Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-12-19
special Meeting Of Council.

Special Meeting of Council.
A special meeting of City Council was
held in Council chamber last evening on
call of the Sewer Committee all the mem
bers being present except Mr.. Clymer.
BILLS PAID.
G. e. Sampson, stove. SC 40
w. H. d. Geiger, painting fire house ...... 50 "a
In communication Treasurer Redfield
reported that notice had been served on
him by q. S. Cast Iron Pipe Co. in attach
ment suit against The American Artificial
Stone Pavement and Construction Co.
President Burkett made verbal report of
like service on him by the Sheriff.
Lewis Starr, attorney for the Iron Pipe
Company, in communication, notified
Council that the effect of the attachment is
to prevent further payment of moneys to
the sewer contractor, until the lien is salts
fed
Solicitor Watkins, replying to request
as to previous claims, advised Council to
pay no more money to the contractor until
the claims are adjusted.
Mr.. Best then presented the following
communication from the sewer contractor:
As contractors for the sewer work under
contract with you, dated August LIST, 1901,
we write to you to state fully and definitely
our position in the matter, after consulting
with our counsel and in pursuance of his
advice.
We have prosecuted the work which we
were allowed to do under the contract as
diligently as could be expected under all
the circumstances. On the other hand, we
have reached point in the work where it
is impossible to do anything further until
certain important provisions of said con-
tract are promptly complied with by your
engineer acting with yourself and your
Sewerage Committee.
We call upon you and your engineer to
comply without further delay with the
following requirements
1st We require certificate for the
actual amount of work properly and COM
pletely done by us up to December 10th.
The amount due for work up to December
10th is the sum of Sc, 802. 80, being eighty
five (S5) per cent of the work done up to
that time and made up as appears upon the
detailed schedule enclosed. This schedule
includes work done under the contract for
which correct certificates should have been
furnished and also extra depths, for which
prices have not yet been agreed upon and
for which we have charged, as you will see
by the schedule, absolutely just and reason
able prices The schedule does not include
the iron pipe which was ordered by your
engineer last August and as to which we
have never been able to obtain proper
understanding. In case of any controversy
hereafter, we will be prepared to prove the
correctness Of all the prices which we have
made in the schedule
2nd. For all extra work, whether in or
out of the contract, we require orders from
the engineer in writing, fixing the price to
be paid therefor.
Bird. We ask for written order from
the engineer for the bends at the siphon,
after we have had an opportunity to agree
upon a reasonable price. This work has
been delayed upwards of month by reason
OF the failure Of your engineer to give a
written order. All Of these matters have
been left indefinite and with verbal under
and many Of them without any
understandings of any kind, and we feel
persistent refusal or neglect to furnish US
with written orders containing prices, ETC.
We have never been furnished with any
plans or profiles and have been left in the
dark as to what depth to go to and have
been repeatedly held up in our work for
want of stakes and by failure of your engi-
neer and his men to give US definite informa-
5ion. When we call for the necessary
we are told to go to the engi-
neer's Office and we generally find it locked
and no one around.
In all cases where we have been COM
PEELED to go to extra depths, we had no
Of having prices fixed and we
lad to do the work because we actually did
not know to what depth we were going
until we had got there or almost there, by
,eason of our inability to see the plan and |
profile. If we had met with fair and |
proper treatment in these various respects
here would have been no trouble of any |
kind and the material men who have made |
claims or filed liens would not have done
20, as they would have been paid.
We refer you to letter which we wrote |
% your engineer, Mr.. VIM. Easily, Jr., as
Early as the first week of last month,
1eing an immediate reply to his letter of
November A. We have never received any
'eply from Mr.. Easily to our letter although |
The letter contained numerous requests for /
and for compliance with the
contract by him.
We also require definite understanding |
N writing as to what is to be done in
'eference to the surplus Is and 10 inch |
jerra Gotta pipe now on the ground and |
ordered by the engineer.
We send you, therefore, formal notice |
that unless all the above requirements |
ire complied with by Saturday, December
Il, 1901, we shall remove our men and |
jools from the work Immediately there
after, and shall treat the contract as re-
icinded by reason of your failure and that
If your engineer to comply with the above
and reasonable requirements,
and will hold the City of Woodbury. re-
;ponsible, by suit if necessary, for all loss
md damage suffered by us, by reason of
jhe premises.
Mr.. Best said that in some respects the |
allegations of the contractor were true and |
IN others not. AS the city cannot pay the |
contractor a cent while these attachments |
lie against it, he moved to refer the com
munication to the Solicitor, which was
done.
Mr.. Best then moved that the Clerk |
notify the contractors that if they do not, |
in two days, proceed and clear up the |
streets and make them passable, the city
will do so at their expense.
The inspectors were notified that their |
services would not be needed after Dec. 81,
f complications are not adjusted.
The Clerk was instructed to notify the G. |
3. & w. Trolley Co. that two years license
ZEE would be due January l.
Adjourned.
The net profits of the Festival of Days,
BY the ladies of the Central Baptist Church
IN Thursday and Friday last, are upwards