Show CONTRACT WITH MARKEL STANDS Omaha Omah Man Han Will Furnish Supplies I to t Canal Zone Zonee e PROTEST IS UNAVAILING MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INVOLVED Oyster Bay Sept W lt itA A contract for forthe the Hotel tel and subsistence concession con on on au UM Ute Panama canal 1 z ZO zone m awarded to Ja la Jacob Jacob cob ob E 15 Mattel Market of or Omaha by b President Pre ident Theodore P Sheets Sheng of th the Panama Rail Rall Railroad road will stand This in effect is the decision of Pros Pre President ident Roosevelt who today approved a report on tn the subject made to him by Mr The contract amounts in the aggra aggravate aggregate gate vate to t many millions of dollars but Mr report Tell rt indicates that it may maybe maybe maybe be abo at t the will of ot the gob gov government gO which actually a will own the permanent plant used by Mr Markel In filling this the terms of his contract Given Out by Roosevelt The president pre ident today authorized the publication of o a Il report ha hit had received fr frat Non ja Mr Ir Shouts Shoots as president pr of ot the Pan Panama ante ama company regarding the tho protest recently r received by b him from Hudgins A Jt Dumas and H IL Balfe of ot Now New York rork York against the award of the contract to Mr Marks Markel The protest 1 forwarded to the prest dent by ty Dumas and H Balfe Dalte alleged that they had not been accorded fair fall treatment by President Shoals Shonta and that through a It leak In Mr ShoaLs of flee fice n Mr Ir Markel had been n informed of or the nature of ot their proposal and hut had beer been enabled thereby to incorporate m in his hla bid Ute the menu which Hudgins I Dumas had bad Pressing Necessity In this letter Jetter to the president resident Mr Ir Shouts Shong says 11 that on his arrival at thus the isthmus on July 25 20 iI he found a Ii most moat pressing necessity for immediate ar arrangement for feeding the i and that It was determined by Gover Governor Governor Governor nor Magoon Mr Stevens and himself that this hla matter should be handled by the Panama railroad and not by In the time isthmian canal commission as th scorn mary missery department was also in charge chargo of o the railroad company and that com corn company company pany was wu already operating one hotel at Colon Continuing he be says Markel Was Down There I 1 found Jacob E 15 Markel on the lath mauL mus he having gone down at the time is stance of Mr Wallace Vallace to study the Itle situ situation situation I Uon It was decided while on the lath isthmus mute mus that the railroad company should furnish the plant including the build ings hip and equipment that it should main maln I tain taht the buildings and that the con tractor should maintain the equipment so that in the event of it becoming necessary necessary sary Sam for the railroad d to cancel the con tract we should control the entire plant Before Mr 11 Markel left the time isthmus we had haa told him we expected to take this step upon our return and would like to have hi bl a proposal al when we gut ot at ready to submit subunit I e W Wc VI inter tei received a 8 communication from Mears Hudgins Dumas and Mr fr Balfe Dalfe asking for tor opportunity to make mille proposals As soon as itS the specifications were drafted we mailed to Mr j Markel to Hudgins Dumas and to Mr Balfe each a copy COP In the same for forami f forand and ami d Invited proposals pro Wo We did not ad d dI because eau b e It Jt was a railroad mat mattl I tl and because of ot the urgency II y of the theca theca ca ens Conference Was Held HeldUr Mr Ur states that he be held a 1 con ference nce with I h the time three pr s 1 ld Jd ders dera and ini at t te e suggestion of HudKins Hudgins A Dumas Duma included a weekly menu in lit inthe the specifications He continues When Whetu V hen the proposals were received I found that Mr 11 Balfes was wu GO 50 per cent higher than Mr Markels Markets in some sone items and stud that Hudgins Dumas Domes were so f much either of the others that I T felt there thEr was some mis mb misunderstanding misunderstanding understanding on their part pact as alii to the mean meaning of or the specifications Ul I there thereupon thereupon thereupon upon wrote them a letter Jetter amplifying the specifications going more into detail and andI I gave them an aim opportunity if they the did not understand tand the specifications to amend their proposals They The immediate immediately ly I amended their proposal raising their prices on some items over per cent and when they the brought ht the amended pro proposal to my mv office they thanked me for having given them the additional information mation mUon Markel Market Was VIas On Simultaneously after writing this let lot letter letter lottee ter tee referred to Hudgins Dumas I wrote exactly the same letter to Mr MI Mar Markel Markel Markel kel so that if he ito had imad labored under any misapprehension he also could amend his lila proposal Mr Markel replied that hay hav having ha v lag ing a thorough h knowledge of the situa situation situation tion on ott the isthmus he Ime had hd considered these the e matters in making his proposal and stated stilted that he stood pat vat on the same sameI I did not write to Mr Balfe because his hie prices were so IiO high hi h that it wag was not necessary essary to longer consider him in the mat matter matter matter ter When hen these thee amended proposals were received It was was found that in every item but one Mr Markel Marks was either as low as asor asor asor or lower loer than Mears Hudgins H Dumas In making makins the award I took into con consideration not only the prices but the experience of the bidders and the organ organization they ther have Experience Counted In view of th the fact that Mr Marks Markel has boos been doing for thirty years exactly this kind of work In the states that he lie will have to do on the isthmus it seemed to me that even if his price urice had been somewhat higher the company could well afford to nay something for huts his wide experience in this line of work as against two young men who have had but a local experience in the city of 01 New York but butI I think however that Mr Markets Markels rates Will average lower than those at of Hudgins A Dumas although that Is a difficult matter to determine because no one can cantell cantell tell how many of each class chase of meals will willbe be served Mr stated that it was not requisite site for the railroad to invite proposals at all and that the railroad does not buy the food nor sell it neither does it em employ employ ploy anybody to serve it or even keep the buildings in order All of this is done by the holder of the privilege It is entirely optional with wills the laborers to avail or not to avail of this thie opportunity ity there being no requirement on their part to either patronize the hotels or camps The railroad merely assures to them the choice of being fed in this way b by a responsible party with good food Hi itt reasonable prices price thus guaranteeing them against extortion and assuring to them a means of sustenance on economical beats basis |