Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-15
SEALED PROPOSALS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD on STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF 1'HE CITY OF NEWARK.
.-ITX HALL

! Newark N j.. September . 1914
/ Sealed proposals will be received at this
Thursday the seventeenth day of September,
and t the the sst IN ID h Sss
said time and place. for the construction of
the following sewers.
vAILsBURG SEWERS. NoRTIiWEsTERLY
SECTION.
ABINGER PLACE AND BoYLAN STREET
LINpsLEy AVENUE AND sTUYvEsANT
| AVENUE SEWER.
The following is about the amount OF the
work to be done and the materials to be
| FURNISHED in the construction and completion
of said work and upon which bids Will be
! compared.
sixteen hundred 1.60el feet of forty-eight
| t4s) inch concrete pipe sewer.
One hundred and ninety 900 feet OF
/ thirty mine f39) inch concrete pipe sewer
Sixteen hundred and eighty d,6soo feet OF
! thirtysix 1860 inch concrete pipe sewer.
! Five hundred and twenty t52oo feet OF
| twenty-four ta4) inch double strength vitri-
sd salt gs1ed n PIPE s,y aso feet Of eight
cen uSl inch double strength vitrifed salt
glazed pipe sewer
| Thirty-one basins with cement heads and
connecting chutes complete.
Twenty six t26, manhoes with standard
ABINGER PLACE AND BoYLAN STREET
SEWER:
twelve hundred and fifty u.25o) feet of
eight ol inch vitrined salt glazed pipe
| sewer.
Eleven hundred d.1oo) feet of six go inch
house connections.
/ SIX CO. manholes with standard heads and
| buckets complete
| Si%ty-nine fo91 markers.
! LINDSLEY AVENUE AND sTUYyESANT
/ AVENUE SEWER:
Five hundred and forty f54o) feet fifteen
d5) inch double strength vitrifed salt glazed
-Four % basins using old granite heads
1 and stills complete
! Five 60 rnanholes with standard heads
complete.
| Bidders are not to state any price for ma.
! amount provided for in the specifications.
] Each proposal must be enclosed In q
name Of the Bidder aad Of the OVEN
and directed to the Board OF Street and
/ Ridders will state their prices IN writing
as well az in figures:
4 Bidders must specify in their proposals that
should the above work be awarded to them
| they will bind themselves to finish and com
plete the Same within the following number
vaiisburg Sewers--Sixry (6O) days.
Abinger Place and Boylan Street Sewer
/ Lindsey Avenue and stuyvesant Avenue
] Sewer--Fifteen Q5) days.
The plans and specifications Of the work
can be examined at the Office OF the chief
engineer Of the board of Street and Water
Commissioners at the City Hall. Said pro-
posals TO be accompanied by the consent, in
qualified to do business in New Jersey. who
posia quality as to their 4esp pc fih Pm IN
the amount of such proposal and bind them
selves that IL the contract be awarded to
the person or persons making the proposal
they will, upon its being so awarded, be-
come his or their sureties for the faithful
performance OF said work; and that, II the
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 entitled
upon completion of the contract and that
which the City of Newark may be obliged
TO pay the person or persons by whom such
contract shall be executed,
The Board OF Street and Water Commits
sfoners OF the City of Newark reserve to
themselves the right to accept or reject any
or all proposals for tine above work. as they
may deem best fer the interest Of the city:
Bidders and sureties are hereby notified
that under the provisions OF the seventh Sec
ton OF the law creating the Board OF Street
2sth. Sal that the bond or bonds 20 be
given Tor the faithful execution and per-
formance OF said public work shall first be
approved as to sufficiency by the board, and
as to form by the counsel OF the board, and
no eontrast shall be binding on the city or
become effective or operative until such bond
Is so approved: and the president of thu
board shall have power to examine the pro-
posed bondsmen under oath. II he shall so
desire snail be so Instructed py the board,
but the board VIII not be bound by any
statement that may be made by such pro-
posed bondsnen. but shall have full power
and absolute discretion In the whole matter,
any advertisement inviting bids for any such
A public work
i BY direction of the Board OF Street and
Water Commissioners Of the city Of Newark
4 MORRIS r. SHEER rtn,rtD.
4 sep2-iI Chief Engineer.