New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-03-10
Many Bids Are
Offeredon Pump
COUNCIL HAS LONG SESSION
OVER PURCHASE OF EQUIP
MENT.
BROWN AND MIC. COUNTIES
WILL SHARE EXPENSE OF
BRIDGE APPROACHES.


For fully three hours the City Council
at their regular meeting held Tuesday
evening, March End, wrestled with
the bids received for the installation
of pump at the deep we'll next to the
reservoir, back of Hermanns' Heights,
and then adjourned to meet again
Monday evening of this week for the
purpose of awarding the contract. About
twenty people, representing the different
bidders were present, ready to give
such information as the City Council
might desire to have and also to extol
the merits of their pumps and the
electrical machinery and appliances
necessary therefor.
Some bids covered the furnishing
of the pump only, others again covered
all the proposals that had been. worked
out by. the city engineer. Proposal
No. l covered the pump and everything
complete, and so did the other pro-
posals with the difference that there
was a change in the specifications of
the materials that went into the work.
The following bids were received and
opened at Tuesdays meeting: Harvey
Whitacre & Co., St. Paul, Proposal
No. /, S6,250; proposal No. 2, $685.,
J. G. Robertson, St. Paul, $4,755;
Union Machine Co., St. Paul, proposal
No. l, $5,728; proposal No. 2, 1924;
proposal No. 3, $3.50; keystone Driller
Co., Chicago, ILL.,, $4,000; Chippewa
Foundry Machinery Co., Chippewa
Falls, Wis, proposal No. 1, $1,450;
proposal No. 2, S1,585; proposal No.
3, $1,658; Everling Electric Co., New
Ulm, $5.244.19 and Chas. Emmerich,
New Ulm, bid for connecting the pump
with the reservoir, $508.
Besides this business several petitions
and protests required the attention
of the council. John H. Weddendorf
presented a petition requesting that
sewers be laid on Broadway to 9Th
North Street, then to German street,
then down German Street to End
North Street. Herman Raabe asked
that a sewer be laid on Minnesota
Street from a point between 18th and
9Th North Streets to 9Th North Street.
The petition presented by Jos. Tastel
requested that Broadway be graded,
graveled and .boulevarded from 9th to
18th North Street, and the petition
fathered by Fred Keute requested
that water mains be laid on Broadway
from 7th to 10th N. Street and on 10th
N. Street to Minnesota Street and on
Minnesota Street from 10th N. Street
to 7th N. Street, connecting with the
water system there. These petitions
were rapidly disposed of by referring
them to the Board of Public Works.
The matter of trimming the shade
trees along the sidewalks in the city
Of New Ulm was brought to the atten-
ton Of the Council by Dr.. H. w. Rieke
and Aug. Dahl, who appeared as
committee from the Commercial, Club,
requesting that some action be taken
soon with reference to having the
trees properly trimmed. The matter
was disposed of by having it referred
to the police authorities to see that
hereafter the ordinance which requires
that the trees be trimmed so that no
branches overhang within 8 feet of
the sidewalk, be strictly enforced. The
request of J. P. Smith of the New Ulm
Gas Co. for permission to lay large
gas mains from the plant to the corporate
limits of the city near the Loretto
Hospital was referred to the proper
committee for investigation and report.
This permission is requested for the
purpose of laying mains to- supply
Sleepy Eye and Springfield with gas
from the local plant
On behalf of the Committee that
appeared before the County Commits
sioners of Brown and Nicollet Counties,
Councillor Backer reported that each
of the counties mentioned was willing
to pay one third Of the expenses of the
construction of the approaches to the
Beussmann and CORTLAND bridges across
the Minnesota river. The estimated
cost of these approaches is $500 and
this would mean that the City of New
Ulm would have to pay one third of
the cost amounting approximately to
$4,000. Several residence and property
owners near the site where the Ceder
Rapids Oil Co. contemplate the erection
of oil tanks appeared before the Council
and protested against the erection