Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-19
CITY Advertisements.


OFFICE of the Board Of street = d Water Com
missioners OF the City Of Newark.
City Hall.
Newark, n. j., November is, 1910.
Sealed proposals will be received at this ofnce
from 3:l5 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. of Thursday. the
twenty-third day of November. 1910, and opened
the board to be held at said time and place,
for the grading, curbing and tagging Of
CLAY STREE f..
CARLISLE PLACE,
from Broad street to Ogden street.
The following Is about the amount Of the wors
TO be done. and the materials TO be furnished In
the construction and completion Of said work.
and upon which bids wifi he compared:
One thousand five hundred G,5oM cubic yards
OF em~bankment, five hundred 5000 cubic yards
Of which is excavation on the street; embank-
ment only TO be paid for;
One thousand Ave hundred q 5000 nneal feet
OF 90 by 8 inch four cut granite curb, set in
concrete;
Ten DO sets of 20 by 6 inch four cut granite
Thirty 1907 lineal feet of % by 6 inch four cut
special radius granite curb:
Twelve thousand u2.ooW square feet of arti-
Eleven hundred C.1o0) square feet of Belgian
bridging;
Two basins with connections complete;
Two t2) basins using old heads and sills:
Two 30 new granite heads and sdlls on old
hAsins;
! one % rnanbole complete with n~oiseless
one ~ manhoio head and nolseless cover on
Old 1ndnnDlF.
Standard prices will be paid for about nine
hundred and sixty 1900 square yards OF paving
with old granite blocks on sand.
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terisis and work for which there is a nxed
amount provided for in the specifications
Each proposal must be enclosed In a sealed
envelope, properly Endorsed with the name Of
the bidder and Of the Improvement. and d.
rected to the Board Of Street and Water Com
Bidders will state their prices IN writing as
well as IN figures.
should tho above work be awarded TO them,
they will bind themselves to finish and COM
plete the same within Atty 500 consecutive
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 to be &C.
colnpanied by the consent in writing Of two
~sureties. G. a surety company qualified TO do
business IN New jersey, who snail. at the time
Of putting In such proposass. qualify as to
their responsibility In the amount OF such pro-
posal, and bind themselves that. II the contract
be awarded 70 the person or persons making
the proposal. they will, upon its being go
awarded, become his or their sureties for tbs
faithful performance of said work. and that II
the person or persons omit or refuse to execute
sns s.- contract s ! d, tsey Siil ,l p,y to Il, the Cit. Of q
which he or they would have been entitled
upon completion Of the contract and that
-hich the City OF Newark may be obliged To
pay the person or persons by whom such con-
tract shall he executed.
The Board OF Street and Water Commission
70 VI Ah0 SINg 1oS ~ ~ hCtf
selves the right TO accept or reject any or oil
proposals 70, the above work, as they may
deem nest for the interest of the city.
Bidders and ~sureties are hereby notified that
under the provisions " the seventh section
OF the law creating the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, approved March %, 1891.
that the bond or bonds TO be given for the
faithful execution and performances Of said
public work shall first be approved as to suf-
tciency by the Board. and as to form By the
counsel OF the Board. and no contract shall
he binding on the city or become effective or
operative until such bond IL so approved. and
the President OF the Board shall have power
&; he shall so desire, or shall be 80 instructed
by the Board, but the Board will not be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
Proposed bondsmen, but shall have full power
and absolute discretion In the whole matter,
and this provision shall be referred to in any
advertisement inviting bids for any such pub
lie work.
BY direction Of the Board OF Street and wst@
Commissioners OF the City Of Newark. II
NORRIS r. SHERREPD.
novis-5t Chief Engineer.