The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-09-06
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Street Improvement
Office of the Street Assessment Com

Office of the Street Assessment Committee
Kenosha, Wis, Aug. 8, 1906.
Sealed proposals will be received at this of
flee until the It'll day of Sept. 1906, 200 p. m.
for furnishing all material and doing all the
work necessary and required to improve the
following streets, in the city of Kenosha, Wis
consin, according to the respective specifca-
tons, profles, plans and details thereof on file
in the Office of the City Clerk of said City for
the inspection of bidders, to-wit
Park st. from Main St., to Exchange ST., be-
ing about 1928 SO. yds. brick pavement, $40
1nea1 fit. stone curling, 100 yds. earth excava-
ton to be graded to a sub-grade and curbed
with stone curb and paved with brick on a bed
of crushed stone for q width of AZ it,
English Court, from Park Ave-, to Lake
Michigan, 500 So. vds brick pavement, 1890
1ineal feet stone curbing, 1900 yds. earth exca-
walton, to be graded to a sub-grade and ctrbed
with stone curb and paved with brick on a bed
OF crushed stone for width of 80 fit.
Durl1ee Ave-, from Den1ng ST to English
Court, 1915 sd. yds. of macadam pavement, 265
yds, brick Cutters, 800 it. cement curbing, 700
yds. earth excavation, to be graded to a sub
grade and curbed with cement curb and paved
with macadam for width of 20 it., according
to the specifications prepared for such work.
Work shall be complication or before--
, failing in which the con-
tractor shall pay to the city as 1iquidated
damages the amount Of $500 per day for each
and every days delay in completing said work.
Directions To Bidders
Each bidder must accompany his bid with a
contract and boHd with not less than two sure
ties, WHO shall be freeho1ders of the State of
Wisconsin,, and shall Justify as to their re-
sponsbility, and by their several affidavits
show that they are worth in the aggregate at
least the amount of the entire contract price in
property not by law exempt from execution.
Surety companies approved by the Street
Assessment Committee will be accepted in lieu
of personal sureties.
Said contract and bond, with sureties, must
be completely executed on the part of the con-
tractor, with the exception of the signature on
the part of the city.
This is positive requirement of the Charter
and must be complied with.
Bids falling to comply with the above re-
quirements will not be considered.
Bidders must submit proposals to do the work
according to the specifications, profiles, plans
and details, stating therein prices respectively
per SO. yd. of brick or macadam pavement; per
Gu yd for grading; per 1inea1 foot for furnish-
ing stone and cement curling in place.
The bids for the work will be canvassed sepa-
rately and considered in the aggregate, based
on the estimated quantities named in the SpeCih-
cations and awarded as separate contracts.
All bids and accompanying contract and bond
must be written on the blanks prepared by the
undersigned for the purpose, and price should
be stated in writing and figures.
All bids should be marked on the envelope,
''Street Assessment Comnittee,n with the name
of the street marked thereon on which such bid
is made, and filed in the office of the Street
Assessment Committee in the City Clerks Office
in said city.
n B.-Blauks for proposals and blank con-
tract and bond will be furnished on application
to the City Clerk.
The said Committee reserves the right to
reject any and all bids
JAMES GORMAN,
r. H. MOTH,
J. Ell O'BRIEN,
Wis Street Assessment Committee.