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To the Honorable Mayor and City Council.
Fort Worth Texas.

Gentlemen:-

We your committee on Schools, as instructed in a Message
from the Mayor, and passed by this council June 27th-98. have received
bids from five of the largest manufacturies of School Desks in the
United States. which we submit with this report. and recommend as fol-
lows.

That the ^ Mayor & secretary be authorized to settle contract with the Wabash
Church &. School Furniture Company of Wabash Ind. for the 300 School
Desks, and the 6 Teachers Desks necessary. at the price quoted in their
bid of June 30th--98, which is 25% less than the next lowest bid.

Also that a bond be required from the Wabash School &. Church
Furniture Company, with the Fidelity &. deposit Company. whose office
is in the City of Chicago Ill. to protect the City against any inferior
furniture being furnished, or to any breakage of the furniture within
the next Ten years. that being a part of their agreement.

There being a sample desk now in the possession of the com-
mittee, to be held to compare with the furniture on arrival.

We ^here on recongize the fact that the Grand Rapid School Furniture
Company have the best desks, and at a difference of ten cents per
desk more than the Waubash Company have bid, we would recommend
that the contract be given to them. More did they accept
within 24 hours from this time.

J.N. Edgell
J.F. Henderson
W.F. Stewart

Committee on Schools.