Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-07-22
CONTRACT FOR
GRADING WORK
Graham & MCKeon and Lid
die & Pfsiffer Successful
Bidders on Two Jobs
INSPECTORS ARE NAMED
Extend Lewis Street Sewer
--Other Matters of Import
ancs Heard at Meeting.
ARE NAMED

Contracts for grading Cornell
street and for extending Lewis street
sewer were awarded to Graham &
McKeon and Liddle & Pfeiffer, re-
spectively. The appointment of in
spectors for public improvement was
taken from the street committee, eff
forts undertaken to improve the side
walks in Water street and several
other subjects were handled at busy
session of the council last night.
In grading Cornell street the con-
tractors must cart the material ex-
| cavated, amounting to about 1000
yards, five or six blocks to Hanson
| avenue. Graham & McKeon offered
| to do the work for twenty-nine cents
| a cubic yard. The only other bid re-
ceived was forty-seven cents a cubic
yard, from Liddle & Pfeiffer. Lid
die & Pfeiffer offered to extend the
| Lewis street sewer for $4.90 a lineal
foot. 1t is fifteen-inch pipe sewer.
Other bidders were: Meagher &
Smith, S7.15 cents, and Gus Wick
berg, $3.50. Resolutions were
adopted awarding both contracts to
Tie lOWSSl DluuSIS.
Chairman Henry w. sandbeck,
Jr., became engaged in brief con-
troversy with Alderman f. A. Sea-
man after the council had passed a
motion to relieve the street commit
tee of power to appoint inspectors
for public Improvements. The mo-
ton provides that on and after July
!, 1913, inspectors for such improve
ments must be appointed by ma
Jority vote of the council. Mr.. Sea-
man, who is chairman of the street
committee, criticised the action and
said he would be glad If the board
would take some Of the work off his
hands, but concluded by saying that
"if you leave those things open for
the council to be responsible for,
I'm afraid the board will find itself
| in a bad way Chairman Sandbeck
complained directly to Mr.. Seaman
about having one inspector on two
Jobs, the Oak street and Brace ave-
nue. work. Mr.. Seaman replied by
stating an inspector had been named
for one of those streets and offered
to explain in detail at a committee
| meeting.
In an effort to compel property
owners in Water street, south of
Gordon street, to lower the grade of
sidewalks in conformity with the
new pavement grade, the council in
troduced an ordinance to repeal an
ordinance approved in June of 1898.
which provided for placing tagging
on sidewalks. The new ordinance
was passed upon its first reading.
property owners in Water street
rested on the old ordinance and did
not comply with requests to change
the grade of sidewalks. The COM
mittee on streets and sewers report
ed favorably upon the relaying of
tagging on the easterly side Of Wa
ter street at Market street and the
repairing of pavement and resetting
Of curbing on the southerly side of
Center street. The Water street
work was awarded to the Wilbert
Blue Stone Company for $40 and the
Center street jobs to Meagher &
Smith, they having offered to reset
the curb for forty-two cents a foot
and repair the pavement for twenty
cents square foot.
The committee on streets and sew
ers recommended that the petition of
property owners to pave First, Pat
erson and Lewis streets with Ame-
cite, be granted. A resolution was
adopted to give public notice of in
tention to pave Elm street with a
siX-inch concrete pavement to have q
bituminous surface.
A petition from John Remecha
and four others, requesting that
sewer of suitable size be placed in
Donald avenue, between Kennedy
street and Brace avenue, was re-
ferred to the committee on streets
and sewers.
City Treasurer Charles X. Seaman
had a communication before the
council giving notice that bond at
torneys had found a flaw In council
proceedings of last year, which pre-
vented them from accepting $4,000
worth of street improvement bonds.
The treasurer's recommendation that
the bonds be listed as funding"
bonds for that reason, and that they
be readvertised for, was adopted.
The deposit paid by John d. Everett.
the successful bidder, was ordered
returned, by a resolution duly
ADOPTED.
A resolution was adopted to issue
bonds in the amount of $4,000 in
anticipation Of 1913 taxes, the
amount to be borrowed from the
sinking fund. Another resolution
was adopted to authorize issuance of
assessment bonds in the amount of
$4,000 to pay for grading Stockton,
Fayette, Laurie, Cornell, Johnstone,
Lee and Neville streets, and Convery
place, Hanson and Hommann ave-
nues. An ordinance providing for
the issuance of sewer bonds to pay
the principal on temporary loans, as