The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-07-11
Bids on Brick Paving.

Yesterday morning the Board of Public
Works opened the bids for paving Coburn
street with brick. Aside from st. Joseph
street these are the first brick bids that
have been received, and as st. Joseph is
only sample work the bids are more of an
index to the cost of brick paving. There
In learning that 1t is from about s. to %
Ger cent. as costly as asphalt, according to
the kind of brick used, when placed upon q
concrete foundation.
Following are the bids on that portion
of Coburn street. from Madison avenue to
East street. where the roadway Is to be
paved to q width of twenty-four feet:
Robert Kennington-ssmple No. i. $4.25 per
front foot on each side, with Oolitic curbing and
$50 with stratifed limestone curbing; sample
No. 2, 81 with OOlitic and $4.05 with stratified
limestone; sample No. 8, 1878 with Oolitic and
$3.50 with stratified limestone.
Fulmer & Seibert-Sample No. 2. 1920 with
Berea curb, S4.2s with stratifed limestone and
Berea curb, $4.25 with stratided limestone and
$4.33 with ooiitic.
Browder & shover-One sample, S4.3s with
ooiitic curb, $4-3S with Berea and $4.42 with
stratihed limestone.
indianapolis Paving Company-John Porter
brick. 1913 with oolitic and $40 with strait
fed iimestOne; Brazil brick. $3.50 with Oolitic,
$4.04 with stratited limestone and $3.50 with
Berea.
On the portion of the street from East
street TO Virginia avenue. where q road
way Of twenty-seven feet is to be paved.
the bids are as follows:
Robert Kennington-Sample No. /, 1925 with
oolitic and $3.50 with stratitied limestone; sam
pie No. 2, 50 with Oolitic and $5.05 with strait
tied limestone.
Fulmer II ~Seibert-Sample No. /, $4.24 with
Berea. LIS with stratihed limestone and $4-28
with oolitic; sample No. 2, $3.50 with Berea,
S4:33 with stratifed limestone and 1888 with
oolitic.
Browder e. shover-One sample. S5.Os with
oolitic. 500 with Berea and 1912 with strait
fed limestone.
indianapolis Paving Company-Jrhn Porter
brick. % 20 with oolitic and $5.43 with strait
fed limestOne; Brazil brick, $4.96 with oolitic,
$4.69 with stratifed limestone and $4.6i with
Berea curb.
The board turned over ell the bids
and sample bricks to the city engineer,
who will figure out the former and take the
latter to the Panhandle shops where he
will subject them to crushing and abrasion
tests. The award of the contract will de-
pend more upon these tests than upon the
prices quoted.
Do Not Know What to Do.
The Board Of Public Works is very silent
on the light question nowadays, and.
though it may possibly be gathering in
formation" on the subject. it is not taking
the public into it's confidence. President
Conduit. of the board. and Colonel Billr
Hicklin. chairman Of the Councils light
committee, hsd a long consultation on the
subject at the latter's office Thursday aft
ernoon. but they could arrive at no conclu-
sion as to what could be done. The boards
settlement with the Brush company upon
the basis of the old verbal agreement was
up to July l. when il was supposed to
terminate, but since then the matter has
been permitted to drift along with the
tide of events, without any agreement
at all, and apparently the board
has not made up it's mind whether
to again advertise for electric-light bids
under. new specifications. light the city
with gas. 60 back q step further to tsllow
dips or what.
Another fruitless effort to get an electric
light plant was made right after the failure
of the eleotric-light companies to bid under
the specifications. The board gave several
local capitalists to understand that If they
cared to invest it would entertain privately
from them any proposition they could make
for furnishing a plant to the city and sell
ing il on the installment plan. The capital
lists thought the matter over tor q few days.
but declined to GO into it on the ground
that it was q business they knew nothing
about.