Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-30
DEFER GIVING
OUT CONTRACT
Water Board Received Es-
Inmates from Four himne
Concerns Last Night.
TO AID SOUTH AMB0Y
Allow Tapping of Main to
Afford More Pressure in
That Place.

IN OTuer TO allow time for q con-
sideration of the bids on the con-
struction of a radial brick chimney
at Runyon, the Board Of Water Com
m~issioners last night deferred the
awarding of the contract until We'd
nesday night. Estimates were re-
ceived from four Chimney manufac-
turers. The Alphons Custodts CHM
ney Company was the lowest bidder,
Offering to construct the stack fer
$2,260. An alternate bid was sub
mitted by the Custodis Company,
bringing the figures down to $2,OS0,
H. r. Heinicke & Company placed
their figures at $2,7O0. The NJ. w.
kellogg Company bid was $2,S43,
and the Bergen & Lindeman bid, 3d.
985.
Representatives Of the kellogg and
Custodis companies were present
last night and ~extolled their pro-
duct. The proposed chimney is 70 be
125 feet high, with a five-foot Inter
nal diameter at the top. 1t Is to be
used in connection with the two 200
horsepower boilers constructed to
drive the new 2,000,0 600 gallon
pump.
Following a committee session,
the board r~ecQnvened and referred
the bids to EuAneer Mason and the
committee on power. Today the
bids will be considered, and the sue
cessful bidder will be made known
tomorrow night. Concerning the
proposed chimney, the board re-
ceived a communication, read last
nj0ht from fhn Govtra q JNjCIar
Brick Company, recommending the
Custodis chimneys.
The application of a Mr. Campbell
for permission to use the old water
works ground as a testing place for
his recently invented pump, was
practically granted last night. Pres
ident Fraser recommended that per-
mission be granted with the provis-
ion that there were no legal inter
ventions. The application was re-
ferred to City Attorney Hommann.
The inventor Is willing to pay a fee
for the use of the ground, and will
begin the erection of his temporary
plant Immediately.
The water works he proposes to
use as a site for experiments with a
recently patented siphon pump. A
100-foot stack will be constructed
and a work shop in which to erect
the pump after 1t is shipped here,
will also be built. Upon the compile
ton OF the pump, tests will be made
before a number of New York capt.
t%alists, and should they prove sue
cessful, a plant for the manufac-
ture of the machine will be located
here, employing at the start about
500 hands.
Owing to the small pressure of
water obtained on the high spots of
South Amboy, the board last night
granted an application that a tap be
made in the sixteen-inch main, with
an alternate emergency tap In the
twenty-four74nch main. This Will
mean a short cut in the pipe line
between the main and the supply
pipes Of South Amboy, and Engineer
Mason says, will considerably in
crease the pressure.
Commissioners Grieve and Haney,
who visited Atlantic City recently to
ascertain the advantages of a wood
en- water main being laid there at
present, submitted a written report
last night. The main, Atlantic City
engineers declare, will last indef-
nitely and is not subject to the acid
conditions of mud, a problem now
confronting the local board.
Discussion of the report was sud
denly brought to an end, however,
by a burned-out fuse which extin-
guished the lights in city hall. For
a minute or so the members sat IN
darkness, then Superintendent Gro
well attempted to light the gas. This
also had been shut off, and after a
search Of several minutes, he finally
located a candle, and lighting it.
placed it in the center of the table.
By the scanty illumination the board
continued. Before adJourning IT
was decided to purchase from the
Smith Tapping Machine Company, of
Newark, a machine to make taps In
street mains. The cost will be $475.
All the commissioners were pres
M Loot NIGHT