The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-18

JOoiiiS0 AlCCtllG "Wednesday, august CU,
1898, was dispensed with. and on motion
were approved as engrossed.
COMMISSIONS Somers moved that the
Board adjourn to Thursday, September Z,
1898. at 10 o'clock A, M.
Carried.
GEO. T. BouroN,
Clerk.
Adjourned rcgula. meeting OF the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners, held
on Thursday, September Z. 1893. at ten
o'clock A. NJ.
Present-All the members of the Board
five in number.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AND COMMUNE
CATIONS.
Six (6) petitions for signs. etc.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Streets and Sewers.
From Lorcnz Pfeffer.
Requesting permission to construct a
sewer in Cedar street.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Streets and Sewers.
From the Consolidated Traction Co.:
Presenting acceptance of the conditions of
an ordinance heretofore passed by this
Board.
Received and ordered filed.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Acting Mayor.
JERSEY Cry, Sept. 2, 1893.
To the Honorable Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners.
Gentlemen, IL herewith return without
my approval the resolution of your Board
passed at its meeting of August %, 1898, to
wit:
Resolved, That Lewis H. Broome be
and is hereby appointed as supervising archi-
| tect for the repairs to Public Schools, he to
receive as compensation the sum of 81 per
cent on the total cost of such repairs, pro-
vided, however, that the sum total of such
compensation shall be scaled to correspond
to any shortage that might exist by reason of
a lack of sufficient appropriation to liquidate
such amount in full"
In the resolution passed by the Board of
Finance at its meeting of July 81 last, l
find this clause:
"And Whereas, This Board has caused
the Chief Engineer and the Inspector of
| Buildings to make a detailed statement of
such required repairs, which report is on
file with the Clerk of this Board"
If there vas any necessity for the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Broome or of any archi-
tect, surely it was at this time, but the
specifications were drawn by the Chief En-
gineer and the Inspector of Buildings, and
upon them bids were prepared and the con-
tracts awarded. My contention is that the
| appointment of Mr.. Broome is absolutely
unnecessary, for his services at best would
be only those of an Inspector. Even this is
| provided for in the same resolution of the
Finance Board, of which | made mention
before. The resolution provides That no
payment shall be made upon such contracts
until the Chief Engineer, the Inspector of
Buildings and the Committee of the Board
of Education, upon such respective schools,
| shall have certified that the work required
Hereunder has been duly performed"
l have communicated with the several
members Of the Board of Education, and
they have stated to me in writing that they
will personally attend to and supervise the
work Of repairing the schools in their
charge.
The Inspector of Buildings is willing to
comply with the terms of the resolution OF
the Finance Board.
To my mind the money which Mr.. Broome
would receive as compensation for his SER
vices under the, terms of your resolution
would consume the balance left in the ap-
preparation after the payments had been
made for work under the contracts lately
awarded. This money might be spent to
much better advantage in making additional
and much needed repairs caused by the dam
age done by the last severe storm.
Mr.. Broome was trusted with the super
vision of the repairs to the schools last
year. Much has been said as to the manner
in which the work was done at the time,
and the criticisms have been severe and ad.
verse to Mr.. Broome | an satisfied that
the supervision he exercised over the repair
ing of the schools then does not offer any
recommendation for his employment by your
Board at this late day to supervise the work
o under way.
Very respectfully,
REUBEN SIMPSON,
Acting Mayor.
Received and laid over under the rules.
From the same officer.
JERSEY CRY, Aug. 80, 1898.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners;
Gentlemen,-I have considered the reso-
luton passed by your Board August IS,
1893, awarding the pavement it'll asphalt Of
certain streets of Jersey City t. the Trinidad
Asphalt Paving Company and the Barber
Asphalt Paving Company, the bids of the
Trinidad Paving Company being $2.40 pei
sqnare yard on cobble or Belgian pave
ment and So. 70 per square yard on concrete
foundation. and the bids of the Barber
Asphalt Paving Company at the price OF
$2.85 per square yard on cobble or Belgian
pavement, and So. 30 per square yard on
concrete, both bidders agreeing to guarantee
the pavement for ten years.
| have read the preamble of the resolution
and the facts are correctly stated, excepting
the statement that the Trinidad Company
has had a greater experience in refining
should read that it has had a greater ex-
p~erience in refining than laying the asphalt.
The question of price is an important one
The number of years the pavement is guar
anteed is an important element in asphalt
prices-the longer the guarantee the higher
the price at the start. New York City has
awarded contracts to the Barber Company
on a fifteen year guarantee at four dollars
and seventy-four cents per square yard for
pavement laid on a concrete foundation,
and three dollars and sixty-nine cents per
square yard when laid on old Belgian pave
ment. The Barber Company's bid to Jer-
sey City with a ten year guarantee, is 1925
per square yard OF concrete and $2.S5 on
old Belgian foundation. The same COM
| pany bid in Newark. with a five year guar
antee, So. 80 on concrete foundation.
The price bid by the Trinidad Asphalt
Paving Company In Jersey City is very low,
;f rha Rarher orice ;c fair nc cornnared with