Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-07
ALDERMEN GIVE.
OUT CONTRACTS.
LiddIe & Pfeiffer Will Con-
struct West Side Avenue
SeWer--Low Bidder.
CITY BONDS ARE SOLD
Martin Hanson Gets Grading
Work--Petition to Extend
Inslee Street Received.
CITY BONDS ARE SOLD

were awarded, street improvement
and school bonds amounting to
5000 600 were sold, steps taken to
buy portion of the G. Pardee
Works property outright for the ex-
tension of Convery Place, and other
matters were passed at a meeting
of the Board of Aldermen last night.
Ltddle q Pfeiffer Get Contract.
Liddle & Pfeiffer secured the con-
tract for placing an eighteen-inch
pipe sewer in West Side avenue, Of
fering to lay the pipe for $3.50 per
lineal foot, furnish manholes at $50
each and receiving basins at $75
each. The only other bid on the
work was from Martin Hanson, as
follows: s1.70 per lineal foot for
laying the pipe, $35 for manholes
and S75 for receiving basins.
Martin Hanson, the lowest bidder
for grading Laurie street, secured
the contract. He estimated forty
cents per cubic yard.
Other bids were as follows: Gra-
ham & McKeon, forty-four cents per
cubic yard, Liddle & Pfeiffer, fifty
cents per cubic yard. Graham &
McKeon bid forty-four cents per
cubic yard for grading Stockton
street and being the lowest bidders
occurred the contract The only other
bid was fifty cents per cubic yard,
from Liddle & Pfeiffer. Graham &
McKeon were also the lowest bid
ders for grading Fayette street and
secured the contract at forty-four
cents per cubic yard. The other
bid was fifty cents per cubic yard,
from Liddle & Pfeiffer.
Kountze Brothers Buy Bonds.
Kountze Brothers, of New York,
were awarded the $87, 900 worth of
street improvement and $4,000
worth of school bonds. Their bid,
S109, 10, was the highest out of
seven for both sets and one other
for school bonds only. Resolutions
were duly passed awarding the con-
tract, ratifying the action of the city
treasurer in receiving the bids and
approving his report. The bids fol
low.
Kountze Brothers, of New York,
$109,818.10: r.. NJ Grant & Com
pany, of New York, s10g.184.40;
John D. Everftt q Company, of New
York, s109,100; Charles G. Harri-
son, Jr. & Company, of Philadelphia,
sfo8,e72.33; Blodget & Company,
OF Boston. $108,411,33; Kissell,
Kinnicutt & Company, Of New York,
Si0S,41oj George w. Blood, of New
York, $108.822.45; for schools only,
Fl. L. Crawford & Company, $20,-
407.60.
Offer For Pardee Lands.
In order to secure speedy set
tlement of negotiations between the
city and the g. Pardee Works for
securing a uiece of land so that Con-
very Place may be extended over the
Lehigh Valley tracks towards smith
street, the Council passed resolu-
tions instructing the city clerk to
write to Mr.. Pardee. The city offers
to buy the property outright for the
sum of $4,000 and rejects former
propositions to give the Pardee in
terests exemption from taxes on GER
tain streets. The city clerk will so
notify Mr.. Pardee and inform him
that the offer of $4,000 only holds
good until the next meeting of the
Council, on November go.
Would Extend Inslee Street.
A number OF residents in the
northern part OF the oity petitioned
the Council to open and extend In
siee street In an easterly direction to
State street across the Central and
Pennsylvania railroad tracks. A
petition was received. sigriad by
Leonard Zaremba and nine others,
which was referred to the commit
tee on streets and sewers.
Residents along Brace avenue
want more street lights. A petition
asking that lamps be placed along
Brace avenue, from the city aims
house westward to the city line,
signed by Anton Hedges, was re-
ferred to the committee on lights.
Echo of Police Court Case.
An echo OF a recent clash between
Recorder Henry w. Kehoe and Pres
ecutor Booraem, because the latter
imposed fines in cases where afro
cious assault was charged. which he
had no legal right to 1t is claimed,
was heard at q meeting Joseph E.
Stricken, acting as attorney for Urr
Billie and Steve Kalatko, who he
claimed had been fined $50 and $40
respectively. asked that the city re-
fund those amounts.
In connection Herewith the city
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the recommendation of the recorder
asking that the money be returned
and therefore adopted the recon-
mendation. Alderman Sandbeek said
that since tho city attorney had
taken. this action the men In ques-
tion, who had been re-arrested and
brought before county authorities,
had been discharged. A motion he
made to hold the report for further
action was duly seconded
viii Grade Streets.
0rdin Shces to grade Grant street
from Paterson street to tracks of
the Raritan and North Shore Rail-
road and to grade Barclay street
from Amboy avenue to New Bruns-
wick avenue. were introduced and
passed upon their first readings.
Three residents In Barclay
street, east OF Penn street. COM
planned about the high level OF the
street In front OF their residences
causing water 10 ran into their prem
ises A petition, signed BY Chris
ton Nelson and two others, In which
they complained about the matter.
was referred TO the committee on
strssts and sewers
Action was taken 70 borrow $15.~
900 f1oza &ha sinking fund ID antie~
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