Morning journal and courier., 1885-09-24
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.

 Trap Rock Decided Upon For The Meadow Street Pavement - Hot steam Nm The East Street Sewer And Its Effects.
 A meeting of the Board of Public Works was held last evening. Present, His Honor the Mayor (presiding), Gilbert, Fuller, Feld- man, Reilly and Stackpole. F. w. Corbitt appeared and asked permission to connect the new house of Mrs. D. Merrill Sperry street, near Whalley avenue, with the sewer connection to the house on the corner of ed by Mrs Merrill. The matter was tabled temporarily. It was afterwards voted to give permission to connect with Whalley avenue sewer through 8 separate pipe. Thomas Lynch appeared before the Board to ask that something be done to remedy the trouble that proceeds from the East street sewer He said the smell proceeding from the rubber factory through the sewer was in tolerable.
 He was informed that the matter was being inveftigated and a report by Sewer Inspector Dillon would be made later in the evening. When MT. Dillon came in he said that he went into the East street sewer last Sunday night and the steam was so dense and hot that he could not stay there but 8 short time. He said that there were but few men that could go down into the manholee it was so hot. By crawling on his hands and knees he went about twenty feet and could not go any farther. He said the thermometer registered 160 degrees in the sewer when he was in there. He had no doubt but that the hot steam was great injury to the masonry of the sewer and would eventually cause it to crumble in pieces. He said the stench in the sewer from the rubber factory was almost unbearable.
 The matter was referred to His Honor the Mayor to see the president of the rubber company and inform him that the trouble must be remedied.
 Meadow street. the same to be granite trap rock as the Board might decide upon. In opening the bids the names of the bidders were not given, but they were read by letters A, B, c, D and E, so that the Board did not know who the bidders were. It was found that the difference between the lowest bid for granite and the lowest bid for trap rock was S, ,406. The Board then voted to adopt trap rock and award the contract to the low est bidder, which proved to be W. J. Mont gomery.
 The bids which were per square yard, were as follows: P. Bowling, granite, $2. 75 per square vard; c. w. Blakeslee & Son, granite, $2. 65 per square yard; G. Pohlman, granite, $2.7 per square yard; R. Cannon, granite, $278 per square yard; W. J. Mont gomery, trap rock, $1.9915 per square yard.
 After it had been decided to give the con- tract to MT. Montgomery the question arose as to whether he would be able to get the trap rock blocks made in time to complete the job this fall
 c. W. Blakeslee, jr., said that if the trap rock blocks could have been obtained in time this fall his firm would have bid on trap as well as granite, but they were aware that they could not and so bid on granite alone
 After considering the matter further it was decided to send for MT. Montgomery and a messenger was despatched to his residence.
 President Gilbert brought up the matter of relaying the sidewalk on the south side of Broadway, which has been ordered. He said that Christ church society would like an ex- tension of time until spring as they did not feel financially able to do the work this fall. On motion the time was extended to May 1st.
 MT. Crawford said there was a place on Maltby street where the walk needed fixing, it being lower than in other places. The matter was referred to the superintendent of streets with power to act.
 At this point w. J. Montgomery appeared before the Board and was questioned as to his ability to complete the Meadow street pave- msnt by the 10th of November. He said he thought he could do it and was also aware the penalty was five dollars per day for every
 
 after the time specified. He mentioned Tim othy Fowler and MT. Mcdonald of Rose street as his bondsmen, who were consid- cred satisfactory.
 Engineer Hill thought it waste of time to consider MT. Montgomery's bid. He said he could not get out the stone and do the work within the time named and he could not do it for the price he had given.
 The Board thought that if he furnished sufficient bonds it made no difference to the city, as they were secured against any fail ure on the part of the contractor.
 It was again voted to award the contract to MT. Montgomery.
 T. M. Cox applied for the position of in- spector of the Meadow street pavement. Mir. Reilly suggested the name of Felix Bradley as inspector and MT. Feldman named Henry S. Andrus. G. Pohlman was also named A ballot was taken for inspector and Felix Bradley received four votes out of six, and was declared elected.
 The matter of repairing rebuilding the bridge at the Munson street extension, over the ditch at Beaver ponds, was referred to the Committee on Streets with power to act
 Parties owning property on Meadow street were ordered to make connections with sewer and water mains where needed. Adjourned.