Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-17
.DU PONT CO. OFFICIALLY
AWARDED CONTRACT
Arthur L. Bailey, Librarian,
Gives Out Announcement
YESTERDAY.

Official announcement OF the award
of the contract for the construction OF
the new Library building TO the du Pont
Engineering Company, Of this city, at
their bid of S3SS, GEO. was given out by
Arthur l.. Bailey, yesterday.
The Building Committee began its
session at eleven o'clock, behind closed
doors, and had not entirely finished its
business when the news was announced,
The opening Of bids took place yester-
day afternoon in the rooms OF the
Chambcx Of Commerce.
In addition to the members of the
building committee, present, who were
Edgar M Hopes, Jr., Leroy Harvey,
j. Edgar Rhoads and Harry i Bush,
John z. Nields and George b. Miller OF
the Board of Managers, Arthur l..
Bailey. Librarian who acted as secretary,
and the architects T.. l.. Tilton and A.
NJ. Citizens, OF New York City, there
were forty contractors and representa-
tives of building trades had assembled
when the chairman raped for order ut
precisely two o'clock
While the amount OF $500, 1000 was
known to be available, if the prices
went that high, ii WAS generally felt that
tine 1HiIFFS Ai Tft>8tfit NHfhtCf N'tffa Rt
considerably less than that amount.
Before the opening OF the bids an
nouncement was made by Edgar l..
Hopes, chairman of the building COM
mittee. that The Dexterf mpany one OF
the sub-bidders on the item 81 .aetal
book-stacks, had telegraphed with
drawal Of its bid, and gave An oppor-
tunity for any general bidder to modify
his total price accordingly, 1t this should
be affected by said withdrawal This
was done by William L. Grow, the pro-
ceedings being suspended meanwhile.
Announcement was also made that
two other brands of integral water
proofina material might be substituted
| for the one named in the specification
| This however caused none OF the bidders
to change his figure,
With several of the bids. conditional
notifications OF the total were en-
closed with their bids, and were IN the
nature of postcrlpts
Owing to these, it was necessary to
spend some time in tabulating the prices
| received
On the basis of the lump sum figure:
named in the bids, which were thoss
| read bv the chairman, the du Pon'
| Engineering Company, was the lowest
bidder at $3.50 COS. This figure, how
ever, was based on the sub-bid fol
stacks. withdrawn at the last moment
| Four other sub-bids on this item
submitted by the du Pont Engineering
I COMPANY brought their figures TO ths
amounts gwen in the accompanying
schedule; on all but one of which they
are low, whatever make OF stacks I
selected
| The bids as read were as follows.
du Pont Engineering Company, $3.50,
COS: (same for various makes of stacks
1881 .S71. $685., ,321, 1886, $50, S4l4,37 4
John r. Virgins Company, Philadei
phia. 1894, 600.
Work Company, Philadelphia, s39s,
697.
F.G. Fearen Co, New York, s4o9, ,00.t
FL. ID. Watts CO., Wilmington, SAIL,
740 =
Geo. Dose Engineering Co, New Yorl
S414, ,252
James Stewart Co, New York
s417, ,625.
VIM. ID. Haddock and Company
Wilmington, S424, 149.
North Eastern Construction Co.
| New York, S429, $40.
| VIM. L. Crow Construction Co, New
York, s42o, 800
Emil Deibitsel, Inc, New York
s43l, 600
John n. Gill & Co, Philadelphia
| S446, 500
Plans for the new library bulldinl
were prepared several years ago b,
z. i. Tiiton and Alfred M. Citizens
New York firm of architects, ant
recently were revised to ensure con
struction with the funds available
| The sum of x300,0 has been sub
scribed by public contributions 10
the building, to which City Council
has added s200,000, making $500, O0'
| in all. The site was given by Pierr
s. du Pont. The old brick buildinl
of the Delaware Historical Society
which stood on the site, and bodie
inferred in the old First Presbyterian
Church graveyard, have been remove,
and the Church Building, which stand
on the southeast corner Of Tenth an,
| Market streets, has been vacated pre-
paratory to the erection of the ney
| library building.