The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
AWARDS MADE
Board of Charities Lets Con-
tracts for Supplies.
Topeka Merchants Well Repre-
scented in the Awards,

The state board of charities today
completed it's semi-annuaI letting of
contracts for furnishing supplies to the
state charitable Institutions. 1t has
been two days job. 1t is stated that
the contracts will probably aggregate
between $4,000 and 100000.
These contracts cover groceries.
meats, dry goods, hardware, shoes, drugs,
and everything else used by the in
mates of the states institutions. Print
ed schedules of several pages, contain
ing several hundred items, are furnish
ed each merchant or firm desiring to
bid. These schedules show the proba
bic amount of each article which will
be needed for each institution, and bids
and samples are submitted on each
class of goods. It has kept the five
members of the board, aided by the
heads of the various institutions, busy
for two days making the awards.
About seventy-five different firms are
bidding for the contracts this time. and
nearly all of them have secured some
thing. Topeka merchants have Jared
much better this time than usual 1t
is stated that at the contract letting
six months ago the merchants from
other parts of the state underbid To-
peka. but this time the bids of the To-
peka merchants were generally lower
than those from other tGwnS, although
the contracts are well distributed. The
contracts always go to the lowest bid
ders unless there is difference in the
quality of the goods. when the quality
is taken into consideration.
The firms which got the more impor-
tant dry goods contracts are Crosby
Bros. Topeka: Mills Dry Goods COM
pany, Topeka; Johnson-Larimer Whole
sale pry Goods company. Wichita;
Wichita: Coy Mercantile company, Os-
kaloosa; Isaac Wright, Pittsburg; John
Sundstron, Iindsborg; w j. Calhoun
Fort Scott: Wallenstein & Cohn, who
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renee and Atchison: the Topeka Cash
Dry Goods company; Warren NJ.
crosby & Co, Topeka; D. J. Green
valid, Topeka; A. D. Weaver, Law
The contract for the flour for the To-
peka charitable institutions went to the
Hogan Milling company at Junction
City, at $1.68 per hundred pounds. For
divided between the Ottawa Milling
company Of Ottawa, and the Tanquary
Milling company of Beloit, at prices
ranging from SLIGO to $1.7O.
The Wolf Packing company of Topeka
got the bulk of the fresh beef contract
this time, although Armour, Schwarzs-
child, and Swift of Kansas City, each
captured some items. The average price
was 1882 a hundred for young cattle
Pork and other meats were about equal
~ divided among the packers named
The tea contract went to the H. D.
Lee Mercantile company of Salina at %
cents a pound.
The coffee contract was divided be-
tween the Southwestern Grocery COM
pany of Fort Scott and the Lehman
Higginson Grocery company of Wichita.
The price is IS cents a pound.
The Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile COM
pany captured the sugar contract at
$4.6S a hundred pounds. It is said that
this contract will amount to between
S., 600 and 81 900.
In dry goods, Crosby Brothers of To-
peka secured contracts for gray and
white blankets, bleached fruit of the
loom, bledched crash, combs, ladies'
underwear, cotton flannel, oil cloth and
a number of lesser items.
The two wooden mills in Topeka Sc
cured a blanket contract and that for
cassimeres.
Warren NJ. Crosby of Topeka got a
bleached crash, percales, and some les
ser items.
The Mills Dry Goods company secur-
ed the contracts for brown cottons, I'M
bleached crash, persales, and some les
ser articles.
D. J. Greenwald secured contracts for
cotton batting, corsets, shirts and mi
nor articles.
A J. August secured the susperder and
mems hose contracts.
tract for mems underwear.
W. J. Calhoun of Fort Scott got the
contracts for rubber blankets and un-
The Coy Mercantile company of Oslza-
loosa secured the dry goods item which
contract that for bleached linens. 1t is
said that this will amount to nearly ST.
The Coughlin Hardware company of
Topeka secured nearly all the hardware
contracts 1t will amount to several thou
The GatIin Drug company of Topeka
received the bulk of the drug contracts.
W. F. Weber of Topeka got the contract
for much of the groceries.