The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-02
CONTRACT LET FOR.
PUMPING STATION
r. D. Wood & Co. Win Out After
Long Wrangle In Council
$4,000 For Decorations.

For more than an hour the council
wrangled and fought Tuesday night
over the letting OF a contract for the
installation OF the pumping machinery
In the new sewage pumping station TO
be located at tho foot OF Park View
eve. Finally the contract was let to
r. d. Wood & Co, OF Philadelphia but
only after three separate roll calls and
half the members OF the council had
spoken their pieces, some OF them get
ting the floor five or six times.
Aid. Rutter gave notice Of reconsid-
Grafton, but may not bring the matter
up again as the proposition TO adveI-
tise for new bids was beaten deci-
sively.
This contract has been fought over
bitterly. the representatives OF r. d.
Wood a. CO., and those OF the Allis-
Chalmers Co. Of Milwaukee, being
about the city hall almost constantly
for days past. In the outcome, 1t is
victory for Mayor Breitmeyer and
Commissioner IIaarer, who had stood
up for the principle Of letting a con-
tract to the lowest bidder on the first
advertising. and for Aid. Shapland, who
stood alone In the sewer committee
session Monday, In favor of accepting
the Wood bid.
Aid Korte decided Tuesday TO put
in report in favor of>the lowest bid
der and against readvertising and this
report was signed by Aid. Shapland at
once. Aid. Reinhardt erased his name
from the minority report for readver-
Using and joined Korte and Shapland.
There was a big gallery present of
uvhn IL
sewer and pumping station completed
as soon as possible, and the result was
very agreeable to them.
Aid. Tossy assailed r. ID. Wood &
Co. as being opposed TO union labor
and he was answered by Henry Crow
Their, representative OF the latter firm,
who said that its iron works In Cam
den, n, j., had run for 100 years with
out a strike. Commissioner Haarer
was called on and made a talk in which
he advised acceptance OF the Wood
bid, his remarks evidently turning the
tide. Aid Vernon and Ellis advised
the council not to get the name of re-
jecting honest first bids In the hope OF
getting lower ones later as this course
would harm the city in the end.
81 decided to make my report as
ulu Wlicn ludl We Hdu uO dbSuI-
ance of any materially lower bid" ex-
planned Aid. Korte.
The "masher" ordinance was passed
by the council without division. II
is now up 10 the mayor for signature.
Aid Allan put through a resolution,
calling upon the corporation counsel
to draw up an ordinance allowing the
Detroit United Railway to construct a
line In Hamilton boulevard, without a
franchise
The parks and boulevards commit
tee was authorized TO investigate as
TO whether 1t is best to continue the
condemnation proceedings instituted
to gain possession for the city OF the
property adjoining the Belle Isle
bridge There have been reports that
the property-owners were planning 10
make a showing that would result in
their getting an immense sum for the
land. If this is the case, 1t might be
too costly a project for the city TO
undertake at this time. On the other
hand, some OF the aldermen stated
that they understood this frontage
was to be gathered in by a brewery
anG an eastern amusement enterprise