The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-30
Joseph Long 4 Co. Of Leo
minister, Build Reservoir
ON THE ORANGE BROOK
There Were Ten Bidders, and the High
est Bid Was Nearly Double the Suc-
cessful One, s2s,s9s-city Fur
nishes Part Of Material.

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tors bids for the construction Of the
new Orange brook reservoir at the meet
ing Of the city council last evening. the
city let the contract to Joseph Long q
company Of Leominster, Mass, who were
the lowest bidders Their bid was S23,
SQ5. There were ten bidders in all and
the prices SCARED up 70 S45,l75, nearly
double the price OF the lowest bidder.
The bidders and their prices We're as
/ follows.
James eastman, Burlington, s45,l75.
eastman Bros. Co, Newburyport,
Mass. $44l27.50.
Il. N. Normandean, Barre, S30,54s50
Charles r Hall, Boston. S3e $50.
Golden 4 lansing Troy, n. Y, SS4,
Pascole Ricci, Rutllsd. 32sO72o.
Frank 1. Allen, Worcester, Mass,
$4,000
John Z. Palmer, Boston. s2s5o0.
L. Pierson & Co.. Bristol Conn, S28,
$50
Joseph Long & company, S23,695-
The bids were made on unit prices and
after they were opened last evening the
city engineer and the city clerk had 70
figure them up on the engineers approx
mate estimate Of quantities. The city
furnishes the cement and pipe TO be
used in the construction SO that the
price paid Long a company Is only a
part Of the total cost Of the reservoir.
Besides awarding this contract, the
council ordered some heavy warrants
drawn on the city treasury, including one
for $4,000 to pay sewer bonds at the
National Bank Of Barre, which mature
on July L; also 81 500 interest on sewer
bonds TO the Barre Savings Bank. 81
4s7 50 to the Barre Savings Bank for six
months interest on water bonds, and
81 $50 to The same hank for six months
interest on s57,5e0 refunding bonds
Permission was granted the Granite
City Quoting club 70 move the red Office
building near the covered bridge on
South Main street to the west end Of
STATIONS shed. A communication from
The Rev. VI r. Braisted was read, pro-
testing against the band concerts being
held IN the park on Thursday evenings
for the reason that on that evening seY
eral Of the churches about the park hold
their weekly prayer meetings and were
disturbed by the music and the people.
Alderman Campbell said that he thought
that the matter could be satisfactorily
arranged with the band, As il had no
doubt heen an oversight Oh their part
The following reports from the build
ing inspector were read and permits Or.
dSed granted T. Giusberg to take out
two front windows in the Arcade block
and put in doors, and Rowland Bros.
& Cave to remodel the house and barn
on the French lot into teneEents.
Fire Chief Gladding requested the
council to declare John t. Sullivan's po-
sition III the permanent fire department
vacant. as he had left the city for good
and had not sent in his resignation. On
motion Of Alderman Campbell, the re-
quest Of the chief was granted
"A communication from three hadware
merchants in the city, Reynolds & Son,
i. A. pfindle and G. M. Averill & Co., |
was read, requesting the council that
whenever the city wanted any supplies |
usually purchased at hardware stores
that they be given chance to bid on
furnishing them to the city, Alderman /
Alexander said that it was evident from
this letter that these merchants thought /
the city was not dividing up its business
ii this line with all Of the hardware
stores. but so far as he knew he con-
sidered that the city had tried to divide |
the thing up as even as possible.
Alderman Campbell said that he knew
well enough that the letter was fired
at him for the reason that the N. ID. /
Phelps company, where he is employed,
had been given more of the city's biisi-
ness than the others, He said that it I
was solely for the reason that the Phelps /
company had given the city lower prices
than the rest that it had received the
business. All Of the other stores had
been given an equal chance, he claimed,
but the Phelps company had always Civ
en- the best price for the city. He said /
he was chairman of the supply commit
tee, but had very little to do with the
buying OF the city supplies, as the heads
OF the different department had been
given the authority to purchase their
own supplies and he knew chat when
ever they could they had divided the
business among all the merchants No
further action was taken in regard to
the letter.
Judge II. w. Scott stated to the board
that he had received notice from the
public service commissioners chat they
had granted the request Of the Martin
son Estate Granite company to build q
grade crossing across Batchelder street
and he wanted the council to instruct
the city clerk to issue him 3 permit 20
60 ahead with the work On motion Of
Alderman Alexander the permit was or
dered granted.
Alderman Thurston said that Superin-
tendent Of Streets Fred S Bruce wanted
q weeks vacation within the next few
weeks and on motion Of Alderman Camp
bell it was voted to let him of for q
week.
Alderman Alexander stated that the
chief 81 police had reported 70 him that
there werc some Of the fruit store IL
censees who were not living up TO the
rules under which their Licenses were
granted and there was consider Die dis
among the other lia nse hold
ers who were trying to live up to the
He said that there was one
store III particular that had disregarded
the regulations and gone back to the
old reaime On motion of Alderman
Tburston the license committee was in /