The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-07-15
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WASHINGTON, D. c., July 3.-The
Supervising Architect of the Treasury
received today the supplemental bids
of the two contractors in Honolulu
one of them the Hawaiian Dredging
Company-who were asked to submit
figures covering the revised project
for constructing a quarantine wharf IN
accordance with the plans OF the War
Department for the enlargement and
improvement of the Harbor. Two
California firms were also asked to
submit revised bids, making four in
all. The Californians were able to
forward their figures here, of course,
earlier than the two honolulu bidders
and the award of the contract has
been delayed for the arrival of the
Honolulu bids.
Supervising Architect Taylor SAID
this afternoon that these revised
figures did not change the relative
standing of the original bidders. The
official award will not be made till
Thursday Of this week, as tomorrow is
July and the following day, We'd
nesday, July 5, the Departments will
be closed by proclamation. of the Pres
ident out of respect for the dead Sec
rotary of State, whose funeral will be
held that day in Cleveland. It looks
very much as though Cotton Bros. &
Co., of Oakland, California, would be
awarded the contract. Mr.. Taylor, of
course, would not say as much this
afternoon. The supplemental figures
were not made public, but it is known
that both the hawaiian bidders in
creased their figures because Of the
revised project, while Cotton Bros. Il
Co. reduced their figures. Therefore
the probability that the Oakland firm
will get the contract. When the origi-
it was found that there were twelve
bidders as follows:
Deposit-$1, 500, Cotton Bros. & Co.,
$59,S55. Time for construction, 9
months.
Deposit 400, John Ouderkirk, Ho-
nolulu, $62, 500. Time for construction,
months.
Deposit 500, Hawaiian Dredging
Co., $62,S00. Time for construction,
220 days.
Deposit-$1, $50, Healy- Tibbetts Con
struction Co., San Francisco, $63, 800.
Time for construction, 8 months.
Deposit 500, w. H. Hogs, Homo
lulu, $63,433. Time for construction,
225 days.
Deposit-$1, 4s4.3O, Lord & Belser,
Honolulu, $64, 499. Time for construc-
ton, 240 week days.
Deposit-$1, 900, L. M. Whitehouse,
Honolulu. $64,9S5. Time for construc-
i ton, 22O days.
Deposit-si 600, San Francisco
Bridge Company, $66,25O. Time for
! construction, 9 months.
Deposit-$1 ,625, F. w. Beardslee,
Honolulu, SCI, 4O9.5O. Time for con-
struction, g. -2 months.
Deposit 800, Pacific Construction
Company, $69,5OO. Time for construc-
tion, 6 months.
Deposit-$l,675, E. P. Chaplin, Ho-
nolulu, $74,O52. Time for construction,
| 8 months.
Deposit 81, 200, Langford & wallen,
$S5, 900. Time for construction, 9
months.
After. these bids were opened it was
discovered that they did not include
the figures for the dredging. Whether
that item will change the prospective
award can not be stated definitely.
The low bid of the Oakland firm, about
$4,000 below the others, it is expect
ed, will assure it the award.
THE BARRACKS CONTRACT.
The contract, for the construction of
the army barracks at Honolulu, has
been awarded to the Burrell Construc-
ton Company of Oakland, for total
of $25t ,529. The only bidder for the
entire work from Honolulu was Will
liam Mulch. His figures were about
q per cent. higher than those of the
successful bidder, being 1921, 1868. The
contract for constructing the sidewalks
goes to John Walker, of 1923 Piikoi
street, Honolulu, at $763.6S. There
were bids from the Electrical Com
! pany of Honolulu for the electrical
work, but it was deemed best to award
the contract for the entire construction
to one firm. These figures Of the Bur
rell COmpany's bids were entered on
the contract card in the Quartermaster
Generals Office, being the only figures
available for notification at the nresent