Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-05
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
OFFICE Of the Board cs Street and Wataz
Commissioners of the City OF Newark.
City Hall.

OFFICE Of the Board OK Street and wates
Commissioners of the City of Newark.
City Hall.
Newark, N. j., September 80. 1910.
Sealed proposals will be received at this once
from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. M, of Thursday. the
sixth day of October. 1910, and opened at the
last named hour, at a public meeting of the
board to be held at said time and place, for
the grading curling bin and tagging of
from Pacific street to Tyler street, and for the
RI oGEwooD AVENUE.
from Bigelow street to Runyon street.
The following Is about the amount of the work
TO be done and the materials to be furnished
and upon which bids will be compared:
FOR SOUTH STREET GRADING. CURLING
AND FLAGGTNG.
Three thousand four hundred q. 40O cubic
yards of embankment. one hundred d00) cubic
uS2O square feet of Belgian bridging;
Twenty-Five thousand five hundred 100. SOD
square feet of tagging 8 feet wide;
Two (2) basins with connections complete;
One ID basin complete using old head and
One "a new head and sill on old basin.
o RIDGEWooD AVENUE PAVING:
Two thousand nine hundred and seventy
(2.9I0 square Yards of brick pavement on a six
t6l inch concrete foundation;
Nine hundred 5000 lineal feet of 20 by 4 inch
four cut curb set in concrete;
Five hundred and eighty $500 lineal feet of
old curb four CIT ana reset in co%ncrete;
One ~ basin with connection complete.
Nine hundred f9o0 cubic yards of extra
excavation, including sidewalks. to be included
In price of paving. and not to be bid for sep
arately,
STANDARD prices will be paid for the following:
Two ~ sets of 20 by 4 inch four cut corners,
set in concrete;
Three go nolseless manhole covers;
Forty (4O lineal feet of new header curb set
in concrete.
terials and work for which there is a fixed
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 directed
to the Board of Street and Water Commissioners
of the City of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices In writing as
well as In figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposals that
should the above work be awarded to them
they will bind themselves to finish and COM
plete the same within the following number of
consecutive working days:
South Street grading, eurbing and Tagging
Sixty 0O days;
Ridgewood avenue ~paving-Thirty (3) days.
The plans and specifications of the work can
Re examined at the office of the Chief Engineer
ers a. the City Hall, Said proposals to be ac-
companied by rhe consent in writing of two
%sureties. or a surety company qualified to do
of putting In such proposals.. qualify as to
their responsibility In the amount of such pro-
rosal, and hind themselves that. II the contract
be awarded to the person or persons making
the proposal, they will, upon its. being so
s%araed' become his or Their %sIretles for the
the person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract they will pay to the City of
W any iititi8t bUG HuilS ~
which he o. they would have been entitled
upon completion of the contract and that
which 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
ers of the City OF Newark reserve to them
selves the right to accept or reject any or all
proncsals for the above work. as they may
deem best for the interest of the city.
Bidders and sureties are hereby notified that
under the provisions of the seventh section
OF the XIV creating the Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners. approved March %, 1891,
that the bond or bonds to be given for the
faithful execution and performance of said
public work shall first lie approved as to suf-
hciancy by the Board. and as TO form by the
counsel of the Board. and no contract shall
be binding on the city or become effective or
operative until such bond is so approved, and
the President of the Board shall have power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath,
If he shall so desire, or shall be so 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 he referred to In any
advertisement inviting bids for any such pub
lie work.
BY direction of the Board OF Street and Water
Commissioners of the City OF Newark.
NORRIS r. SHERRFRD,
sep30-5t Chief Engineer.