The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03

The Street and Water Commissioners at
their meeting yesterday afternoon re-
ceived bids for the lighting of the city by
electricity, Welsbach lights, gas and oil
lamps. There are at present only seven
hundred lights. but under the proposed
new arrangement there will be at least
nine hundred. If there are to be any
more than that the number will be regu-
lated entirely by the amount of the APP
preparation made by the Board of Finance
for street lighting purposes. Notwith-
standing the fact that the Supreme Court
some time ago set aside a five-year street
lighting contract the Board yesterday re-
ceived bids on the basis of a one, three
and five years contract.
For the electric lighting there were only
two bidders, the Hudson County and Jer-
sey City Electric Light Companies. The
Jersey City Company, In which Horace
Farrier and John E.. Macarthur are inter-
ested. is apparently low. The Hudson
County's bid under the one year contract
Is 1888 1-3 per lamp per month, or sl15 per
lamp by the year. Under the contract for
three years the prices offered are $3.50 1-3
per lamp per month. or s106 per lamp a
year. If a fve-year contract is made the
price asked per month for each lamp is
$3.50, or s1o2 by the year.
The Jersey City Company's prices are
under the one-year contract, S9.16 2-3 per
lamp per month, or $110 a year; three-year
contract, 1891 2-3 for every lamp by the
month, or s107 for each lamp by the year;
flve-year contract, $S.25 for each lamp by
the month, or 500 by the year.
The Board directed that the competitors
should bid for altering ouch lamps as are
necessary. In some parts of the city the
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shade trees. The light as a consequence
is INSTRUCTED. To avoid this it is proposed
to extend the lamps out from the trees
five, six or perhaps eight feet. Where out
rlggerS have to be used the companies
asked 20 and rs cents a foot respectively
for such outriggers.
The only bidder for the welsbach lights
was the United States Improvement Com
pany. The city will have at least one
hundred of these lights, with possibly a
few more If the appropriations will per-
NIT. In this bidding the company was
asked to set prices where it should do ell
the reglazing and where the city should
do it. For a one-year contract, the city
to do the reglazing. the monthly price
per lamp Is s1.96 in June to S.& in De-
cember, or $32 a year. Where the COM
pany is to do the reglazing the price per
lamp for each month is graded from 81. 26
in June to S4.8 in December, or s37 a year.
In the event of a three-year contract be-
ing awarded the company offers each
NAip 4oI Sol . year. the City u 10 lHS re-
glazing. or 500 a year if the company is
to do it. Under a fve-year contract, the
city to do the reglazing, the price per
lamp for each year is 81, n $36 if the
company does the reglazing. The lamps
proposed to be furnished are of the 90
candle power Welsbach type, which are,
it Is maintained, equivalent to 60-candle
power illumination.
For ordinary gas lamps, of which there
are to be three hundred, there was only
one bidder, the United Gas improvement
Company.
For the one-year contract, the city to
do the reglazing, the price per lamp
ranges from $1-49 in June to S2.67 in De-
cember, or $3.50 a year. If the company
is to pay for reglazing the prices range
from $1.81 in Jun to 1921 in December. or
$3.50 a year. In the event of a three-year
contract being made the price is S23. so for
each lamp each year, the city to do the
reglazing, or SIS. 30 If the company does 1t.
Tit prices are the same if a five-year con-
tract is awarded. For all oil lamps used
light Company, the only bidder, asked
$1.72 90 per month, or $20.T4 If the city
does the reglazing, or S1.S1 1-6 per month,
or S21.74 if the ompa does the reglaz-
ing. Under the three-year contract the
prices are S.6SA per month, or s20.25 a
year if the city does the reglazing, or
$1.75 per month or 81 a year if the COM
pany does it. For a f~ive-year contract
lamps are offered at A.66 2-3 each per
month, or $40 If the city does the regiaz-
ing, or s.. 70A each, or s2043 if the COM
pany does it.
It is understood that long term con-
tracts are to be made. The bids were all
referred TO the Committee of the Whole
for investigation.