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Show WHAT'S THIS, MR. DOREMUS? City Engineer Doremcs is quoted in a morniDg paper as saying that if he had a vote in the board of publio works he would give the paving contract, not to the company that has fairly won it by making the lowest bid this time, but to Ryan & Griffij. We do not wish to worry so excellent a man as Mr. Doremus with embarrass- ing questions, since he has not yet found time to answer a largo number of pointed inquiries we put to him a few weeks apo. But we feel it a duty to call the attention of the public to the city engineer's eccentricity in the matter mat-ter of the paving contract. When the bids were first advertised the firm of Ryax & Griffin fairly and honestly won the contract by putting in the lowest bid. Mr. Dobemcs then charged that they knew nothing about their business and were not responsible re-sponsible bidders, and for that reason favored the Barber monopoly which put in a higher bid. Now, when bids have been advertised for again and the Culmer-Jennings company has honestly honest-ly won the contract, Mr. Doremus suddenly conceives an overwhelming admiration for Ryan. & Griffin and says they ought to have the job, though they are not this time the lowest bidders. bid-ders. All we can say is that the workings of Mr. Doremus' brain are past our comprehension. He seems to possess an irrepressible hate for those people who commit the heinous offense of put-j put-j ting in the lowest bid. 1 |