Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-15

GEORGE B. FELLOWS.
 Street Commissioned
 At a meeting of the Court of com
 mon council on Wednesday evening in the council chamber George E. Fel-
 lows was elected street commissioner
 by an eight to five vote over Joseph
 H. Henderson.
 The meeting was called to order at
 9.20 o'clock by Mayor Allyn l.. Brown, with all members present. The jour
 nal of the previous meeting was ac- cepted without reading, according to Mayor Brown then stated that the i awarding of the contract for the | printing of the common council jour-
 nal by competitive bid will mean a | 1 saving of $1,000 to the city during the |
 coming year. He also recommended |
 a new telephone regulation for city of- | l flcials and employees which would l mean a saving of nearly $150 a year. |
 Gentlemen of the Court of Common | Council:-
 You will be gratified to learn that
 as a result of the resolution adopted l by this council at its last meeting, 1 | directing the mayor to award the con- 1 tract for printing the common council l journal to the lowest bidder, the city
 has apparently made saving of at least S1,000.
 AS directed by the resolution, speci- l fications were submitted to all of the I local printers adequately equipped for 1 performing the work.
 l. Because of the fact that different l number of separate copies of the vari- I ous commission and departmental re- l ports is required, and because of the 1 further fact that the annual report of l the gas and electric commission and
 of the board of water commissioners
 Is contracted for by the respective commissions, 1t was not feasible to in-
 elude in tfle specifications anything
 ether than the body of the journal it. self, together with such part of the I appendix thereof as includes the deeds
 and leases and street sprinkling assess snentS. These items, on the basJS of I the journal and appendix for the year
 just ended, so nearly as can be esti-
 mated, consisted of 400 pages in the
 Journal proper, 15 pages of deeds and
 leases, and 50 pages of sprinkling as-
 easements, making a total of ATS pages.
 The. other parts of the appendix will
 have to be figured separately at a later n date.
 Journal Contract Awarded. , Under the terms of the resolution, but two bids were received, one from Milo R. Waters, of $210 per page, and } the other from the Pullen Publishing
 companyA of $122 per page. I have accordingly awarded the contract to the PuIlen Publishing company at the 1 figure last, stated.
 . As departmental and commission re- ports usually call for more tabulated } work than the regular Journal, it is to 7 be presumed that the expense per page , of those parts of the appendix not in- cluded in this bid will exceed the cost or the pages so contracted for. How ever, if the printing of these addi- Eona1 parts of the appendix is award
 ed to the lowest competitive bidder, as hope it may be, have substantial reason to believe that g per page will
 be generous estimate of the expense .. for this printing.
 l i Assuming this to be fair estimate, and taking the number of pages in l the journal and appendix for the year : just ended as a basis. it will be seen ? that more than $1, GOO will probably be saved on this printing for the coming , year. The journal proper for the yeaI [ just ended, as stated, contains practi- cally 400 pages, the deeds and leases ] and list of sPrtnkEng assessments of ? the appendix take up practically 75 2 pages more, and the other department : tai and commission reports are esti- I mated to take up 150 pages. Tn other 2 words, there will be- on the basis above
 stated, some 475 pages to be paid for 3 at the rate of s1 .22 per page making !. a total of $579.50, and 150 pages at say \ g per page, making 8 total of $500 . This makes grand total for the print z ing estimated at $S79.50. As it was - the unanimous sense of the members o1 : the council that no de luxe copies oi U the journal be published this year, tho ]. entire cost of binding the journal vii s come to less than $s5. Adding thic i. amount to the total cost of printing as estimated, makes a total of $964. 50 = the cost of printing and binding thu . Journal for dae coming year.
 e Saving of s1,ooo.
 n The report of Auditor Jensen, as ol i. file, shows that the cost of doing thi ' same work for the year just close, Y was $2,011.85. Subtracting the esti
 mated cost for the coming year leave
 a difference of $1,132.35 saved on thi l. item of printing and binding over las )f year. While the estimate of the print .- ing Of the balance of the appendfz a h above stated, may not be exactly ac y curate, 1t seems to me that there s- substantialS reason to believe that tn l, resolution as adopted has saved tn s, city a round $1,000 for unis first yea I'd of our administration.
 5f The next matter which wish t ld call to your attention by way Of rec Ln omnendatton is that of telephone 'il which are paid for by the city. A ld you doubtless know, the Southern Nei ie England Telephone company gives [ ss the city discount of 50 per cent. fror es the usual telephone service rates O r. annual contracts. have obtaine pe rom the Telepnone company a uSt ( e- the telephones wtl4ch the city has pal as for during the past year, including th T. telephones paid for by the gas an 1e electric department and by the wate 1e department The total number o9 tele ~ phones paid for was A, af a total COS Ut Of $1,f61 The great majority Of thes lp telephones were private wires instea -r. of party lines. The cost to the cit ,lr Of a private wire residence service pc in year is SIS, party wire $fz. private vii
 office service go, party wire $21, res