The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-05-07
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PROPOSALS.
pRoPosALs FOR CONSTRUCTING A
SEWER
OFFICE OF THE STREET COMM IssIoNER,
No. Slz East Sixth street,

OFFICE OF THE STREET COMM IssIoNER,
No. 81 East Sixth street,
WILMINGTON, DEL, May 8, 1881.
NSealed proposals will DO received In the
box in the City Council Chamber, until
1880 d. M, THURSDAY, May 18th, 1881, for
constructing about 100 feet of sewer across
scott at Fourteenth street. The sewer
will be built with stone and brick, the
side walls will be of stone and the arch
and pavement of good hard brick, the
walls will be two and half feet thick
and about i've and a half feet high, de.
pending on the nature of the ground. the
excavations for the walls, in all cases, TO
be carried deep enough to obtain firm
and solid foundation. The walls will be
what is generally known as ruDble ma
soury, laid in irregular courses, and will
consist OF stone Ing from one TO
Two cubic feet, and so disposed or laid as
to make a firm and compact wall. No
stone shall be used that does not contain
at least one cubic loot, except for filling
In the interstices between the larger
stones in the heart OF the wall.
At least one nth Of the face OF the walls
shall be composed OF headers extending
full size, eighteen iuches, into the wall,
and from the back the headers shall be
in the same proportion and of the same
dimensions and so arranged that a head
er in the back shall be between two
headers in the face.
The ends of the walls will be neatly I'm
ished with steps the breadth OF which
shall not be less than the rise. The dis
lance between the walls will be ten feet
IN the clear, which will be spanned by
sesni-circular brick arch nine inches
thick, composed of two independent ring
or courses OF the best hard burnt brick
The pavement will be an Inverted arch
of seven and quarter feet radius con-
sisting of one course Of good hard brick
| laid on edge; the bed of the pavement
| must be well prepared by being thorough
| ly packed snd rammed and made to con-
form TO the exact shape and grade Of the
1 inverted arch or pavement; the sprlnging
line of the pavement will De three Ieet
below the springlng line of the arch. The
| asch will be well backed with stone 10
| the height of about three feet.
All the work OF this sewer, both stone
| and brick, must be laid In good hy-
1 draulic cement mortar comp sed of
equal parts of cement and clean river
/ sand.
The work must be done under the d.
| rection and supervision of the street
| Commissioner and the work and mate
rial must be approved by him, or 1t will
not be accepted by the Street Committee
Parties bidding wall please state thu
sewer, the price per lineal foot TO Include
| the cost Of excavation backfilling an(
furnish all the labor and material ueces
sary TO complete the work; the sewe
| must be completed within thirty day
} from the time the contract il awarded b,
: City Council; for every day thereafter IN
: contractor must pay TO the City of vii
l mlDRUOn buS SUN Oh Jen uOllafH.
A bond with security in the sum of tw
hundred dollars must accompany eac
proposal for the good faith OF the bidder
and the person or persons to whom Tia
contract is awarded must give a bon
with security In the sum of five hundre
: dollars tor the faithful performance {
= | the CO tract.
The Street Committee reserve the rlgt
J to reject any bid that they do not thin
i 1t will be TO the intel est OF the city to al
i cept.
a Ali bids must be properly signed, scale
and endorsed PRO osals for coAstruc
70 lug q Sewer, at Fourteenth and SEQ
, streets" The sewer must be built a
q | cordiDg to the plans and lines furnisht
= by the City Surveyors ANY further II
10 formation that may be desired will
; furnished by application TO
Il l.. p. LYNCH,
Street Comm ssion or
IL By Order OF the Street Committee,
l. WILLIAM McMENAMIN,
q maye6t Chairman.