The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-28
SCHOOL WORK BIDS.
Board of Education Awards
a Contract for Altering
the Old City Hall.
NO AWARD FOR NEW SCHOOL NO. 1
Contractor Connolly Will Tear
Down the Buildings on York
Street for One Cent.

t.s. --
Everybody in the Assembly Chamber in
the City Hall at the meeting last night
of the Board of Education laughed heart
lily when Clerk J. j. Wiseman read aloud
the bids for the tearing down of Public
School No. l on York street. One on
tractor said he would do the work for
$3.50, another wanted $3.50, a third asked
$500, a fourth demanded one dollar and
the last bidder modestly asked the stag
gering sum of one cent He got it: the
Board in its wisdom honestly believing
that it could not be lone for any less.
After a pleasant chat together in their
committee rooms for at least one hour
and a half the members of the Board of
Education last night suddenly remem-
bered that there was an army of inn
patient contractors cooling their heels in
the corridors of the City Hall eager to
hand in bids for the new school No. /,
the tearing down of the old building and
the alteration of the old City Hall as a
temporary school during the building of
the icy one. So downstairs the Directors
trooped to the Assembly Chamber, which
was quickly filled with the gentlemen of
the contracting profession.
Before, however, the Board got down
to the collection of the bids a few COM
m~unications were read. The first came
from Principal Brensinger of the Teach
ers' Training School, inviting the Board
70 the memorial exercises in school No. 8
today. The Board will be there. The
second communication came from Public
School No. / Association, which read as
follows
Your petitioners would respectfully
present that Public School No. / Asso-
clatlon IS formed of the scholars who
attended Public School No. l during the
years lS4l to 1885, inclusive and have held
annual reunions since the year 1890. That
as our old school is to be torn down the
ASSOCIATION is DESTROYS of holding the re-
union OF this year in the old building
as a farewell to the pleasant associations
which surround it. Therefore we petition
your honorable board to kindly grant US
the use of the old school house for this
purpose on the evening of June g. 1897
This was referred to the committee
with power.
from Miss Grace r. Taft of No. rs Cottage
street This young lady said she was a
Of the High and Training
S Sinloo Oh Jersey City and had received
graduating in June, 1895, she sent in an
a~pphcatton for an appointment as teacher.
since tnat time many teachers who
graduated since (word underlined) have
received positions, while l personal pro-
noun strongly underlined) have not" Miss
Iart respectfully asked for the next ap-
41C hlIh WAS GGIerre0 10
Director Dewitt. much to the envy Of the
Board. .ne
Then the bids were called for the tear
ing down of the old School No. and
three prick houses on the east side there
oil Inc hrst bidder was Jacob Debotse.
rington would be satisfied with 50 5O-EyV
II. Nell was more modest with his $50
a Wlfb 81 Van AK Keg It went him one better
cent and there was a roar of 10 ,gS4ar
For the repairs to the old City Hall,
). .Fsw fPelow gna sow wer & saz the biddaers:-
and Son, $3.50; J.. Warren, $4,000; Barron
Donaldson, $685.; James Connolly. &. sos
and + Mahoney. s3,7s7. Donaldson was
The rebuilding of School No. / was sub
divided into bids for the requisite work
ana a bid on the whole amount. For
rs mason work sng kstahne these e., were oase the blds:--W.
1900; M. T. Connolly, $58, 40; Neil Camp-
bell. $50, 481, and M. Kellaher. S64 900, Con
molly was again low.
lloWs:-Barro Donaldson. $23, 49S; T.
Jewkes and Son, So. S21; P. .Byrne, 1852;
Niblett, s31, 400. Jewkes and Son were
! Bids for ]. plumping work were:-w. W.
BlaekshaW $685.; A. L. Pasmann, S.
soS. 81; and J. e. Murray, $1,000. Martin
WIS HOW.
For heating and yentilating these were
the bids:-A- L. Pasmann, ST, 444. 6s-thIs
gentleman was particular about his sixty
three e sen Blake and Williams, New
Grossly sz' aelatin w. e. comp angrif New Y 9o *;
$2o,es7; Baker and Smith Company, New
York, $lS,736; they were lowest.
tWo, bidders. M. .Kellaher, s11s.S So, and
Michael 7. Connolly, slo6, 9l5, These con-
and went back to the committee room
upstairs to consider them. They re-
turned in less than an hour and these
Baron Donaldson. contract for alter
in the old City Hall. s., 1896.
Michael 7. Connolly, contract for tear
ing GOWN school No. l and three brick
The, bid for. the rebuilding of the
sehooi were referred to the Committee
OF school No. l. This was done. so it
the figures were not for such a building
considered very hight, it was IN.
SUM nnD~n wo mRf'ne Be- a pr gGt b such to e
Board Of Finance and the Mayor. 'h f
the contract had been divided the school
could be built for $685. 91 or g, 954 less
namely. slo6, s45. Many of the members
thought that $103. 991 was a moderate
figure, while others looked upon it as
higher than they anticipated. AS the
members are all very carefully looking
after the taxpayers, pockets as weei as
the taxpayers children they deemed If
wise to observe the old Latin motto.
Festina lente, and refer the matter for
further consideration.
Before a~djourning the Board ordered
the printing of the minutes, transferred
the authority in the matter of school
sites from the committee for that pur-
pose to the Finance Committee and
President Firm appointed these COM
mittees on new schools
No. SchoolEDaly. higgins, Quinn.
No. II NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Finn.
higgins.
Sixth Ward-Broderick, Cowles. Firm.
Ninth ..War-Devitt, Daily, Broderick.
Eleventh NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Degnan,
Dewitt. "
Twelfth ward-Allen, Mooney, Mer-
SheiImer.
No. IA School-Firm, Finn, Cowles.
Third Ward-Quinn, Degnan, Mooney.
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