The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02
$4,000 FOR BRICK
.,rv HAS BOUGHT FIFTY THOUs-
AND SQUARE YARDS.
70 BE DELIVERED AS NEEDED.
rv prDs SUBMITTED BY VARIOUS
MANUFACTURERS.

,..ntraet Awarded to Tennessee
paving Brick Company of Chat
oora. whose bid of GAS Cents
square Yard Was the Lowest
poceived-Streets and Lanes COM
,t,tee Made the Award-COm-
.,itteeInen Had Been Besieged by
conservatives OF the Paving
copcerns-High Freight Rates
play an Important Part in the
p,ds-Rates Practically Shut Out
same of the Manufacturers.
The Tennessee Paving Brick Com
,onv of Chattanooga secured the con-
troct TO supply the city of Savannah
18th 10000 square yards of vitrified
tr;o, for street paving. The COM
T.nv.s bid was considerably lower than
spv other of the ten that were submit
+od n the director of public works and
onaned in his office at noon yesterday
~, the Council Committee on Streets
and Lanes.
Until the last two contracts before
mis- we're awarded, the Chattanooga
company had been securing a goodly
,,ronortion of the contracts for supply
inc having brick for Savannah. Its
hid IN $4,000 square yards was low
enough to show that it wants Savan-
nab's business, and it is expected that
T. will continue to get in low figures
,tben advertisement for bids is made.
Tba contract is for delivery upon de-
,nond and the cost of freight is COW
cred in the contract price. The city
,rilI nrobably not call on the company
for any OF the brick for some time, as
there is a supply on hand for paving
West Broad street and Stewart street,
which is the work upon which the paw
ing force will soon begin. Those streets
Iii he finished before the paving force
is turned to the next paving, which
will he that on Price, Habersham and
Abercorn streets, as already described
in the Morning News.
Ten bids were submitted, and sam
nles of the brick were furnished.
Nearly all of the manufacturers had
CONSERVATIVES on the scene, and there
was warm competition. For several
DAYS the members of the Streets and
Lanes Committee had been besieged by
representatives of the paving concerns,
ali anxious that they be awarded the
contract. Talk about brick had been
dinned into the ears of the commit
tee pretty often, and they were glad
enough to close up the matter by MAX
ing their award. They did not hest
tate over the matter, either, for it was
clear to them that the city's interests
would be conserved by accepting the
bid of the Tennessee Paving Brick
Company.
The bid of the successful company,
which was represented by Mr.. 7. H.
Lasley was 94.S cents a square yard,
making the contract price $47, 400. The
McAvoy Vitrifed Brick Company was
the next lowest with its bid of SO cents
a square yard. The other bids were
as follows. Mack Manufacturing Com
plny, $1Gj; Mack Manufa curing Com
pany, S11G Eastern Paving Brick
Company, 1915 cents; Jonsenburg vi
uifed Brick Company, S11S, and Ed
ward R. Diggs & Co, with four bids
that were up SO high by the thousand
that they we're not reduced to cost per
square yard.
Some Of the manufacturers complain
that transportation rates are so high
that it is impossible for them to make
low bids. They nave to figure in the
freight ana this puts the contracts
out of their reach. Concerns in the
Ni'dle States say that they have to
ship by rail to New York and thence
by vessel to Savannah. The all-rail
rate would be so high that they could
not bid at all