The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-17
BIDDING GETS KEEN
CLEVELAND VAPOR COMPANY Is
LIKELY TO LIGHT RESI-
DENCE SECTION
PRICES TAKE A BIG DROP
American Development Company
and Hts Rival Submit OYers So
Close That Adjournment In
Taken for TabuIatiOn.

Unless the tabulation Of bids ordered
shows otherwise. the Cleveland Vapor
Lighting company, of Cleveland. Ohio.
VIII light the residence portion of st.
Paul with gasoline for the next three
months. 1t Is even possible that the com
pany will worst it's competitor, the
American Development company in the
contest for the 1000 incandescent lights
which the city has decided to use instead
OF the plain or fat-fame variety.
Bids for the supplying of the city with
these two classes of lights, the one until
June l, and the other for a year. or the
same period. were opened and considered
by both the assembly and board Of al
dermen last night. but in each case were
so close as to require tabulation and in
vestigation before intelligent considera-
ton could be given.
Only two bids were received, one from
the Cleveland Vapor Lighting company
and the other from Robert Seeger, of the
American Development company. For
lighting and maintenance Of 1900 fiat
flame lights Mr.. Seeger demanded AZ
cents day or where the city furnished
IT'S own burners, cents a day. These
prices were for q fourteen candle DOW
er light. For the incandescent, or sixty
candle power light, Mr.: Seeger asked a.
rate of from to S5 cents, the former
figure being for 800 lamps and over, and
the latter for less number. Additional
to these figures were given for removals,
new lamps and posts. In brief, the price
was AZ cents for plain and cents for In
candescent lights.
For 1880 plain lamps the Cleveland Va
nor Lighting C0ponqnU submitted hid
Of AIS cents, or $1.22 per month. If the
city furnished the burners the company
agreed to do the work for s1.05 per
month. On incandescent lamps no day to
day price was given by this company
making instead a proposition to furnish
the city with such lamps at a rate Of
S. 40 per month, or $29.SS a year, the lamps
at the close of the contract to become the
property Of the city. The city, however,
must pay for the iron posts used and
the cost of planting them. The company
asks ninety days in which to install The
plant. The prices given are for a fifty
candle power lamp.
On the fiat-flame lamps, the Cleveland
company was undeniably the lowest, but
in the other there was a divergence OF
opinion and it was decided by both bodies
to adjourn until the afternoon when the
bids will be tabulated and report made
by the corporation attorney and the city
engineer.
Aid. Schifcmann, who was responsible
for a Reimbursement Of bids, was par
ticularly jubilant over the outcome, he
contending that the city has saved much
money by the interference In the bids
last night there is difference OF about
Is cents a month per lamp in favor OF
the Cleveland firm. while compared with
the bids first received 1t shows drop of
about 16 cents. In the incandescent con-
test the bids of the two competing firms
are in every way opposite, but the Cleve-
land firm and its supporters claim to
have the best Of the argument as to
prices.
DR.. Schiffmann significantly remarked
last night that if the Cleveland compa-
ny's bid and proposition was not fairly
considered, there might be another APP
peal to the courts.