Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
CITY ADVERTTsEMENTs.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET AMI
WATER COMMISSIONERS OF THE
CITY OF NEWARK.

OFFICE OF THE BoARD OF STREET AND
CITY OF NEWARK.
City Hall.
Newark, N. j., October 90. -s11.
Sealed proposals Will be received at this Of
fee from 3:1b to $3.50 o'clock >. M. of Thurs.
DAY. the twenty-sixth day of October, 1911.
and opened at the last narncd hour, at a pub
lie meeting of the board TO be held at said
time and place for the grading. curbing and
GRAFTON AVENUE.
from Summer avenue to Washington avenue,
and for tagging the sidewalks on the east side
CLINTON PLACE,
from clinton avenue to Hawthorne avenue.
work to be done. and t5e matar amSu to b 2. the
nished In the construction and completion of
said work, and upon which BIDS will be com.
FoR GRAFTON AVENUE GRADING,
AND FLAGGING:
(8,77O cubic yards Of embankment, seven
hundred and sixty C7e0) cubic yards OF which
Is excavation on the street; embankment to
Two thousand and ninety C2,osW linsal feet
of 20 by I inch four cut curb;
ners:
Three hundred and twenty $500 square feet
Ten thousand hve hundred and eighty 90, 500
square feet of tagging, s -eet wide.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol
One ~ basin with connection complete;
One a basin using old head and sill;
One ID new head and sill, on old BASIN
One % manhole. complete.
o CLINTON PLACE FLAGGING:
Two thousand three hundred q, s00) square
feet of tagging 4 feet wide:
Five hundred $500 square feet Of tagging 6
feet wide.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
Two hundred GOO square feet of old nag
One hundred 900 square feet of artificial
stonewalk.
There will be about twenty t2O) cubic yards
of excavation which will not be paid for
extra, but must be included in price bid for
the tagging.
? Bidders are not to state any price tor ma
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 indorsed with the name OF
the bidder and Of the Improvement. and al
missioners OF the City OF Newark.
Bidders will state their prices In writing as
Bidders must specify in their proposals that.
should the. above work be awarded to them,
plete the same within the following number OF
consecutive working days:
Grafton Avenue Grading-Fifty (50l days;
Clinton Place Flagging-Twenty CO) days.
of the Board OF Street and Water Commission
es at the City Hall. Said proposals to be ac-
%sureties. or q surety company qualified to do
business In New Jersey, who shall, at the time
their responsibility in the amount Of such pro-
posal and bind themselves that, If the contract
the ap proposal So 10 tb ses P %iii. u or persons its be mskin sS
awarded, become his or their sureties for the
faithful performance of said work; and that II
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 con-
tract shall be exec tied.
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 suretles are hereby notified that
under the provisions of the seventh section
Of the law creating the Board 1f 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 be approved as to suf-
nciency 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.
II he email so desire, or shall be 30 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 be referred to in any
advertisement inviting bids for any such pub
lie work.
By direction of the Board Of Street and
Water commissionsrs Of the City q Meyark.
oct2o-5t Chief Engineer.