Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-13
Newark, N. j., May Z, Il

CITY HALL.
Newark, N. j. May 7, 1914.
| Sealed proposals will be received at this
/ office from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock D. m. of
Thursday, the twenty-first day of May. 1914,
! and opened at the last named hour, at
/ public meeting of the board to be held at
! said time and place, for the grading curbing,
/ NORTH EIGHTH STREET.
4 from Bloomfield avenue to Elwood avenue,
the roadway to be narrowed to S7h feet be.
tween curbs
+ The following is about the amount of the
work to be done. and the materials to be
furnished in the construction and compile
7 ton of said work. and upon which bids will
be compared:
Twelve thousand one hundred Q21oO)
square yards of brick pavement on six (6)
inch concrete foundation;
I Three thousand six hundred (3,600) cubic
yard~ of embankment. three thousand (3.000)
cubic yards which is excavation the
/ -Four thousand eight hundred "a. Sou) lineai
4 feet of 20 by inch four cut curb, set in
concrete;
/ Five hundred and fifty $3.50 lineal feet of
4 old curb. four cut and reset in concrete:
/ -Four thousand $4,000 sbuare feet of flag.
Eight thousand six hundred and eighty
49, $500 square feet of artificial stone walk.
/ 5 feet wide.
Standard prices VIII be paid Tor the FOL.
/ Loving
| Fifteen 15) noiseless manhole covers;
/ Three hundred and twenty (320) lineal
/ fees of new header curb set in concrete;
Ten q0) sets of 20 by inch four cut
/ curb set in concrete;
Sixteen hundred d,6OO) square feet of old
Four "a basins with connections COM
THE CONTRACT FOR THE ABOVE
WORK, IF AWARDED. SHALL BE
AWARpED Nm PE9y Afd IMPdgp B No THE
BTLITY UPON THE CITY UNLESS SUCH
/ AWARD SHALL SUBSEQUENTLY Be
LiM1NARY AssBssMENTs OF PROP
BRTY BENEFITED ESPECIALLY BY
TIE Td BE r MA8S AND PUBhIc HEARrN
ON THE SAME HELD, AFTER WHICH
THE BOARD MAY Tt,,S Or S-o,I MAY ,,; NOT
AcCoRDANcE WITH CHAPTER AZ OF
! THE STATE LAWS OF 1895.
teriais and work for which there is a fixed
amount provided for in the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed ,, in r., sealed
OF the bidder and of the Improvement. and
directed to the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of the City Of Newark
Bidders will state their prices In writing
as Ne as n figures:
that, should the above work be awa,dsd to
/ them, they will bind themselves 10 nnish
and complete the same within one hundred
can be examined at the office Of the chief
+ Commissioners at the City Hall Said pro-
posals to be accompanied by the consent, n
writing, of two suretes, or a surety COM
pany qualified to do business in New Jersey.
who shall. at the time of putting in such
proposals. qualify as to their responsibility
In the amount of such proposal and bind
themselves that. If the contract be awarded
to the person or persons making the pro-
! posal, they WILL upon its being SO awarded,
become his their sureties for the faithful
performance of said work: and that. IL tho
| 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 en-
titled upon completion of the contract. and
/ that which the city Of Newark may be
/ obliged to pay the person persons by
| whom such contract shall he executed.
The Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners of the City of Newark reserve to
| themselves 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 sureties hereby notified
that under the provisions OF the seventh
section of the law creating the Board of
l Street and Water Commissioners, approved
March 2Sth 1891, that the bond bonds
to be given for the faithful execution and
performance of said public work shall first
and as to form by the counsel OF the board.
and contract shall be binding on the city
or become effective operative until such
bond is approved and the president of
the board shall have power to examine
/ the proposed bondsmen under oath, II he
i 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
t. In any advertisement inviting bids for
any such public work
BY direction of the Board OF Street and
| Water Commissioners of the City of Newark.
NOR 2IS R. SHERRERD.
| my7-12t Chief Engineer.