Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1904-04-19
WITH REX
co. WAS RESC|NDED.
Board of Aldermen Would Not Allow Them the
Additional Time to Fill the Contract and the
Matter was Taken Out of Their Hands--The
Order was Placed with Them Last October.

The Board Of Aldermen, last night,
passed a resolution resembling tho
contract with the Rex Manufacturing
COMPANY, for two combination
wagons and truck. E. J. Clark,
president of the Rex Company, and
also the secretary of the company,
were present at the meeting. Mr..
CLARK was given permission to speak
and he addressed the council, in part,
as follows:
81 received letter from your clerk
n few days ago. giving me notice that
our contract would be rescinded un-
less we could give some positive as
surance that it would be carried out
in short time. have come from a
sick bed to appear before you tonight
to explain the delay in the delivery of
the apparatus. The delay has been
due to the nsubordination of en-
ployes, who. during my illness,
which las lasted nearly all winter,
have been secretly holding back the
work of completing your apparatus.
We propose to carry out our con-
tract, ii you will grant MS a reason
able time. We can deliver the ap.
paratus quicker than any another com
pany to whom the contract might be
awarded at this time
Mr. Clark said he would be glad to
answer any questions from the mem-
bers of the council and, in reply to
qneries, said:
II grant that there has been urea
sonable delay, but it has, as l havo
be fore stated, been due to the facts of
superintendent who has been work
ing to retard, instead of to advance,
our interests.
"Can you give us an idea as to how
soon you can deliver the apparatus?"
Mr. Clark was asked.
"If you will give me tireo or four
days can tell you almost to the day" 4"
he replied.
"An approximate estimator asked
Mr.. Pfeiffer.
swell, about sixty days." answered
the representative of the company. >
Mayor Seaman then took the floor
and spoke in part as follows
81 wish to call attention to the cir
cnmstanoes surrounding the granting
of the contract to the Rex Company.
They were awarded it because their
bid was the lowest. After the con-
tract had been given, sent for the
specifications and examined them.
thought, after careful examination,
that the committee had taken the
right action, and I therefore signed
the contract. then took the contract
and duplicate to Mr.. CLARK and. on
the first of October, of last year, the
two papers were signed and sealed.
The apparatus was to be delivered,
part OH January 1st last and part on
February lst. grant that there may
be unforeseen delays, in factory, in
getting the parts of a machine toge-
ther, but the Rex people are now near
ly as long behind their contract as the
specified time for the delivery of the
apparatus. Since February 1st We
lave had big fire in this city. On
account of it. we are about to expend
large sum of money for two steam
fire engines, so that we may be able to
to say tha we can take care of any
fire whi CHI may occur. Ii we had had
the apparatus at that time, believe,
the large loss incurred in that fire
could have been avoided. We ought,
I believe, to have a reasonable claim
for damages against the Rex Com
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