The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-04

gers. Daily and Embree voted yes As
it was a motion to reconsider and was a
tie the round corners were made a thing
| of the past Griggs requested that he
be excused from voting
Then the board took up the question Of
heating The final awards were as fol-
lows:
For a steam heating plant in the Sum
ner building, The Studyvant company of
Chicago, S. 760. Plumbing, Lewis &
Kitchen, Kansas City, $1,2S5. Automatic
matte Heat Regulating company, Chi
cago, $575.
For a hot air plant in Garfield school,
Lewis & Kitchen, 81. $50. Heat regulators
the johnson system. Milwaukee, $3.50
Plumbing, Lewis & Kitchen, $1,190
Grant school hot air heating plant,
Lewis & Kitchen, $2,750- Heat regulators,
The board decided at the Grant and
Garfield schools to put in a hot air sys-
tenn that requires q steam or gasoline
engine to run the fan which drives The
hot air through the building and which
necessitates the employing of an engin-
eer capable to run an engine. The Sum
ner system will have steam engine and
two boilers and also require a compe-
tent engineer and fireman. In the Grant
and Garfield systems the air is heated
over furnaces and driven through the
shafts to the school rooms by the fan
In the Summer building the air will be
heated over steam coils and driven in
the same manner to the school rooms.
The Grant and Garfield systems are
about the same as that now in use at
the high school, except that no fan is
used at the high school The high school
plant as been more or less of a failure
and after being put in at an enormous
expense had to be rebuilt last fall at
cost of $500.
The other bids received for heating
were in most cases much lower than
the contract price of the bids accepted.
All bidders stipulated that they would
put up bond to make their heating
plants effective. The bid of the Stu
deyvant company for the Sumner school
was the highest received.
F. p Edison, Topeka, bid on steam
for Garfield and Grant $2,6o0 each; for
hot air fan system. Garfield or Grant,
81. 800 each
Conklin & Gustafson, Topeka, bid for
hot air in the Grant and Garfield
schools s., sos each and 1898 for Sum-
ner.
Peck & Williamson, of Cincinnati, bid
on Grant and Garfield $2,068 each and
81, 239 on Sumner.
The Hope Ventilator company, of Chi
cago, bid for Garfield and Grant schools
$3.50. and on Sumner $5,oSo. for heat
ing
steam plants in Garfield and Grant $3,-
1S7 and for furnaces and hot air ST.
649. The bid for the steam plant in
Sumner was $4,400 and for furnace sys-
The Studeyvant company, of Chicago,
bid $3.50 for steam plants in Garfield
and Grant and S5760 for Sumner.
Lewis & Kitchens bid for Sumner hot
air system was $3.50; for Grant and
Garfield, 81, $50 For steam in Sumner,
IS, $50; in Grant and Garfield. $3.50.
The Powers bid for the automatic heat
regulator, which is an additional ex-
pense to the heating plants, was $445 for
Grant and Garfield and S575 for Sumner.
The bid OF the Johnson company for
the regulators was $455 for Grant and
Garfield and $3.50 for Sumner.
The bid Of the Studeyvant company Of
Chicago for Sumner school was the
highest of all bids received.
Lewis & Kitchen of Kansas City who
We're awarded the Grant and Garfield
contracts bid $2,750 while f. P Edison,
Peck & Williamson. Conklin & Gustaf-
son and James Potter were lower.
MR. EDISON TALKS.
''Tn the award of the contracts for the
heating plants for the three new school
buildings said f. p. Edison to a State
Journal reporter this morning, .'the local
dealers We're not given a fair show b.
the city board Of education. The propo-
sitions of the local dealers were ignored
entirely and the contracts awarded to
outside parties at a price about $4,000
higher than the bids of some of the local
men.
Il had a proposition covering the
Grant and Garfield schools which were
aIOHS IuG lines d0Opl6Q DJ the gov
hospitals This proposition was
not considered by the board at all. One /
local firm had bid on the steam heat |
ing by fan system of Sumner school for /
$1700 less than the price made by the |
firm that got the contract.
And notwithstanding the fact that |
they had fled a certified check to show
their good faith. that they would enter /
into contract and furnish bonds for the |
completion of the work, they were COM
pletely ignored.
There is no good reason why the peo-
pie who are in business in Topeka, should I
not handle all the work of this character, |
or any other kind for that matter, as
there is no other place in the west where t
the contractors are SO well equipped for !
handling this work as in Topeka And +
then when anything goes wrong the /
contractor would not be a thousand /
miles away and have his money for the
work, and then refuse to make things T
right"