Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-28
NEWARK CONCERN
Low BIDDER ON
DOCK CONTRACT
o'Gara & MCGUIRE Probably
viii Get Big Job in Mead
ow Reclamation Zone.

The firm of O'Gara g. Mcclure, Of
this city, submitted the lowest bid fol-
the construction of the large doch
along the proposed channel of the
meadow reclamation work at yester.
days meeting of the Board of Works
Eight bidders submitted figures
o'Gara & McGuire's bid was $449,-
3s775. The next lowest bidder wa:
the Spearing & Preston CONSTRUCTION
Company. of New York city. Then
bid was s497. s05.s2.
The work of reclamation has pro
eeeded so fast that it was found
necessary TO make preparations fol
the new dock. President-Charles u
Kraemer said the work was at leas
six months ahead of expectations
Commissioner Albert Biertuempfel
chairman of the docks and meadow
committee. made a report of the worl
already finished at the zone.
The award of the dock contract is
to be made at the next meeting
Whether, with the present condition
of the money market, the city will
find it easy to dispose of the bonds
that will have to be issued, the Of
ficials were not prepared to answer.
The dock about to be constructed
will begin at point $500 feet from
the bay shore line and extend 1000
feet into the bay, making total
length OF 400 feet. The dock will be
fifty feet wide.
Bids were also received for the hull
for a dredge. The lowest bidder Aon
this was likewise the firm of O'Gara
& Mcclure, with $2,430. The next
lowest bidder was the Drum Dry
Dock Company, of New York, with
81, 600.
Chief Engineer Morris r.. Sherrerd
was given power to arrange for an
exhibit at Newark Industrial EXPOSE
ton at the First Regiment Armory
in September, after William C. Paul
had appeared before the commission
ers asking them to participate.
BY resolution-the Lackawanna Rail-
road was enjoined from extending its
loading platform at the southern side
of Cross street toward Broad street.
The board had received a protest
from business houses whose teams
have to pass through the street, and
it. was claimed that traffic would be
too much disturbed If the platform
We're extended any further than ii
now is.
The board awarded number of
paving contracts as follows: Newark
Paving Company, for Shaw avenue,
from Willoughby avenue to city line.
S14, SOC; Seymour avenue, from Book
avenue to Renner avenue, $7,267, both
thoroughfares to be paved with btu
lithic; Northern Construction Com
pany, paving with bitulithic Gotthart
street, 1s,201 80, and Berlin street.
$23, 709.50, and with asphalt pavement,
Alpine street, from Nineteenth 10
Twentieth street, So, S5S75: Lane IL
Beifus, paving Dark lane with gran
lite block, s1.27l
Owing to a mistake in the adver-
tisements in regard to the date
number of sewer construction bids
had to be rejected, namely, for Linds-
ley and Stuyvesant avenues, Abing-
ton place and Boyle street and the
Vailsburg sewer
Because of the unstable condition
of South Thirteenth street from
sixteenth to Eighteenth avenues, the
bids for the paving work were re-
jected. 1t has been found that the
ground is swampy and the board will
wait with the work until this condi-
ton can be remedied.
Bids for the grading, tagging and
paving of St Charles Street will be
received on September II. 1t was de-
cided to open UP Edmund place, from
Dewey street To Willoughby avenue.
Third avenue, from Bloomfield ave-
nue. to Lake street, will be vacated
as a street except the portion in the
present limit of Highland avenue and
Bloomfield avenue. The board de-
cided to start the sewer work on
Branford place between Washington
street and Springfield avenue.