Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-03-11
MANY WOULD BUILD
STONY CREEK BRIDGE
County Commissioners Receive a
Multitude Of Bids.
AWARD IS DEFERRED.
Board Provides for Care Of Patient
Afflicted With Smallpox in The
Fifth District.

More than a dozen construction
firms would like TO build the new
bridge across Stoney creek, in the
upper section Of the county. This
was evidenced yesterday WHEN the
County Commissioners opened bids
for the structure, which is to be Of
wood, with a steel draw span.
Some Of the bidders submitted es-
Inmates only on the bridge work,
while others bid for the draw span.
and one firm made an offer for both.
The Virginia Bridge & Iron Company
was the lowest bidder for the draw
works, at So, $40, while Sanford &
Brooks, Of Baltimore, put in the low
est bid for the bridge work, $685..
The award Of contract was deferred,
but it is likely that the Commissioners
will accept the bids of these two
firms.
The other bidders and ther bids
were For the drawworks, W. J.
Lauer & Co.. ss,042i Sanford &
Brooks, sS,432; York Bridge Co,
1894; for the bridge, james J.
Stehle & Co., $4,000; Penn Bridge
Co., sl1 ,299 Standard Contracting
G., $40, 29s; Percy Il. Smith, So, 79I
Andrew Miller CO., S9,9Il.54; John
H. Branzell, ss,l1J; Chesapeake Con-
struetion Co, 1854; BENJAMIN
Glenn, 50, PAP; VIM. f. Bowles, So, =
900. Mclean Construction Co. SO, 1872.
The Commissioners spent some
time in executive session yesterday,
giving further consideration to the
new road law for this county that
was introduced in the House of
Delegates some time ago. The bill
would abolish the position of county
engineer, and makes other changes
il the present law. The Board has
been practically divided in its senti-
ment toward the measure, and al
though 40 formal statement was
made following the closed session,
it is understood the vote stood four
TO three against certain features in
the proposed new law.
Or. Thomas B. Horton, of Curtis
Bay, was before the Commissio lers
in regard to a case Of smallpox that
has been discovered in the Fifth dis
tret. And, in accordance with an
order, Or. Horton was authorized to
remove the patient from Mr.. Wares
farm to house at Fairfield, now oc-
cupied by a patient who contracted
| the disease on Baltimore and Ohio
property, provided the railroad Off
Gals consent to the same. If such
permission is not granted, however,
then a suitable detention house will
be built at Fairfield, on lot owned
by the county. The matter was placed
in the hands of committee consist.
ing of DR.. Horton, DR.. C h. Brooke
andECommissioner Hammond, of the
Fifth district.
In accordance with an order adopt
ed by the Board, the county treasurer
has been directed to strike from the
assessment books the list of persons
who were assessed for personal prop
erty in the levy OF 1911, as said per
sons have been returned insolvent by
the treasurer.
| Clerk Tilghman submitted bis re
port Of the proportionate expenditur,
Of taxes from July l, 1913. to Feb
ruary %, az follows: First district
20 cents on the 500; Second district
10 cents Third district, 3s cents
Fourth district, 3S. cents; Fifth dis
trict, az cents; Eighth district, q
cents; General county rate, A.
cents.
| Upon certificates Of DR.. John Collin
son and DR.. j. NJ Hayes, John Dow
was committed to Spring Grove Asy
lum.