The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-15
CITY HALL BIDS HIGH
SEVEN OUT OF EIGHT WERE RE-
JECTED BY COMMITTEE.
EIGHTH BEING CONSIDERED
LEwMAN & co. OF ATLANTA MAY
YET BE AWARDED CONTRACT.

Had Lowest Bid by over $4,000.
Atlanta Firm offered to Erect
Handsome Edihce of Indiana
Limestone for Is4.963-COmmit-
tee would Not Award Contract,
but Agree to Go over Lewman
Bid With View to Making
ChRnEes-BuiIdinE Must BE Fin
ished by Dec. ].
Bids for the erection Of the new City
Hall were opened at the City Exchange
yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock by
Mayor Myers and the Building Com
xnittee of city Council. There were
eight bids filed. ranging from $l94963
10 1884, 900, and OF these seven were re-
3ected.
The bids filed were as follows:
Grant wilkins, Atlanta. 1921. 51S.S1.
NJ. T. Lewman & Co. Atlanta, 1894,
ss3.
Mckenzie & Co., Augusta. s2Ss9SO.
W. 7. HadIow & Co. Jacksonville,
s24s. 600.
Savannah Contracting Company
$3.50. s15.9 5.
General Supply Company, New York,
s2ss. 400.
w. o. & c. C. Burton. St. Louis,
E229. 800.
Norcross Bros. Company, Worches-
ter, Mass. S254.6OO.
After considerable discussion the
committee decided that none of the
bids would be accepted at the meeting,
but that the bid of Messrs. NJ. T. Lew
man & Co., % Atlanta, for $194,963,
which was the lowest bid filed. would
be held under consideration for few
days. In accordance with this decis-
ion the following resolution was adopt
ed by the committee:
Checks Were Returned.
Resolved. That all bids received be
rejected, except the bid of M. T. Lew
man & Co. which will be held for fur
ther consideration, and that the checks
of those bids that have been rejected
be Reimbursed and returned.
The committee will probably reach a
decision as to what action will be taxi
en- upon the bid of Messrs. Lewman
e. Co, by the latter part of the week,
and while no official announcement to
that the committee will be able to
come to terms with Messrs. Lewman
e. Co, and that the Atlanta firm will
be awarded the contract. Their bid is
$S4, 1877 lower than the next lowest bid,
which was filed by w. o. & c. G. Bur-
ton OF st. Louis.
There are a number of changes that
the committee desires to make In the
specifications which were filed by
Messrs. Lewman & Co. 1t is the de-
sire of the committee that the Bay
street floor of the new City Hall be
constructed of Georgia granite and
that the upper floors and the entire
side on River street be of Indiana
limestone.
VIII Begin Work shortly.
If the bid is awarded to Messrs
Lewman & Co.. it is thought that
they will be ready to begin laying the
foundation for the city governments
new home by March /. The City Ex-
the debris removed before the erection
of the new building can be begun, and
this will take, it is figured, two or
three weeks.
Arrangements have been made for
the various city offices to move to po-
lice headquarters while the new City
Hall is being constructed. The fol-
1OWlllS pan mas Deen arranged lot the
temporary headquarters of the city
officers:
In the main building on Oglethorpe
avenue the offices will be arranged as
follows The three eastern rooms on
the second floor, directly over the Of
fees Of the superintendent and desk
sergeant, will be given over to the
Mayor and the clerk of Council. The
western end of the second floor of the
building will be occupied by the health
officer and plumbing Inspector while
the engineers office and the water
department will make their home in
the western end of the third floor.
The red building on Habersham
street will be divided up as follows:
The city treasurer will be assigned to
the north room on the lower floor and
the city marshal will be given the
southeastern room on the same floor.
On the second floor of this building
the director of public works will be
given the north room and the tax as
SCISSORS win be assigned to the south
east room.
To He Completed This Year.
The city government will be able to
move into its new home before Jan.
j, 1905 The bid of Messrs. Lewman &
Co. which is now under consideration,
provides to complete the structure by
per day for each day they run over
posal. and for each day after Dec.
ed they agree to forfeit the sum of $50
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