The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

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The county commissioners have run
up against snag in their frantic et-
fort to throw the whole of the contract
for the county's new jail to the Pauly
Jail Building company OF 81. Louls-
The plans and specifications, among
several other questionable things, call
for the cell doors Of the PaulY inter.
locking round bar construction 10 he
operated by the Paulv patent sliding
door. locking device, but the law says
that the county shall not adopt plans
and specifications for any public I'M
provcmcnt calling for the exclusive use
Of any patented article or process. The
law on the subjcc, is found AT the head
of this column and is too plain to he
miSinicrprctcd.
The plans and specifications for tho
new jail furnished by the rau!y JaIi
company. free of cost and readily
adopted by the commissioners, appar'
entity either without any great amount
of consideration or else with the reck-
less disregard Of The law usually cx-
hihitcd by that bedy, call for the use
Of Psulv patents in several instances,
hut il was impossible 10 obtain but
1jvo of those instances Tuesday after
noon Under The head OF ''CcIl Doors
is The following:
''The construction of the cell doors
10 he of the Pauly interlockinG round,
bar construction of fivc-Ply tool-proof
construction.
Farther along. under the head of
''Ccll Door Locking Device is the
following:
Each cell door TO be operated by
Inc Pauly sliding doorlocking device.
Company Has Cinch.
There is no wonder that none of
the other bids rendered covered every
thing as did the bid of the Pauly com
Vany. This company, under the plans
and specifications, occupied the highly
advantageous position of being both az.
clIitect and contractor The plans and
specifications for the cells particularly,
call for patents held only by the ST.
Louis concern. which naturally could
furnish such things cheaper than any
body else To secure consideration Of
tender TO furnish the cells another
firm would have been compelled 10 Of
fer TO furnish patents held by the
TaulY company. as required under the
plans, an outsidc firm would probably
have gone bankrupt The Pauly com.
pauy occupied The position of being
able to charge another firm offering
to furnish its patents su extortionate
price An outsider bidding on the cells
with their appurtenances would prob
ably have gone bankrupt in living up
10 It's contract if decided the success
full bidder.
There is little doubt that the COM
missiouers would have rushed headlong
and awarded the whole contract to the
Pauly company If their attention had
not been called 10 the illeea!ty of the
plans and specifications. Although bids
covering the entire improvement were
received and opened Monday. only the
contract TO erect the jail building
proper Was awarded and this probably
saved the commissioners from violat-
ing the law--again. BY the adoption
of the plans and specifications of tbc
paulv company other contractors prac-
ticallv were barred from rendering bids
on the cells aud the Pauly company
Svas tho ouly firm submitting n bid
covering everything. The contract for
Monday afternoon, but the contracts
for shc sheriff s residence. with walks
and driver. and the furnishing and in.
rtaIliug of ihe first 100 cells, Will not
he awarded until January ), 1910, at
which time II is expected the jail struc'
ture Will he completed.
Boss Mackay Talks.
In regard TO ihc action Of the com
missioncTs as to adopting plans and spec
ilicatious calling for patents, which arc
barred under the law. Mr.. MackaN SAID
TUESDAY afternoon that II may bc nee
cesarv 10 rcadYCri Sc fer bids on the
cell work but he does moi think so
This contract wilI no. be let until Jan
uary 3. and there is plenty of time in
the meantime 10 determine whether this
will he necessary. If the law applies
in this case the plans and specification
may he made acceptable by inserting
after the Pauly company the words. 'oi
some other device It's equal, or words 10
this effect -
Mr.. Mackay further SAYS that whcr
plans aud specifications were cousid
cred it was pointed out that patented
devices or processes could not he in
cluded. but that this was left 10 TIL,
county attorney to adjust i'll drawin;
np the plans aud specifications, County
Attornev Job p. Lyon, wbeu the sec
iiou Of the statute was pointed out t.
him Tuesday afternoon, said that there
was some question in his mind rs L
whether pateuted devices comld b
called for aud that he had searched 70
the section in question. but had beer
unable to find 1t.
How Plan Worked.
From one of the largest Jail work
in the country Tie Tribune was handc,
Il letter on Monday, too late 10 sub
NIT to the board. and il would hay
made no difference in the result ha'
il been submitted. as the deal for th
contract WAS made in the specifications
In this letter the firm says:
we have been Informed that bids 70
new county pai! viii he received al Sal