Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-08
SCENT COMBINE
IN OILING BIDS
PASADENA COUNCIL HOLDS UP
MANY CONTRACTS
Great Mass Of Street Improvements
Costing In the Aggregate Nearly
st5o,ooo Is Provided
For
Pasadena Agency.
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PASADENA, Aug. 7.--At its meet
ing today the city council opened bids
for great quantity of street work.
the lowest bids for the work aggre-
eating s1S4,5OO.
There were ninety bids as opened by
the council this forenoon and the city
engineer tabulated the bids for consid-
GRAFTON at the afternoon session.
According to the bids, Andrew Hol-
loway receives fifteen contracts Tor
oiling as many streets, and Blodgett,
White & Baldwin FIVE contracts
The Barber Asphalt company gets
the contract for asphalt pavement on
South Fair Oaks avenue.
Charles Mushrush gets the contracts
for improvements on Claremont drive
and Mountain street: j. r. Haddock
for sidewalks on Lincoln avenue and
Fast Orange Grove avenue; the McD.
Lee company, improvements on Man
zanita avenue: Owen Kinsman, inn
provements on Clinton street; ID. Z.
Macarthur, curb and gutter on Maylln
street; C. e. Chamberlain. sewer on
Lincoln avenue, and r, j. Hart. grad
ing. curbng and guttering on Noun
tain street.
The similarity in the bids and GER
tain other peculiarities struck some OF
the councilmen as noticeable, and late
this afternoon Councilman Dyer lntro-
duced resolution holding up all OF
the contracts for oiling and referring
them to a committee consisting OF
Street Superintendent Boyer, city En-
gineer Pearson and City Attorney
Wood for investigation and report.
The councilman claims that the bids
have the appearance of a put-up job
and combination of contractors FOR
the purpose of keeping the price up.
Should anything of this sort be dis
covered it is the purpose of the council
to reject all of the bids for oiling and
to readvertise for other bids. The
other contracts for street work were
duly entered into.
The holding up of the oiling bids
created considerable excitement and
may cause a more or less serious con-
troversy.
Crown City Notes
Justice Congdon leaves for Long
Beach tomorrow for weeks vacation.
/. Cases due in his court during that
time will be transferred to the other
Justices court.
The city employees will have their
payday tomorrow, instead of Thursday
6 has been usual This will be done
in order to furnish spending money
for the Pasadena picnic at Long Beach
Thursday.
Jack over, the Slavin block janitor,
who eloped with Miss Ida Scott some
months ago, has returned to Pasadena.
He states that he and Miss Scott were
married in San Francisco, but that the
record of their marriage was destroyed
by the fire. a.
Constable Austin is looking for a
young man who passed a worthless
check last Friday at Higgins & Hol-
lander's. The amount was only So and
was drawn on the First National bank.
The young man gave the name of
Frank WAR and claimed to be an en-
ploye of the Model grocery.
]. H. NJ Lapsley, one of the persons
injured in the recent Oneonta park
collision, lies in a precarious condition
at the home of friends at 43 North
Madison avenue, this city He had
three ribs broken at the time of the
accident and is believed to be injured
internally.
Yacht races at Coronado this week.