Evening journal., 1903-01-30
MAYOR REFUSES
~ .Ss1-E
4 TO AP PPROVE BIDS
Returned Garbage Contracts
Recently Awarded by City
Council Unsigned
HIS ACTION WAS NO SURPRISE
Ordinance Forbiddins Sale Of Cocaine
and Other Drugs Was Passed--Move-
ment for New City Hall Started BY
Councilman Smith.

Councilman Smith.
As was predicted by many per-
sons interested I'M the garbage ques-
tiou, Mayor Fisher. in a communica-
Stlon addressed to Clty Council last
night, refused to approve the contracts
recently awarded by Council for the
collection of offal In this city for the
ensuing three years. The following
is copy Of the letter;
To the Honorable President and Mem
bers OF the City cf Wilmington,
Delaware.
Gentlemen On December IA. 1898. <
there was passed at the City Hall an
ordinance governing the collection and /
lremoval OF garbage and oflal in and \
from the several garbage dis /
tricts Of the city Of Wilmington. A
portion of section eight Of said ordi- |
nance reads as follows:
"Ihe Council shall once in eyeiy
three years during the month OF Jan
uary advertise in two daily newspapers
In the city for sealed proposals for coll
lecttng and removing the garbage and
lOffal from the dwellings and
buildings within the several districts
aforesaid. The proposals shall be
opened by the Council and the con-
tract shall be awarded TO the lowest
and best bidder or bidders"
Pursuant to the requirements OF this
luldinance the Council during the
2 present month, advertised for sealed
proposals for collecting and removing
the garbage and offal from the dwell
ings and buildings within the several
J districts of the city.
al a meeting of Council held Jauu-
, airy g. these proposals were opened. and
; at the next meeting of Council, held
/ January 15, the contracts were awarded.
B 1 now have these contracts before me.
D ] find that in three of the districts
J THE contracts were awarded to the
e highest bidders. and i'm the remaining
district the contract was awarded at a
sum 1850 higher than the lowest bid
=, lThe entire cost Of collecting and re-
moving garbage. according to these
contracts viii be s4l.55O. whereas II
the contracts had been awarded to the
4 lowest bidders i'm the several districts
the work would have cost the city $685.
{ 1898, or a saving Of more than $500.
- Again, one bidder proposed to- collect
r. and remove the garbage from the entire
n city for s3l 600 or more than $4,000
less than the aggregate cost OF these
contracts.
So far as I can ascertain the lowest
bidders are, without a single exception.
responsible men, who. accompanied
their bids with good bondsmen. II cer-
/, tainly is the intent OF the ordinance,
Y where sealed proposals are asked for,
| to give Il to the lowest bidders, pro-
yided they are responsible parties. This
law has not been obeyed. For that
t reason 7 return the contracts to your
honorable body without my approval
Very respectfully,
George NJ Fisher, Mayor
After the communication was read
upon the suggestion of Mr.. Monaghan
Oi the matter was referred TO Council as a
le committee Of the whole to decide upon
Ia n course 10 pursue.
me following resolution was pre-
-, scented by Mr.. Smith and adopted:
Whereas The present City Hall has
d. outlived it's usefulness as q public
re building and there is an urgent and
- UtIdNANE Ntll4llA III a. nov UNAAAAAA-
is wherein all branches of the municipal.
4 ity may be domiciled and in close
Ntouch with each other; and
Whereas, There is a spreading senIti-
hent that this city of $4,000 inhabitant.
should have city hall that it may ant
TO should be proud of therefore be it
Resolved BY the Council, in regula'
II session assembled. this 29th day o.
- January. A. D., 1903. do hereby author
he lie and direct the city solicitor to draf
ds land prepare. Immediately a suitable
10 ordinance or act, for the purpose o
~ creating a bond issue for the erection
of new city hall.
"a A communication from the Board O
ms Health Department was received an
le read as follows:
he President end Members Of City Coun
ell.
Gentlemsn:-Th Board of Healt
is in receipt of copy Of the resolr
ton passed by the Council at a NEE
he ing held January 22d, directing tbs
TX the city vaccine physicians shall il
IS spect and take proper care Of a
len smallpox cases in their respectiy
X districts.
.hO / beg leave TO INFORM you thdl
ing a meeting of the Board of Health hel
ro- this morning the board accepts th
terms of the resolution. The boar
therefore, has today discharged the
special physician and in the futul
As shall report all cases of smallpox
viii the vaccine physicians.
rst Respectfully,
es- Joseph Wigglesworth, secretary.
lry Council as a committee Of the who
ia reported favorably on the question