The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-18
PAVING CONTRACT.
IS DISCUSSED BY
AN Ex-ALDERMAN
c. T. cALkAN, WHO HEADED PUB
Lie WORKS. COMMITTEE LAST
YEAR. WRITES CARD. r..
= ~ W. . 8
He DiHers.-Nith The News in Article
Discussing sids Of Chattanooga and
Augusta Firms--is in Sympathy
With the Later Concern.

With tne Later Concern.
The following card Is ,g!yen space
- The News this morning at tie re-
. euost Of C. Z. Calnan, forErsriy CHAIR
msA of the city c:uncil cofn4Ai,Lee on
PUalic works who served i'll LIT ca
Pacity. during the time the Old New
castle street paving was awarded. In
order to he perfectly fair to al pai
ties. 1t is therefore puulisned Il 80,
sntirety: - '.'f
Editor Brunswick News:
In the article headed Paving Con
tract" In your issue of March f6, 1910,
appears the following extract:
An interesting feature brought out
in these bids was that the difference
between the bids of the successful
company, the Southern Paving & Con
struction company, and the Georgia
Engineering company, who did the
original paving from Mansfield to
Gloucester, for sand filling, amounts
to IS cents per square yard, which
would mean saving to the city on
the basis of a sand filing on the 1900
yards to- be paved, of $4,OS0. This is
to say the old contract for sand fill
ing was placed with the Georgia En-
gineering company at $1.45 per square
yard for sand filing and in the esti-
mates yesterday this same concern
submitted a bid of $1.7,, with tar
filling, thus allowing 25 cents per yard
for the difference in tar filings. On
the other hand the Chattanooga peo-
pie made their bid at $1.55 for a tar
filing, and deducting the difference
for the sand would have logically
brought their bid down to $1.30, max
ing difference in the cost to the
city of $1.080. AS it Is the city gets
q better and more substantial tar fill
Eng in this new work at $l,55, or at
Just 10c per yard more than was paid
for the other job with the inferior
sand filing
AS the bid of the Southern Paving
& Construction Company of Chatta-
nooga under consideration for the new
work, is actually l0c square yard
more than the contract price on the
two blocks of sand filler pavement al
ready laid, fail to see how this log
ical' bid is at $1.30 per yard on sand
filed, or how it cculd possibly be ng-
AIRED, where is the saving to the city
of 81 ,0S0," by reason of this bid Such
ingenious logic" is beyond my under
standing when the cold facts are that
the Chattanooga people did actually
submit a bid of $1.45, the Identical
amount of hid 10y the Augusta people.
You have evidently overlooked the
plain facts.
The respective bids by each, on sand
and on tar filler, is as follows:
Southern Paving & Construction Co.
--Sand filler, $1.45 per square yard;
tar filler, as per specifications, $1.55.
Georgia Engineering Co.-Sand
filler, $145 per square yard; Barrett's
tar filler, $1.70.
While both bids this time are the
same on a sand filler-$1. .45-'it is
interesting to note" that the Georgia
Engineering company's figure is the
same as on the first work; at that
time the Southern Paving & Construc-
ton company's bid was $1.64 Fer
square yard, both bids Icing for the
sand filler.
AS the best grade CT tar filler seems
ss to be estimated at 25c a yard, it ap-
pears that the Georgia Engineering
company is consistent, bidding $1.45
for sand filler and $1.70 Cor 25c more)
for the tar, whereas the Southern
Paving & Construction company at
the first bidding was $1.64, for sand
filler or 19c more than the Georgia
Engineering company, yet when bid
ding this time on a tar filler estimated
to be worth 25c a yard, instead of aid-
ding the additional 25c on to $1.64,
their ORIGINAL sand bid making $1.S9,
they actually bid on a tar f1ller-S1.55
Just &c less than their first hid on
sand alone. Truly there must be mere
in 9. tar filler" than we suspect.
I note on examination Of the bids
that the Georeia Engineering company
bid specifically named the Barrett
tar filler" That tie Southern Paving
& Construction company bid says;
According to specifications" nut I
also note that on examinations rf the
specifications that the Barrett and the
Pioneer filters are named, and amy
other equally as good" These things
are merely "interostins to note.
The Georgia Engineering company
snecifed as their material the same
quality of brick as those already laid
As is well known these bricks w2'e