The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-24
CIrY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


OFFIC of the BOARD # Street and Water
Commissioners of the city of Newark, City
Hall.
Sealed proposals Will be received at this Of
fee from 3.15 TO $3.50 O'Clock p. M of Thurs
day, The nth day Of March, 1905. and opened
Of the Board to be held at said time and place.
for the construction of the ,r
SECTION 2;
SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET SEWER.
between Sixteenth avenue and a point about
500 feet north Of Eighteenth avenue, and the
WARWICK STREET SEWER,
between Van Buren, street and Tyler street.
The following is about the amount of the
work to be done. and the materials 70 be fur
said work, and upon which bids will be
FOR MEADOW BROOK EVE sYsTEM:
One thousand one hundred and Fifty G.l50)
lineal feet Of fifteen Q5l Inch double strength
vitrihed salt glazed pipe sewer;
Two thousand three hundred and fifty q. $500
lineal feet of twelve 12) inch yftrifed salt
rive thousand Fix hundred and ten $3.50
lineal feet OF ten 40 inch yitrihed salt glazed
pipe sewer;
Six thousand elrht huadred and ninety
$500 liner' feet OF eight 49, inch vitrihed
Eleven thousand nne hundred and forty
Ql,94O lineal feet OF six 80 inch house con-
Eighty-two (s2) mannoles with iron heads
and covers ond buckets complete Gncluding
twenty-five t22) Junction and drop mapholes);
one % flush tank,
Fifty 800 lineai feet of six @) inch iron
FOR SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET
seven hundred and seyenty-nve (77S lineal
feet Of fifteen DO inch double strength vitri-
fed salt glazed pipe sewer;
j Three hundred and forty t3lO lineal feet or
ten d) inch vltrlned salt glazed pipe sewer
Six 90 manholes with iron heads and covers
complete.
Three 80 basins with solid granite heads and
sills and connecting chntes completei
One thousand four hundred and sixty q. 460)
iineal feet Of six 90 inch house connections.
FOR WARWICK STREET SEWER
-Four hundred and seventy C70) 1ineaI feet
of ten 40 inch vitriied salt glazed pipe
sewer
Three CD manholes with iron heads and
one hundred and nfty $50 lnenl feet Of
six 80 inch house connections.
Bidders are not 20 state any price for nla,
terials and work for which there is a Fixed
amount provided for In the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed In a sealed
envelope, properly indorscd with the name
OF Tho bidder and Of the Improvement, and dl-
reeted to the Bonrd Of Street and Water Conn
mlssloners Of the city of Newark
Bidders will state their prices in writing as
well as IN figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposals that.
should the above work be awarded to them.
they VIII bind themselves 10 finish aud COM
plete the same within the following number
of consecutive working days
Meadow Brook Sewer S~ystcm-rwo hundred
south Thirteenth street-ThIrty 900 days;
Warwick S~treet-Elght 80 days.
The plans and specifications Of the work can
be examined at the office Of the Chief Engineer
of the Board Of Street and Water Commission
ers at the city Hall Said proposals 10 be ac-
eompanied by the consent IN writing Of two
~suretics. or a surety company qualified to do
business In New Jersey, who shall, at the time
OF putting ~ such proposals, qualify as to
their responsibility in the amount OF such pro-
posai. aud bind themselves that, II the contract
he awarded &c the person or persons making
the PROPOSAL. they VIII. uUpu its being so
awarded, become his or their s~ureties for the
faithful performance Of said work and that II
tho person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract they will pay to the city Of
Newark any difference between the sums to
which he or they would have been entitled
upon. completion or the contract and that
which the city Of Newark may be obliged TO
pay tho person or persons by whom such con-
tract shall be executed.
The Board q Street and Water Commission
ers Of the city Of Newark reserve to them
selyes the right TO accept or reject any or all
for the above work, as they may
deem best for the interest OF tho city.
Bidders and slreties arc hereby notified that
OF tho law creating the Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners, approved March Is. 1891,
that the bone Or bonds to be given for the
faithful execution and performance Of said
public work shall first be approved AS TO suf-
ticleucy by the Board, b1d rs to form by the
counsel 0f the Board. and no contract shall
be binding on tle city or become effective or
until such bond is so approved; and
the President of the Board shall have power
to examine the Proposed bondsmen under oath.
If ne shall so desire. or shall be so Instructed
by the Board. but the Board VIII not be bound
proposed bondsmen. hut shall have tull power
absolute discretion in tho whole matter,
this provision shall be referred to in any
advertisement inviting bids for any such pub
rs direction Of the Board Of street and
Commissioners Of the city Of Newark.
NJ. r. SHERRERD.