The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-07
BAD BUMP
 BY BILTZ Paving Commission Post pones Attempt to Deliver
 City to Contractors STUMPED BY LOW
 BID OF DIRECTOR He Will Lay Main Street Pavement for Much Less Than Contractors Ask Cost of Brick Pavement on Golden Hill Street but
 $2.85 Square Yard

Public Works Charles F. A. Biltz hand to his new master, the Permanent
 Paving Commission, last night when he
 made g. statement in writing showing
 that the cost of paving Golden Hill
 street is but $2.s5 per yard, instead oi
 $4.75 as figured by the commission al an earlier meeting, and when he put in bid under which he agrees to lay the permanent pavement on South Main street for 97 cents per square yard. The lowest bid by a. private contractor upon this work was $1.25 a square yard.
 Thus did the director make it diff ficult for the commission to return to
 the plan of letting city work to private contractors. which well informed per- sons believe they intended to do, if an opening presented itself.
 Commissioner Fred Atwater, who did the figuring that produced the rate of
 $4.75, got busy with his pencil again, and after working a few minutes stat
 ed that MT. Biltz had only $37O left to complete the Golden Hill street job from Middle street to Main street.
 Director Biltz replied that the com missioner's figures were right in that respect He declared that the sum would finish the job. MT. Bfltz' re- port follows: .
 s'To the Honorable Paving and Sewer
 Commission:
 donIlGIu6n.-1A0 unQSISlShCo IC@
 spectfully begs leave to report the
 following cost, partly estimated of laying brick pavement on Golden Hill street from Main to Water street. I feel confident that the figures submit ted will not be exceeded.
 Owing to the numerous delays caused by the failure of the Connecti- cut to procure and place their cross over and special work, the cost to the city. as you can readily see has been and proceed with the work without interruption, the cost could and would be reduced, at least ten cents per square yard. Stone. $270; sand. $190; labor. s1. .537.S8; total. s4.234.94.
 Credits:-Allowance for filling at Arctic street bri5ge. $75; labor un- loading and setting concrete mixer, s175.O7; making total cost. s3,9S4.S7 or $2.S5 per square yard complete
 The director took another fall out of the commission when he presented an estimate that he, could lay the perma- nent brick pavement in South Main street for 97 cents square yard. The Silliman & Godfrey Co. bid was $1.25 a square yard, while Burns & Co. bid .$1.40 a square yard if the concrete was mixed by hand and $1.35 if it used the city's mixing machine. The Silliman & Godfrey Go. did not make a deduc- ton for the use of the mixing appar- atus.
 !. It was found later that the private contractors had not included the cost of carting the brick to the job, while Mr. Biltz had done so. His estimate of the cost of carting was cents a square yard, and this deduction made his actual estimate of the cost of lay ing s9 cents.
 President Rogers said that the bids would be considered later, and before the meeting adjourned it was decided not to consider the matter until next week. 1.
 Commissioners w. R. Brown and Fred Atwater who favored advertising for bids at the last meeting of the board because of the alleged high cost of the Golden Hill street job, said last night that they did not want to vote to have the city do its own paving work from Atlantic street to Seaside Park for fear that the director would have too much on his hands. There is the Fairfield avenue State highway to be completed, the Golden Hill street job, and the Main street wood block paving job to come up before the snow flies. But there were the directors low figures con- them. So they postponed the matter.
 Director Biltz believes that he can do the work When the commission CTS took the attitude that he couldn't do it he smiled a little and looked them ouer c11riOuSlv