The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-22

DDS are noU the same.
Messrs. Dorman g. Curley, the contrac-
tors who bid lowest ON the Grove street
job, were on hand yesterday afternoon to
watch the further developments. The
figures Of the various bidders had not
been footed up. From Messrs. Dorman
& Curley received these figures of the
various bidders of the morning, roughly
calculated. They apply simply to the
granite or trap rock work. whichever
may be decided upon by the Commission
ers. The bids for the other portions of
the work, such as new curbing. new
basins, ETC., will not vary mere than a.
few hundred dollars from Dorman s.
Curley's figures for these items, So, 006-
not enough to change the total figures.
Mullery, however, proposed to furnish
new curbing at five cents per foot. He
figures s1,1Oo lower on these incidental
expenses
The JERSEY CITY NEWS report of the.
proceedings of yesterday mornings meet
ing intimated the existence of granite
ring and that neither Messrs. Dorman g.
Curley nor Mr.. Harrington, the two low
est bidders, were in it. Messrs. Dorman
& Curley claim on their rough calcula-
tion they are nearly $4,000 below Har-
rington on the granite bid, and 1880
below on the trap rock bid. taking the
time clause of 800 day into consid-
Grafton. AS will be seen by con-
sulting the above figures they, are
far below any of the other bid
ders on either the trap rock or
granite bid 1t is claimed by the Com
missioners that by law they are not com
PEELED to give cut contract for paving
from the liquor license fund to the lowest
bidder. This claim, in the light OF cir
cumstanoes to be hereafter explained, is
indicative that Dorman & Curley will not
be awarded the contract. In fact, it has
been already intimated, and the intima-
tion sprang from hints let drop by one OF
the Commissioners, that Dornan 81 Cur
ley were only bidding in order TO sell out.
The existence of granite ring is already
too well an established fact to need argu-
ment. 1t remains to be seen whether the
Street and Water Board are working in
the interest Of some pet contractor, and
If the Board is reponsible for the exist
ence of the granite ring.
Here are several chapters of strange CO.
incidences:
CHAPTER l.
A gentlem an was accidentally over
heard to remark to another in confidence
words to this eject
II was about to enter the Street and
Water Boards Office on Saturday to se-
cure blank for the purpose of bidding
on the Grove street job. met Engineer
fxx~ Tail fJ,A hr,sI Il Ia
hailed me and informed me that no one
was there. When / told him my busi-
ness he volunteered to 60 i'll with me
and procure what wanted asked to
see the specifications. The Chief un-
locked drawer There were the speci
ainined the specifications mysteriously.
Suddenly he exclaimed, Well, I'll be
d--dF Some one had penned the words
sor granite after the specification of trap
rock The Chief was mad. That's
funny, remarked the Chief. "A contrac-
tor from Paterson was here this morning
and desired to see the Specifications.
They were not here. / asked the clerk
Mayor Cleveland's SOM where they
were. The clerk said he didn't know; he
them Commissioner Dugan presumed
that the Mayor had them. The Mayor
had not seen them, he said. Now. here
they are. Those specifications were
stolen from this desk
The gentleman did not bid.
CHAPTER II.
THE NEWS representative was sitting
near Clerk George Bouton's desk yester-
day morning before the meeting was
called. Commissioner Van keuren en-
tered. In q half angry tone ne said
.sGeorge, who in hill changed those spec
iflcationss"
Mr.. Boutcn replied:--'sIm sure / don't
know It must certainly have been done
in the engineers office.
Then Clerk Bouton engaged in a mys-
terious conversation with the Commits
sioner in whispered tones.
CHAPTER ILL.,
THE NEWS representative sought 1nror-
nation from well known gentleman
present In the lobby as to the signifcan CO
IL the little episode related In the last
SBy Heayenss' exclaimed the gentle