The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-20
SCHOOL BIDS ARE TOO HIGH
THEY EXCEED APPROPRIATION
 BY NEARLY $10,00O

Committee of Board of Education to
 Confer With Mayor and Controller To-day on Ways ana Means--Board Anxious to Complete worir--The Bids Received Last Evening-Lowest Bids Total se8,eso.
 At the meeting of the board Of edu-s cation last evening the bids for the new eighteen room Scranton street school In the Webster district were opened. In the absence of Senator Whitney, president of the board, Judge UlIman presided over the meeting.
 The board struck difficulty when the bids were opened in the fact that the lowest bids received totaled nearly s1o,O00 above the amount of money (which the board can appropriate for the week. The total appropriation which the board of education has ob- tained for the school is $65,00O. of which S5,000 must be used for furnish ling the building. The totals for the lowest bids reached $69,639
 The board debated at length the prob lem which confronted them. Some of l the members were in favor of only partially completing the building as was done in the case of the Cedar street school and thus reducing the cost for the present, so that 1t would fall within the appropriation.
 The board decided by unanimous committees Of the board confer with
 Mayor Studley and Controller Rowe to- day to present the whole matter to them and to see if the mayor will call
 a special meeting of the board fof f. nance for the purpose of attempting to find ways and means for raising the needed $10,0o0: As soon as any definite l intelligence can be obtained by this
 committee it was voted that the board
 be assembled in special meeting at the
 call of the president to consider the re- lsults.
 A proposition was made to change Ithe plans so as to call for the erection
 of a twelve room instead of an eigh- lteen room school house. MT. Jackson Twas thoroughly opposed to this, saying x that in his belief the board had hit up
 lon the ideal of a school building and | that it should not revert to the twelve os,x Ia a1e IcrI,t Ithat all the labor which had been put | into the work for the new school should
 not be allowed to be in vain but that
 some means should be discovered to complete the work. The building com lmittee will now wrestle with the prob- Hem, awaiting developments of to-
 days problem.
 The bids which were received were: < Mason work, according to specifica- tions, sperry & Treat. $S6,6o7; the ] George M. Grant company, $3s,0s2;
 Wharton & Sanders, $35,2so; James H.
 Hogan, $34,375; D. G. Carmichael, s34,-
 AT; John N. Leonard, s36,G00. Two other 1 figures were presented by each of the
 above bidders, one substituting North
 Haven Pallet brick instead of pressed
 brick and the other metal lath instead of wood. .a sta.o,S l For the carpenter and joiner work the bids received were James E. Todd, I $27,507; James A. Fogarty, $25,SO0; John i $. Osborn company, $24,ss6; D. H. Clark
 company, s23,469
 The heating and ventilating bids re-
 ceived were: Sheehan & Groark. s10,- l 300; Rourke Brothers company, $10,- AL. Curtiss & Pierpont company, $11,-
 9S4; John B. Began, s9,49S; A. A. San
 born of Boston, $11,331; Walworth Con- lstruction and Supply company, Boston, f$1O5S5: Albert B. Franklin, Boston, l$11423: Merrill & Co.,, Boston, $10,141;
 Holyoke Valve and Hydrant Co.,, Hol-
 yoke, $11,759; Robbins, Gamewell & Co.,, iof Pittsfield, $1O,55O; Huey Brothers,
 Boston, $9,947. l For plumbing and gas fitting-shea-
 han & Groark, $2,4s5; John D.. Kelley, I$2,S1S; The Rourke Bros. O., $2,432; 1Curtiss & Pierpont Co.,, s2,9Os; John B.
 Beegan, $3,40O; James J. Grady, $2,197; Huey Brothers, Boston, s2,S57
 l The matter of new text books was laid on the table.