Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-08-14
School Board Pre-
pare to Start
Work on Ken
nedaIe Park
School, Gram
mar School Still.
Held Up for Ap-
prOVaI Of Plans

After a session which broke all
records in regard to length, tho
Board of Education, at 1:45 o'clock
this morning, passed a motion au-
thorizing the secretary to advertise
for bids for the Kennedale school.
the plans for which were prepared by
Architect ]. K. Jensen.
It was decided to receive the bids
Tuesday night, September 1. at $40
o'clock. Each proposal must be ac-
companied by certified check. The
board would liked to have advertised
for bids for the central grammar
school, but as Architect Dayton's
plans have not yet been approved BY
the State Board of Education, 1t was
laid over and will probably be taken
up at an adjourned meeting Monday
night.
The contractors, In order to se-
cure a set of plans and specifications,
must pay a deposit of $25 to guaran-
tee their safe return within seven
days.
Bids for Repairs.
President Bradley called the meet
ing to order at exactly sos o'clock
and, after some minor business had
been transacted, bids for the repairs
anu bldQAAk sAb tAl0 fAiAOnD nNAVOA0
were received AS there were no de-
tailed specifications for the bidders
to figure on, the proposals were very
complicated. After they had been
Tread, the board referred them to the
building committee to tabulate be.
fore Monday. 1t was almost impos-
sible to compare the bids last night
as some offered to do more work than
others, and issioner Seaman
I said that after they had been type
written the contracts, he thought,
could be awarded, If fair campart-
son was made
| The bids, including grading, car~
penter work, painting and plumbing,
= were received from the following lo-
cal contractors:
| Grading Johan Jensen, Martin
Hanson and A. G. Hanson & ePter
Hanson.
Plumbing-R. ]. Calvin, Kelly &
Ma Alinden, James F. Burns, 4. =.
zangenberg and ]. S. Hanson.
( Carpenter work@Hans NJ. Peter
son, Spencer Dayton, the Fred Chris
tensen Construction Company, GetS.
w. Mum, Joseph l.. Crowell, James
H. Woglom and Ira r. Grouse.
Painting and decorating Hem
ricksen &Laursen, A. d. Martin, PEI
ter Bilgrav and Charles G. Jones.
1 Motion to Lay Over Lost.
! The grading bids were opened first
and motion of Commissioner Sea-
man that they be laid over was lost
by vote of to 2. Commissioner
4 Arner asked Mr.. Seaman If he want
ed to hold up the work again, and
Commissioner Moore added that Mr.
| Seaman was the one who had been
holding up things in the board and
that he was not afraid to say 1t. 4
guess the rest of 'em viii support
me-" he concluded Commissioner
Seaman only smiled.
Nearly all of the bidders were
present to hear the figures read and
lseemed disappointd whin the board
failed to declare recess, which was
contemplated at one time during the
session, to decide who were the
lucky ones. Mr.. Christensen, Mr..
Grouse, Mr.. Mum and William MUIR
l thagh remained in the room until the
meeting adjourned at 1850 o'clock
this morning.
After the reading of the bids, Ar
chitect John Dayton, in reply to q
question from President Bradley,
said he had the specifications for the
central grammar school ready, and
would like to read them to the board
so that they could make any desired
! changes. Mr.. Dayton started read
ing the specifications, which were
/ typewritten, at 10 o'clock, and did
not finish until one hour and forty
Ave minutes later The board sug-
I gested several changes and later
I passed motion approving them aa
1 corrected.
(Contlnued on page 15l.