The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-30
TALKED Of At CITY HALL.
Interesting Comparison Of Bids for
the Big Pumping Engine.
CARGoES OF cURBIHG STONE.
Four Now ON tho Way TO This City from
Sullivan, Me. bridge building at
Francis street-sixty Streets to Be
Renumbercd Before Next May.

eos'oCouootJ. AltOKetner uve COmpanltb
submitted proposals. The K. p. Allis
company presented two plans for vertical
compound engines each OF los, 900. 00o gal
Ions capacity one of which was TO cost
$4,000 and the other $65, 900,
Tie Worthington company had four
designs. two were Of the vertical COM
pound patterns, one OF l05, ,000. 900 gallons
ctpacity,to cost $63 500. the other 1l0. .000.-
900 gallons to cost $73. 900. The other two
were OF the triple expansion pattern the
frst OF 120.00o.000 gallons ,pacity to cost
$4,000 and the second 125. .000,O00 gallons
capacity to cost $4,000.
Tae Holly company's proposals were
for vertical compound engines. one OF
los, ,O00, 900 and the other TIC. .O00. 900 gallon
capacity. the first to cost $6l 1860 and the
second S64, ,327
Like the Worthington company the
Groshon company submitted four de-
signs. Two were OF compound patterns.
each OF ll5.0O0.0O0 galloas capacity, and
to cos $4,000 aud the other $S4, 900.
Their triple expansion engines were each
OF 125,000. 900 gallons capacity-one to cost
$92, aud the other SIS, ,0OU.
Details Of the Bids.
The Blake company OF Boston sub
mitted only one bid. 1t was for a cross
compound eng ne of 115,000,0O0 gallons
capacity aud to cost $50 1877
II considering these bids the city engi-
neer ana Com missioner Smith figured the
annual interest n tie original cost of
TIE engines aud tue cost OF coal In tile
furnace to pump lis. .000, 600 daily for
year. The annual cost OF the various
types OF engiu ues submitted AS thus ascer-
tained would be as follows:
The Aliis company vertical compound
los, ,ooO.OoO gallons. So, 2,55306 ana $22.-
l53 96.
Tre WorthinRton vertical com pound of
los, ,000,0U0 Hons <22 U93 90. o. ITO, COO, 900
4 Hons $2l, ,5S4 %; verU.cai tripe expap-
sion, 10000 0o0 gallops, $40, ,9p9 3S; 1885,
0o0.0OO gallons. si0, ,5s5 20.
The Holly cpmpany vertical compound
105 0O0, 600 Ia lols. So. .0OS 36 no. 0O0 0OO gal
lons. $2I. .237 80
The u -oshon company vertical com.
pound 115.000, 900 gallons, first, $2l, ,233 O6;
second. s2l .053 g. Vertical triple expan-
sion, 125, 100000 gallons. first, $50. 125. 90;
second, 9.945.Oo.
The Bake company cross compound,
s19 945. 90
A glance at these figures shows that
the l2O, ,OO0.0O0 gallon triple expansion eD-
Rine Is tie most economical OF she thir-
teen aud tbs is the ONE accepted and now
being built by the Worthington company.
Careoes OF Curbing stone.
There are row on their way to this city
four scaoone laden with curbing stone
for this city. Trey are from Sullivan,
Maine. They are the General B,nks
Two Bro, hers, Georgietra aud Victory. A
great dea OF the curbing used In this city
OF laie las Leen furnished by Crabtree
g. H ,rvey of Sullivan, Maine.
1t seems rather odd that with the i'm
mense granite quarries at Westerly, less
than forty miles away. the city should
have e. 20 sway down east" for it's curb
ing. yet such is the fact. At the puplic
works department this morning
the reason for t is was learl ed. II seems
that the Westerly granite is of the finest
quality. In Iced IL is regarded through
ont the st. at lsast. Is the best in .ths
country Tor mouume tai and building
purposes.
Tie quarry owners would not think Of
undertaking contract to furnish curb
ing at the prices at which il ,aa be OBJ
tained in Maine. They ask from 20 to rs
cents iunning foot for 1t while all the
city Is nov paying is 62 cents DOT for he
stone delivered here. This is the reason
Providence doesn't patroniza home pro-
ducers of curbing. The Westerly quarry
owners are pretty sharp competitors
however In the paving block market
There Is necessarily n great deal of
| stone taken out OF the quarries which ia
too small for either building or monu-
mental work. This is cut up into paving
blocks and yields a very considerable
revenue.
There 10 No Waste.
Even n granite pavement yields in
time to the constant traffic over il. The
exposed su- facs becomes rounded ard
smooth almost to the extent OF 2lassi-
ness. When this IL the case the pavement
| IL torn up and replaced with new blocks.
The old ones are not thrown away or
sent TO the stone crusher Instead the
rounded and smooth surface Is cut off
and the block is again in condition for
ano her long tern of service in city thor.
ouQhiares.
or curbing stones this city annually
uses about $4,000 feet. Thus every year
there are added something over seven and
one half miles OF bighN avs curbed ON
both sides, n pretty good showing indeed
when the enormous amount OF public
improve nents being made in other dI.
rections is consi cred.
Bridge Work In Progress.
The iron bridge over the Woonas.
quatucket river at Acorn street has b,
completed. Toe contract was awarded
on May 4. to H. Il. Hawkins. Another
bridge is In course OF constrnc ion
over the Woonasquatueket river a. Fran
| cis street. This will be large structure
as It 10 the link which will connect
by broad highway the northern with
the central portion of the city.
The abutments are now being built by
Mr.. Joseph Ross OF Ipswich, Mass. The
| iron superstrucsure will be furnished BY