The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-01-28
WBLSBACH
CONTRACT.

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City Solicitor David ]. Reinhardt
attended the meeting Of the Direc-
tors Of the Street and Sewer De.
partment this morning and for
time had Director Carter under a
| a gener al caoss ere regarding the
Welsbach contract. The City So
licitor stated that he was unable
| TO secure information except from
the Directors at a meeting Of tho
Board. The cross FIRE was kept
up thick and fast aud Director Car.
ter answered every question which
came bis way. He denied posi-.
lively that he ever met Mr.. Smith
Of the Wslsbach Company at con.
ference 10 the Wilmington Coal G az
Company's Office 10 the presence OF
MIR. Beta, He could not rememb Der
the passing Of the resolution by the
old Board upon motion Of Mr.,
Fahey 10 make all lighting con.
tracts for ten years at the Deem
Der meeting and thereby ratlfyiug
the action OF the Board in confer.
ence when the Welsbach contract
was awarded for that tlme. The
bid Of the Welsbaeh compaLy was
1927 lamp tor 500 lamps for FIVE
years aad on the specific ation in
lead pencil appeared the bid OF
$50 IS for 1000 lamps for ten years,
lie knew he met Mr.. Smith GU the
s,reet and he refused to give him
permission to fit out the lamp posts
with the Welsbach burners unless
he came before the Board. He
could not explain why the informa-
ton was not given to the public
that the contract had been awarded
to the Welsbach company for ten
years IN other contracts has been
given out.
City Solicitor Reinhardt stated
that he had many applications tor
copies Of the specifications but he
refused TO give out such papers
without permission of the Board.
Some OF these applications came
from people not totally reliable.
MIR. Saulsburv-I made the APP
plicaton as a citizen and believe |
have the right to examine the speci-
fications and contract. Then for
my company wish to say, it is re.
liable,
City Solicitor Reinhardt did not
intend any slight toward Mr.. Sauls-
bury's company. He is still at
loss TO reconcile certain matters in
connection with the Welsbach cou.
tract Mr.. Carter saw the list of
lamps and after It came back from
the gas eompany's office he had
gone over the list again. The
Welsbaeh people put on the
mantels without permission so lar
as he knew.
General Manager Richard W.
Crooks Of the Peoples Railway
Company called attcnton to the
claim Of the Board for paving done
for the Company. He aud Director
Carter had an interesting exchange
OF words and the matter was refer
red. MI. Crooks covered the mat.
ter when he said: ave do not owe
anything for paving, that having
been done by our contractor, VIM.
II. Ouigg, and all bills for that
work have been paid by him, as
have also the bills for material, ex-
cept that mentioned above, which
were charged against the company
In addition to the materInl bought
andpaid for by Mr.. Quigg, the con-
pany bought and paid for upwards
OF $40 900 worth from Simmons q
Brother.
This company stands ready to pay
for all the work and material for =
which it owes the city. In fact, we
would like to have paid it long ago, but
could not get an adjustment. We
have asked the directors of the street
and sewer department several times to
meet us in regard othe matter, but
could never get conference.
In examining the bill rendered I
found that we had been charged for
the original cost of paving where our
tracks were put down, including the
the material, cxcayating and filing,
whereas undcrou franchise we are
to pay for the surface material only.
Ou, franchise roo,,irns n. IA n,vo hs
tween ourtrocks and 4 fl On each
sfdrthcrrof md wc mnst Eecn that
pavement in GOOD condition
Nhoro avs tr.r.,,, ,,,r, ,,t ao,u,
we vc,e charreG for thc material
exc,v,,ino Re- hetween ,hc tracks
and throa taet rach sida thcraof md
aI,hnnah same n the navament
which wa tooL ~, o"1 nrt dn,.,