Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-04-16

Gadek bidders Must
! Hereafter Deposit Guarantee of $40
The Board of Aldermen held a
busy session last night. Bids for sew
eral improvements were received and
the council will meet again tomorrow
night to award the contracts.
/ The bidders on the bulkhead from
the foot of Market street south were
/ Jacob Hanson, S4, ,480; Ira r. Grouse,
/ $5,775; Rhodes & Marvel, $4,6S5;
/ Schwiers & Sutton and Duncan j
Currie. The latter included in his
bid a statue of Jersey clay, at 81 per
/ pound.
The bidders on the Sheridan street
sewer were Johan Jensen, the Mur-
! ply Contracting Company, Martin
Hansen and T. ]. McGovern.
! The bidders on the Compton ave-
nue. grading were Hans c. Hanson,
80 cents per cubic yard; Liddle &
Pfeiffer, 43%; Graham & McKeon.
27; Martin Hansen, So; Soren T. Jen-
sen, 29h. There are about 3,446
cubic yards to be execavated.
Bids were not received for the
Broad and Front street sewer because
i of the legal action against it..
sewer in Jefferson street, between
Madison and New Brunswick avenues.
were Peter Peterson and Martin Han-
sen.
The petition for wood block paving
on State street, from Smith street to
the Lehigh Valley bridges, bore thfr-
ty-eight signatures. The petition for
z a sewer there bore eight names. Both
were referred to the street and sewer
/ committee.
Confirm Sheridan st. Assessment.
The Sheridan street grading assess
ment was confirmed, upon the advice
of City Attorney Hommann, despite
the protest from some property -Own~
ers at the previous meeting.
> Regarding the Smith street wood
{ block assessment, City Attorney HON.
E mann's opinion was that it should be
referred back to the commissioners
for correction, and that WAS done.
Telephone Co. Request Granted.
Upon recommendation of the COM
mittee of the whole, the application
of the Hudson & Middlesex Telephone
& Telegraph Company for permission
| to erect poles ON State street, from
Woodbridge Creek to Gadek's, was
granted, on condition that they secure
consents from property-owners and
that the company agree to remove
the poles within five years or as soon
as conduits are laid in that street.
A resolution was adopted that pros
: spective bidders must deposit $40 to-
5 guarantee the return of plans and
ecifications, the same to be return-
d if they are safely brought back
Collector Crowell acted as clerk In
: place of City Clerk MacWilliam, who
, :, is i'll.
u Cable Co. to Lay Sewer.
n The Standard Underground Cable
: Company asked permission 70 tap the
o Washington street sewer at High
street to connect an eighteen-inch
: sewer they propose to lay from the
new buildings to be erected at High
/ street and DeKalb avenue. This was
q granted. the work to be done under
J. the street commissioner supervision.
and permission must be secured from
II the contractor who laid the paving
L there
= Ordinances for the following inn
- provements were introduced and giy-
- en- their first reading: Grading john
" stone street, from New Brunswick
Is avenue to Washington street; Pros
1t pect street grading from Market
l. street to Smith street; for fifteen-inch
h pipe sewers from Huntington street
northerly in Charles, Cortlandt and
Catharine streets, to connect with the
State street sewer extension; and Ia
Elizabeth street from Huntington
street to Easton street, to connect
= with the Charles street sewer
! Petition to Grade New st.
- A petition for grading New and
Barrack streets, from eight property
owners, was referred to the commit
ar tee on streets and sewers.
% A petition for a sewer and water
W on pipes in Bertrand avenue, from Smith
!, - to Market streets, was referred to the
- street and sewer COMMITTEES, and the
% attention of the Water Board will be
- ~ called to the water pipe request.
~ An application for a junk license
80 80 from d. Wolfson, 294 Prospect street,
10 10 was referred to the committee on
40 judiciary.
ls A request from Clerk Colyer of tbs
~ district court for stamp stationery
NJ was granted.
~ ~ Washington Hose Company report
- ed the resignation and request for ex'
al emption of James Lynch. Approved
of and granted.
~ ID Protection Hook & Ladder Com
Is pany reported the resignation OF VIII
liam Graham.
A report was received from tht
clerk that the mayor had returned
approved resolutions confirming tht
es assessments for the north State street
he brick paving, Inslee street grading
- and Kirkland place grading.
~ The matter of granting the Stats
ar Vigilance and Detective Agency tn
on right to name three pursuers wal
ss- brought up, but the alderman-at
he large said it had been granted at tht
previous meeting, and it was laid Of
the table. alderman Garland askef
whether this would interfere with th'
police department and was informet
lu that it would not, and that IT woul<
ne not cost the city anything.
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