Show STRANGE OF oi OPINION AMONG AMOC CITY COAL DEALERS I Schools Asked to Pay 13 Per Cent More Than Last LastS S Year for Fuel A illustration of the time saying sarin t that at great minds run in the same saimie channel came to light j ht yesterday c afternoon aft an- when liin time the buildings in s and grounds of the tIle board of education met and on opened nel bids bids' for tho the coal coil sup up for the i schools for tho year 1 1910 10 It is barely possible that atter the bids bide submitted b by the several tal coal cont companies that fonte sonic some people n nJ tray jy bo so 80 unkind n as to say that there thero is is a perfect understanding tan ing among time tile local loc I dealers as s to tho the best methods to o use in m in making the public pay for fuel fur for chols Hut far be he it it- from tho timo minds tho time great s.-reat minds of tho the local coal dealers ti o 0 form a t m trust or to hold up prices prices It iq is iq simply a remarkable ablo coincidence ence that all bid bul the samo price that there W Mas i 8 not i a It live cent cent variation in any of tho bids This great reat mind and md samo sarno channel hUil business however may inay cost tho the taxpayers ers of this city eity several hun hundred red dollars that that is is unless tho the board of e education I tat at nt it its meeting tonight i rejects ejects all aU of tho the h bid ds and ana calls for now ones But Dut as ono one of the tho board puts puls it what good will that do us The fhe firms that have vO already submitted their hills bids control the loc local l situation and there you O are It is is estimated that tho the public schools of this cit city will use lIse approximately 1000 tons of coal the coming school year yet vet under tinder the tho bids submitted they will pay tho same samo price for this coal coil as would the tho man who used only one ton Hero Horo arc are tho thio bids which were opened by br time committee yesterday afternoon Jeremy Lump Fuel Grain company corn com pany a ton Bamberger ler Coal corn com pany 57 C Central Coal 8 Coke cornS corn pan any Citizens Citizens' Coal company 7 71 i. Western Fuel company I eror COld Coil company compan Mine run run co 3 a aon aton ton o on Bamberger 15 25 Central Co Coil Coal 1 vot Nike company t i Citizens Citizens' 35 Wern Fuel Pud I com com- Pea lea coal coal Jeremy Jeremy company Bamberger Cr Central Coal Coke Colw Citizens' Citizens Western Fuel uel 4 75 company compan Mi Mine mie slack slack Jeremy company 3 O Central Coal Coke Citizens Citizens' Western Fuel Kemmerer company According to tho the dates on these bids they thc were all nIl made within four days con conclusive proof of the tho tho great mind and same channel business A significant feature is is that three of ho tho bids received offer tho the same reduction tion Hon providing the board has bas tho the coal delivered before An August Angust 10 Inasmuch as tho board is in in no position to store coal to any great eat amount I tho the offer amounts to little or nothing Last year tho the board paid for its mine slack which comprises the tho b bulk bk k of time the c coal aI used This year tho the six companies which bid on this kind of coal oal asked a uniform of- of 3 50 an aim increase of nearly 13 per cent Tho The committee took no action on tho the bids bids preferring to leave tho the entire matter matter mat mat- ter to the tho board which will wiIl meet t tonight tonight to to- night |