Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-09
BOARD OF EDucArroNs
Awarded Contracts for Heating Two
 New Schools Last Night.


 After a three hours contention with | figures and maps, the board of educa- ton last evening", at d special meet | ing, voted to award to the Waterbury Steam and Gas Pipe works the con-
 tract for heating the proposed Walsh school on Ashley street, and the Barlow Bros company the contract for heating the proposed Russell school
 on the west side. The contract price 1 given by the first named concern IS | $6,547 and the other $2,615. There were a number of other bidders whose l figures have already appeared ill this paper.
 In the absence of the mayor Con- missioner Hayes occupied the chair. All the members of the board were present, some of them being on hand at a surprisingly early hour, consider ing that the board never sits at the ap- pointed time.
 Commissioner Mcdonald thought the bids for heating the Walsh. school ought not to be awarded, considering that the board of aldermen had not taken favorable action upon the rec ommendation yet. After some discus sion it was decided to go ahead every body feeling confident that the recom- mendation would be voted upon fav- orably by the aldermen. Architect Jackson was present while the board
 was considering the bids for the Walsh school, as the structure will be erected upon plans drawn by him. It was decided upon that the successful bidder should furnish Johnson regula- tors or something equal to them. It was also decided to reject, without | investigation, the Willis system this l being simply l modification of tine
 Smead system. An attempt was made to throw out the Baldwin and the Sanborn systems. but only the former | was rejected Commissioner Cowell remarked unfavorably upon tubular | boilers recalling the awful hotel dis aster in Hartford some years ago, and | he also remarked that the house of q | friend of his came near going up in pieces last winter. In each case q | tubular boiler was in the heating syS- | tenn of the house. There being some
 doubt regarding the efficiency of the 1 Sanborn system, MT SanbOrn was
 called before the board and he ex- Dlaincd that he would do anything 1 reasonable the board would require,
 providing he would get either contract.
 What he called mixing Hampers" at | the base of the flueS he said worked automatically. This was the point
 on which the board was in doubt. | M. ]. Daly represented the Plenum system. Commissioner Goodenough
 thought this system was insufficient | because of the architects plans. and 1 he therefore. moved that it be re- i iected Whereupon Chairman Hayes. i literally speaking. jumped up and l buckled into Commissioner Good
 enough. thus: It is we'll known. not
 only in this state. but in adjoining
 states as well. that M. J. Daly is one
 of the foremost engineers in this com | muniiy. His work speaks for him and speaks well. No work that he has
 ever done has proved insufficient
 and he has done work here and in
 other states. Other men have come | here and have succeeded ill getting 1 their heating systems into our schools.
 and they have turned out to be dis
 mal failures. The heating system in | the DriggS. the Hendricken and the
 Bank street schools are utter failures
 consider it an insult to a man of MT
 Daly's standing in this community to ] attempt lO it1ttl Ills iIl'iliS Ilt IS al l man whom we all know and We know
 of his work besides.
 1 Commissioner CowelI concurred in
 this opinion and the storm passed by. Commissioner McDonald: "The Washington school was fitted up by Mir Daily, and it is one of the best in the city,
 The bids from the Springfield Heat ing company were then read. Tn these it was said the heat would not vary one degree Fahrenheit three feet
 from the floor. Commissioner Cowell thereupon said he would give $3 to see
 the man that could regulate any heat ing system so that the heat would
 not vary one degree throughout the whole building. He did not think tha1
 the Lord had yet condescended to pro duce such a wonder and that was why
 he would give 8 to see him. He 1 thought it would be cheap at the price The maps were then gone over, after
 which the contracts were awarded as
 above.
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