The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-28
SPECIFICATIONS FOR NEW
 SCHOOL TO BE PARED DOWN
Joint Committee will Insist on Keep
 ing Within the Appropriation.
STAMFORD
Special to The Farmer.) )

(Sp0claI 10 The HErmGr.y
 Stra tford, Dec 2S-The consolidated
 committee on the building of the pro posed school house on the Huntington road met last night and opened the
 bids submitted. q Thirty-five builders figured on the plans and specified lions but only IS submitted bids. There was so wide a difference in the figu~ es
 submitted that only the two lowest will be taken into consideration The names of the bidders and the amounts will not be made public until the con- tracts are awarded. Supt. Kelsey has been committee of one to examine the plans and specifications, but at last nights meeting the committee was augmented by the appointment of and with Supt. Kelsey the plans will be thoroughly overhauIed and boiled down until they come within the ap- propria ton of $15, GOO made by the town clerk of the committee. offered a mo-
 ton that the figures submitted by the until the contract was awarded, but the motion found no second. When President Coggswen of the school committee arrived later. he offered a similar resolution, but was informed that his resolution had been offered previously.
 Frederick Beckwith, the architect, informed the committee that his orig inal plans were for a building which could be built complete with the $15,- 900 appropriation. He explained that Supt Kelsey. acting as a committee of one to examine the specifications, had added so many expensive fittings not called for in the original plan that the cost had been increased to 8 additions could be easily eliminated and the estimated cost brought with in the appropriation The enlarged committee with the architect will pare down the plans and specifications to something like what the committee as a whole desires. and they will then be resrlbrnitted to the contractors for fur ther figures. Only two local contrac- tors offered bids. The larger propor- ton of the bids came from Bridgeport parties. Each bid was accom- 1panied plans and specifications. The com mittee has evidently determined to build the school house for the amount appropriated by the town, and the sentiment expressed last night by al- most the whole membership was against any extra and unnecessary expense beyond what is needed to put up a thoroughly f1rst-class building we'll adapted to the purpose for which it will be used. Architect Beckwith in a few minutes rough work with a pencil showed how the, cost of the Building could be reduced $5.00o with out in any way affecting it's efficiency, and with more time greater reduc- ton could be made. He assured the committee that the building can be built on the original lines for $15,000 and that his figures were drawn with that amount Tn view. F1rSt select man Charles H. welles, who is chair man of the committee, has committed himself to the policy that the will of the voters in making the appropriation shall be respected. He has the ma jority of the committete with him.
 For fourteen days the machinery of the law in the town of Stratford has been idle and is now going to decay. No arrests have been made and no cases have come before the town
 -%oE1 and other minions of the law are fac ing starvation, and if someone does not stir up a row soon there is a pros pect of a panic Judge Peck can these days afford butter on only one side of his bread and the peace off, cers don't get any butter at all It is out of season for greens and the clam crop, which has been the s'old pork barref' for the hard up since the town was settled, has given out. As a steady winter diet snowballs are