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Hon. RICHARD BARTHOLDT, M. C.,

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS,

Chairman Committee on Public Buildings,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C., January 21, 1911.

House of Representatives.

MY DEAR MR. BARTHOLDT: I have received a letter from Assistant Secretary Hilles, a copy of which I inclose, relating to the public building at Canandaigua, N. Y. I wish to add in connection with this matter that the original appropriation was limited to $75,000. The department took up the question of a site, and there was one particular site on the main street and facing the county courthouse building and offices which was preeminently fitted, but the department was finally induced to give up this site because of the high price of the real estate, which would have cost the department twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars to acquire. Because of financial necessity they proposed a site on a side street, the price of which, though comparatively higher, would have brought the matter within the limits of the appropriation. After the Government had entered into a contract, a very philanthropic and public spirited lady and a resident of the city, Mrs. Frederick P. Thompson, returned to Canadaigua from Europe, and hearing of the location of the site, she became at once interested and sent for me to see if by purchasing a part of the site on Main Street and giving it to the Government for the consideration of $1 the location could not be changed to the site that everybody wanted, including the department, viz, on Main Street. She purchased and gave a lot on which there was an office building yielding a good income at an expense to her of considerably over $15,000. The Government took the other land necessary by purchase, which cost about $10,000 more. Then Mrs. Thompson requested me to arrange so that she could employ the architects to make a plan. I arranged this with the Government and plans were prepared by a Boston firm, whom Mrs. Thompson had previously employed to make plans for a hospital in Canandaigua which she has already built and given to the city at a cost of nearly $300,000. She has also bought and laid out some parks.

You will see by the letter there is a shortage of some $8,000 to carry out these plans. I presume, rather than give up these plans, Mrs. Thompson would pay this extra money, although she has already done pretty well by the Government, as above stated. I confess I do not wish to see her forced to pay out any more money, and which the Government is much better able to pay than she and which the Government ought to pay.

It would give me a great deal of satisfaction, and I believe it would be for the interest of the Government as well, to have these plans carried out by increasing the limit of the appropriation. I should be very glad, indeed, if you will join with me in asking Mr. Tawney to include such a clause in the sundry civil appropriation bill.

Yours, very truly,

SERENO E. PAYNE,

Hon. SERENO E. PAYNE,

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, January 10, 1911.

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. SIR: Referring to your request that you be advised of the additional amount which will be required to accept the lowest bid for the construction of the post-office building at Canandaigua, N. Y., without resorting to deductions for alterations, I have the honor to advise you that there will be required to accept such bid $67,255, and for lock boxes, vault shelving, and possibly minor contingencies $2,000, making a total of $69,255. There is a cash balance available of $61,960, which leaves a balance of $7,295.

By accepting the following alternates-substituting brick for limestone ashler, substituting brick for limestone and terra cotta, substituting brick for granite and retaining wall and omitting janitor's toilet room in the basement there can be saved approximately $4,000, so as to make the shortage approximately $3,300.

Further action in connection with the award of the contract will be held pending the receipt of further recommendation from you.

Respectfully,

CHARLES D. HILLES,
Assistant Secretary.

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