Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-16
CONTRACT FOR
SMITH STREET
To Hastings Paving Co..
Hatters Before Council.

Contract was awarded last night
to the Hastings Paving Company for
the paving of Smith street with as
phalt blocks from State to High
streets, the only other bidder being
the Barber Asphalt Company. A
number of other streets were taken
up for improvement, ordinances be
ing passed providing for paving or
grading of several streets in the city.
Intention of paving was also an
nounced in one or two cases. The
bids on the paving of Smith street
were as follows:
Hastings Paving Company Exca-
yation, s1.15 per cubic yard; con-
crete, Sc per cubic yard; old curb re-
set, $3.50 per lineal foot; new curb
set, $3.50 per nneal foot; asphalt
block, $1.S5 per square yard.
Barber Asphalt Paving Company
! Excavation, SO94 per cubic yard;
, concrete, S5.95 per cubic yard; old
curb reset, sos per lineal foot; new
curb, $0.S5 per lineal foot; asphalt.
1882 per cubic yard.
petition was received asking
that w. T, Major be named as in
spector Of the paving of Smith street.
swer committee.
VIII Pave Oak Street.
The board decided to announce its
intention to pave Oak street from
Smith to Market streets. Ordinances
were adopted for the following i'm
! provements: For the paving with
bitulithic of Division street. from
/ New Brunswick avenue to Washing
L. H.n
same points; Barracks street, be
tween the same points, and Park aY-
enue. from New Brunswick avenue
1 to Broad street. For the establish
ment of grade and improving of the
/ following streets: Stockton street,
from Smith street to Lehigh avenue;
Fayette street, from Stockton to Gift
ford street; and Laurie street. from
Cornell street to New Brunswick av-
enue.
! Petitions Received.
Upon receipt of a petition, the
board ordered the curbing and lay
ing of sidewalks in Harrison Place
between State and High streets. Pc
tition was made that sewer be laid
in New Brunswick avenue from
| Washington street to the Lehigh
Valley railroad tracks and another
that this street be paved with vitri-
/ fed brick from the Lehigh Valley
railroad tracks to Convery place.
/ These petitions were referred to the
street and sewer committees.
A communication was received
from the Board of Health calling at
tention to the need of sewer in West
Side avenue, from Hall TO Eagle aV-
enUes.
/ A petition asking this improve
ment was received at the same time.
! The matter was referred to the street
/ and sewer committee. =
/ Permission was asked and grant
ed. for the construction of a private
sewer from Hall avenue, north
through Atlantic avenue to drain a
pond in land owned by the E, NJ.
/ Kelly Realty Company on the west
side of the avenue.
The street and sewer committee
was instructed TO treat with owners
of land in line with the proposed ex-
tension of Convery Place over the
Lehigh Valley railroad tracks and
through to Smith street.
Fences Along Railroads.
/ Communication was received from
| the Board of Trade calling attention
to the fact that no action had been
( taken as vet in regard to compelling
the railroads to erect fences along
their tracks IN this city. The mat
/ ter Will be taken up by the council
with the city attorney.
A resolution was passed authoriz-
/ CCOntinued on page 81