The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Commissioners Find Warren
St. Addition Can Be Built
for SIS 900 Less.
FORTY-FOUR SUBMIT BIDS
Committee Awards Contracts to
Be Passed to Parent Body for
Approval :. Appropri al o
$4,000 and the Work Can
Be Done for $04,085.

In direct opposition TO h previous
experiences of the schoolhouse commits
tee of the Board of Education, it was
found by that body last night, when
bids for the erection of the addition of
the Warren Street School were re-
ceived, that. besides receiving the
largest number of bid ever received
by the committee for n building, the
addition could be erected, the engineer
and architect paid, and there would
still be approximately $4,000 left out
of the sum appropriated for the work
by the Board of School Estimate.
This is establishing a precedent in
the work. as for the last few years the
buildings have cost more than has
been appropriated, and many legal
tangles and serious delays, one of
which is of the proposed manual train
ing and technical high school, have
resulted.
There were times expected
because of the fact that it was ru-
mored that Commissioner j. Edward
Smith, who recently started suit
through the city law department
against Architect Nathan Myers to re-
cover the $500 paid him for preparing
the plans for the technical high school,
which could not be used because the
bids for the erection Of the building
would aggregate twice the sum APP
propriated for the work, would deman
that the matter be taken up by the
committee, and the large committee
room of the Board of Education was
crowded with commissioners and
others Interested in the matter.
The problem had been left by the
committee for the small school board
to settle, and Commissioner Smith has
declared that he will demand that 1t
be settled before the present commit
tee r~etires. When it was seen that
there were forty-four contractors on
hand to present bids this matter was
sidetracked and attention was paid to
receiving bids on the plans drawn by
Architect Harry j. King, who, when
he saw that the bids would come with
in the appropriation, was as well
pleased as the committee. He was for
given for having delayed the plans for
several weeks.
Joseph r.. Pellitier made a proposal
covering the entire work, with the ex-
ception of the heating and ventilating,
but this was considerably higher than
the total of the lowest separate bids.
The appropriation to cover the cost Of
the building was $4,000. The lowest
bids aggregated 800. 462. The architects
and engineers fees, which are 5 per
cent. of the cost, would mou to
S4,52S10, making the total cost of the
building $94, 1885, 10, or S15.Ol4.90 less h
The amount which the committee was
authorized to spend.
The following are the successful bid
ders:
Masonry work, Enos Willets .:..:... $SS,61O
Carpenter work, Trivett & Walters oc
Iron and steel work, Berlin Con-
Painting. Charles stopper .....,.,.... 1,1S7
90. 49, ASH
Stern6berr -. 4,26O
pIeetric"l work. The Browe CO.. 1858
flss eymesuf s"u '14,26
PIectrie Eauippers ...st........... 5S4
Total O.462
The contracts were awarded. subject
to ratification by the board Friday
night. In addition. it was decided to
make needed changes In the old build
ing, upon which estimates had also
been obtained from the bidders. These
aggregated $2,759. bringing the grand
total TO $685. 21. Commissions to archi-
tects and engineers brought the amount
to be expended to 1897, SS2.05.
On the face of the bids Charles Nc
CURE was low bidder in the plumbing
work. handing in a proposal of $3.50,
with SITS additional for work on the old
building. Jaehnig & Peoples, the sue
cessfuI bidders, bid S3,993, with an extra
OF $57s for work on the old building,
making a total Of $4,571 compared with
$i.725, the amount of McGuire's bid.
E. NJ. Waldron & Co, Walter e.
Isetts and P. S. Van Kirk Company
submitted bids of S76, 229, $4,000 and
S75,9 900, respectively, on the combined
masonry and carpenter work. These
were all higher than the sum of the
two low separate bids.
The difference between the high and
low bids on the masonry work vas
$25,030. Most of the bids were between
$4,000 and $45,0 and considerable sur
prise was manifested when the success
full bid of 3 $3.50 was opened.
Under the terms of the contracts the
building will be completed not later
than August Is. 1908. The proposed
building will have twelve classrooms
and an assembly hall and is designed
10 500 pupils.