Show CHICAGO hAS AS A CLEAR Of GRAfT CITY DID NOT ACCEPT THE LOW LOWEST LOWEST LOWEST EST BID FOR REPAIRS Thc The City Is Out and the tho th Law Lav Department Offers No Hope HopeS of Help S Chicago Jan Jau 16 Commissioner of or Public Works Hanberg has discovered discovered i ered cred that within year tho the city I has paid or contracted to lo pay for street repair work whereas If It it had accepted another bid tho the total cost would nave have been What makes it worse for 01 the com corn commissioners commissioners missioners feelings Is that moot of o othe the money comes out of or the wheel tax receipts with which Mayor lIa or Dussa Busse de do desired sired to make the best showing pos possible bible sible Such a state stale of affairs is a result of probably the tha oldest trick known to 10 street paving work worle It was so trans transparent transparent parent in this case that It would seem that the bid of the winning contractor would on its It face have been a n dan danger gor ger signal to every ever one concerned But Dut the bid went through and the tho city is I out cut as a consequence More Moreover Moreover over oer the law department can offer the commissioner no hope of oC help The trick consisted in a composite bid of o bidding low lo on ono one item and high on another so as all to make mako the tho average lower than that of competitors But the Uio low bid is one on ou which little work Is 15 done clone and the high bid is for I work on which a great deal Is done I with the result that when whon tile the bills come in the supposed low bidder re receives receives i far more mor mo money than would have hae to bo le paid In case the bids had been divided and tho the contract award awarded ed the low man in each class The Tho trick has hag been beon worked more than once in Lii n the city hall hail and the com courts Is havo hao held that as long as the work was done lone the city must pay pa according to the tile terms t of Its Us contract I |