Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-11-24
COMMITTEE EAv]RS
An INSPECTION TRIP
0n|y Accommodation 10 Paving
Report Viii b That Delegation
Visit Various Cities.
TAbUllTFo b|Ds SUBMITTED
Special Meeting Held In Cooperation
Court Room On Account Of Large
Attendance--No Attempt to Decide
Upon Merits of the Bids-Another
Meeting.

| Meeting in special session to CON
slider the report of City IL gin""r
Prarse upon the bids for street pay
ing. the highways and sewers com
mlttec of the city council last ni&h'
voted to send all regularly submitted
bids to the council without recon-
mendation. ard to recommend ,ha'
the council send 4 delegation com
posed of representatives of each ward
on a tour Of various cities to insp"c'
paving.
After listening to the engineers re-
port, the cOmmitte" started TO dis
cl>,s the bids upon their merits. i'h
Alderman Read and others called al
tention to the fact that an agreement
EXISTS whereby the members repre-
senting the different wards ar" to be-
allowed to say how the mor"y allotted
to their respectiv" territory is to d"
spent. THIS being the case. it was
deemed inadrsablc for the commit
tee to make anv recommendation as
to The kind of paving to be used.
The resolutions sending the bids to
the council without recommendation.
and SUGGESTING the ter of cities. was
offered by Alderman e. ID. West. II
was carried without a dissenting
vote
Crowd On Hand.
Many representatives of paving
companies and others interested wcr"
,ln~ xJ,n init .n MOI
ard the crowd was too large to be
accommodated in the office Of the
city clerk The committee adjourned /
to the Corporation Court room so that !
there might be plenty of room for |
everybody.
Chairman Via presided. and the
other members present were: I
Aldermen West and Weston and
Councilman Cheadle and Cox Presi-
dent f. W. Robinson. Of the alder
men. President d. s. Jones, Of the
cnmmr.. ~~,.--h' "s'J"' "f''' '"'
Jones. and various members Of both
branches of the council were in at
tendance.
Engineers Report.
Mr.. Pearse's report. which was ac-
compared bv numerous t'ne-pr!nt"h
and statistical tables, was as follows:
November % 1908.
ITO tho Highways and Sewers COM
"mittee. of the City Council.
Gentlemen
II hand YOU herewith schedules OF
bids, schedule of estimates OF all or
the different pavements bid nroh,
worked out with pc Mt dressed granite
curb and concrete curb and gutter,
Using The lowest bids in both cases)
and absorption, and abrasion tests.
You VIII find in looking oyer the
schedules that there was Only ore
bidder on macadam. bituEthic.
Blomes' granatoid concrete bloc;
pavement and block asphalt A prop
ostion separate from the regular form
was submitted fer petro'ithic pave
ment
The Filbert Paving and Construct
ing Co. are the lowest bidders on
shee; asphalt and 'he Cleveland Trim
idad Paving Company are the low
: est bidders on brick pavement con
structci under the differena specitica'
| items for brick pavem"1ts.
! On CURLING the Central Contract
, ing Co. are the loves: bidders on
pe2r hammered dressed granite cur'
delivered {. O. b.. .iewnor News.
while the Central Contracting and A.
son and Pierce bid the sam" figures
on coint dressed granite curb dci'v-
cred {. o h. Newport News.
Il estimate that 90 per reit. OF tn"
granite curb will BE- 81: IN trenches
- inches deep. ard 90 per cent. OF
the concrete curb and gutter IN
trenches IS inches deep.
"Ou this basis the Central CONTRACT
ing Co. are the loves: bidder on
pean hammered granite curb and the
{ Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co. or"
the lowest on point dressed granite
on cons. ruct;vp curb ani E-ttCr win
and without Wainwright's Galva:'ize@
corner bar.
Attached pleas" fnd letter from
Sayrc Iror Iron WORKS "f PhoShus.
who made he abrasion tCstS on the
var Gus samples Of brick. in nv pres
cncc. The absorption tests were
ma! 20 n my Office.
Relative to the high percentage
. OF absorption and abrasion cf IN"
PekinV Block. would draw 'our az
'.er: ior to the fat that this block has
been under very heavy trafic or inc
apprnarhas 70 the Twenty 9Th street
bridge for the pas, eight yeers am
shows very E'lc wear for having
been subject 10 such conditions.
, Irregular Bids.
The only hid for macadam was
, thrown ont b~caHs" no guarantee ar
! compaaicd the bid The BIDS 81
. Hessrs Alscp & Pcarse Tor brick or
? s.,d foundation and for brick on