The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-11
THE ASPHALT oUESTIoN.

Record of the Transaction.
| In view of the many conflicting ac-
counts of the contracts for asphalt
pavements. and as matter of public
interest, the report of the Board of
Public Works to the Common Council
and the letter of the Boston Asphalt
Co. to the board, are printed In full.
To the Honorable Court of Common
Council of the City of New Haven:
The Board of Public Works acknowl-
edges the receipt from your honorable
| body of the following resolution:
| Resolved by the Court of Common
Council of the city of New Haven, that
| it is hereby
ordered, That the Board of Public
| Works and its employees and agents be,
and they are hereby directed not to
permit any work to be done either on
Trumbull. Orange or Chapel streets in
the city of New Haven under con-
| tract said to have been entered into on
the Sd day Of June, 1885, with the Bos-
ton Asphalt Co., to construct perma-
nent pavement of asphalt on said
| streets; and they are further ordered
not to permit said Boston Asphalt Co.
or any other persons, from entering
upon any one of said three streets for
the purpose of laying permanent
pavement thereon, until the street COM
mittee of the city of New Haven shall
have completed it's Investigation into
all matters pertaining to contracts or
proposals for laying permanent pave
ments in said streets and until the
| Court Of Common Council of New Ha-
| ven shall have passed further orders
in the premises
The Board of Public Works respect
fully submits the following statement
On the 2Sd day of October, 1885, this
board received from the Court of Com
mon Council an order as follows:
ordered. that the Board of Public
Works cause Orange street, from
Crown to Gamer streets, to be paved
with sheet asphalt equal in quality to
the best Pitch Lake Asphalt"
On the 23d day of December, 1895, this
board received from the Court Of Com
mon Council the following:
ordered that the Board of Public
| Works cause West Chapel street be-
tween York and Mott streets, to be
paved its full width with sheet asphalt
equal in quality to the best Pitch Lake
Asphalt
Also in December, 1895. this board re-
ceived from the COUNT of Common
| Council the following order:
| ordered that the board of Public
Works cause Trumbull street to be
paved between State and Prospect
| streets. with sheet asphalt equal in
quality to the best Pitch Lake As
| phalt.''
This board proceeded with due care
in the performance of the duties i'm
| posed upon it by such orders, and on
May 18th, 1896, received bids for asphalt
pavements on Orange, Trumbull and
Chapel streets from various parties,
and thereupon this board passed the
following vote:
/ Voted: To lay the bids for asphalt
pavements on the table and refer them
to committee consisting of Commits
sioners Mccain and Johnson, and City
Engineer Kelley, to inquire and re-
port"
That committee reported as follows:
New Haven, Conn, June 3d. 1896.
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| port as follows:
| We found four kinds of asphalt rep
resented by the dlfferent bidders, to
VII: that known as Slclllan ROCK AS
phalt, the Pitch Lake Asphalt OF Trini-
dad, and the Aicatraz OF California
and the standard or Bakersfield AS
phalt OF California. In our lnvestiga-
tons we visited Boston, where we eX-
anined the Trinidad and Sicilian Rock
and were shown about by representa-;
tives Of the Boston Asphalt Co. We
next visited New York, and We're first
shown about by Mr.. William Kelley
and his representatives, and under
their guidance visited number Of
streets laid with AlcatraZ asphalt, anc
were also taken TO the works of Will
liam Kelley In Brooklyn. We were
then taken about New york by repre-
I sentatiyes of the New England I'm.
| proyement Co., which proposes to lay
Trinidad Pitch Lake Asphalt. We saw
also a piece of Sicilian Rock Asphalt
in process Of being laid. We next visi
ted Philadelphia by ourselves, being
guided in part by the printed state
ments of the bidders and asphalt com
panfes We examined the Alcatra;