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Show CONTRACT IS AWARDED A. L. Hamlin Will Construct Con-struct New Isolation , Hospital. The City Council last night opened the bids for the erection of the new pest-house pest-house on the site recently chosen by the Council committee, and awarded the contract to A. L. Hamlin on his bid of J7K00. The new Isolation hospital will be located lo-cated on the east bench and must be completed within sixty days, or a forfeiture for-feiture of $25 a day for all excess time will be collected. The successful bidder put up a certified certi-fied check for $4000 to insure the work. The City Engineer said that it would take a month to lay a pipe line to the site selected, and the cost would be $4000. No work can be done on the building until un-til the water is brought to the grounds. The unsuccessful bidders were T. J. Armstrong, $7970; Benard Mecklenburg $9678: Oeorge Austin, $9990; George Cur-ley, Cur-ley, $8375. |