The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-31
ASPHALT FOR SOUTH BROAD.
COUNCIL WILL PROBABLY SELECT
THAT MATERIAL.

Proposition for the Maintenance
Of All the Asphalt Pavements of
the City on which the Guarantee
Has Expired-WiH DO the Work
for Cents Per square Yard Per
Annum - Brick Companies Stiu
Making "A Hard Fight for the Com
tract-The Hastings Paving Com
pany Reduces Its Bid - The Au-
gusta Gravel VIII he Tried.
1t seems to be assured now that sheet
asphalt. will be used on South Broad
street
The Warren-Scharf Asphalt Company
Of New York has made a proposition to
the city which is regarded with favor
and which, In all likelihood, will be ac-
cepted. The proposition has been referred
to the committee Of the whole. A special
meeting of council was held yesterday af-
ternoon to consider the South Broad street
paving matter, but action was deferred
in order to allow the Tennessee Brick
Company of Chattanooga to get In its bid,
the Virginia Brick Company having put
in a bid. The latter bid will not be made
public for the present on this account,
but 1t is understood that the proposition
is very attractive one.
The Hastings Block Company Of Massa-
chusetts also put in bid, making con-
siderable reduction upon it's former bid
The Hastings company offers to furnish
asphalt blocks for paving South Broad
street at $3.50 per 1000, delivered at the
wharf in Savannah. This is equal to
S1.6Sas per square yard for the blocks de-
livered, and does not include cost of
laying. The former bid was SIS per 1000,
or $1S719 per square yard. The propo-
sition was made through the local repre-
sentative Of the company, Mr.. Jacob Ga
zan.
The proposition of the Warren-Scharf
company is on the line suggested by coun-
ell, and will hardly fail to meet with
favor by that body. The company pro-
poses, in consideration of being given the
South Broad street contract, either at
I.9o or $2.15 per square yard, according
to the class of pavement selected, to en-
ter into contract with the city for the
maintenance Of all the asphalt pavements
here, on which the guarante has expired,
at cents per square yard per annum, on
the following terms:
First, 1t proposes to release the city
from Its present contract with the com
pany for the maintenance of the asphalt
pavement on Broughton street, between
Abercorn and West Broad streets. at the
rate of 10 cents per square yard per an
mum for a period of twenty years from
June l, 1891.
In the second place it agrees to main
tain and repair the Broughton street
pavement, between Abercorn and West
Broad streets, and all the other
street asphalt pavements in the
city, upon which the guarantee
periods OF five years have al
ready expired, including the asphalt pave.
ment on Broughton street, between Aber-
corn and East Broad, and that on Liberty
street, between Wheaton and West Broad
streets, which pavements were laid by
the Southern Vulcanite Company.
IL further agrees to maintain such other
asphalt pavements in the city of Savan-
nah, upon which the guarantee periods
nave not yet expired, for a period of five
years from and after the date of their re-
spective guarantee periods. This applies
to the South Broad street pavement for
a period OF five years after the expiration
OF the f1ve-year guarantee period making
ten years from the date of completion that
this pavement would be under the care of
the company.
Al SuSS lIAH GOuLn brOdQ street contract
IS granted to, the w arren-Scharf Company,
the letter accompanying the proposition
states that the company Will be ready to
begin work within two weeks after the
signing of the contract, and that the pave
ment would probably be completed within
sixty days after beginning work.
The single specimen of asphalt block
furnished by the Hastings Paving Com
pany is very handsome and apparently
very durable, bat the aldermen are not
prepared to form an opinion based on a
single specimen. Besides the cost of lay
ing, in addition to the cost of the block
would bring the cost of such pavement
up to that of the best sheet asphalt, even
If it did not exceed 1t. If these blocks
should prove as durable as those laid in
front Of the city exchange over ten years
ago they could hardly fail to make a Salts
factory pavement. Council might be in
duced to make an experiment with these
blocks on some other. street. Drayton
street is badly in need of Such pavement
and would furnish a very satisfactory test.
All the bids were referred to the COM
n1ittee of the whole. An amendment to
the South Broad street paving ordinance
was offered by Col. Garrard, substituting
the words, "sheet asphalt" for "vitrifed
brick" whenever they occur The
amendment was read a second time and
laid on the table. The committee of the
whole will meet Monday afternoon to con-
slider paving matters.
DIR. Falligant offered a resolution that
the committee on streets and lanes be au-
thorized to confer with the proper parties
relative to having Bolton street from
West Broad to Cemetery street, paved
with Augusta gravel The resolution was
adopted.