Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-27
BIDS ON STONE WORK
PRELIMINARY TO CONSTRUCTION
OF MUNICIPAL BUILDING
Eight Firms Submit Proposals Today
One Fails to Inclose Guar
antee Check.

Bids for furnishing stone for the new
municipal building for the District govern
ment were opened at o'clock this after
noon in the office of Capt Chester Harding,
supervisor of construction. located on the
site OF the proposed structure. The bids
were opened in the presence of Commits
sioners Mcfarland and West. Capt Ches-
ter Harding Supervising Architect Taylor
of the treasury. representing Secretary
Shaw and the representatives of various
granite marble and limestone quarries
throughout the United States.
Eight firms submitted proposals. but one
OF these was not accompanied by certified
check for $4,000. as is required by the
specifications, and consequently this bid
was thrown out without reading.
List of Bidders.
The bidders and the amounts of their
proposals were as follows:
Woodbury. Granite Company. Hardwick.
Vt. for furnishing granite for superstruc-
ture similar to that used in the Sherman
statue here and in the Pennsylvania state
capital building at Harrisburg, B4s,6S0:
Hardwick white granite, $SI2, 800
Ambrose B. Stannard. New York CITY. tol
furnishing base stone West Chelmsford.
Mass granite. $1,000; Dumiston granite.
$s4 500; Mt Airy granite. $S9.eOO: Maryland
granite. $4,000; Milford granite. 400
Dumiston granite. $5sOOOO; Vermont mar
bic. s591. 600: New York imperial marble.
1878 go
Blue Ridge Marble Company. Nelson. Ga.
for entire building. Cherokee marble
$675. eco.
VIM. Bradley & Son. New York city Mt.
/, Waldo or Woodstock granite base and In
diana limestone superstructure S421;al2
Furst & Tanning, Chicago. West Chelms-
ford granite base and Bedford, Ind. lime
stone superstructure, $3l9.2JO.
B. A. and G. N. Williams. New York
city, Blue Hill granite base and Georgia
marble superstructure. $767,2O0; Blue Hill
base ard South Dover marble superstruc-
ture. 776.9C0: add $2O.S65 If Waldo granite
base be used.
George Dugan. New York city, Maryland
granite base and Indiana limestone SUPER
structure. S5O6. 720: add $1,000 II Milford
granite Is used for base or $1,000 If Wood
stock granite is used for base. "a.
Commissioner Mcfarland. stated after
the bids were opened and after an in
spection of the samples that the members
of the commission are highly gratified over
the fine set of bids received and also over
the splendid samples offered.
No Indication Of Winner.
No Indication could be given today as. to
the probable successful bidder for furnish
ing the stone, inasmuch as the price of the
material is not the paramount considera-
ton In the selection of the specific kind Of
stone to be used. Among other things to
be taken into consideration in making. the
award of contract, in addition to the price.
is the kind and quality of the stone Of
fered. the capacity of the quarry. its abil-
ity to get out and deliver the stone prompt
ly. and various other points.
1t is stated by the members of the District
building commission that Capt. Chester
Harding Will proceed at once with the in
spection of stone and quarres. offering ma
terial for the municipal building. and
that he will be assisted by the architects of
the structure. Cope & Stewardson of Phila-
delphia. The award of the contract. 1t is
believed. will not be made by the commits
sion until about the 10th of November. and
probably not until after that date. The
first shipment of stone under the contract
must be delivered on the site of the build
ing by the LIST Of February, 1905.