Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-10
SEALED PROPOSALS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWARK
CITY HALL.

| AND WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWARK.
CITY HALL.
Newark. N. j.. August 9Th, 1914
! Sealed proposals viii be received at this
office from S:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. of
Thursday, the twentieth day of August.
| 1914. and opened at the last named hour, at
a public meeting of the hoard to be held at
said time and place. for the paving and re-
paving Of the following streets and high
ALPINE STREET.
from South Nineteenth street to South
Twentieth street;
DARK LANE,
from Jones street to Hayes street
EAST KINNEY STREET,
from Van Buren, street to Elm road;
SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET,
from Sixteenth avenue to Eighteenth avenue.
The following is about the amount of
work to be done and the materials to be
furnished in the construction and completion
of said work and upon which bids win be
FOR ALPINE STREET PAVING;
Twelve hundred Q,200( square yards Of
asphalt pavement on six go inch concrete
foundation
-Four hundred and forty C44O) lineal feet
OF 16 by inch four cut curb, set in con-
crete.
four cut and / ] concrete.
Standard price, will be paid for the fol-
lowing;
Fifty 600 lineal feet of new header curb.
One "a set of 16 by 5 inch four cut cor
ners. set in concrete.
| One ~ basin with connection complete
FOR DARK LANE REPA NING:
! Six hundred and fifty $500 square yards
of mapped. reclipped granite block pavement
on old concrete foundation.
Two hundred 5000 lineal feet of 20 by 4
inch four cut curb. set in concrete.
Four hundred and ten t410) lineal feet of
old curb, four cut and reset in concrete.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
lowing:
one a. set of 20 by inch four cut cor
ners set IN concrete.
one ~ basin with connection complete.
Thirty 800 cubic yards of extra concrete.
The old granite blocks Will be furnished
by the city at $50 per thousand. The con-
tractor viii be allowed to nap and reclip
the same at the city yard on Frelinghuysen
avenue.
Two thousand seven hundred t2.f00) square
yards of two (2) inch asphalt block pave
ment on a six 80 inch concrete foundation.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
Fifty (5Ol ineal feet of 20 by inch four
cut curb set In concrete
One thousand six hundred $1,000 lineal
feet of old curb. four cut and reset in con-
crete
one ID set of 20 by inch four cut cor
I ners. set in concrete.
Fifty (50) lineal feet of new header curb.
set in concrete.
Four ~ nolseless. manhole covers.
One ID basin with connection complete.
FOR SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET
-Four thousand seven hundred $4,000
square yards of ten Q0) inch Telford pave
ment with tarvia.
Fifty 500 lineal feet of 20 by inch four
cut curb. set In concrete.
Two thousand seven hundred t2,700) lineal
feet of old four cut curb reset in concrete.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
lowing:
yards Of trap rock block gutter pavement,
feet wide
( One % set of 20 by 4 inch four cut cor
ners. set in concrete
Three hundred 5000 square feet of Belgian
bridging.
( Seven Cd noiseless manhole covers.
One "a basin with connection complete
Bids for the above asphalt and asphalt
block pavements must include price BID
per square yard per year for maintenance
and repair of said pavements during addi-
tional and second period Of five 80 years
and under the guarantee bond by surety
company or bond with surety acceptable
TO the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners. which may be required at the option
Of the board at any time before the expira-
ton Of the first five years guarantee
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terias and work for which there Is a fiXec
amount provided for in the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed in 8
sealed envelope properly Endorsed with tbs
name of the bidder and of the Improvement
and directed to the Board OF Street anc
Water Commissioners of the City Of Newark
Bidders win state their prices in writing
as well In figures
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 humble
Of consecutive working days:
Alpine Street-Thirty- 1859 days
Dark Lane-Thirty 800 days.
East Kinney STRAIGHTFORWARD $50 days
South Thirteenth Street-Sixty 500 days
/ The plans and Specifications Of the worl
can be examined at the Office of the chic
engineer of the Board of Street and Waite
Commissioners at the City Hall Said pro
posals to be accompanied by the consent Ii
writing. of two suretieg a n
qualified to do business In New Jersey VIII
shall, at the time of putting in such pro
posals. qualify as to their responsibility Il
the amount OF such proposal. and bind them
selves that. II the contract be awarded t
the person or persons making the proposal
they will upon Its being awarded be
/ come his or their sureties for the faithful
performance Of said work; and that II tn
person or persons omit or refuse to execut
such contract they will pay to the City o
Newark any difference between the sums /
which he or they would have been entitle
upon completion Of the contract and tina
which the City of Newark may be obllge
to pay the person or persons by whom sue
contract shall be executed.
The Board Of Street and Water Commits
sioners of the City Of Newark reserve
| themselves the right to accept or reject an
or all proposals for the above work as the
may deem best for the interest Of the city.
| Bidders and sureties hereby notifie
that under the provisions of the seventh sec
tion of the law creating the Board Of Stree
and Water COMMISSIONER approved Marc
2Sth. 1891. that the bond or bonds to
given for the faithful execution and pei
Torrance OF said public work shall first
approved to sufticency by the board. an
as to form by the counsel Of the board. an
no contrast snail be binding on the city
become effective operative until such bon
is so approved: and the president of tn
board shall have power to examine the pre-
posed bondsmen under oath. II he shall
desire shall be so instructed by the boar,
hut the board win not be bound by an
statement that may be made by such PR
posed bondsmen. but shall have full pow,
and absolute discretion in the whole matte
and this provision shall be referred to
any advertisement inviting bids for any sue
public work.
by direction Of the Board OF Street an
Water Commissioners of the City OF NeWar
MORRIS SHEnREBD.
aug612-t Chief Enls ineer