Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-12-31

ED. MCCORMICK,
County Commissioner.
The petitions were all referred to
| the committee on Bridges and Ferries.
An appeal of freeholders from de-
cision of electors of the town of Paris
refusing to repair a bridge in said
| town, was presented and referred to
| the committee on bridges and ferries.
| A claim for labor on permanent high
ways in North Lancaster was prese Mt
| ed and referred to the committee on
public highways.
! The report of the committee on
painting and decorating of the interior
of the court house, was presented and
referred to the committee on public
! property The report is as follows:
| To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Grant County, Wisconsin.
COMMUNICATING to the fact that
! no member of this committee had any
previous experience in this class of
work and being unable to find anything
| of it's kind in this immediate vicinity
| and could find no person here who was
! able to enlighten us on the subject it
! was concluded that some members of
| the committee should go and endeavOr
! to obtain the necessary information
from outside sources.
| Therefore, on January list, 1913, Mr..
| Bennett and Mr.. Brennan, of your COM
! mittee went to Madison and Milwaukee
| in order to get some information con-
/ corning this elias of work. They gain
| ed most of the desired information in
| which had been finished by painting
/ and decorating. They interviewed a
! number of artists in this line and from
| the information received, concluded to
advertise for bids on the work and
while in Milwaukee prepared an ad-
vertisement and had the same publish
| ed in the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel
| and the Western Builder, and upon our
| return home, advertised in our local
| papers in Grant County, which notice
! is as follows, to-wit:
Notice to Decorators.
The undersigned committee will re-
| ceive bids for the decorating of the
| interior of Grant County Court House
| at Lancaster, Wis, up to 1 P. NJ, Feb.
| 3, 1913.
All bids must be sealed and filed with
| p. E. Mccoy, County Clerk, Lancaster,
! Wis
Bidders shall present sketches and
| specifications of their intended work
and the successful bidder must enter
| into contract and give bond to Grant
| County for the full amount of his
bid for the faithful performance of
| his contract.
The committee reserves the right to
| reject any and all bids.
w. J. BRENNAN,
| JOSEPH 7. BENNETT,
| JACOB KARMAN, Sr.
Committee.
In the meantime we had a number of
| artists call upon us here in Lancaster
| and one or both of the local members
| of the committee met them and went
| through the Court House with them,
| explaining what we considered would
| be required.
On February 3rd, 1913, at one o'clock
+: M. the committee met at the office
| of the County Clerk and received from
| the Clerk the sealed bids filed with
him. We took them to the Library
| Room in the Court House where we
| opened them and as all bidders were
| present, with two exceptions, and had
| with them sketches and schemes of
| separately to the Library room where
| they presented and explained their
particular sketch and proposal
We had ten bids, plans and sketches
| before us, as follows:
/. F. A. Van Stone of Chicago Ill
2. J. S. Hallene of Cedar Rapids, Ia.
8. Odln j. Oyen of La Crosse, Wis.
4. Williams & Andrew Company.
| kee, Wis
6. Maxwell, Ray & Co. of Milwaukee,
| Wis.
Z. Gimble Brothers of Milwaukee,
8. Niedecken & Wallbridge of Mil
| waukee, Wis.
9. Frederick ]. Stanton of Milwaukee,
| Wis.
10. The Associated Artists of Mil
| waukee, Wis.
The original bids are on file with the
County Clerk
All of the plans and sketches. were,
In our opinion very fine and it was
| considerable of a task for the COM
| mlttee to make selection
We had the assistance of Judges
| Clementson and Goodsen. Miss FCliZa-
| Sclmltt Of hn off
GERS, which helped us materially to
make selection. We finally selected
the proposal and plan of the Associ-
| ated Artists of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and agreed to contract with them
| to do the work according to their
| plans and specifications for the sum
| of Four thousand dollars ($4OOO.OO)
| which sum was the amount of the an
| preparation.
On February 18th, 1913, we entered
into a written contract with the AS
soclated Artists of Milwaukee, Wis, for
| the painting and decorating of the in
| terror walls, ceilings, ETC., of the Court
| House for the said sum of 100000,
they giving to Grant County a Surety
! company pond IN said amount of
| 100000, for the faithful performance
| of the said contract.
The original contract and bond ac-
| companies this report and is made a
! part hereof.
The contractors started work about
| February Goth and continued until it's
completion sometime in the latter part
| of July.
AS the work progressed we made
| payments to the contractor but before
hnal settlement we learned that our
contractor had failed and was in bank
ruptcy. The final payment of 1000. 90
was paid to the Receiver in Bank
| ruptcy.
| The committee believes it was for
tunate in its selection of the artists
and that we have had good piece of
| ,krv
| Board will feel that the County re-
ceived value for it's money
| Dated November 18th, 1918.
| All of which is respectfully submit
| ted
WALTER J. BRENNAN,
j. T. BENNETT
JACOB KARMAN, Sr.
Committee.