The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
WANT GARBAGE BIDS
NEW FlvE-YEAR CONTRACT
FROM JAN. |. '08.
Provisions Regarding New Dealto Handle
City's Refuse-street Work Awards
Postponed.

Board Of Works Commissioners late
yesterday afternoon authorized City
Engineer Sherrerd to advertise for
bids for a five-year scaveneer con-
tract, to begin January 1, 1908. Under
the present contract the city paid
$3.50 a year for the collection of
ashes, garbage and paper. Under
the new contract it will be provided
that cans containing garbage and
ashes shall be put out within three feet
of the property line. instead of en- the
sidewalk at the curb. and paper must
be collected from inside the buildings,
or a yard, where there is one.
The board opened bids for the
construction of a sewer in Lentz ave-
hue from Horatio street to Plum Point
lane, for paving with telford. and brick
cutters; Woodside avenue, from Mont
clair avenue to Grafton avenue, and for
grading, curbing and tagging Calumet
street, from Pacific to Jefferson streets;
Hunterdon street, from Hawthorne
avenue to Renner avenue; Schley street,
from Hawthorne avenue to Lyons ave.
hue; Lentz, Willoughby and Shaw ave-
Inues.
The engineer and his assistant did
not finish figuring up the totals of each
of the eighteen bids for grading, curb
ing and tagging the streets above
named, for paving Woodside avenue
and for the Lentz venue sewer. James
A. Christie's bid, 1891. 80, was the low
est for the seweE. The awards of all
contracts were postponed until next
week. The contractors who bid were
Robert Doriety, Alexander Milmoe,
William Ballard, Philip and Peter jon
narone, D'Amato & Steffanalli and
James A. Christie.
The lowest bidders on grading, curb
ing and tagging were Alexander j.
Milmoe, Hunterdon street, $S,60S; Schiey
street, $40, 067; Lentz avenue, $3,32S, and
Calumet street, $230.26; William Bal
lard, Shaw avenue, 50, 020.50; Philip
Jonnarone, Willoughby street, $t,S76.7 20,
and paving Woodside avenue, $5,510.50.
An ordinance to grade, curb and flag
Runyon street from Johnson avenue to
Osborne terrace was passed, and n to
open the same street from Chadwick
avenue to Seymour avenue was ordered
to a third reading.
A statement was received from the
city auditor of the total cost of sewers
and paving and repaving and the
grading, eurbing and tagging of streets
that are finished, and which was or
dered sent to the Common Council. The
total cost was about $3.50, 1000.
When a petition was read, signed by
more than so per cent. of the property
owners, asking that bitulithic pavement
instead of brick be laid on South Four
teenth street, President Denman asked
the condition was on that street,
and Engineer Sherrerd said the paving
was stopped through protests like the
one just read.
A resolution from the finance COM
mittee tina reserve money held by the
city on streets paved by the late James
femme be paid to the assignee was
adopted. femme assigned before he
died to Francis M. T%ichenor, who also
died, and the claims went to the execu-
tor. The total amount of the reserve
money due is $3,491.70.
1T was voted to pave Lentz avenue
with brick from Ferry street to Plum
Point lane, to yacate Tompkins Point
lane from Parkhurst street to Harper
street. and Pyatt street for 200 feet east
of Broad street.
Commissioner Book asked that Bige-
low street be opened from Chadwick
to Seymour avenue, a distance
of 200 feet, for the benefit of school chill
dren. Referred to the street committee.
These sewer inspectors were appoint
ed: e. We'll, for Berkeley venue r.
Lewis, for Murray street. and j. Rose,
for North Thirteenth street, and c. N.
Littlefield, inspector on paving Fabyan
place. A petition for a sewer basin at
Ridgewood and Clinton was re-