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Show H CONTRACT FOR NEW SCHOOL BUILDING. H Tho Kcarna press syndicate, com- H posscd of tho Tribune, Telegram, H Herald and tho little Weekly organ, H charges tho board of education with H dishonesty In tho lotting of a contract 1 for tho construction of a school build- H ing at Tenth West nnd Fourth North streets, As usual tho syndicate pur-poscly pur-poscly misrepresents. Seven bids worn received. Tho highest was $47,- 177 and tho lowest ?32,14i., Tho lat-tor lat-tor was really not a bid at all, bo-causo bo-causo tho proposal was not accom-panted accom-panted by a certified check for 5 per cent of tho amount of tho bid, tho samo to bo forfeited In caso tho bid-dcrs bid-dcrs failed to enter into tho contrnct and put up a bond far Its faithful per-formanco. per-formanco. Tho lowest bidder wns no-tilled no-tilled that a certified check would bo required, but tho concern failed, for good nnd sufllclcnt reasons, to comply with that requirement nnd tho bid fl could therefore not bo considered. Tho pcoplo making that bid therefore fl failed to demonstrato that they woro rcsponslblo parties who could bo re-lied re-lied upon to carry out tholr obllga-tlons obllga-tlons and tho contrnct naturally was awarded to tho next lowest bidder, fl Aspor Noall & Co., for tho sum of $41,- fl 200. In vlow of tho fact that tho arch- ttcct for tho board, Mr. Klottlng, whoso standing Is of tho best, cstimat-cd cstimat-cd that tho actual cost would exceed the bid of tho parties who failed to mako good and tho other clrcum-stances clrcum-stances being considered tho board of education did exactly what any fl shrowd business mnn who required such work would havo done. fl Tho Tribune makes a great howl becauso tho board of education held an cxecutivo session regarding soma matters of trivial import as to wheth-or wheth-or tho school children would bo per-mlttcd per-mlttcd to sell tickets for a charity fl performance of which tho San Fran- Cisco sufferers woro to bo partial beneficiaries. That Is rather Incon- fl sistcnt, seeing that Air. Nelson, one fl of tho Trlbuno editors, wns really tho fl originator of executive sessions of the board moro than a dozen years ago. When Colonel Nelson wns prosl-dent prosl-dent of tho board of education most tilings woro dono in cxecutivo scs- 1 slon, tho board In open session doing llttlo but what tho gallant colonel and his cotcrlo had arranged in cxecutivo fl session. |