Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-25
INSTRUCTION.
CITY Advertisements.
OFFICE OF the Board Of Street and Water
Commissioners OF the City OF Newark
City Hall.

OFFICE OF the Board Of Street and water
Commissioners Of the City OF Newark
Newark, n. j., February "A. 1911.
Sealed proposals will be received at this OF
hce from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. M OF Ihurs.
day, the second day Of March, 1911, and opened
at the last-named hour, at a public meeting
OF tho board to be held at said time and place:
For the paving Of the following streets sno
Cortland street. from Ferry street to Horatio
street; Earl street, from Elizabeth avenue TO
The following is about the amount of tho
work to be done. and the materials TO be FUR
nished In the construction and complexion OK
said work, and upon which bids viii DO com
pared:
For Cortland street paving:
TWO thousand three hundred GSW square
yards of bitulithic pavement on a SIX () inch
concrete foundation.
-Four hundred tiOg llneai feet of 20 By = inch
four cut curb. set in concrete.
Ono thousand d,OoO lineal feet OF old curb
four cut and reset in concrete.
STANDARD prices will be paid for tho follow
ing:
One () set Of 20 by 4 inch four cut corners,
set IN concrete.
One ~ new basin with connection complete
Tor Earl street paving.
Three thousand eight hundred and sixty
g, $500 square yards of brick pavement on =
six 90 inch concrete foundation.
Two hundred (2o0) lineal leet OF ~ by : men
four cut curb. set in concrete.
One thousand six hundred and thirty u.OSo1
lineaI feet Of old curb four cut and reset IN
concrete.
Niaety tsN llneal feet Of 1s by 8 inch new
header curb. set IN concrete.
One u set new 20 by 4 Inch four cut corners,
set in concrete.
Three go new noiseless manhole covers.
One % new basin with connection complete.
Bids for the above bitulithic pavement must
include @ price bid per square yard per year
for maintenance and repair OF said psYensnt
during an additional and second period OF nVe
(b) years, and under a guarantee pohu py .
surety company bond or q bono "ith surety
acceptable to the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners which may DO required at the
option Of the board at any time before the ex-
piration OF the fret FIVE years guarantee
Bidder are not to state any price for mate
rails and work for which there Is a. hxed
amount provided FOX in the speciaeations.
Each proposal must be enclosed IN a sea'eS
the bidder and of the Improvement, and d.
rected to the Board OF Street and Water Com
missioners OF the city OF Newark.
Bidders will state their prices In writing as
well as in figures.
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;
Cortland street paving, twenty-five l2o) days
earl street paving, thirty-fve 1859 days.
The plans and specifications OF the work can
be examined at the Office Of the Chief Ensi-
neer OF the Board Of Street and Water Com
rnissioners at the City Hall. said proposals TO
be accompanied by the consent in writing OF
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do business in New Jersey, who shall at the
time of putting in such proposals qualify as to
their responsibility In the amount Of such
proposal. and bind themselves that, II the
contract be awarded to the person or persons
making the proposal, they will, upon its being
50 awarded. become his or their sureties Tor
the faithful performance Of said work, and
that IL the person or persons omit or refuse to
execute such contract they Will pay TO the
city of Newark any difference between the
sums to which he or 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
contract shall be 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
proposals 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 law creating the Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners approved March e, 1891.
that the bond or bonds to be given for the
faithful execution and performance of said
public work shall first be approved as to SUI
hciercy by the board and as to form by the
binding on the city or become effective or
opeI ative until such bond is 80 approved, and
the president OF the board shall have power 10
examine the proposed bondsmen under oath,
II he shall SO desire, or shall be so instructed
by the board, but the board will not be bound
proposes 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
Water Commissioners Of the City Of Newark.
NORRIS r. SHERRERD,J
I Feh9A-6f Chief Enginear