The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-10
PAVING COMMISSION TO USE MATERIAL
 NEW TO THIS CITY
On the Permanent Pavement of StratfOrd Avenue Between
 Bridges
Contracts Let Last Night For Material Only-COmmissiOn Undecided as to Who Will
 do the Job

The permanent Paving and Sewer the furnishing of the materials for the paving of Stratford avenue be- tween the bridges at its meeting last night, but has yet to decide who will do the work. President M. H. Rogers of the commission, said this morning that the condition of the concrete foundations in the street would prob ably govern the price of the work and it would be impossible to get a contractor to figure for the job of known how much patching of the foundation would have to be done.
 The work of tearing up the street will not be commenced until Con gress street bridge is opened to the public.
 new materials upon the $500 square yards of pavement which lay between the Yellow Mill Bridge and the Low CT Bridge. That is the materials were never used in this city before. The brick to be used upon the ap- proach to the Lower Bridge and up- on the grade leading from Kossuth sereet to East Main street will be the shale. block of the Metropolitan Paving Co. whose price was ,$1.25 a square yard or three cents higher than the price of the Mack Brick Go. and a great deal less than has been paid for the Mack material in this city before. Some of the commis- sioners have the idea that shale brick is better than Q clay brick and as it was estimated that the cost of trying them would be only $50 more than the cost of the Mack material it was voted to use the Metropolitan block. z--.s~sg=s
 The Metropolitan block is larger than the other brick that. has been used in this city there being 40 to the yard instead of 43. The other to use here for the first, time was the wood block of the American Creosoting Co.,, with Silliman & God frey the lowest bidder at $1.83 per square yard.
 All of the prices were alike for was awarded to Wheeler & Howes at $1.46 per barrel. The contract for furnishing crushed stone was award ed to the Burns Go. at $1.40 per ton, dumped on the job. The contract for furnishing the sand was awarded to the Burns Go. at $1.55 per cubic yard, dumped on the job.
 President Rogers said the work would be done by the Paving Com mission if it was not possible to get a contractor to do it, but it was cheaper to let the contract out as it made a different of 40 cents per day per man. The city, he says, pays more for labor than a private con- tractor and only works it's help eight hours.
 The president reported to the board last night that the work of paving Main street from Gilbert street to Congress street was practi- cal1y completed and that the work of paving Elm street would be com menced within a few days.
 Seven contracts for the construc- tion of sewers were awarded as fol- lows: Goddard avenue, 200 it. 98 cents a foot for the pipe and $4.65 a cubic yard for rock, Pierce Mfg. Go.
 Iranistan avenue 30 fit. 98 cents for pipe and $4.75 for the rock, B. D. Pierce, Jr. Co.
 Fox street, about 26o it., 9S cents for rock, The Burns Co.
 per it. for pipe and $500 per yard for rock, B. D. Pierce Jr. Co.
 Eaton street sewer, $40 ft, 89 cents for pipe, no rock, B. D. Pierce Jr. Go.
 Osborne street sewer, 75 it., 4S cents per foot for pipe, Pierce Mfg. Co.
 The Pierce Mfg. Co. gave it's price for building sewer wells about the city at $37 per well. The B. D. Pierce Jr. Co. bid $37.5O and the Burns Co. $40 per well.