New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-02-18
Funds Voted Are
Not Sufficient
New Election TO Be Held.

In spite of wholesale, elimina-
ton of non-essentials from the pro-
posed High School building, which
lowered the original bid on the
building about eight thousand dol
lars, 1t will be necessary for the local
School Board to call a special cleo
ton and secure $4,000 additional
funds fu to erect the building according
lyric P. Chapman. The Board has
decided to hold the election on Thurs
day.. March 9Th, in the assembly hall
OF the present High School building.
In the meantime provisional con-
tracts have been entered into with
the 7. B. Nelson Construction Co..
OF Mankato and the bidders for the
smaller contracts. By means of the
provisional contracts with the gen.
eral and special contractors the pres
ent estimates can be held for a
sr1sl.S IN. 1855
The situation that the. Board has
been forced to face is not new one
in the building of High Schools. In
fact the call for a second annronr;a-
ton seems to be the general rule
rather than the exception. Few. if
any, OF the cities building new school
buildings seem to have been able to
keep within the original appropria-
ton. AT Faribault, 100000 was first
voted but it was found necessary to
raise another $4,000 to complete the
job. Montevideo, according to one
of the visiting contractors, was fore.
ed to add $4,000 to the original
100000 voted. Mortified met a
Similar situation when they built a
few years ago. Evidently the in
creased cost of living, material, and
construction makes the original esti-
mates fall short of covering the cost.
At any rate it seems evident that New
Vim cannot erect suitable building
tor the original appropriation and to
try to do so would mean the erection
OF a building that would soon prove
inadequate again and necessitate fur
Their building. Clearly a false eco
nomy at the present time would be
the height Of folly.
When the bids were opened last
Tuesday evening nearly half the
seats in the High School assembly
room were filled by the visiting
contractors or their representatives.
Over fifty bids were received and
opened by the Board. Twelve of
these were general contracts and
forty on the minor contracts such as
heating and lighting. All the bids
were read and then, owing to the
lateness of the hour, the meeting was
adjourned till the next morning,
Many of the contractors left at once
but those who felt that their bids
were low enuf to still give them a
chance at the job stayed on till the
Board was. able to make it's decisions.
The t. B. Nelson Co., of Mankato,
was successful in securing the gen.
eral contract and if the present plans
are successful will erect the building
for $69,482, which is about eight
thousand lower than their original
bid. That the first bid of $77,594
was. thus discounted was due to the
to the elimination of storm windows.
substituting the knob and tube cleo
trlc wiring system in place of steel
conduits, substituting tcrrazo floor
ing IN place of tile in the toilet rooms
and several like alterations which
80 AAvv AAoSCI Aealy CIidIlSS Tie Du1lO.
ing. The approximate cost of the
new building, including plumbing,
heating, vacuum system, temperature
control, will cost about $92,s92.
The following contractors were
successful in securing the minor con-
tracts awarded by the board condi-
tlonally last Wednesday. Plumbing,
9. M. Masters of Mankato, and p. ].
Gallagher Company of st. Paul;
heating and ventilating, ]. P. Adam
son, st. Paul; electric insulation,
Pierson Wilcox, Minneapolis; vacuum
system, Warren Webster Co., Cam
den, N. J., ventilating fan equipment,
Morgan Gerrish Co., Minneapolis;
temperature control, johnson Service
Co., Minneapolis.
The original bids as submitted last
Tuesday evening were as follows:
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