Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-13
SEALED PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE BOARD oE STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
CITY HALL.
Newark. n. j.. August H. 1914. E.
Sealed proposals win be received at this
office from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. M Oh
Thursday. the twentieth day of August,
a public meeting of the board TO be held at
said time and place, for the construction OF
the following sewers; commencement
SECTION.
ABINGER PLACE AND BOYLAN STREET
LINDsLEY AVENUE AND sTUYvEsANT
AVENUE SEWER.
The following is about the amount OF the
work to be done and the materials to be fur
nished in the construction and completion OF
said work. and upon which bids viii be
VAfLSBURG SEWERS. NORTHWESTERN
SECTION:
Sixteen hundred $500 feet of forty-eight
(4s) inch concrete pipe sewer.
One hundred and ninety (19O) feet OF
thirty-nlne (39) inch concrete pipe sewer.
Sixteen hundred and eighty d,6S0) feet of
Five hundred and twenty (52o) feet Of
twenty-four CAD Inch double strength Yitri-
fed salt glazed pipe sewer,
Two hundred and sixty t250) feet of eight
cen ds) inch double strength vitrihed salt
glazed pipe sewer.
Thirtysone basins with cement heads and
connecting chutes complete
Twenty-six (26) manholes with standard
heads complete
ABINGER PLACE AND BOYLAN STREET
Twelve hundred and fifty Q,25O) feet of
eight (s) inch vltrified salt glazed pipe
sewer
Eleven hundred d.1OO) feet of six go inch
SIX Co manhoIes with standard heads and
buckets complete.
SiXty-nine l69) markers.
LINDSLEY AVENUE AND STUYVESANT
AVENUE SEWER:
Five hundred and forty (540) feet fifteen
d5) inch double strength vitriaed salt glazed
| pipe sewer.
! Five (5) manholes with standard heads
| complete.
| Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terials and work for which there Il fixed
amount provided for in the specifications
Each proposal must be enclosed in a
sealed envelope, properly Endorsed with the
name 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 well as in figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposals
that should the above work be awarded to
| them, they will bind themselves to finish
and complete the same within the following
number of consecutive working days:
Vailsburg Sewers-Sixty 600 days.
Abinger Place and Boylan Street Sewer
Twenty GOD days.
| Lindsey Avenue and Stuyvesant Avenue
| Sewer-Ftfteen 15) days.
/ The plans and specifications of the work
i CAN ne examined at lne OIDCe OF the Cnlei
engineer of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners at the City Hall. Said pro
! posals to be accompanied by the consent In
writing, of two sureties, surety com.
pany qualified to do business in New Jersey
who shall, at the time of putting in suct
proposals, qualify. as to their responsibility
in the amount of such proposal and binc
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 If tn,
person persons omit or refuse to execut,
such contract they will pay to the City o
TO which he or they would have been en-
titled upon completion Of the contract am
obliged TO pay the person or persons by whom
such contract shall be executed
The Board of Street and Water Commits
sioneers of the City of Newark reserve t.
themselves the right to accept or rejec
any all proposals for the above work a.
they may deem best for the interest Of tn.
city.
bidders and sureties are hereby notihe,
that under the provisions of the seventh sec
ton Of the law creating the Board OF stree
aud Water Commissioners approved Marcl
2Sth, 1901 that the bond bonds to b.
given for the faithful execution and per
Torrance of said public work shall first b
approved as 10 suffciency, by the board an,
! as to form, by the counsel of the board an
no contract shall be binding on the city q
become effective or operative until such bon
Is 50 approyed. and the president of tn
board shall have power TO examine the pro
posed boudsmen under oath. II he shall :
desire. shall be so Instructed by the board
but the board will not be bound by an
; statement that may be made by such pr,
posed bondsmen. but shall have full powe
aud absolute discretion In the whole mai
ter, aud this provision shall be referred /
: in any advertisement inviting bids for an
such public work.
Water Commissioners OF the city Of Newark
MORRIS R. SiiERRERD.
aug list Chief Engineer