The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19
BID ON THE PAVING
WORK TO BE DONE ON sAYRE AND
 HULL STREETS.
Contractors Crowd Into Council Cham her and Are Called Down By AL deTynan Lobman---List of PrO-
 nOAnIa.

The matter of the new pavements to be put down on South Hull streets and sayre street. which has occupied
 the attention of the City Council dur ing the greater portion of its meetings for the last three months. was brought up at the regular session of that body again last night, and several bide oy contractors were opened and referred. Bids from three companies were opened and referTed ot tne Committee 0 nStreets The competing concerns were the Southern Pavin gand Con- struction Company of Chattanooga, the ] Southern Bituiithic Company of Bir- mingham. and the Memphis Asphalt Paving Company of Memphis. Each
 concern had bids for each of the streets, the Chattanooga company making two bide for brick on South Hull street. Beyond the referring to the commit tee. no action was taken. The repre- sentatives of the different concerns | which had bids in. filled the visitors seats in the chamber, and In the early part of the evening attempted to do ] considerable lobbying. This was 1 stoped by Alderman Lobman, who had 1 been interrupted several times in read l ing a resolution.
 T want the chair to order, he said, that all outside interference with the ! legislation ofthis body must cease When the opening of the bids was l reached a small tempest was raised by | Alderman J. C, Tyson, over an unsealed envelope attached to one of the bids. It Is a law that oil bids for construc- | ton work must be sent In to the Coun- cil sealed. Alderman Tyson protested vigorously against the contents of the
 envelope being considered. He said he
 cid not want to have any more strings | tied to bids, as there were when bids hA atr | before.
 Alderman Lobman said he had been I given to understand that the contents | of the envelope weer esential parts or the bid, and that they should be read. Other Aldermen entered into the. dis | cussion, and the matter was finally compromised with the understanding
 that the contents of the mysterious en-
 velope should be read. but not con sdered so far as anything in 1t might pertain to figures. When Clerk Far ley finally had torn open the covering of the communication, 1t was discovered to be merely an affidavit, testiying that the company offering 1t had of fered no inducements of any kind, to
 any member of the City Council to se-
 cure the award of the contract When
 the clerk had finished, Alderman IIud- | son vented indignation.
 "Humph." he snorted All that hot
 air for nothing"
 The Southern Bitulithic Company en-
 tered bids both for Sayre street. be- tween the south side of Clayton and the north side of eJfrersou Davis Avenue
 and for South Hull street from the | south side of Washington Avenue to
 the south side of South street. Their bids weer made on bitulithic paving
 the price quoted being $2.o4 per square yard
 The Memphis Asphalt Paving Com
 pany made a bid of S1.7s for asphalt
 paving, on both the streets in ques- tion
 The Southern Paving and construc-
 ton Company made a bid of $2 on as- phalt paving. for both the strets. For brick paving with six-inch slag con crete foundation. on Hull Street, they
 made a bid of $2, while for brick pay ing, with slx-inch gravel concrete foundation. they made figures of $1s6 for the paving on both Hull and Sayre Streets.
 Other bids presented to the Council were for the roofing of the city stables.
 for the digging of a drain ditch in North Montgomery, and for groceries and provisions for the month of July
 The following bids were made for the stable roofing: D. F. Flood, SS7 75 per square yard; Ltddel Machinery and
 supply Company. $225 and S310 per
 square yard; s, L. Smith. S3.37 l-2 per
 square yard, and Phillip Carey Manu-
 featuring Company, $3.50 per square
 yard. The bids were referred to the Committee on Public Works. For the drain ditch. Perry and StouSh
 bid 49 cents per lineal foot. and $. L.
 Smith 27 1-2 cents per lineal foot.
 The bidders for city groceries were
 w. M Hudson & Co. and William B.
 Jones & Ray and Greil Brothers.