Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-16
.DU P)NT.CO. OFFICIALLY
AWARDED CONTRACT
Arthur L. Bailey. Librarian,
Gives Out Announcement
This Afternoon.

Official announcement of the award
Of the contract for the construction OF
the new Library building 10 the du Pont
Engineering Company, n this city, at
their bid Of 1888 ,6GG, wns given out By
Arthur l.. Bailey, this afternoon.
The Building Committee began Its
session at eleven O'Clock, fehind elo+d
doors, and had not entirely finished ite
business when the news was announced
The opening OF bids took place yester-
day afternoon IN the rooms O the
Chamber Of Commerce
In addition To the members Of the
building committee, present, who were
Edgar NJ. Hopes, Jr., leroy Harvey,
J. Edgar Rboads and fhrry 7 Bush.
John p. Nieids and George B Miller of
the Board OF Managers, Arthur l..
Bailey, Librarian who acted as secretary,
and the architects Il. l.. Tiiton and A.
VI Citizens. OF New York City, there
were forty contractors and representa-
tives Of building trades had assembled
when the chairman raped for order ~
precisely two 90 clock.
While the amount OF 10000 was
known to be available, If the prices
went that high, IL was generally felt that
| the figures az present values, would be
considerably leas than that amount.
Before the opening Of the bids an
no,mcement WAS made by Edgar l..
| Hoopes. chairman Of the building com
mittec, that The Dexter Company one Of
the sub-bidders on the item of metal
book-stacks, had telegraphed a With
drawsl Of its bid, and gave an oppor-
tunity for any general bidder 10 modify
his total price accordingly, il chs should
be affected by said withdrawal. This
was done by William L. Crow, the pro-
ceedings being suspended meanwhile.
Announcement was also made that
two other brands Of integral water
proo6ng material might be substituted
for the one named IN the specification.
This however caused none Of the bidders
TO change his figure
i With several Of the bids, conditional
notifications Of the total were en-
closed with their bids, and were in the
nature Of postcripts.
Owing to these, it was necessary to
spend some time in tabulating the prices
received
On the basis Of the lump sum figures
1 named in the bids, which were those
read by the chairman, the du Pont
Engineering Company, was the lowest
bidder at s3J06O8. This figure, how
ever. was based on the nib-bid for
1 stacks, withdrawn at the last moment
-Four other sub-bids on this item,
submitted by the du Pont Engineering
/ COMPANY brought their figures to the
amounts given in the accompanying
schedule; on all but one Of which they
are low, whatever make Of stacks u
selected.
The bids as read were as follows.
du Pont Engineering Company, $50
608: (sarne for various makes of sfacksl,
S3S1, ,s71, 1886, ,321, s3Ss.666, s4i4,37l.
John X. Virgins Company, Philadei-
phia, S3e4, 900
Work Company. Philadelphia, $685.
/ 6g7
F.G. Fearen Co, New York, s4o9, 600.
Fl. ID. Watts Co, Wilmington, SAIL
740
: Geo Dose Engineering Co, New York
/ s4I4, ,252
James Stewart Co, New York,
s4i7 ,625.
VIM. ID. Haddock and Company,
Wilmington, s424. .l4o.
North Eastern Construction Co.,
New York. s429, $40
i Vim. T.. Crow Construction Co, New
/ York, S429, 500
Emil Deibitsel, Inc, New York,
s431, 900
John Y. Gill & Co, Philadelphia,
s446, 500
/ Plans for the new library building
were prepared several years ago by
I E. L. Tilton and Alfred NJ. Citizens,
a New York firm Of architects, and
recently were revised to ensure con-
struetion with the funds available.
The sum Of s3OO.0O0 has been sub
1 scribed by public contributions Tor
the building, to which City Council
has added 5000 making $500, 900
in all. The site was gwen by Pierre
5. du Popt The old brick building
of the Delaware Historical Society,
which stood or the site, aad bodies
/ inferred In the old First Presbyterian
Church graveyard. have been removed
and the Church Building. which stands
on the. southeast corner OF Tenth and
/ Market streets, has been vacated. pre-
/ paratory TO the erection OF the new