Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-04
!. \. c: 4. BIDS
ARE ACCEPTED
HANNIBAL, MO. BUILDER WILL
ERECT BUILDING ON LOW
EST BID.
BUILDING WILL COST
$e5.5s4 WITHOUT EXTRAS
furnishings, Architects Fees, HARD
ware, and Expenses Of Campaign
win Amount to $15,5oo More Leaving
Margin For Extras-6uiIdins Is TO
a. Finished Within Ten Months.


The low bids on the various parts
of construction OF the new y. NJ ( A.
t,,i,d;ne were accepted Friday after
noon BY the building committee suolec'
~ the negotiations of satisfactory
contracts as TO bonds and details.
They were:
Building. Loswell & Burgher, Of
Hannibal, Mo. ..........'..-Ss ',o'0
On the heating. plumbing and wiring
the committee appointed a s0o-coH
uitete OF the chairman, secretary ana
- II. Van Law 10 ascertain the most
ADVANTAGEOUS combination OF con-
tracts. Z. L. Mack's bids OF sl0,ls3 Tor
heating. ven1ilating and plumbing with
the Des Moines bid ON wiring OF S-.-s>
makes a bid on mechanical WORK
a. .......sl7 ,5sl
The bid of Homer Phelps, OF OsAs-
loosa. Oh heating and vent.atlns. o.
.lo.391 with the Des Moines oid OF
wiring and McCarten's bid on plump
ing of 100, makes combination con-
tract on mechanic woTk al. 81 .,oes
The Bailey Marsh Company, 81 Min
oeapoIis, included with their bic on the
general contract a bid on ali the me
.hanical work and # that stands sep
srately from the general contract II
will be the low bid a, .... 'I"'
In any event the contract cost OF
the building Will range from so-,sso
minimum, to s65,2s7 prooanle.
The total of these bids is within
thousand dollars of the architects es-
innate and in fact slightly under con-
sidering that the committee revised the
hea ting plans, specifying larger oolers
of the best quality. increased RADIATION
and a fresh air supply 10 gymnasium.
audience and locker rooms, something
which no other Y u. {. a. Of this size
has ever had.
In addition 10 the contracts there
will be items of expense as follows
Expenses Of campaign -.....-.s l,ooe
Extra cost Of pressed brick.... 500
Hardware and light fixtures. 1000
Architects fees and supervision 1900
SIS, 800
sso,7s.
Subscriptions net coliectihle. .ssa.oe0
Construction Regular.
II would have cost s.. 500 or the low
bid TO have constructed the floors OF
pressed metal jois. with wire lath and
plaster or 1888 mora on the next low
est bid of C. F. Reimer & Co. for re-
enforced concrete floors which would
have made II necessary to have r;tsed
s.. 600 more money and the committee
voted to build within its appropriation
as originally planned by the architects.
With ample fire esca pes, with night
clerk on duty az nigh. and with DO one
hut able bodied young men housed In
the building the danger OF a fatality
from fire was considered SO remote
that the labor of raising another $4,000
was considered rot worth the effort
The building of brick walls and wooden
ioist will grow obsolete and De torn
down long before X wears out anyway
The General Bids.
The bids opened were as follows tor
the building without heating, plumb
ing o. wiring:
1.as,yell & Burgher. Hannibal.
No. .s47, sse
Western Construction Company,
Iowa city 5o,s5s
q p Peimer E. CO, .. 5I.1of
r II. Hunz!uger. Iowa City,. 52,351
:Tacossr,. = Retrholdt ... 5<,1st
Larson -Danielson Construction
Company, La Porte, Ind...... SAL;
Bailey Marsh Company. Mime
no,,s 54,3st
I-Ir,er Peterson . 81, 49,
Anderson, Strandberg Company 5o,ss'
Nichols & Stolberg, Des Mo!nes os,4s'
John voik g. Co.. Rock Island,
III $50
Heating and Ventilating Bids.
The bids on a steam heating ant
fresh air ventilating plant were:
r. u. Mack ............. - leS L
Homer Phelps, Oshaioos2 49,. l"sa
IasweH & Burgher, Hannibal. l1,2o
Jacobson & Reinholdt ...-.-.. liz
Mason City Heating Company. ll,2'
American Heating Company,
Chicago .. .................. 4-'o'
NcCarten Plumbing Company. 1885
John vnik 4 Co. Rock Island. -e,l3
Plumbing Bids.
The bids on plumbing were as FOL
lows:
4. u. Mack ............'''-s1'e
McCarten Plumbing Company. 30
Laswen &. Burgher, Hannibal. 5,se
Mason City Plumbing Comapny. 6.o4
Jacobson & Reinholdt. .......... 6,6l
western Construction Company.
Iowa City ......... .....-.... $50
The Bids on Wiring.
The bids on electric wiring were a
follows:
Capital City Electric Company,
Des Moines ...--... 81 ~
Larson-DanieIson, La Porte. Ind. 2,3o
Lasweli- Burgher Hannibal 49,. 2,5s
Buchanan-Boughton Company. 2,13
: ) a .s1 & c::hcldt ----.-.. 2''
Western Construction Company,
Iowa City .........-...... 5,oV
McCarten Plumbing Company. $50
Z. 4. Mack $40
Heating, Plumbing and Wiring.
The bids on all Of the mechanics
work combined were:
Bailey Marsh Company. Mime
apolis =. Si4, iV
McCarten Plumbing Company. 1916
Laswell & Burgher, Hannibal. 1878
Western Construction Com
pany, Iowa City -............ 1893
John yolk & Co, Rock Island 1884
jacobson & Reinhoidt ......... eS,sa
Will BE Fine Building.
49, II. 4 No new q g in Marshal
town viii be one OF the finest building