Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-24
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.

OFFICE Oh THE CITY CLERK OF TIN
CITY OF NEWARK.
Newark, n. j., Jan. %, 1910.
Sealed proposals for Almshouse supplies and
bUrials for one year will be received by the
Committee on Poor and Aims of the Common
be held at the Almshouse, Elizabeth avenue, on
Thursday, February 8. 1910.
The committee Will be in session to. receive
bids from s to $40 p. m. The bids will be
opened promptly at $50 p. m.
Following are the goods and articles required
READ.
The amount to be about three hundred (sOO)
pounds per day, more or less, one day old, and
to be called for.
Fresh and corned meat ttriangles of beef.
corned beef or mutton) for the Almshouse. to
be delivered at the Almshouse daily; daily aver
age about lis pounds. more or less.
Meat-Monday, lis pounds corned beef.
M~eat-Tuesday, lis pounds soup beef.
Meat-Wednesday, IFS pounds stew beef.
Meat-Thursday. l15 pounds corned beef.
Meat-Friday, none.
Enthusiastically, 15 pounds soup beef.
. Meat-Sunday. lis pounds stew beef.
For the burial of the dead of the city poor,
from any part of the city, the Almshouse In
Number i, clear pine, free of Knots, stained and
vanished, to be lined from the head to the foot
thereof with muslin and stuffed from the head
to the foot with excelsior. =
All collins over four "a feet adults, are 10 b
made of ore-inch stuff, planned on one side. and
cover or lid, IL in one piece to have six screws:
IL in two pieces, to have eight screws. All cof-
fins below four feet "a dnfants) to have i've
eighth (9s) inch stuff and to have four screws.
The above measurements refer TO bottom di-
mansions.
No more than two adults and two children
shall be carried for burial in any one wagon.
1.-The undertaken bidding on the burial contract
must provide a place where the bodies Of the
pauper dead can be laid out and friends. n
there are any, allowed to see them, and n
service held. The committee will designate
three days In the week on which services over
the pauper dead may be held If, desired.
bidders Will state their prices in writing an
we'll as in figures.
Said proposals to be accompanied by the con-
sent, in writing, of two s~ureties, who shall. az
the time OF putting in such proposals. each
quarry as to their responsibility in the amount
or such proposals. and bind themselves that n
the contract be awarded to the person Or per
sons making the proposal, they Will, upon its
oelnR so awarded become his or their sllretjes
tor inc faithful performance of said work and
tnat IL the person or persons omit or refuse 10
execute SUCH contract they viii pay to the City
OF newark any difference between the sums to
Whlcn ne or they would have been entitled upon
completion OF the contract and that which the
city OF Newark may be obliged to pay the per-
son or persons by whom such contract shall be
executed. The on Poor and Aims OF
the City of Newark reserve to Themselves +hs
right to accept or reject any and all proposals
Tor the above articles or waive any defects
tnerein as they may deem best for the Interests
of the city.
By direction of the COMMITTEES on Poor ana
Aims OF the Common Council of the CITY ~
Newark :" ivy u
JAMES f. CONNOLLY,
City Clerk.