The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-23
CONTRACT FOR BRICK
TO BE USED IN PAVING CASTOR
STREET LET BY THE CITY.
1000 SQUARE YARDS BOUGHT
CONDITIONAL UPON DELIVERY
WITHIN FoRTY-FIvE DAYS.

Eastern Paving Brick Company OF
der-Its Price Was 81 .OOS "a Square
Yard-CoaIdaIe Paving Brick Com
pany the Lowest Bidder at SO
Cents-Mr. j. w. sibIey, Represent
ing That Company, Not at All
Pleased with Avard-Was Made
because Eastern COmpany's Blocks
Are Larger.
A conditional contract to supply the
city with 11.O0O square yards of paving
brick was let at the City Exchange yes
terday to the Eastern Paving Brick Com
pany of Catskill. N. Y, represented by
Mr.. W. A. Bisbee of Savannah The con-
tract was conditioned upon the delivery
of the brick in Savannah within forty
five days. The price was s1.0OS per square
yard, laid down at Savannah.
The brick will be used for paving Gas
ton street. between Price and jefferson.
Work upon the street will begin as soon
as the brick arrive. Certain of the prop
erty owners along the street do not want
1t paved, and they will contest the col
lection of their assessments in the courts.
The city, however, will proceed to carry
out the ordinance to pave the street that
was passed a few weeks ago.
Nine bids were submitted for the con-
tract. They were opened at noon by the
Streets and Lanes Committee of the City
Council in the office of the director of
public works. They were found to be as
follows: Reese-H hammond Fire Brick Com
pany, $l.6S, Scranton Vitrified Brick and
Tile Company $1.79 Johnsonburg Vitrified
Brick Company $1.23, Coaldale Paving
Brick Company 96c, Tennessee Paving
Brick Company $1.00S Eastern Paving
Brick Company s100S, Virginia Paving
Brick Company $1.20, American Sewer
Pipe Company $1.41, Mack Manufacturing
Company $1.16
AS may be seen, the bid Of the Eastern
Paving Brick Company was not the low
est. The distinction of the lowest bid
fell to the Coaldale Paving Brick Com
pany of Birmingham Ala, which offered
to supply the brick at sc cents a square
yard. Mr.. John w. Sibley was here rep
resenting the company, and he thought
that he should have had the work. He
expressed himself rather positively about
it after the award was announced, and,
for few moments, it seemed that some
personal collision might grow out of the
transaction.
The bid of the Tennessee Paving Brick
Company was equally as low as that of
the Eastern Paving Brick Company The
Tennessee Paving Brick Company has
been getting a good proportion of the con-
tracts let by Savannah, and it might have
landed yesterdays had 1t not been that
the committee decided that the brick Of
fered by the Eastern Paving Brick Com
pany was superior to that of either the
Coaldale or the Tennessee company Each
block is larger, and the cost of laying
Will not be so great. This was taken into
consideration by the committee in making
the award to the Eastern Company
The street paving force is now employed
upon the section of st. Julian street, be-
tween Jefferson and Mont gomery that is
to be paved with brick. Jefferson street,
south of Henry, has been completed and
opened to traffic. After the st. Julian
street work has been finished, there will
be nothing for the force to do but wait
for that on CASTOR street to commence.