The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-14
LIGHTING And SW WHBPIDG
Street and Water Board Puz-
zled Over a Contract
Plumbers Brought to
Time.

The Street and Water Commissioners
held a short session yesterday afternoon.
All the members were present. The rec
concentrations embodied in Chief Engl-
neer Fowler's letter to the Board, which
was published in yesterdays Jersey
City News" were adopted The Board
has decided to do everything the Engi-
neer suggests. By doing so, they say,
they will be aiding the Chief in carrying
out the many Improvements he has III
contemplation. All the members of the
Board are delighted with the manner in
which the Chief is conducting the busi--
ness of his office.
Considerable time was taken up at the
meeting by the reception of bids for light
ing the streets for the fiscal year. The
Jersey City Electric Light Company has
a five year contract for the electric light
ing. The bids received yesterday were
for gas and oil lamps.
The New York and New Jersey Globe
Gas Light Company was the only bidder
for the oil lamp contract For every
lamp furnished the company asks/$l73
month or $2076 a year if the city does
the necessary glazing and makes all re-
pairs If the company is to do the glaz-
ing makes reparirs the price per month
for each lamp is $1S2 or $2l.S4 year.
In submitting its proposal the company
calls particular attention to its new Weis-
bach incandescent street lamp. 1t offers
to furnish the new lamps at $3.50 month
or $50 a year, only demanding at least
fifty of the new lamps be used. The new
lamps have been tested and have been
found to work splendidly. 1t is contended,
for them that they provide better light
than an arc lamp and are much cheaper.
-Four of the new lamps cost about what
one arc light does under the present con-
tract prices In the various poorly llghted
streets the new lamps have been tried
and have proved satisfactory IN every
particular 1t is not at all unlikely that
many of the old oil lamps will be ordered
out of use and the new lamps sub
stituted.
For the three hundred or more gas
lamps required, the United Gas Improve
Eent Company submitted the following
bid
City to do all reglazing and repairing,
the cost of each lamp per month will be:
December S267; January, S2.5S; February,
s22l; March, s2.14; April si.S5; May, $1.65;
5gne smss3 s ss }uy ocfa6sr @ Aagqs % s ssp
2.45, or S24.50 by the year.
Company to do reglazing and repairing;
December, s3.05; January. 81 80; February. a5 r. .
June, Sill; July SLIT; August, $1.99; Sep
tember, 1929; October, s2.63; November,
$2.81, or $2S by the year.
After the street lighting bids were dis
posed Of estimates were invited for the
sweeping and cleaning of the streets and
the removal of ashes and garbage.
For the cleaning of the streets under
the improved specifications prepared by
Engineer Fowler, P. H. Flaherty. Jr:, &
Co., offered to do the work for $l52O q
mile; James J. Harrington, 81 a mile, and
Henry Byrne S11 a mile. Byrne has the
contract at present, and is equipped to do
the work. The street cleaning will again
go to him. For the removal of the ashes
and garbage the same contractors bid
Byrne asked s22, 900; P. H. Flaherty, Jr;, &
Co. $40, ,849; James J. Harrington, $4,000
Thomas, who for years has been endeav-
orng to oust Byrne. The Commissioners
are undecided as to whom to award the
contract. Byrne is equipped to go
ahead at once, while Harrington, it is said,
is not The subject will be considered by
the Committee of the Whole.
The Board awarded contract to Iimo-
thy Burke to construct a sewer In Sea-
view avenue, and Charles Connolly to
construct a sewer in Bergen avenue.
Upon the recommendation of the Com
mittee of the Whole a resolution was
adopted compelling all plumbers and ma
sons who make excavations in the street
to replace the street in as good condi-
ton as they found it. In the past ex-
cavationS have been made and probably
a week later the paving blocks would drop
out of sight. The city was compelled
to repair the street. The Board has de-
by those responsible for the damage to
ba ctr