Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-13
MACHINERY BIDS
WORRY OFFICIALS
PRESIDENT ANDERSON MAY ACT
AS REFEREE
Commissioner Ba!:er's Appearance as
Surety InvaIidates Offer of the
Hooker company--Eas:ern-
-ers are Lowest Bidders

President James A. Anderson of the
board of public works will find much
work awaiting him on his return from
Owens valley, not the least of which is
the machinery awards on which recon-
mendations have been made by aqueduct
board experts
The fact that Fred A. Baker of the
water board appears on the Hooker COM
pany's bids as surety has caused all that
companys bids to be thrown out marked
irregular"
Referring to air compressors the report
of Messrs Mathews, Lippincott and
Maekay states:
The lowest bid of $69SO from Berger &
Carter company, New York, for fork
frame American Parkhurst duplex COM
pressors is irregular from the fact that
no specifications or information required
are supplied Neither can the commit
tee ascertain where there is similar
machine or that these works ever built
such a machine.
The next lowest bid of j. d. Hooker
& Co. is irregular.
The third lowest bids, s7276, from Ma
chinery and Electrical company and the
Chicago Pneumatic Tool company Ga tie
bid for the same machine) is regular i'll
every way and we believe a machine we'll
the acceptance of either bid of $7276, pre-"
ferably that of the Machinery and Elec-
trical company as their delivery is better.
Recommendations are also made for the
following machinery on bids:
Cycoidal blowers-Smith-B Booth Usher
company $1210.
Two air reecivers-LlewelIyn iron
works, $31S.
Casing and unicns-7500 feet of six-inch
casing and 10 fiange unions, Southwestern
Supply company, $2S99, delivery on cars at
Chester, Pa, in twenty-five days.
Steel pipe-2O0O feet No. 16 1S-inch
1iveted steel pipe and f1anges, Lacy Man
ufacturing company, $11S4
Thirty side-dump cars-Harper & Rey-
nolds, delivery thirty days, $3o9l
Rails-10OOO feet rails and 400 pairs
splice, b. F. Kierulff company, $161S.
Fifty kegs track spikes-Kierulff com
pany, $3.50.
Sixteen steel plates-Kierulff company.
$199
e. F. Scattergood with the approval of
Messrs. Lppincott and Mathews makes
the following recommendations after TAB
ulating bids for electrical machinery and
apparatus for Elizabeth lake tunnel
equipments:
Item ga. locomotives-That the only
bid received be rejected as motor capacity
does not meet the specified requirement
Item Sb, locomotives-That the award
be made to the lowest regular bidder, the
Fort Wayne Electrical works for $500
The hid of the Henshaw-Bulkley COM
panv is irregular in that the motor ca
nacity does not meet the specification,
and that the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing company is irregular in
that the motor rating does not conform
to the specified requirement.
Item Sc, locomotiyes-That the two
hat 49, hn nnln aNxy-
B,Ikley company does not meet theAre-
ouirement in motor capacity, and the ten
ton machine offered by the Fort Wayne
Electric works is larger and therefore
more expensive than the work justifies.
item 49, rail bonds and compressors-
That the award be made to the lowest
bidder. Pierson Roeding company, for
se94 This price includes wrench for
operating the bond compressor.
item Ia transformers-That the award
he made to the lowest regular bidder, the
Westinghouse company, for 5000. The
Md of the Peerless Transformer company
is irregular in that the capacity does
rot meet the specified requirement.
Item 15 volt oil switch-That the award
be made to the lowest Diouer' D. ~ 1Aei-
man. for $500.
Ttem 16a. motor generators with fiex-
,bIe coupling-That all bids be rejected
These bids were asked for in the hope OF
securing an earlier delivery OF at lesst
3 norton of the sets, but failed In this
Items 16b, motor generators Two
hearing sets-That half the item, being
two sets. be awarded to the Fairbanks
Morse company for $4,000 and that seven
tv-five day delivery be insisted on. The
bid of the Fort Wayne Electric works
is irregular in that the efficiency is two
rer cent below that required. The second
two sets will not be needed except as
| ofS n nj months To come
and as the Fairbanks-M Morse machines
are untried in our experience and two
GETS are needed at the earliest possible