Evening journal., 1909-07-13
DOVER GETS BIDS
ON STREET WORK
Many Contractors After $780,.
600 Job Capital Town
Will Give Out
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.

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DOVER, Del. July la--wnliam H..
Waikcr chairman. Cerif G. Fuiton. sec
retary; Walter Morris. Thomas Niuncy
and William Denney. constituting the
Street and Sewer Commission OF Dover
met last night in the Board OF Tinde
rooms and opened bids for paving the
unpaved streets of Dover Ia accordance
with the si66,ooo law passed at the recent
Legislature
The bids we're for paving 1900 square
yards, 20 begin with, and as much more
as the commssian may select.
The Board Of Trade rooms were well
filled with bidders and material men
from all parts OF the country
Each bid was accompanied by a certi-
fed check for 5000. and the four bid
ders-the big paving concerns Of the East
handed In during the evening $50 900
OF guarantee funds.
Tho bidders were as follows:
The Barber Asphalt Company, other
wise known as the Mack concern, OF
Philadelphia.
The Standard Bitulithic Company. OF
25s Broadway. New York.
The United Paving Company. OF At
iantic city, n. J.
The Atlantic Bituithic Company. OF
Richmond, Va.
The first fifty numbers on the engi-
neers table were for sewer work and ma
terlal. on many Of thes items. the Bar
Der Asphalt Company was. apparently,
the lowest. Some OF its principal figures
we're:
All excavations, 81 cents a yard;
embankments. Sc cents; wet excava-
tions. S5 cents; brick masonry. st0.5s
the cubic yard; cast iron pipe. S37.6c
per ton; junction chambers. S340; man
holes. s75.43; special manholes, $S7l5;
sewer pipe A, s5.37; Sewer b, Sass.
Sewer c. s5.O5; Sewer ID. s2.s5. Fol
36-inch terra Gotta pipe. IL bid s3.l8i
down to S-inch. AZ cents.
The greatest interest. however. APP
peaerd to center in the paving bids
The Barber Company went into a lonl
I dissertation, at the beginning Of ia
bid, as to what constituted a proper
analysis OF asphalt. and expressing
great regret that Trinidad LAX,
asphalt. which only analysed at water
p test up to Sc per cent. and which Il
declared was "the best asphalt I'm tho
world" was barred out of the biddinl
] NN AlAI fAAlNAHN NALH AfHAs ANN N0At
pany ridiculed the Dover method o
testing II then, however, suggested
that its "Buena Vista" asphalt or iti
california" asphalt would fill the bill
and on this company bid.
The bidders and their proposals were
as follows:
Brick paving. pitch fller-Standar;
Bitulithic Company. S2.75; United Paw
ing Company, s2.65.
Asphalt on concrete foundation
Barber Asphalt Company. sl.s9 70
"Buena Vista" and Si.S9 for cali
fornia:" Standard Bitulithic Company
$2.25: United Paving Company. s2.17.
Bitulithic pavement (on 4-inch con
] crete base)-Standard Bitulithic Com
= pany, S225; United Paving Company
: S2.19; Atlantic Bitulithic Company
$3.50.
Z Bitulithic pavement Con 5-inch con
g crete base-Standard Bitulithic Com
pany, $40; United Paving Company
S234 Atlantic Bitulithic Company
$2.4s.
For placing bitulithlc pavement o
/. existing. concrete base-Standard Btu
I lithic Company. s1s7; United PAWN
s Company. s1.e5; Atlantic Bitulthi
= Company, sl.95.
/ For stone for top OF presen
MISUNDERSTANDING Company. /
cents; United Paving Company, !
cents: Atlantic Company, IS cents.
J. For bitulithic pavement on bitumin
o Gus base-Standard Bitulithic Com
= pany, S2.22: United Paving Company
r s.. 10; Atlantic Bitulithic Company
& Is