Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-26
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Bids Are Asked for Furnishing Gas
Street Lights for the Year.
ALLOW SPECIAL ATTORNEYS FEE
GradinG Htas for which Contractors
shook Dice Are TrovR Out
and New BIds Are
ordered.

resolution asking for the furnishing
or gas lamps and gas for street lighting
purposes for a period Of three years was
INTRODUCED at the meeting Of the city eoun-
ell last night and referred 10 the commit
tee Of the whole.
The resolution is a lengthy affair pre-
pared by City Attorney Rine. and has All
sorts Of clauses stlpulating every KIND OF
equipment The resolution provices that
bids be asked for a period OF five days
There are ten clauses The first stipu-
lates equipment and extingulshing and
maintenance OF the lamps. which are not
TO burn less than five cubic feet OF gas
per hour; the second and third are idenu-
cal with the first, save that they stipulate
four and three and one-half cubic feet OF
gas per hour, respectively. The fourth
asks for the furnishing OF a standard
lamp that win develop sixty-candle power
lights with a maximum Of three and one
half cubic feet Of gas per hour and mainte-
nance The fifth asks bids for the furnish
ing OF all equipment and the sixth for the
maintenance Of such equipment
Clause seven asks for the bids for the
purchase or lease OF equipment, includ-
ing lighting. cleaning and extinguishlng
The eighth stipulation asks for equipment
that will furnish elghty-candle power
lights with five cubic feet OF gas per
hour while nine asks bids for equipment
that will develop sixty-candle power lights
with three and one-half cubic feet Of gas,
the estimates not to include maintenance
Clause ten asks for bids for furnishing
gas at so much per thousand feet.
The Omaha Gas company is ordered to
submit a bid under clause one, as called
Tor In It's franchise.
President Takes WeitEeIs Place.
The resignation Of Albert weitzel. re-
Gently appointed plumbing inspector. as
member Of the examining board for
plumbers was received and accepted and
Henry Bridwel appointed in his place
city Engineer Craig reported on the res
olution providing for the grading OF an
alley between Martha and Davenport
streets from Twenty to Thrtieth
street, Thirty-fifth street from Cass TO
Davenport, and Spring street from Six
teenth to Seventeenth street. Mr.. Craig
recommended that the bids be rejected,
but a motion made by Councilman Nc
Govern that the firm Of Turner g. Kracht
be awarded the contract for paving the
alley and Spring street prevailed,
Condor Bros. & Gnffiths bid Of So cents
a cubic yard for grading Thirty-fifth
street was rejected and the city clerk or
dered TO readvertise for new bids This
was the job for which the firm of Turner
d Kracht and Condor Bros. & Griffith
shot dice after an agreement had been
made that Gus Hamel an Independent
contractor who put in like bid Of IS
cents was to receive SO from the winner
for relinquishing his claims. They all
lost.
Contracts for sewer district 40 at $685. 90
and 42S at &,5l2.75 and 424 at S621.9O were
awarded to the firm OF Donohue q Peter
son, and a contract for sewer district AZ
was awarded to James Jensen at $Jsl6i
The claims of Attorneys Breen and
Baldrige for $4,000 as special counsel in the
Union Pacific tax litigation was approved
City Engineer Craig and Councilmen
Funkhouser, sheldon and Burmester were
appointed a committee to confer with Ma
jor e. II. Schulz, chief Of tho corps OF en-
gineers of the river department, today on
methods for improving the river front in
north Omaha.
Arc lights were ordered installed on
Forty-second street between Pinkney and
Pratt. Thirty-eighth street between Dodge
and Davenport and at Thirty eighth and
Burt streets.