Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-09
CONCERNS GET
FREEHO[DER AWARDS

The purchasing committee of the
Board of Freeholders yesterday
awarded contracts for supplying pro-
visions to the county institutions and
departments, covering n period from
September 1s to March IS. The awards
must be approved by the board on
Thursday to become effective.
The various bids were opened on
September 8, and but little advance
was noticed at that time in the prices
of the various provisions listed over
the cost of the same articles for the
six months just ending.
Newark firms We're given the pref
erence in the award contracts, and
most of the county money will be
spent with local concerns. The James
T. Smith Company, Inc. of New
York, submitted the lowest bid for
supplying fish and CLAIMS, and the
second lowest bid was the Brokaw
Fish Company, OF this city, which
concern received the award. 1t was
established that the goods from the
New York concern could not be de-
livered readily to the various institu-
lions.
The following were successful bid
ders on provisions and supplies for
Overlook Hospital for the Insane:
Seventy-five barrels yellow corn
meal. l.. +. Hersh & Bro, $4.25 per
barrel; 5000 yards fancy bingham,
.o7 cents per yard, L. s. Plaut & Co.;
twenty-five cases Aurora Cleanser,
Aurora Manufacturing Company,
S2.SS; $50 cases Gold Dust, J. Reeve
Sayre, $4O1s.
Provisions avid o..
Isolation Hospital--Three hundred
pounds barley, Wilkinson & Gaddis.
OBJ cents; ten boxes Ami, l.. Il.
Hersh & Co., sass; four cases Blue
Label catsup, II. Kussy, $685.; thirty
cases Gold Dust, L. +. Hersh & Co,
s4.01S; seventy-f1ve cases jellies. Will
kinson & Gaddis. .7ss cents; five tons
hay, Wilkinson & Gaddis. $24.50; fifty
dozen children's white stockings, L. s.
Plaut Co., 90 cents per dozen.
Meats and Provisions.
The following were the successful
bidders on meats, provisions and
poultry:
For Overlook Hospital for The In
sane: One hundred and twenty-fiv
steers, III cents per pound; 1000
lambs. 1904 cents per pound; 100 hind
saddles veal, .159 cents per pound:
1000 pounds salt pork, .1098 cents per
pound, all to Meyer & Bush: Fiji
teen thousand pounds lard, ~ cents
per pound and 10000 pounds plate
| corned beef, .0s5 cents per pound,
Swift & Co. Ten thousand pounds
round corned beef, 1874 cents. Meyer
& Bush. Two thousand five hundred
pounds of sausage. is cents. and
5000 pounds homeless bacon, II, Swift
& Co. Eighty barrels ham, 1863,
Meyer & Bush. Two thousand pounds
frankfurters, .13 cents, Swift & Co.
Twenty thousand pounds fowl 1869,
Meyer & Bush
Swift &, Co. were successful bidders
on meats and provisions for the Iso-
lation Hospital IN the following:
One thousand pounds sausage, Is
cents per pound; 1000 pounds veal,
.155 cents per pound; 500 pounds
cents per pound. Meyer &, Bush, in
per pound; 1000 pounds ROASTING
chicken, 20 cents; 1000 pounds hind
quarter lamb, Is cents 1900 pounds
whole lamb, 1913 cents; $500 pounds
whole pigs, .1248 cents; 1000 pounds
smoked ham, HIPS.
Bids on meats and provisions for
the county neutrality-suspicious. &
Bush, 10000 pounds fresh steers,
1859 cents per pound: 1000 pounds
forequarters beef, 1908 cents; 5000
pounds chuclks, .106S; 5000 pounds
fore saddles of lamb, .0e69: 1000
pounds ham, .17125. Swift Co..
$50 pounds bacon. II cents; 10 tubs
lard, ~ cents; 200 pounds pork loins,
.165 cents, and 300 pounds pork
shoulders, 10 cents.