The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-07
Bidding on The BRIDGE
Twenty-Five Proposals Received in
Select Council Last Night.
AWARD WILL BE MADE SOON
Six Members Vote Against the Ordinance
Which Permits Double Track on
Franklin Ayenuc-Another Street
Railways Right of Way.

Twenty-Five bids for building the
superstructure, or iron work, of the
Linden street bridge were opened in
open meeting of select council last
night. The bid of one of the companies
was not read nor was the firm name di-
vulged from the fact that no check ac-
companied the bid, which was evidently
submitted with the intention of getting
of free advertisement.
A large gathering of bridge company
representatives attended the session
and their interest in the proceedings is
explained by the unusual similarity
and closeness of the bids The specifi-
cations of the city engineer provided
for either a wood or asphalt flooring on
driveway and sidewalks, and the words
wood" and asphalt are SO applied
in the following list of bids;
Names of the Bidders.
Chicago Bridge and Iron company,
wood floor $50, 800; asphalt floor, $795OO;
complete without asphalt, $4,000.
Households Bridge company, wood,
61,975; asphalt SS2,3
Rochester Bridge and Iron works,
wood, S7ll4S; asphalt, $97,9
Pennsylvania Steel company, Steel
ton, Pa, asphalt, $79,7OO; wood, $5S, 700;
if convex buckle plates are used and
concrete base is excluded, $7S,3OO.
Variety Iron works Cleveland wood,
S6l 900; asphalt, $Sl 1881.
Wrought Iron Bridge company, Can
ton, Ohio, wood, $50, 1894; asphalt, $1,000.
PheniX Bridge company, PheniX-
vile, Pa, wood, $57, 500; asphalt, 1850
extra.
Pottsville Bridge company, wood,
S7O,555.07; asphalt, $50 $3.50.
Canton Bridge company, Canton,
o., wood, $50, III; asphalt, $S3,479
Passaic Rolling Mill company, Pat
terson, N. j., wood, $71,619; wood eX-
elusive Of buckleplates, $7l, ,1l3, and ad-
ditional amounts for buckleplates of
different thicknesses.
Owego Bridge company, wood, $66, 000
asphalt, $4,000.
Boston Bridge works, wood, $72, 40S; /;
4-inch concrete base, $97,S02.
Nelson & Buchanan Bridge COM
81 d., ", !,
asphalt, $l12,796
Penn Bridge company, Beaver Falls,
Pa, wood $55 400; asphalt, STA, 1900
New Jersey Steel and Iron company,
Trenton, wood, $4,000; asphalt, SSS, 700.
Union Bridge company, Athens. Pa,
wood, $645OO; asphalt, $S4, 400.
Youngstown Bridge company, Youngs-
town, o., wood $6S, 900; asphalt, $92 900.
Toledo Bridge company, wood, $62,-
300; asphalt, $685. 43O.
Massilon Bridge company, Massilon,
O., wood, $6215O; asphalt, $S4,5l3.
King Bridge company Cleveland,
wood, $64,700; asphalt, $SS, 500.
New Columbus Bridge company, Col
umbus, o., wood, $77033; asphalt, $99,-
300.
Shiffier Bridge company. Pittsburg,
wood, $59,99O; asphalt, $S9,5O0.
Edge Moor Bridge works, Whining
ton, Del, wood. $4,000: asphalt on
ss-inch buckleplates, 72,100; ss-inch
buckleplates on roadway and 4-inch
on sidewalk, S7O,SOO; asphalt on A-inch
buckleplates, s6S,9O0.
Groton Bridge Manufacturing COM
pany, Groton, N. Y, wood, $56, ,794 as
phalt, $74,32S.
The CITY clerk was instructed to
return the certified checks of all but
the five lowest bidders.
A previous resolution of councils pro-
vides for special method of awarding
the contract In an expeditions manner.
The joint streets and bridges commit
tee will notify the mayor when it is
ready to make it's recommendations on
the award, and the mayor will imme-
diatly call special. joint meeting of
councils to hear the report
Mayor Connell's veto of the bill of
$3l6.6O Of York street viewers was con-
firmed. The mayor explained in a COM
munication that the city solicitor had
refused to approve the bill on the
ground that exceptions have been filed
to the viewers report, which leaves
their work unfinished and makes a
settlement premature.
Appropriations Are Exhausted
A communication from the city soli-
citor stating that the balance of $42l. "a
in the judgment and incidental appro-
priation Is more than exhausted, by the
| bills approved, to the amount of $500
that the appropriation for repairing
| fire company houses Is exhausted, and
recommending the transfer of the via
duct appropriation of $4,000 according
| to previous request of Aug. 6, was re-
| ferred to committee.
A petition of property owners that
| the roadway Of Linden street be mar
rowed and the sidewalks widened be-
tween Monroe and Clay avenues, was
| granted.
The ordinance permitting the Scran.
ton Traction company to double-track
Franklin avenue between Spruce street
and Lackawanna avenue passed third
and final reading, Members Finn
Thomas, Durr, Connell, Clemons and
Chittenden voting negatively.
Two amendments We're made to the
ordinance giving the Scranton anC
North End Street Railway company
the right of way over certain streets II
the North End. One amendment pro
vides that the streets must be kept II
proper condition by the company; tht
other provides that by the passage o.
the ordinance the city does not recog
nize streets as belonging to the city
which have not previously been ac
cepted by the city. The route of tn,
proposed street railway is an extension
of the Scranton Traction company sys
TEN and extends from Delaware stree
on Penn avenue to Sunset avenue, t.
Washington avenue, to Olyphant road
to boulevard, to city line; also, ol
Columbia avenue, from Washington
avenue to the Boulevard.
An adjournment was made to NEE
next Thursday evening.
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
The general house furnishing store
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