The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-08-18
TdE CITY COU I IL.
Official Proee dings of the Ses-
SION Held August is.


City Hall, Shreveport, La, Aug. IS
I0oI.z Council met in adjourned scs-
sion, Acting Mayor Hicks in the
hair, with the following members
present: Allen, Alston, Agurs, Craw
ford, Guynemer, Hughes, Jackson, Ma
bry and Wagner
The mayor read the following:
Upon the suggestion of the secre-
tary of our council, will ask all mem
bers of the council and officers of the
city in addressing communications to
the mayor, or to the mayor and city
council or to any of the different com
mittees, or to any of the chairmen of
the different committees, to begin your
communication as follows: The Mayor,
The Mayor and City Council, The
Finance Committee Cor any other com
mittee), the Chairman Finance Com
mittee Cor any other chairman). Leav-
ing off the Words Honor, His Honor,
Honorable, Dear Sir, Sir, Gentlemen,
or any other word. And when you have
headed your communication as above.
begin at once to state your business,
and when you have finished leave off
such words as Truly, Yours Truly, Very
Truly, Your Obedient Servant, Believe
me Cor us) to be ect, Very Respect
fully, or. Respectfully Submitted, and
simply sign Respectfully.
The secretary was authorized to
erase from all communications in the
future such words as suggested in the
above recommendation.
The fire committee was authorized to
put in proper condition the house of H.
Herold that was knocked out of plumb
by the falling of the old engine house
on Travis street
The contract of Busby & Arthur was
presented and read and on motion of
Mr.. Guynemer was accepted and the
mayor authorized to sign same. with
the amendment that the contractors are
to pay for the party wall owned by DR.
John Comegys. Adopted.
Shreveport, La, Aug. TO- 1oor.-The
Mayor and City Council: Pursuant t.
our agreement with you under date of
May 2, we prepared plans and speci6-
cations for what is known as the Allen
! dale and Texarkana Annex sewers and
advertised same to be let at public bid
ding under date of August e. The en-
closed advertisement was inserted in
two issues of the Engineering News of
New York, two issues of the Engineer
ing and Building Record of New York.
six issues of the New Orleans Picayune
and six issues of the Shreveport Times
and Journal. On the day set for the
opening of the bids, August 2, not one
was received, and looking about for
reason we discovered that Sherman.
Tex. had advertised what seemed to be
much larger contract to be let on the
5th, and as there was not time between
the I'd and 5th for contractors to figure
up job of this magnitude, we con
cluded that the bidders that might have
been here had gone to Sherman and
on this supposition sent a representa-
tive to Sherman to invite the unsuc
cessful bidders to return to Shreve-
port to letting on the ninth. and the
result was that we received three bids
as follows:
Guild & Co., Chattanooga $o7,
I. ]. Shea, St. Louis, $o8,oso.
c. M. Burkhalter & Co., Birming
ham, $Io5,725.6o.
Detail of the lowest bid as received
is enclosed herewith.
Going back to the subject of our es- 4
innate an dthe ordinance (which budQ-
eted the interest on these sewers. YOU
viii find that our estimate on the Allen |
dale sewer as originally laid out with
the outlet along Cross bayou was
S55,ooo. Our estimate on the Texarkana
Annex sewer was $4,000, or a total of
$7I,ooo. Since that time it was found
Impossible TO utilize the steep bank of
the bayou on account of its at present
being occupied by the Shreveport and
Red River Valley railroad and we were
forced to lay out new route along the
llley between Cypress and Caddo
streets, which in our opinion would in
'rease the icost $4,000, or making to-
al estimate of $4,000, which included
he 10 per cent for engineering; this
'stimate was based upon the data we
lad kept from the costs of previous con-
tructions done by us and of course in
.luded no contractors profits. We had.
however, believed that a contractor
With well equipped plant could reduce
'ur cost sufficient to do the work at
ne same price and still leave a fair
'roht, which from the bids submitted
eem sto have been an erroneous con-
fusion. /
While Guild & Co.'S bid would indi- !
ate thatit is for all of the work or
lone, yet Mr.. Guild just before leaving
he city indicated his willingness to put t
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