Mahone Bay Old School_A Life and Times_Bob Sayer

Chapter Three:
The Building of the New School
The Progress Enterprise published a notice (left) in its Wednesday, March
23, 1914 edition:
The notice for tenders is informative:
I. Architects. The architects were to be Boehner Bros. of West LaHave Ferry.
2. Subcontracting. The notice [and the appointment of Warren Eisenhauer
to supervise the work], suggests that the trustees went with a number of
subcontractors.
3. Office. Lohnes Bros. was the office for pick-up and delivery of tenders.
Charlie Lohnes was closely involved.
4. Time line for Construction. All work was to be completed by September
30 1914. Given that tenders were to be received by April 6th, that meant a
late April/early May start. A five-month building construction time frame is
fast by present standards. But regulations, building codes and working hours
and conditions were different in those days. Large supplies of relative cheap
labour made construction quick.
5. ‘Lowest tender not necessarily accepted’. This meant that the trustees
and committee appointed at the public meeting would, ideally, pick the best
quality builders. It also may have meant some political and personal consideration.
Exactly how much is unknown: no detailed minutes or records exist.
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