Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-02
Nebraska
PROTEST ON PRINTERS BILL
Board Deducts $S1.05 from Charge
for Printing Labor Report.
GRAND ISLAND ROW STILL ON
Protest from COmmIssary Sergeant
Regarding Delivery of Supplies
shows All IL Not Yet
Lovely.
GRAND ISLAND ROW STILL ON
rrom , STAFF Correspondent

CFrom q Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Neb.. July l.-(Special)-Sev-
eral printers appeared before the State
Printing board this afternoon TO protest
against the payment of the claim of Tim
othy ~sedgwick OF York for printing the
biennial report OF the State Labor bureau.
They contended Mr.. Sedgwick had stuffed
the report and made a total of l1b I'M
necessary pages, for which he askeld the
state to pay S1a a page. They desired
also to have the board stick Mr.. Sedgwick
for the penalty for not delivering the re-
ports on time. The board deducted $S1.6
for the total bill Of t616. -. In answer to
their charges Mr.. Sedgwick produced a
former report which he had been instructed
to follow in the makeup Of the new re-
port. and in addition he produced page
proofs literally marked which he said had
been passed on by the department. In
this proof was at least one Of the pages
which contained a black type title to which
the printers objected. His contention was
that he had followed the pattern sent him,
had submitted page proofs and that II
the bureau objected. the objections should
have been marked In the proof.
Labor Commissioner Maupin and his
clerk, Miss Cora Schlesinger. both gave
evidence that no page proof had ever been
sent to their office. Maupin volunteered
~ AAe nv
Ryder, who compiled the report and passed
on most Of the proof, would bear out their
statement, while Mr.. ~Sedgwick was Just
as sure Mr.. Ryder would bear out his
statement and in addition would say the
job was eminently satisfactory.
The York printer then put some ginger
into the proceedings by showing a postal
card signed by Miss schlesinger. calling
his attention to a correction TO be made
in one Of the title. pages in the sigma
ture.' Miss Schlesinger and Mr.. Maupin
commended this card had been written after
the printer had sent down a few pages OF
the report stspled together for the bene-
fit of the legislature.
Sedgwick received the contract for print
ing the report of the labor bureau be-
cause he was the lowest bidder, $e26.40, for
the job. With 100 pages taken out of the
report at SI6 the other bidders would
have received the following prices for the
work: State Journal, 81, 204; North & Co,
81, 1865 50; Woodruff Collins. $574.4s; Gillispie
& Phillips, Ss42.so; J.. L. Claflin, $sO4ss;
Hammond Printing Co., SS7.12-
Grand Island ROW stLl On.
Governor Shallenberser may have settled
the row between the adjutant and the
commandant at the Soldiers Home at
Grand Island when he made his recent trip
lneIei Dul IL oOcbh l lOOR ING II Ing
Board Of Purchase and Supplies which met
today to buy quarterly supplies for the
various state institutions, received a letter
from c. H. Jones. commissary sergeant of
the home. asking for several changes in
the contracts. He insists that the con-
tractors should be compelled to deliver not
mere than a wagon lead of goods at one
time, for there is no place for the stuff
to be stored at the home. In his letter he
told the Board that frequently, supplies OF
canned goods and oatmeal to last three
months was delivered and stored in a little
hot room. He took the matter up with the
commandant, he said, but got no satisfac-
ton, and he asked the board to help him
out. 1T will ave money to the state" he
argued II his recommendations were fol-
lowed. He also wanted II to be under
stood by the contractors that nc goods
should be delivered unless ordered. One
merchant told him. he said. that he made
more money delivering goods to the Hast
ings asylum than to the home III that
is true" the letter said to the board.
watch Hastings" Another letter was re-
ceived along the same lines from some OF
the members Of the home.
: Letter from sculptor French.
Daniel Chester French. the sculptor Sc
lected by the Abraham Lincoln Monument
association to construct the monument tc
Lincoln on the state house grounds. has
accepted the commission. r. M. Hall has
sent to the secretary OF the commission,
Addison Wait, the following letter from
Mr.. French, together with the statement
that Mr., Hall will meet Mr.. French in New
York early in July to go over the matter;
GLENDALE, Mass.-Frank NJ. Hall, Lin
coin, Neb.: Dear Sir-Your letter Of june
~. In which you inform me OF the decision
OF the Abraham Lincoln statue oommItte'
to award me the commission for the Lin
coin statue 10 me il most gratifying.
can hardly tell you how much pleasure the
announcement has given me-, not only be-
cause of the interest that attaches to the
subject. II Is q great opportunity and
pray that I may rise to the occasion.
L wish you would express to the com
mittee my keen appreciation and the great
compliment they nave paid me In sntruSt
ing to me the execution OF this statue. TIL
confidence that they have In this manner
manifested in my ability will be another
incentive to me to make this statue WORT
OF the subject and OF the prominent posi-
ton which 1t will occupy in the capito
honor.
I shall at once begin the serious study o.
the subject and shall hope before long t
have at least a sketch to show you, Your
very truly, DANIEL Q. FRENCH.
Job for Dean
The transfer Of Mrs. Margaret Farrell
from the position OF postmistress at tn
Lincoln insane hospital TO be the super
intandent of thu HOma far fhe H,r4apdiass