Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-03
IN FEAR OF NUISANCE.
EXPLANATION OF AWARD OF
DEAD ANIMAL CONTRACT,
Lowest District Bidder States That
He Offered to Give Bond
Against Objection.

The statement was made in the en-
gineer department of the District gov.
eminent yesterday that the contract to
dispose Of dead animals was given to
Robert Mann at Four Mile Run. Va, be-
cause in so doing the District obviously
rid itself Of what could only be called q
nuisance. This statement was made by a
member Of the committee which award
ed the contracts in answer to a statement
issued by Lewis Hopfenmaier of George
town. whose bid for the five-year period
was 81 ,26o lower than Mann's.
I'VE thought that 1t would be better
to let the District pay less than $500 q
year more and have its dead animals dis
posed of outside the District than have
is the statement of a member of the
committee.
Paragraph D Of the instructions to
disposal is located in the District of Co.
lumbia the bidder must bring
such evidence as the Commissioners may
require to prove that no nuisance can en-
sue during the operation of the plant to
be installed"
Opposed by Health Officer.
DR.. Woodward is of the opinion that
the plant at Georgetown, as proposed by
Mr.. Hopfenmaier, would have been a
nuisance, and the members of the COM
mittee were with him in that respect
The statement of Mr.. Hopfenmaier was
In typewriter form and was as follows:
Lewis Hopfenmaier, through his attor-
ney, e. {. Brandenburg OF the firm of
Brandenburg Brandenburg, states that
there is no occasion for any Of the resi-
dents OF Georgetown or elsewhere to be-
come exercised over proposal submitted
by Mr.. Hopfenmaier to the District Com
mlSSioners in response to their ADVERTISE
ment for the collection and disposal of
dead animals 1t was generally well
known that Mr.. Hopfenmaier made two
proposals, one to dispose of these ami
mails in the District of Columbia and the
yond the District limits, and no question
whatever was raised by any one about
the matter until it was found at the time
the bids were opened that he was the
lowest bidder for the District.
Immediately his competitors became
active and were represented at the recent
hearing before the board at the municipal
building, and had influenced other prop
erty owners of Georgetown to appear in
opposition to the award of the contract to
him, one OF the property owners admit
ting at the hearing that he appeared at
the suggestion of one unsuccessful bidder.
Offered to Give Bond.
Upon finding that opposition was
raised at the hearing Mr.. Hopfenmaier' S
attorney offered to give a bond in any
amount that the Commissioners might re-
quire, guaranteeing that these animals
would be disposed of in the city limits in
accordance with all the requirements of
Office
demonstrated that 1t was in the least OBJ
jectionable to any of the citizens of
Georgetown he would make arrange
ments to dispose of these bodies beyond
the city limits without added expense to
the District.
MIR. Hopfenmaier,s bid for disposing
OF dead animals outside of the city linn
its was $3.50. while his competitors bid
for the same service was $3.50, and the
board, having reached the conclusion
that 1t was inadvisable to have these
animals disposed of in the District limits,
notwithstanding that they had called for
such proposals, awarded the contract to
Robert Manu. the lowest bidder for serv-
ices beyond the District limits. Mr.. Hop
fenmaier states that he had no inten-
ton of establishing a crematorium or
anything of that character which might
prove Objectionable to the residents of
any portion of the District. At the hear
ing counsel called attention to the fact
that this objection was hardly consistent
with the recent demands of the citizens
of Georgetown to suspend or remove the
operation of the smoke law so far as
Georgetown is concerned, in order that
it might become a manufacturing CEN
ter, and that this showed quite con-
clusively that the opposition was due to
the inspiration of his competitors, who
feared that he might be awarded the
contract"