The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-14
COST OF WTRIFIED BRICK.
BIDS FOR THE SOUTH BROAD
STREET PAVEMENT.

The Manufacturer Oner TO Furnish
Brick at From sI.OI to sI.22 Per
Square Yard-This Does Net In
clude Laying the Pavement
which VIII Cost 30 to - Cents
Per Square Yard MOre-The Differ
ence in the Cost of Asphalt and
Brick Estimated at 30 80 80 Cents
Per square Hard.
The bids for furnishing vitrihed brick
for paving South Broad street and adj
joining portions of Abercorn and Haber-
sham streets were received yesterday al
the public works commissioner Office.
The bids were opened in the presence Of
the mayor and the commissioner. Six
bids were received, varying in price from
S10l to S1-22 per square yard. These bids
are not for paving the street, but simply
for furnishing the brick with which to
pave il. The cost of laying the brick, to-
gether with other necessary expenses OF
the work is estimated at from 50 70 IS
cents per square yard additional The
bids are for brick delivered on cars at
Savannah and are as follows:
Virginia Paving Brick Company, Lynch
burg, Va, s1.O52s per square yard.
W. B. Harris < Bro, GAINESVILLE, O.. Sl.22
per square yard.
Tennessee Paving Brick Company, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, sl16ls reynolds paver),
John d. Gould, Savannah agent.
Tennessee Paving Brick Company. Chat
tanooga, Tenn, S11p5 (Robbins' bricl),
per square yard, John d. Gould, Savannah
agent.
W. +. Chaplin. Savannah. Ga, S1.15
Cdack brick. per square yard.
Caskill N. " Shale Brick Company rep
resented by McAlpin & Hancock, Savan-
nah Sl.0l per square yard.
Each bid was accompanied by a certi-
fed check for 81 600, as required by the spe-
cifcat fons, and each bidder also furnished
twelve samples of brick. These samples,
in case the decision 10 use vitrined brick
is adhered to. will be thoroughly tested as
TO their durability and non-ltabilfty 10 ab-
sorption of water, before the contraGt IS
awarded. 1t is not by any means likely
that the cheapest brick will stand the
by any means certain that the highest
priced brick will prove TO be the most de-
sirable.
cost of paving with vitrfed brick was
based on a rate Of Sl.75 per square yard.
This is an outside estimate, and the work,
It is claimed, can probably be done some
what cheaper, at say, $l.65 per square
yard. There are In round figures, about
10000 yards Of surface to be paved, o,VOO
streets. AT $l.6 per square yard the cost
of the work would be S49, 900.
The Warren-Scharf Asphalt Company
proposes to do the paving at Sl.so per
SQUARE yard. This would make the cost
OF the asphalt paving $500. a difference
of 5000, as compared with brick. With
the work open to competition, however, as
would doubtless be the case, a
still lower bid would doubtless
be made, perhaps as low as $l.S5
This would make a difference of only 20
cents per square yard in the cost OF the
two pavements, or 5000. About one-halt
Of this would be borne by the city and
the other half by the property owners, as,
in addition TO its proportions Of one-third
of the cost the city viii have to pay FOR
the frontage of considerable public prop
erty on the three streets.
The whole question of cost and the mer-
its and dement's of the two classes Of
pavements Will be discussed IN council,
probably at the next meeting.
One of the arguments advanced in favor
Of vftriied brick is that the work would
all be done by home labor. AT 80 cents
per square yard for labor the total amount
paid out to this source would be Sl5.0OO'
which is quite an item when there are so
many idle men in the city. The asphalt
company may meet this with PROPOSE
ton to employ the quarter part OF us
labor in Savannah.