The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19
FOR PAVING DRAYToN STREET.
BIDS RECEIVED FOR ASPHALT,
BRICK AND GRAVEL.

The Southern Paving Company of
Baltimore Underbids the Warren
Scharf Company for AsphaIt-Bids
for Gravel Vary WideIy-OnIy Two
Bids Received for Paving DraytOn
south of Anderson Street With
Gravel, and Both Too High to Be
Considered.
Bids were received yesterday noon at the
Office of the commissioner Of public works
for paving Drayton street The bids were
opened later in the mayors Office in the
presence Of the street and lane commit
tee, and a number of the bidders. There
were several bids. and quite a variety in
them.
The specifications called for bids for paw
! ing DraytOn street from Bay to Anderson
with asphalt, vitriied brick, cement grav-
el inches in depth, and the same inches
in depth, and the paving of the street from
Anderson to Eighth with Augusta gravel
Besides paving material, the specifica-
tons called for catch basins and corners,
granite curbing for the street. both
straight and circular, and sewers of diff
ferent sizes. where required.
There were nineteen different items to
the bids, and each bid was made in detail
1t took Clerks Butler and Allen in the
office of the commissioner of public works
several hours to figure out the bids SO as
to ascertain the total cost of the work
under each bid. Some of the bids were
under all four heads, and others only I'M
der one. There were only two bids for
asphalt, the Warren-Scharf Asphalt Com
pany, at $20S per square yard, and the
Southern Asphalt Paving Company, at
Sl.91 per square yard
The cost of the work by the different
bids, as figured out in the commissioner s
office, is as follows:
Drayton street, between Bay and Ander-
son, with asphalt: The Southern Asphalt
Paving Company, ST., 9O3; the Warren
Scharf Asphalt Company, $54,6 500 so.
With brick paving as follows:
southern Asphalt Paving Company, $780,
523; Georgia Paving Company, S97, PSI. SO;
Cook & Laurie, $S7, SS6; J. +. O'Hearn, $50, =
A732; 7. H. Lasley, $39, 976 80; Southern
Fuel and Supply Company, $38, 1873. rs; w.
A. Hascall, $36,129.26; J. r. CrOnin & Co.,
$46, 706. q; Delaney & Zipf, 81, 100 20; Will
kins & Gould, $40, 1856
Paving from Anderson to Eighth with
! gravel six inches deep:
Southern Paving Company $17,0O3 so;
Cook & Laurie, $lS,176.22; ]. E. O'Hearn,
! Sc, 62707; J. r. Cronin & Co, $7,2O614; Della
ney & Zipf, $8,461.72; Wilkins & Gould, So,
1876
Between Anderson and Eighth streets,
with gravel nine inches deep:
South Asphalt Paving Company, SIS,
568.70; Cook & Laurie, $23 1922.
Most of the bidders omitted to bid on this
portion of the work and the two bids given
! above are entirely too high to be consider
| ed.
| The letter accompanying the Southern
Asphalt Paving Company's bid states that
if award the contract it proposed to use
! Alcatraz asphalt from Santa Barbara
| county, California. This asphalt, the let
ter states has been and is being used in
! New York, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Phlla-
| delphia, and other large eastern and west
! ern cities.
! The bids will be laid before council at
| its next meeting and in all probability will
| be referred to the committee of the whole.