The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-26
NAIL CONTRACT
FOR NEW HIGH
School Board Awards Con-
tract to Madsen-P eter-
sen Tuesday.
READY IN TWO YEARS
Central High School to Be Fin
ished by the First
of April, 1926.


Resolved that the Board Of Educa-
[tion Of the public schools Of Kenosha,
state Of Wisconsin, here legally as
sembled, do award he contract for the
general construction Of the new Sen
Tor high school building to be built in
the city of Kenosha to Madsen and
Petersen, Minneapolis, Mimi"
This was the resolution passed by
the school board Tuesday evening by
a vote of 10 to 1, Joerndt the only neg
alive. School Commissioners Threi-
men and Cook were absent.
All Aboard for New School.
With this decisive step, the matter
of securing new high school became
a certainty. BY the terms Of the con-
tract the new building will be COM
pleted April I, 1926.
Madsen and Petersen were the low
est bidders on Bid No. 1 plus the al
ternates, and it was found that 1t will
be possible to include in the new build
ing all of the very best materials.
at will be building that not only
Kenosha but the state Of Wisconsin
may well be proud Of" said Architect
Chubb, as he addressed the board.
The new school will be built of cut
stone with 20 one-piece pillars, har-
monizing in architecture and finish
with the new courthouse which it will
face. across the plaza.
The report of the building commit
tee recommending the acceptance Of
the bids was accepted. The building
committee which has given infinite
care and much time to the task con-
sists of William Silcock, chairman, and
school supervisors Jay B. Glerun1, O..
A. Mcneil, George Klotz and Fred B.
SureruS.
The building will cost something
over one million dollars. Contracts in
GLIDING the general construction and
other contracts were awarded to the
lowest bidders as follows:
Madsen a Petersen, Minneapolis.
general construction. ........S SS7, 10000
American Heating Co. Superior,
Wis, heating and ventilating. 76,SB7. 90
Carstens Bros, Ackley, Iowa,
plumbing and gas piping. 5000. 90
National Regulator Co.. Chicago.
temperature regulation. IS $500
A. C. Electric Co.. Milwaukee,
electric work ............... 22.1ss.oo
Total ............ $1.oo4.SS1.o0
Joerndt Explains Position.
Fred Joerndt, the only school COM
missioner, voting q negative to the
awarding of the contract, explained
that he had no criticism to make of
Madsen and Petersen or Of the archi-
tect, building committee or anyone
else. He merely wished to continue to
register his disapproval Of the erect
ing of new senior high school ON a
city block.
School Commissioner Whitbeck said
that he disapproved Of this himself as
much as ever, but that the majority
had ruled, and he wished only now to
push the wheel In the direction Of q
complete and perfect new, building.
Fair to All Bidders.
One of the architects present asked
for information about the way the bids
were considered and was answered by
Architect Chubb.
eve considered the absolute essen
tials in the base bid" he said, "and
then listed as alternates, alternate one,
two, three, etc, the possibility Of
substitute in case there was more
money available. 1t is never fair to
have the base bid opened first and
then allow contractors to bid on alter
notes. Wherever this practice has
been followed it leads to disaster and
disgust among everyone including the
contractors themselves.
"The practice we follow is the sys-
tenn adopted by the American Insti-
tute of Architects and followed thru
out the United States.
'Mr. Hutter, the second lowest bid
der on the alternates, said this morn
ing: i am proud to be contractor
bidding on this job. It is the first sat
isfactory bidding in which have been
in this year In this state. Everything
has been fair and square He said
that he was going home satisfied that
he had been given square deal
II am proud to say Kenosha is GO
ing to have high school building that
nobody can come along and turn up
their nose at. There will not be any
thing cheap anywhere in the building.
1t will be monument to the city Of
Kenosha."