Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-02-27
Joint Committee of City.
Council to Examine Low
Bids Tonight
LOW BID is S63,467
Seventeen Firms Submit Bids, Ten
Being For General Construction
Bids Opened Saturday Afternoon.

The contract for the erection of the
seventeen-room public school building
on the lot of the Alexandria High
School building will be awarded to-
night at 1880 o'clock by the joint
committee on finance and public prop
crty Of the city council at meeting
which will be held in the chamber OF
the Board of Aldermen.
Bids for the work were opened Sat
urday afternoon at A o'clock and
there were II bids, 10 being for gen
era construction, ! for electrical
work and 3 for heating and ventlla-
ton. Al the suggestion of f. +. Ticer,
chairman Of the finance committee, II
was decided 10 defer awarding the
contract until tonight in order to give
the committee chance to thoroughly
examine the bids. The lowest bidders
were as follows: For general con-
struction, King Lumber Company,
Charlottesville, Va, S63.467; for cleo
trical work. j. Kent White, Alexan-
dria. S1,419.37; for heating and ven
tilating, Gritnell Heating Company,
Charlotte. \. c.. Sl0,793.
Not single bid was received for
plumbing work
Contrary to expectations the bids
received for the entire work are with
in the appropriation. which is SS3 900.
II was generally believed that the
bids would exceed the appropriation,
and that the city council would have
to be called upon to make al addl-
tional appropriation for this work.
Probably within 80 days after the
contract is awarded the actual work
of construction will be started AMI
! the building will be completed and
ready for occupancy for the coming
scholastic ycar, which will be next
September. Members. Of the commit
! tee are Of the opinion that all OF the
work can be done and come within
the appropriation.
For construction work the bids fol-
low: Hugh Herfurth. Alexandria,
500. $50; Julian D. Knight, AleHan-
dl'ia. S7G;O0o;' Reed & Wood. Alexan-
dria,. SS4.lS3: Wise Granite Company,
Richmond, s7i, lG0; ". P. Thurston
Company. Richmond. SS9,S0O: Clai-
horn &Tailor, Richmond. S9l 700; Par-
rish & Co. Lynchburg, $76.9l6; Pusey-
Morris Co., Cape Charles, Va, $751;
tf6; King Lun,hcr Company, Char
lottesville, Va, SG3,i67: Charlottc:;-
vile. Lumber Go. charlottesville,
Va, $72.802. For heating, the bids
received follow: Biggs Heating Com
pany, Washington, $1l.700; American
Heating Company, Richmond, $3.50 ;
Grinnel Company. Charlottesville,
$10,793: Federal Heating ompanv,
Washington, D. C., $I5,O22.
For electrical work the bidders
were: J. Kent White, Alexandria,
$l,i19.37; Washington & Ladd' Alex
andria. $l,195; MichaeIs e. Company,
Norfolk, $3.50
The new school building will be l4s
by 80 feet and will be two stories high
containing seventeen class rooms they
will have accommodation for forty
pupils each. The schoo! will have a
basement Tho joint committee to-
night may defer awarding the contract
until city council meets tomorrow
night.
The parkcr-Gray School, for colored
children which was erected last year
under the direction Of City Engineer
+. &. Dunn cost $10,375.33.
1t is estimated that plumbing work
for the new school will not cost more
than $4,000.