The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-28
NIL WAUkEE BUILDER NAMED
Reisen Brothers Gets General Contract
While Heating and Plumbing Con-
tract Goes to Kaelber & Kraft of
Kenosha-To Start Work at once.

With an estimated completedo cost
OF $4,000 the Board of Education on
Tuesday night, by vote Of eleven to
four, let contracts for the building of
the new Washington school on the north
side of the city. The general contract
for the building is let to Reisen Broth
ers of Milwaukee, with the under
standing that excavations for the
building will be started within week
and the building completed and
ready for service by the second
semester Of next year.
The vote on the letting of the big
contract was as follows: To proceed
with the building, Commissioners Mrs.
Welles, Whitbeck, Celander, Neiman,
McElwain, Leonard, Schmidt, Flad,
Joernd, John Rode, Adolph Rode;
against the plan, Commissioners Glerum,
Wallis, Meyer and Schaeffer.
1t was rnmored today that interest
ed citizens would seek to prevent the
erection of the school by injunction,
but it is very doubtful If such plan
will materialize. Many of the mem
bers of the board declared that they
considered the cost of the building
abnormally large, but most Of these
people who had 50 expressed themselves
voted for letting the contracts and de-
clared that they did not believe that
the building could be built for any
cheaper price at any time in the next
two years. The board has a fund
of $4,000 to meet the cost Of building
and furnishing the building. It will
be q problem for the finance commit
tee to provide the added $4,000. It is
probable that a formal demand will be
made upon the council for the issu-
ance Of bonds to provide funds for the
completion and furnishing of the
building. AS the building will not be
completed until the next tax levy
is. made the board will have a chance
to demand large sums for building
appropriations in the next budget
sent to the council.
Five general bids and many bids
for sub contracts were received by the
members of the board and the commits
sioners were busy until nearly midnight
opening bids. No combination of bids
offered for sub contracts would have
given the city a better price on the
building than was offered in the bids
Of the successful general contractor
The general bids were as follows:
Reisen Brothers, Milwaukee. .$83 800
Gottlieb Schaeffer, Kenosha.. $4,000
Ludwig Klemm, Kenosha. 49,. 95,363
Louis Anderson, Kenosha. -. 81, 504
Immel Cons. Co., Fond du Lac. 95,824
The bids of Schaeffer and Klemm
only included six of the seven sections
of the general contract.
The contract for the heating and
plumbing was let to Kaelber and Kraft
of Kenosha on a bid of $28,782; the
contract for the special floors to The
Moulding Brick Company, of Chicago,
at $6,405; electrical work to Josephsen
and Zimmerman, Kenosha, at 1880;
the clock system to Miles Building
Specially Company of Milwaukee, at
100000, and the heating regulation
system to the johnson Serve Company
of Milwaukee, at $2,740.
The total of these contracts is
$124,820 There is still to be added to
this the cost of architects fees and
superintendent of building, amount
ing to about $500, the cost of interior
decorations and fixtures which is
roughly estimated at $4,000, this to
include the school furniture.
The successful bidders for The gen
eral contract are widely known among
builders of Wisconsin. They have
erected many large buildings in the
state and it is declared that they
will have the building completed
on scheduled time.
Kenosha labor will be employed as
far as possible in the construction Of
the building and as far as possible the
building materials will be purchased
in Kenosha. The building is fourteen
room building and it is estimated that
the cost will be in the neighborhood
of $4,000 more than the Lincoln
school, which is one-half larger.
The board gave the entire time of
the session to the discussion of the