Evening journal., 1903-03-03
DIRECTORS TALK
ABOUT BIDS
Contract For Cement, Pipe
and Brick May Be Awarded
Next Week
DISCUSSED PLUMBERS LICENSE

Street and Sewer commission ners
Do Not Like Smallpox Patients 3D.
ing Confined in Room SO Near Them
in City Building.
Much of the time ol the Street and
Sewer Directors at their meeting this
morning was taken M in going over
the bids subnitted for furnishing brick.
cement and terra Gotta for the present
year. No action was raken. but il Is
believed that the contracts will be
awarded at the next meeting of the
board, as it will take at least a week
to compile the bids.
Bids for Pipe.
For furnishing terra Gotta pipe the
following bids were received:
Mack Manufacturing Company, Of
Philadelphia, 5S to rs ner cent. discount
from list prices. according TO size,
F. o. b. cars. Wilmington; Delaware
Terra Gotta Company. Ga TO 75 per
cent. from list; Charles Warner Com
pany, 5S to 70 per cent. from list; John
NJ. Solomon, IS to rs per cent. from list
Bids for Brick.
The following bids were received for
brick: Delaware Terra Gotta Company.
straight hard brick. $40 per Thousand;
ordinary hard brick, 50 per thousand; /;
delivered on the ground. 81 extra per
thousand. Alvan Allen Brick Com
pany. straight hard brick 81 per
thousand, delivered; J. Merrick Horn,
Hamburg hard brick. S11 per thousand;
delivered: Charles Warner Company,
sewer brick, $16.5O per thousand; James
B. Oberly, straight hard brick, S11 per
thousand. delivered; ordinary hard
brick. delivered. $40 per thousand;
Montella Brick Company, Reading, Pa.
l.hard brick, 1920 per thousand, and 81
extra per thousand delivered.
Cement Proposals.
The following bids were received for
furnishing cement: Charles Warner
Company, Atlas German portland, S2.5l
per barrel in wood, and S2.35 per tar
rel in duck bags; Nazareth portland
ls2.05 per barrel IN wood, $i.75 in ducl
bags. and S1.S5 in paper bags; sover-
draulic, So cents per barrel in wood
SLIGO in duck bags, and S1.70 in paper
lbags; Warmers improved hydraulic
s1.15 in wood per barrel and So cents
in bags at the works; Warmers hy-
draulic 8 5cents per barrel In wood
I and co cents in duck bags at the works;
New York Rosendale, so cents per bar
rel in wood, 60 cents In bags, and "a
cents in paper at the works; Alpha, n
! I portland cement, s2.45 per barrel;
IT, Merrick Horn, giant portland. S2.3t
lreg. barrel: imperial union, $l.43, and
union Rosendae, s115; John NJ. Solo
mon. Atlas portland, 1925 pen barrel in
wood and Norten, So cents per bar
= rel at the works.
Thomas f. Bayard, Jr, appeared be
fore the board n advocacy OF the pii
now pending before the Legislature
giving the Street and Sewer Commas
5 sion mower TO change the course OF {
Z street when it is deemed advisable to dc
r SO. city Solicitor Reinhardt gave 1t az
his oDinion that he saw no reason VIII
Z the bill should not he approved.
Afraid Of Smallpox.
Secretary Wigglesworth, Of thu
poord of Health. was called before th'
hoard and questioned i'm reference u
d the danger Of allowing smallpox pa
ltients to enter the building Mr.. Mel
4 vim favored the erection Of retention
e building in the rear Of Assistant Sec
e retarv Christys office, and Mr.. Wig
d ellsworth was of the same opinion
. claiming that it is impossible to keel
a patients from entering the building, a
: lthev walk right in without notice. H
informed the members, however, tina
b, there was no direct danger attached t
the practice"