The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
THE SEWER
PROGRESSING
Bids for the Sewer Work Open.
ed, Found Satisfactory and
Within the Estimates.
THE SUCCESSFUL CONTRACTORS

The board of sewerage receieved bids
at the office of e. S. Burke, the secre-
tary of the commission on Saturday
morning at ten O'Clock and opened
them one hour later at the rooms Of
the board of aldermen. There were
six bids each for the disposal works
and the sewering of the town and four
for the tile pipe required.
Two bids came in later than the
hour named. The one Of Antonio
Costa, being the lowest by over Sl0,-
900 on the sewering of the town, and
that of the Union Building and Con-
struction Co., Of PaSsaic. In the first
instance, the representative of the
Orange contractor stated that the ad-
vertisement did not state where the
Office of Mr.. Burke, secretary of the
commission was, and thinking that
it was at the aldermen room where
the bids were to be opened, he APP
peared there at ten and finding nobody
there, was directed to the office Of
Pruden g. Burke. The PaSSaic Co.,
had an automobile accident to account
for delay, their bid not being filed un-
til 1886. Objection was made by
other contractors present against re-
ceiying the bids, but the commission
announced after conference that the
bids would be opened and the matter
of informality, if any existed, be set
tied at a later meeting
Nicholas Marinaro had his check in
the same envelope with the bid and
objection was made to this, but his
representative explained that it was
placed there because the advertise
ment said that bids must be accom-
panied by the check, not stating
whether it was to be in the same ell
velope or another.
The figures were recorded and re-
ferred to the engineers to figure. AS
announced by the engineers the bids
totalled ais follows Disposal plant.
B. & H. K. Salmon, $95, ,406.31; j. w.
Hellar, $97, ,8l6; A. Costa, S96, 779.4l;
N. Marinaro, S1O3, 3,981,6O; SturgiS
Bros, slO6,S16; Union Co., slO7.95
Sewering the town, including 5000
yards of rock excavation and 10000 feet
of lumber left in the trenches: A. Cos
ia, S153 279.31 T. ]. Allen, Sl64 ,6S2 30
Union Co., Sl73.549. 1871 B. & H. K.
Salmon, SIT, 1926. %; A. e. Sandford
g. Co., Hoboken, Sl99, ,763.l2 John f.
Stanley, Jersey City, s204, ,967.25.
The bids for the sewer pipes were
all stated in terms of discount. Fig
ured out the bids aggregated Geo. B.
Raymond & Co., New York, 500, ,2ll.90;
Lyth Tile Co.. Buffalo, S3l, ,6sl.36; st.
Mary's Pipe Co., st. Mary's, Pa, $780,
17l.16; @. w. Ennis & Co., $34, ,225.44
The board of sewerage met in their
Office in the Miller Building this
morning and publicly announced that
they had awarded the contracts for
the sewering of the town to A. Costa,
of East Orange the disposal plant TO
J. b. g. II. K. Salmon and the pipes
to G. B. Raymond & Co., Of New
York. Elmer King for Thos. ]. AL
len, one of the contractors for the lay
ing of the sewers entered formal
protest against the awarding to An
ionic Costa on the ground that his bid
was made up and presented after the
time for the reception of bids had ex-
pired. He was asked to put his pro-
test in writing, which he promised
to do.