New Ulm review., 1913-03-12
Street Grading
Bids Rejected
Armory Proposition W Il Be
Put To City Council In
Revised. Form.
Movable Sign Boards Must
Go. Gas Co. Gets Favor
able Consideration.

able Consideration.
Herman Held and Elmer Haeberle
appeared before the city council al
the regular meeting Tuesday evening
Tor the purpose of finding out how
ne members felt in reference to
uenting . franchise to the gas com
any which is to be financed by
heal capital. It was intimated to
them that an ordinance safeguarding
the interests OF the citizens would
receive favorable consideration and
action.
In view OF the fact that City At
torney Somsen had rendered an ad
veree opinion az to the issuance Of
bonds by the city for armory pur'
poses, the question Of submitting this
pfoposition to the voters at the an
mai city election was disposed Of
without being put to vote. Some
other plan OF securing funds from
tie city, which would be legal 10 oe'
ing considered and may be brought
to the attention Of the city fathers
Ct special meeting when Col.
Wright and other officers OF the Ma
tlonal Guard are expected to be
present
Mich. Lampl and John NeuwirtA
Who desired to know what had been
done to compel the M. & st. L. to
open up Seventh and Thirteenth
South streets across its right Of way
were informed that the committee,
which has this matter in charge re.
ported progress.
A ban was put on the use Of NOV.
able sign boards by the proprietors
Of the moving picture shows, This
action was precipitated by r: p.
English, one Of the proprietors Of the
American, who lodged complaint
AGAINST the, Gem theater for using
this method OF advertising.
The following judges were ap.
pointed for the spring election: First
ward, Aldermen Behnke and Schno.
brich and Joseph Smasal; Second
ward, Aldermen Mueller and Ruemke
and Herman d. Beussmann; Third
( ward, Aldermen Gieseke and Retzlah
Ind Christ Fflzen. Jr.
It was announced that each Of the
,.ffembers of the city council had re-
oeived a communication from Emil
q. Hage asking for strict enforce.
ment Of the ordinance relating to
dogs.
City Clerk Meyer was directed to
advertise for sealed bids for the
sprinkling of Minnesota, Broadway,
state and Washington streets and
also for hauling the large hook and
ladder truck in cases OF fire and on
other occasions, the bids to be IN be-
fore the regular meeting In April.
Gustav Schroeder was voted the
sam of s1O.50 for work done during
the winter on the dumping grounds.
Ochs & Baer we're granted per.
mission to remove their frame ware
house from the Mueller & Aab lot
to the rear Of the F. w. Eibner lot IN
the came block and John Woratschka
VAS given. permit to recover his
barn with galvanized iron.
Mayor Fritsche's reappointment OF
Jos. r. Groebner - fire marshal was
confirmed and his salary was raised
from $4,000 to 5000 per annum.
At the special meeting held Thurs
day evening. the bids received for
the laying Of watermains on Frank.
lin street from Fifth North to Sew.
euth North and from Franklin to
Washington street and for grading,
xrayeling and Douleyarding Franklin
street from Fifth North. to Twelfth
North were opened. For the former
work Chas. Emmerich's bid OF ST..
-857. 80 and that of Gulden & Hippert
for $1,981.53 we're the only ones con-
sidered and the contract was award
ed to Chas. Emmerich. 1t appeared
later that John Keogh of st. Peter
had also presented bid for this
work but had placed it in the same
envelope with his bid for grading.
The bid as accepted is $245.5O higher
than City Engineer Minium's esti-
mate. When the bids were opened,
Mr.. Keogh was asked II ne had no
bid for the watermains and from mis-
xsnswer, the council got the impress
sion that he had only one bid for the
entire work OF laying the water
mains and grading the street and ne
withdrew his bid unopened when ne
was informed that it could not be
considered because it did not conform
to the notice inviting the bids. When
the lone bid of Elmer E. Haeberle
for grading the street was being con-
sidered. Mr.. Keogh volunteered to
read his bid and it then developed
that he had bid for the total work |
and also separate bids, but as they |
had been withdrawn they could not be !
considered. His bids were as fol-
lows: Laying watermains S1,675.O0;
grading the street s6,050 and the en-
tire work $7,725. Mr.. Haeberle's bid
was s6,762O0. Because it was over
$4,000 higher than Mr.. Keogh's fig
nres and more than 100000 above
the estimate of the city engineer, the
by vote of 5 to 1 rejected
the bid and instructed the city clerk
to advertise for new bids which will