Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-07
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Bids for Paving to Be Submitted to
Council Tonight.
SOME PECUL1AR1THs IN BIDS
Hints Going Round that Contractors
BiddinE on various Kinds Of
Pavement Have Tacit
Agreement.

The session Of the city council will be
important this evening, for IL Is expected
that the tabulation bids viii be ready for
examination on the ten or more paving
contracts. The city clerk first had pos
session Of these bids and made a record
Of them. Then they were turned over to
he city ngine for tabulation. The en-
gineer will complete the tabulation today.
It is expected that the bids will show
several peculiar things. One Is that the
various contracting firms bid pretty gen
orally on asphaltic concrete and several
bid on creosoted wood block. but in other
materials many Of the firms bid without
competition. 1t is limited that the con-
tractors agreed upon what class or ma
terials each should bid outside Of what
appeared to be the most probable material
for the paving.
The bids according to the face OF the
several propositions. show an increase in
the price per square yard for nearly every
class of material. This in the case Of as
phaltic concrete would represent a prob
able increase in the S00,0 700 contract Of
about $4,000 aver imilar contracts in
other reports OF the city.
In the case Of the creosoted wood block
the increase in the bid would probably
represent S25.O0O. The exact increase in
the entire contracts cannot be ascertained
until the city engineer makes up his total
sheets following the tabulation OF the bids.
These features Of the situation will be
part of the work which the city council
will have in hand to solve this evening.
Police Raid Lower n street.
Five police officers. headed by a cap
tain and accompanied by The patrol wagon,
raided all the suspicious places along n
street Saturday night. At the end Of two
hours, F. Riesvorph. Cora Chaddock, j..
w .-Toshy and Lew Donahue were arrested
They we're arrested at the Duval lodging
house. This was the only place where
conditions seemed to warrant placing the
inhabitants under arrest In this lodging
house several cases of beer were discov-
cred. The juvenile authorities recently took
three children from this lodging house
and placed them in the detention home.
They will be given q hearing in Omaha
Today.
DIR. c. A. Stuart Leaves City.
Last night DR.. and Mrs. c. A. Stuart
left for Wichita, Kan, where DR.. Stuart
accepts a promotion as assistant superin-
tendent Of the Cudahy Packing company.
Mr.. stuart has been Identified with the
PAIAAAh COMPANY ~ ACNA VI AAFN AAeAANAA
and has been employed at the .ocaI plant
before assuming the position with Cudahy
be was a government veterinarian and was
at one time assistant chief under DR.. Don
c. Aver in the local bureau Of animal
industry.
Magic City Gossip.
2. B. Udall is improving slowly at the
South Omaha hospital
Mrs. d. G. Robb is entertaining Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Rice Of Portland. ore.
letters Gold Top Beer delivered to any
part Of the city. Telephone No. 5.
I. L. Van SAINT returned Saturday from
Chicago, where he attended the Fat Stock
show.
Mrs. J. L. Harris entertained at luncheon
Thursday at her home, Nineteenth and L
streets.
Miss Freda Baumgarten has gone to
Chicago TO spend the holidays with her
parents.
]. c.. Kelly has resigned his position
with the Journa.-Stookman. He expects to
90 to Seattle.
= Rev. J. >. Hedelund left Friday for
Schuyler to assume the duties of his new
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Anderson entertained
Friday evening by giving a dinner party
to a number OF friends.
Mrs. Joseph Murphy has sufficiently re-
covered after an operation In an Omaha
hospital to return TO her home.
The government inspectors will give q
farewell banquet at Odd Fellows hall in
e honor Of Or. ]. c. Mattatal Tuesday even,
: ing.
r I Rev. Linn Su.lenberger preached at the
? Presbyterian church service sunday even
ing. He is a young graduate of Bellevue
D college.
Sunday evening, December Il, Prof
- Nathan Bernstein viii give a lecture under
Z the auspices Of the Presbyterian Brother
mood entitled. The Restless Jew
Miss Winnie p. Robson has gone to Kear.
1 ney, Neb., where she has assumed tn,
duties Of head nurse in Or. Grothan'l
sanitarium. She has not fully decided L
accept the position permanently.
Thomas Poucha. was taken to the Soutl
Omaha hospital Saturday on the order o
the city physician. He is the man whom
. Curtis Holden hit on the head with
pFitch stick November 50, Featuring hi
e skull.
y Frank Powers and Edwin Stephens CAV
an entertainment at the Idlewtld home Il
help cheer the young orphans and home
less children Thursday evening of las
- week. The music of the young SoutI
Omaha musicians was much appreciated.
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