The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-22
MAY GET CHEAP ASPHALT
BOARD OFF PUBLIC WORKS TO LOOK
INTO BIDS OF n. f.
CONWAY
BIG SAVING IS POSSIBLE
Barber COmpany's Bids for Rice
Street and University Avenue
Paving Are 20 Per Cent
Higher.

The board of public works at its meet
Ing yesterday opened bids for the paving
OF Rice street, from College avenue to
University avenue, and from University
TO Como avenues, and took them under
consideration. They We're as follows:
Paving Rice, from College to Univers-
ity:
Barber Asphalt Paving Company-City's
ton, Sc, 1851.
r. F. Conway & Co.-Citys portion,
$22, 2S5; street railways portion. $5,647.
Engineers Estimate-Citys portion,
$27, $40; street railways portion, 1864.
Paving Rice, from University to Como:
Barber Asphalt Paving Company-City s
portion, S,695.60; street railways por-
ton Sc, 41S61
R. F.. Conway & Co-City's portion,
%,6S9; street railway, $5,5S1.
Engineers Estimate-Citys portion,
$7,SSS; street railway, 7,O5S.
The members of the board and the city
engineer were very much surprised at the
difference in the prices submitted by the
two firms, and they will probably go to
Chicago, where Conway & Co have done
a great deal of paving, some time next
week to investigate the pavements and
also to look into the standing of the new
firm.
The former specifications for paving
with asphalt have contained the clause
that the asphalt to be used should be
Pitch Lake, from Trinidad island In
the last specifications, City Engineer
ClauSsen inserted the words cor any
other asphalt equally as good The
Conway people claim that their asphalt
is just as good, as they get their supply
from the same island. This is the first
bid that the company has submitted for
work in the state, but according to L. +.
Reed, the treasurer of the company, and
John V. 'Kopf, representative, branch
office will be established in st. Paul in
the near future
The lowest bid, in case 1t is accepted,
will mean saving of over 20 per cent to
the property owners along Rice street
Should the company bid on the same
basis for Rice street, from Como avenue
to Front street, it will mean a total
saving to the property owners of nearly
$4,000, according to the figures of City
Engineer Claussen.
INDEPENDENT OF TRUSTS.
Speaking of the matter yesterday, Mr.
Kopt said: "Our company is doing a
great deal of asphalt paving in several
of the large cities and it is not in any
way connected with the asphalt ring"
or trust which has been controlling the
! asphalt paving in this part of the coup-
Try. Inc Wdfnef-Cgu1nian Asphalt COM
pany, Of Syracuse, N Y, and our COM
pany, have their own source of supply
and we are what might be termed as
ANTITRUST
Whatever the result of the new COM
pany bidding for st. Paul may be, if the
asphalt is Of as good a quality as they
claim, it is quite certain that in the
future ST. Paul property owners will be
| saved thousands of dollars on asphalt
paving.
The board also gave hearings on the
following proposed improvements: Paw
ing of Nina avenue, from Laurel avenue
to Selby, paving of alley in block % Of
Woodland Park addition; sewer on Fuller
street, from Fish to Milton streets They
were taken under consideration The
hearing on the reassessment of Eagle
street was adjourned until Monday after
noon. ]. W. Willis appeared for DIR
Wharton, the director to the reassess-
ment, and argued on the objections
Secretary Bronson was instructed to
advertise for bids for the grading of
Asbury avenue, from Hewitt to Taylor
avenues.