Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-06
SEALED PROPOSALS

OFFICE or THE BOARD OF STREET
AMP WATER COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF NEWARK
CITY HALL.
Newark, n. J., August 9Th, 1914.
sealed proposals will be received at this
oiiiee from S'15 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. of
Thursday, the twentieth day of August,
1915 and opened AZ the last named hour, at
public meeting OF the board 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
DARK LANE
from Jones street to Hayes street:
EAST KINNEY STREET.
from van Buren, straft 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 will be
FOR ALPINE STREET PAVING.
Twelve hundred 1900 square yards of
asphalt pavement on a ak 90 inch concrete
foundation
Four hundred and forty GAO lineal feet
Of 10 by 5 inch four cut curb, set in con-
crete.
Twenty-Five t25) iineai feet of cid curb,
four cut and reset in concrete
Standard prices will be paid for tho fol-
Fifty t5e lncal feet OF new header curb.
set in concrete.
One as set of 6 by inch four cut cor
ners. set in concrete.
one ~ basin with connection complete.
FOR DARK LANE REPANING:
Six hundred and fifty $500 square yards
of mapped, reclpped granite block pavement
old concrete foundation.
Two hundred l30O) linea feet of 20 by
Inch four cut curb. act in concrete.
Four hundred and ten (4l0) lincal feet of
old curb, four cut and reset in concrete.
STANDARD prices will be paid for the fol-
one "a set of 20 by inch four cut cor
ners, sci in concrete.
One u basin with connection complete.
Thirty 500 cubic yards Of extra concrete.
The old granite blockg will be furnished
by the city At $40 per thousand. The con-
tractor viii be allowed to nap and reclip
tae same at the city yard on Frelinghuysen
FOR EAST KINNEY STREET. PAVING:
Two thousand seven hundred l2.700) square
yards Of two "a inch asphalt block pave
ment on a six go inch concrete foundation.
STANDARD prices viii be paid for the fol-
Fifty (5O lneal feet of 90 by inch four
cue curb set in concrete.
One thousand six hundred tl,eo0 linesl
feet OF old curb, four cut and reset in con-
crete.
one % set Of 20 by 4 Inch four cut cor
Fifty 800 linesi feet Of new header curb,
set iB concrete.
One ~ basin with connection complete.
FOR SOUTH THIRTEENTH STREET
-Four thousand seven hundred l4.7oo)
square yards Of ten t1o) inch Telford pave
ment with taryia.
Fifty 800 lineai feet of 20 by inch four
cut curb set In concrete.
Two thousand seven hundred (2,5o0 lineal
feet Of old four cut curb reset in concrete ere
Nine hundred and thirty taso) square
yards OF trap rock block gutter pavement .
one a. set of 20 by 4 inch four cut cor
Three hundred (3o0) square feet of Belgian
bridging.
Seven Cd noiseless rnanhole covers.
One % basin with connection complete
Bids for the above asphalt and asphalt
block pavements must include price bid
tonal and second period of i've CD years
and under the guarantee bond by surety
company or a bond with a 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
terials and work for which there is a fixed
amount provided for in the specifications
Each proposal must be enclosed In
sealed envelope properly Endorsed with the
name Of the bidder and of the improvement,
Water Commissioners of the City of Newark.
Bidders VIII state their prices in writing
i Bidders must specify in their proposals that,
&shoud the above work be awarded to them.
they will bind themselves to finish and COM
OF consecutive working days:
81 Alpine street--Thirty-f 1850 days.
4 Dark Lane-Thirty 600 days.
II East Kinney Street--Forty- five (45) days.
South Thirteenth Street-Sixty 900 days.
The plans and specifications of the work
Engineer of the Board OF Street and Water
f commissioners at the City Hall. Said pro-
posals to be accompanied by the consent, in
writing, of two sureties. or a surety company
5lualihed to do business in New Jersey, who
Ehallr at the time of putting in such pro-
posals, qualify as to their responsibility in
he amount of such proposal. and bind them
4eves that, If the contract be awarded to
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 the
zlperson persons omit 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
.Rpon completion OF the contract and that
(which the City of Newark may be obliged
q pay the person persons by whom such
contract shall be executed.
The Board of Street and Water Commits
#oners of the City of Newark reserve to
themselves the right to accept or reject any
u all proposals for the above work. as they
hay deem best for the interest of the city.
- Bidders and sureties hereby notified
hat under the provisions of the seventh sec
ION Of the law creating the Board OF Street
Ind Water Commissioners, approved March
& 2sth 1891, that the bond or bonds to be
=Eiyen for the faithful execution and per-
forrnance of said public work shall first be
approved to sufficiency by the board and
rs to form by the counsel OF the board, and
mo contract shall be binding on the city or
<become effective or operative until such bond
Is approved: and the president of the
BOARD shall have power to examine the pro-
imposed bondsmen under oath, II he shall so
8 desire. or shall be SO instructed by The board
but the board will not be bound by any
statement that may be made by such pro-
posed bondsmen but shall have full power
and absolute discretion In the whole matter
and this provision shall be referred to in
any advertisement inviting bids for any such
#puhlic work
BY direction of the Board of Street and
water Commissioners of the City of Newark
MORRIS r. SHERRERD