Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-07-31

THE BIDS
ON NPAV|NG
New Brunswick Had Real Com
petition On Street Paving
There Last Night.
PEOPLE TO BE HEARD.
Will be Given a Chance to Tell
the Aldermen Which Of the
Materials They Prefer.

1t has been impossible to get btu
minous macadam bids in direct COM
petition with the patented bitulithic
on paving contracts in this city. The
following comparisons, therefore, are
of interest. These are taken from the
bids opened by the common council
in New Brunswick last night, when
ceived. A public hearing will now be
held to allow the property owners on
the different streets to be paved to
express their choice of material.
While there were several bitulithic
companies who bid, they are all com
PEELED to buy of the monopoly, the
Warren Brothers Company. The com
parison of bids received for laying
bituminous macadam and bitulithiC
follows:
Hardenbergh Street: Frederick A.
Malette, New -Bituminous ma
cadam, 81. 6S per square yard; re-
moving old cobble, AZ cents pei
square yard; curbing, 81 cents pei
lineal foot; resetting old curbing, $
cents per lineal foot; header curb
ing, 65 cents per lineal foot; duplex
sewer basins, sos each.
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
Bituminous macadam, SIS pei
square yard; removing old cobble, 15
cents; curbing, 40 cents; resettins
curbing, IS cents; header curbing
Sd cents; basins, $37 each.
Standard Bitulithic Company-Bit-
ulithic paving on concrete, 81. IL pei
square yard; removing old cobble, II
cents; curbing, AZ cents; resetting
curbing, cents; header curbing, Sd
cents; basins, $50 each.
Central Bitulithic Company, De
troit, Mich.-Bitulithic paving or
concrete, $2.21; removing old curb
ing, 40 cents; curbing, SO cents; re-
setting curbing, 27 cents; header
curbing, 62 cents; basins, $50 each.
Chicago Bitulithic Paving Com
pany-Bitulithic $2.25; removing
old cobble, As cents; curbing, As
cents resetting curbing, 20 cents
header curbing, 6S cents; basins, $95
Suydam Street Paving: Frederick
| A. Malette-Bitumin macadam
$1.6S; removing old cobble, 81
cents; curbing, Ga cents; resettin&
curbing, cents; header curbing, 6s
cents; basins, $37 each.
Barber Asphalt Paving Compan!
-Bituminous macadam, 81. So; re
moving old cobble. Is cents; curb
ing, 40 cents; resetting curbing, II
cents: header curbing, Sd cents; ba
sins, $37 each.
Standard Bitulithic Paving Com
pany-Bid same as on Hardenbergf
street.
Central Bitulithic Company-Samt
as on Hardenbergh street, except re
moving old cobble, which was 81
cents in this.
Chicago Bitulithic Company
Same as on Hardenberg street. excep
53 cents for removing old cobble.
Somerset Street Paving: f. A. Ma
1 lette-Bitulithic on concrete, 81. 6S
removing old cobble, So cents; 4x1t
curbing. 54 cents; 4x20 curbing, g.
cents; resetting curling, s cents
header curbing, 65 cents; basins
sos; 10-inch pipe, 81.
Barber Asphalt Paving Compan,
-Bituminous macadam, $2.01; re
moving old cobble, Is cents; 4x1'
curbing, 40 cents; 4x20 curbing, s.
cents; resetting curbing, IS cents
header curbing, Sd cents; basins
$37; 10-inch pipe, $1.75.
Standard Bitulithic Company-Bit
ulithic on concrete, $2.11; removin
old cobble, 10 cents; 4x16 curbine
AZ cents; resetting curbing, 8 cents
header curbing, Ga cents; basins, So
each; 10-inch pipe, l.
Central Bitulithic Paving Con
pany-B Bitulithic on concrete, So. 21
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