The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-09-28
FEW READY TO
SUPPLY COOLIES


WASHINGTON. september 2O-Pro- |
posaIs were submitted To- the Isthmian |
Canal Commission today for furnishing !
Chinese labor to be employed in the
construction of the Panama Canal.
The requirements of the specifca-
tions were that the contractors should
agree to supply the Commission with
at least $500 Chinese. the Commission
having the privilege of calling upon
the successful contractor for addition
al labor not exceeding 5000. 1t fur
Their was specified that the laborers
should be on the isthmus ready for
work within three and half months
after the opening Of the proposals
and that the contractors should depo-
sit with their proposals a bond of $780,
600 as a guarantee to faithfully carry
out the terms of the contract.
While the Commission has been i'm
communication with about fifty indi-
vduals and corporations who had sig
nifed a possible desire to submit pro-
posals, only four proposals finally were
offered to the Commission today. In
the presence of the contractors and
others interested the propositions were
opened by w. Leon Pepperman, assist
ant chief Of the office of administra-
ton of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the proposals Pepperman announced
that no award would be made of the
contract until the proposals had been
examined bv the Commission and it's
general counsel.
/ In accordance with the specifications
/ the proposals were made for the fur
,nishing of different classes of labor
at a price hxd by theh our in Ameri
can gold.
A summary of the four proposals
submitted follows:
The American-China Contracting
Company represented by James A.
Morse of EnglewoOd, n. J.-Common
laborers, 10 cents per hour; foremen
and Interpreters. 90 cents per hour;
physicians, 40 cents per hour; cooks
and BARRIERS, 10 cents per hour.
International Contracting Company
Washington, D. c., represented by Car
roll Purman, observation-disclosures and
cooks, 10 cents per hour; doctors, 80
cents per hour; interpreters, 21a times
10 cents per hour; foremen, IL times 10
cents per hour.
Wah Me Lee Hang Company, Balti-
more-Laborers clerks and BARRIERS,
121a cents per hour; foremen and in
terpreters, Is cents per hour; doctors,
% cents per hour.
Joel Julian Ruben, Washington d.
C.-For the first $500 Chinese labOrers,
II cents per hour; foremcn, 40 cents
per hour; doctors, 60 cents per hour;
interpreters. 60 cents per hour: cooks
and BARRIERS, 80 cents per hour. For
the first additional 1000, above $500:
LabOrers, II cents per rOur For the
second additional 1000 llborers 10 Us
cents per hour. For the third addi-
tional 1000 laborers, 1O& per hour. For
the fourth additional 1000 labOrers, 1O5s
cents per hour. For the fifth addition
al 1000 laborers, 1912 cents per hour.
For the sixth additional 1000 labOrers,
1875 cents per hour. For the seventh
additional 1000 laborers '10A cents per
hour For the eighth additional 1000
laborers, 10 cents per hour. For the
tenth additional 1000 labOrers, So
cents per hour. For the eleventh 1000
2 additional Iaborers, 914 cents per hour
, And for the remainder of the 1900 la
borers, 8 cents per hour.
The last proposal is assumed at the
| department to mean that if the Com
2 mission enters into a contract with
= Mr.. Ruben and wants the full quota
7 of $1,000 Chinese he will furnish then
at the rae of > cents an hour fol
counD,on 1ahOrprS