New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-04-15
Great Variety
In Bids Offered
Waterman, Sewer And Graz
yelling Contracts Let.
Bids Called For On New
City Reservoir In Ger
man Park.

man Park.
At the regular meeting of the city couh-
Gil held Wednesday evening, delegation
of owners of property abutting on Mime
sofa Street appeared on behalf of the paw
ing proposition and urged that the Coun-
Gil take immediate action to pave four OF
more blocks of New Ulm's main business
street. Wd. Eibner, Chairman of the
paving committee appointed by the Com
mercial Club, brought the matter to the
attention of the Council and DR.. J. l..
Schoch and A. Ottomeyer also spoke.
favoring paving at the earliest opportun-
ity. With the exception of Councillor
Ruemke, all the members of the Council
favored the request of the property OWE
ers. In the course Of the discussion it
was suggested that if paving is to be done
at all, it should include the whole dis
lance of the "White Way" and when the
project was finally referred to the Board
of Public Works the resolution embodied
the paving of Minnesota Street from Sec
ond South Street to Fourth North Street.
The next afternoon, Thursday, the Board
of Public Works met and acted favorably
on the matter of this paving and their re-
port was submitted to the Council at
meeting held the same evening. Action
on the report was deferred, however, at
the request of Councillor Ruemke who de-
sired to have the matter laid over until
the meeting the following Tuesday, last
night. No less than thirteen bids were re
ceived for the laying of the watermains ON
streets south of Center Street the coz
tract being awarded to the Union Ma
chine Company of st. Paul for the sum of
$4,385.00. The next bidder, Thomas E.
Wooley of La Crosse, Wise, was only So.
higher. The highest bid was submitted
by w. B. Saunders Of Minneapolis who
offered to do the work for So, 10000,
For the ten block sewer extensions
south of Center Street, there was even
greater disparity between the lowest and
the highest bids than there was for the
Waterman job. The Blackjack Con-
struction Co.of Yankton,S. D. landed the
job at 81, 10000, which was less than one
half the figure submitted by w. B. Saun-
ders who had put in bid in the sum of
$16,334.00.
Only two bids were received for the
grading and crawling of Broadway from
Fourth to Seventh South Street, State Str
from Fifth to Seventh South, Washington
Str. from Fifth to Seventh South, and
Seventh South Str. from Washington to
German Street. The highest bid submit
ted was that of John Keogh of St. Peter
for 100000. The contract was award
ed to E. Haeberle for $S,751.49, the a.
mount of his bid.
The matter of procuring garbage cans
to be placed on various corners on Mime
sotaStreet and in GermanP Park, as recon-
mended by the Board of Health in COM
munication addressed to the Council by
Health Officer Seifert, was referred to the
Committee ON Streets with full power to
act.
The application of P. W. Soukup for
plumbers license was laid over to sub
sequent meeting because the bond requir-
ed by the city ordinance did not accompa-
ny the application and for the further rea-
son that the Council wished to ascertain
whether or not Mr.. Soukup intends to es-
tablish and conduct plumbers business
in the city. The reports Of the various
city officials were read and ordered filed
and the bills that had been presented for
payment were ordered paid.
At the adjourned meeting Thursday eve
ming, the only matter that was considered
outside Of the paving proposition, was
the erection Of the new reservoir near the
waterworks plant to take the place Of the
three cisterns which were in use until the
typhoid epidemic struck the city and
which have been condemned by the State
Board Of Health. After = lengthy discus
sion the Council went on record as favor
ing reservoir of u, 900 gallons capacity.
City Engineer Minimum presented plans
and specifications for q reservoir similar
in structure to the one at Hermannfs
Heights, to be so feet in diameter and a.
bout 20 feet high, with the capacity spec