The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-19

| advertisement had been run in The
Daily Ardnoreite for a period of one
week or more, notifying the citizens
of this plan and asking them to des-
ignate upon what streets the sewers
should be laid by petitions to the
board. The plans and specifications
were submitted by the engineer OF
the city and bids called for in each
instance before the sewer was order
ed laid.
Sewers Laid in Fields.
He stated that among other petit
tions submitted to the board was resi-
dents in Highland Park McLish Addi-
tion to the City of Ardmore which by
an ordinance of the council some few
years ago had been admitted within
the city limits. On Feb. Is, 1910, the
bid of the Healy Construction Co., Of
McAlester, Okla, for the laying of
sewers on Stanley Blvd, McLish Ave,
Bixby Ave. and NJ Street, S. W.,
among other streets named in said
bid was submitted to the council. At
this point Mr.. Dawson called atten-
tion to the fact that the bid of the
Healy Construction Co., and all other
bids received for the laying Of sewers
on these streets was in excess of the
estimate of the city engineer as filed
with the board prior to the opening
of the bids and above which the COM
missioners were by law precluded
from legally awarding the contract.
AS the bid of the lowest bidder, the
Healy Construction Co., was In excess
of the amount allowed by law to be
expended for the, construction of sew
ers on these streets, Mr.. Dawson stat
ed that he, as shown by the records
from which he read moved that all
bids be rejected and new bids adver-
tised for but this motion did not carry
for the reason that it received no Sec
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at a call meeting in the afternoon of
Feb. 10, 1910, all members of the
board being present, and the board
adjourned without taking any further
action. But at the regular weekly
meeting which occurred that night
and at which all the commissioners
were present, with the exception of
Dawson, he being absent on the ac-
count of sickness of his wife, the
board proceeded to award the con-
tract to the Healy Construction Co.
for the building of the sewers on the
streets and avenues which the mayor
was pleased to call in his speech last
week, old fields.
The speaker said he could not I'M
derstand why the mayor in his speech
should have said that Dawson should
have laid sewers in these old fields
without authority of the board while
the mayor himself opened the bids
| and was cognizant of the fact that he,
Mr.. Dawson, had voted to reject all
bids for laying these particular sew
ers and that the contract had been
awarded by the commissioners during
his absence. He stated that it ap
peared to him that the mayor and
the other three commissioners need
not complain of not having set SUI
pervising eye upon his department
when in his absence and over his
known objections they had ordered
laid in direct conflict with the law
sewers on streets which the mayor
himself termed old fields. Mr.. Daw-
son then stated he plead guilty to
laying the sewers and well and thor
oughly understood that he did so as
an administrative officer carrying out
the instructions of the mayor and
the board. Mr. Dawson also stated
that he wanted it understood that he
did not object to the laying of these
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if they were laid in accordance with
the rules adopted by the commission
ers and the laws of the state; that he
believed in giving every section of
the city ample sewerage facility and
that he had done his best to provide
sewers whenever petitioned for by the
citizenship of either ward but that
he did object and would oppose the
laying any sewer where the expendi-
ture therefor where in excess of the
plans of the city. He expressed re-
gret that he had been unable to per-
form a miracle to make water run I'D
hill and that therefore he had been
unable to champion the cause of some
petitioners who resided above the
grade in sections of the city where
sewers could not be made to connect
with the main sewer outlets of which
there are only two, because of the
fact that these people were cut off
by the contour of the ground.