The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14
FOR STREET PAVEMENT
BIDS WE'RE OPENED LAST EVENING
And REFERRED TO A COMMITTEE.

Fifty Per Cent. of Actual Cost Required as
Surety-Mustbe Kept in Order Ten Years
Power to Sign Contracts Given Presi-
dent-Bridge Contract Signed.
Bids were opened last night for the
paving of Chapel. Orange and Trumbull
streets with asphalt by the board of pub
lie works. There were seven bidders for
each of the streets named The highest
bid was that of John A. Doolittle & Co.
for the paving of Chapel street, it being
SS.55 per square yard. The lowest bid
was that of William Kelley of New
York, it being s244, the same upon all
the streets named.
The specifications are said by those
who bid to have been careful of the
citys interest, and while all admit
ted their fairness the competitors were
of the opinion that the welfare of the
people had been carefully guarded. 1t
was stated by some of the bidders
last evening that these were the low
est legitimate estimates on work of sim
liar character that had been made for
many years. The specifications do not
stipulate the kind Of asphalt to be used,
relying upon the bond of so per cent.
Of actual contract price to insure the
use of the best material as well as the
requirement Of ten years" guarantee.
Classifying the bids, there were three
| local concerns and four companies OUT
side Of the city competing for the work.
The bids Of the New England Im-
| provement company and those Of c. w.
| Blakeslee & Son ran very near togeth-
| er, the difference being two cents per
| yard on Orange street and five cents
| on Chapel street and seven cents on
| Trumbull street. All but one OF the
| bidders, Kelley, made a difference In
| their bids for the paving of Chapel
| street. One, the Boston Asphalt COM
pany, made difference Of twenty
| nine cents Comparing the estimates
| with the contract price for Bridgeport,
| which has a guarantee for five years
| only, the bid Of Kelley is fifty cents
| less, and one cent less than the work
was done in artford, which also has a;
| guarantee for five years, but the city
did all the evcavating.
| The New England Improvement cons
pany is composed Of local capitalists.
| with N. w. Kendall Of Fair Haven
| president.
| The board in executive session ap-
pointed a committee consisting of
President McGann, Commissioner john
son and City Engineer Kelly to take
the bids in advisement and to enquire
| into the merits of the different kinds Of
asphalt and report to the board Of pub
| lie works.
1t was voted that all contracts for
city work should be signed by the pres
| ident of the board.
The names of the bidders, their 1oca-
tion and amount named in the bids, are
as: follows: Orange street, Barbour
Asphalt company, New York, $299
square yard; John A. Doolittle & Co,
New Haven, $500; Warren Scharf Pav-
| ing company, New York, $2.98: William
Kelley. New York, $244; Boston Asphalt
company, Boston, $3.01; C. w. B1akes-
lee & Son, New Haven, $3.50; New Eng
| land Improvement company, New Ha-
| ven, $2.7S.
Chapel street-Barbour Asphalt COM
pany, $3.04; John A. Doolittle & Co.,
$3.50; Warren Scharf Paving company
$3O5; William Kelley, s2.44; Boston
Asphalt company $3.50; c. w. Blakes-
lee & Sons, 1894; New England I'm
provement company, $2.98.
! Trumbull street-Barbour Asphalt
company, $2.99; John A. Doolittle &
| Co., $3.35; Warren Scharf company,
s29S; William Kelley, $2.44; Boston
Asphalt company, $3.05; C. w. Blakes-
lee & Son, $3.50; New England Improves
ment company, $2.73.
| The contract with James J. Geary for
the substructure of the new Quinnipiac