The Seward gateway., 1915-08-24
CITY COUNCILMAN GETS
 ANGRY AT THE MEETING,
Arrangements are Made for Prepar- ing the School Buildings for
 the Children.


 questions asked by Councilman Youngs and a consequent display of heat by another member. The other event worthy of notice was that the school committee was instructed to go ahead with the heating arrangements for the small house and also to take steps to prepare the new school build ing for the children. It was the sense of most of the couucilmen that the local men should have the chance to bid for the work. The EIectuc Pow CT company asked for the privilege of placing a pole temporarily and Mir. Hawkins of Brown & Hawkins asked permission to replace the sidewalk which he had maintained for many years across the street opposite his place of business. The former re quest was referred" to the commit tee and the other was apparently re- fused also as both Mir Graf and Mir. Hawkins are not personally popular with some of the members of the council, and that is the chief cOnsid-  cratiou with the body now in office. One member of the council was so worked up that he moved the Graf request be referred to the Franchise committee. two seconds later moved an amendment Co another amendment, a fraction of a moment later moved again that it be referred to the com mittee and then moved that the re quest be denied-all in the twinkling of the proverbial eye. The real tiff came over a question of printing. The Gateway does not like to go too deep ly into this lest it might in the small est way resemble the fsbwife who be- comes vituperative with one who pur- chases some of the fnny tribe from one Of her fair competitors. But as it happened in public meeting it must be covered" Councilman Youngs asked if it were a fact that the printing committee had given an order for printing without asking for bids and without asking the council for per mission. He said he spoke as a tax payer and for the interests of all tax payers who should be sate-guarded from such practises He wanted to know why some people who pretend ed to be so careful about danger in giving help to the Electric Power company were not equally careful in such matters as printing. Council man Chamberliu asked how it is that printing is not put to bids when all other work is so treated. Councilman Chamberlin later moved that printing work in future be put to bids. He said any other course was unfair. Councilman Daggett, who is the printing committee rose to his feet in anger It ought to be said in charity that he was apparently so angry that he said things which he would not have said in calmer moments but he seemed to fell keenly being rebuked for his secret work in the matter. An effort is beng made to tell here only what happened with out making it worse than it was. Well, this member of the printing committee started out by saying that no one should support the Gateway. Some of the people present as we'll as some of the councilmen smiled audibly and the speaker got hotter and objected to people making joke of" a new institution brought into the city. And then he stated that the job he gave out would be done fifteen or twenty per cent cheaper than jobs were done before here, but moment later, evidently feeling his position he hinted that the job might be done for nothing. Mayor Myers reminded this printing committee" that no work costing over fifty dollars could be given out without bids according to ordinace. The printing committed stated that the job was only sixteen dollars and he hastily moved that the council proceed to the regular order of business. Ishkabible, or whatever they call it.
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