iighting-United
States Electric Lighting Company, S115.64
per lamp per annum.
No bids were received for incandescent
electric lights. for which $40 is now paid
for each lamp per annum, it being claimed
by the companies expected to bid that
they received no specifications. The pend
ing District Appropriation bill provides
that not more than s72 for each arc light
shall be paid per annum. this being the
price now paid. From the proposal of the
United States Electric Lighting Company.
the only one received yesterday for this
kind OF light, it will be observed that the
company asks s115.6i for each OF such
lights for the coming fiscal year. The COM
pany claims that it is impossible for it to
provide these lights at the prevailing fig
ure. and as the price is restricted by the
pending appropriation act to s72 the COM
pany's bid will be rejected. For naphtha
lamps $3.50 per lamp per annum is now
paid for a light of sixteen candle-power.
During the coming fiscal year light OF
twenty candle-power will be required. Mr.
L. S. Nicholai. the lowest bidder for this
kind of light, is a local man.