Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-12

interests of Perth Amboy. fh,
admitted that the style of bul
ignated as Glass b is the emo
nomical for the city in thf Ia
and their local engineer fnd
/ has so advised them. TIE.
bidder, in the specially
! specifications, in this class e
/ Allis-Chalmers Company. he
commissioners repudiate EEn
words and the advice of wn
expert? The taxpayer will to
see.
Beginning of the NJ
Regarding the beginD this
matter the EVENING has
been able to Gull some ing in
/ formation. 1t will bd mbered
that when the water set out
to get this pump it expert,
but went into the oil irket, ex-
/ planned to the differe mp manu-
facturcrs what work |equired to
be done and invited to submit
bids. These bidL " vertised for
/ in the trade joI Il 5wever, and
not sufficien,e OF time in
local papers. WI bids had been
opened one of commissioners
raised the ques bf the legality
of the advertise Id an opinion
/ from the city ley was secured
stating that til Il had not been
complied with the board would
have to adver yver again.
Marine n Co., Lowest.
In these fiji lis, eight firms had
put in figurd I lowest being that
of the Amer Marine Engine and
Machine Col my. This is a compar-
atively new hcern and, in a letter
to the BOG they stated that they
were biddn extra low because OF
/ their desi b get their pump intro
duced in territory. One of these
pumps low being installed al
jamaica L., and is said to be an
excellel hachine.
bred the Snow Pump.
At time, although the Snow
Steam lump Company had in one
of tn highest figures, certain ones
OF I'll commissioners wanted to give
the Itract to that concern at once
The began to argue in favor of the
Sn pump, trying to convince the
otl commissioners that the Snow
W the only pump, until it was
I'D hd that all the bids were irreg
y r, owing to the mistake in adver
ng.
Suggested An Expert.
One of the commissioners, who
Mad argued for the Snow pump witt
much vigor, suggested that an exper
be hired to draw up specifications
for pump to be planned especially
for the Runyon station. There were
strong objections to this on the part
of some of the commissioners. The
strong argument against having
special plans drawn was that there
being several reliable pump manu-
facturers, all of whom guaranteed
their pump, and as the work requlr-
ed here was nothing unusual, they
should bid on their own makes leav-
| ing the board to choose between them
then, if anything went wrong, the
manufacturer would have nothing
upon which to lay the blame. On
the other hand, should specifications
be drawn requiring special KIND
of pump. if break should occur
the manufacturer could throw the
blame on the city, holding that their
regular pump would not have had
the defects shown in the specially
built pump.
Again, specially designed pump
would require the manufacturers to
make new patterns and the like, spec
tally for this one pump, perhaps new
er to be used again. AS this takes
time and money, some of the busiest
and therefore the most desirable
firms, might not want to bother with
It,
Another argument against an ex-
pert was the expense to the city when
it was entirely uncalled for. A
pump is a pump, it was said, let the
manufacturers put in their different
bids for their respective makes and
have the board choose the best for
the city's needs.
Certain ones of the commissioners
however, (the same ones who had
stood out so hard for the Snow pump
in the first instance) stood out foI
an expert with the result that one
was engaged. In looking about foI
the man several were under consider
alton. These certain commission.
ers seemed to favor Mr.. Vermuele
and eventually after two or three