The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-09
ALL LET IN
Specifications For Repair Of To-
peka Streets Are Sent Out.

City Engineer McCabe, at cost of
SIS has had 50 copies of the asphalt
pavement repair specifications printed,
which are to be sent out at once to the
following asphalt repair concerns. and
as many more companies of similar ma
ture as can be reached:
Stonasen & Blome, Chicago, H.; Bar
her Asphalt company, Kansas City, Mo;
Northern 1nproven ent company, Madi-
son, Wis; New Century Paving COM
pany, Elgin- HI: New York & Bermu-
DEE company, TT. Wayne. Ind Federal
Asphalt co1nany, Chicago, Ill; Ameri-
can Contracting company, 45S Elliott
Square, Buffalo. n. Y; Sicilian Asphalt
company, Times building, New York
city; Globe Asphalt company, 405 Bake
well building, Pittsburg. Pa; Hercules
Oil Refining company. Los Angeles, Cal.
Otto +. c Gulich, 623 Hammond build
ing, Detroit. Mich; Dvalde Asphalt COM
panv, ] Broadway, New York; Trinidad
Asphalt company, % Broadway, n. Y;
New Castle Asphalt company, 10l6 Penn
avenue, Pittsburg, Pa; North American
Paving company, 171-1T3 La Sale street,
Chicago. III; ". :. p. Shields CO..
pany, 7o5-706 Witherspoon building,
Pa. John Lipps, 2435 Spring Grove ave
nue., Cincinnati. O.; Chas. ". Saacke, Is
William street, n. Y; Joseph J. Duffy
& CO., 913-914 Chamber of Commerce,
Chicago; Gabriel & Schal 205 Pearl
street, n. Y: Union Oil company, Of
tSalIOI11la, 1H1ttS DlllQ1HZ. SdD EIdnClS-
co, Cal; Densmore- Stabler Refining
company, Los Angeles Cal: Jewett K
BlOdgett Oil company, Bakersfield Cal:
Ayers Asphalt company, GAINESVILLE, O
Western Paving x Supply company,
1011 New York Life building, Chicago,
Interstate Paving company, Utica, N
Y; r. F. Conway company, Chamber
of Commerce, Chicago: Southern Re
fning company, Los Angeles, Cal
The morning paper in Topeka, which
to do
can do to help out the Barber Asphalt
company in its fight for q new contract,
claims to have found several council
men who regretted" that the council
had decided to give every company in
/ the country. as far as possible a fair
chance to bid on the proposed work. Il
has been suspected that some OF the
councilmen regretted such action, but
it is a remarkable fact that such cOun-
cilnlen do not want their names in the
papers The morning paper should be
specific.
W. S. Bergundthal, who introduced
the resolution to which the morning
paper objects, said today.
1T makes me very tired to see any
newspaper print such stuff I can't
understand why any one should be-
friend the Barber company. which
robbed US once. and is certain to do
so again if it gets the contract. I be-
lieve that a great majority of the coun-
cilnen in Topeka are honest men, and
want to do the right thing. Ihey 90
not believe in steals How many
asphalt companies are there supposed
to be in the United States2 1 don
think there are more than fifty. and I
am inclined to believe that if we send
out our specifications for pavement re-
pairs to half that number we VIII get
plenty of bids. 1t VIII cost a few dol
lars-possibly SIS at the extreme limit
/ We may save thousands of dollars by
the transaction No extra meeting CT
the council is to be called. The work
has all been done, ] am told"
The asphalt repair contract is no
small affair. It will probably cost So
600 to put the pavements in good condi-
/ ton at the start, and about 81. 600 a
1 year during the life of the contract,
five years. The old contract with the
/ Barber company set Topeka back
$40, coo as the first item. and an addi-
/ tionai $4,000 for five years Of so-called
j maintenance. The pavements are
naturally much more worn and difficult
TO repair now than they were five years
] ago when the old contract was made.