The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-21
WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE MAYOR WILSON
 RELIEVED IN COMPETITIONS WHY THEN
 DID HE SIGN THE WARREzNITE WAIVERS?

M BRIDGEpoRT say that which. guided by Warrenite agents rushed into Newark the best food smoked the best and rushed out to report to the Common Council there no Warrene in New its personnel this oona1nittee anxious put good part who have rushed city literally hundreds Fs ss slrd @ % s reI p ena d las g 1aeaed e1 2 i @ ben eaS sn o 1
 This committee which unably embraces some men of the stupidity to report to the Council that there Warrente in Newark and that everybody let had the committee been sincere it's mission to o if t sincere could have learned from hundred the ptifu tale of New Jerseys paving t could have had story Newark Board of facts Commissioner eien paving in Newark and fought until Above he readily accessible to them in the report of the Joint Appropriations Gomnltte of the h this report they would have found facts which they might reported to the Common Council and to the people instead of the piffe they did report is very heavy, great sIns expended bitminous concrete type of pavement which includes products Amesite, Warrenite and Btt1lhic,
 there strong evidence that the county engineers have favored the patented payenents with the result of i'm pessg "nneesSsa1s szpense upon 'h9 tax
 .gThe. untatented banino,as concrete pavement Of so-called Topeka type, shown by the testi- is as good as the patented article and can be built much less
 sEaidence that seems conclusive submitted by
 witnesses, that paIpabIy dishonest conspiracy
 (which includes at least the Warren Bros Co. of Bos
 ton andt Standard Bitulithic Company existed in county, whereby practical monopoly of the pavement is insured to the Standard Company at nordinate prices.
 unfair profits which have been taken at pub- lie it amounted very large sums in
 wye think there enough in taken by the conmtee to justify the attention of the grand
 5 Se S Ss fhs sss Ss o eessstT Fss Fsss r FAIR gpR1CE FOR WARRENITE AND BrTUIITHIG WAS NOT MORE TITAN 90 CENTS SQUARE YARD
 that bilminous concrete under speci produced better than quoted testimony that the people aid New York state and had guaranteed it Commissioner Gilen produced experience repair of bituhic in Newark able produce 90 cents square yard elimination competition in Bridgeport paving pece without justification under the tomary methods of doing public business
 practice which has been discouraged in New law forbdding contracts to be made specifying pat ented pavennents. E
 is a practice the New Jersey committee intends to discourage legislation forbiddng cosed contracts for the patented compounds.
 practice about which Mayor Wilson, whose waiver has made the thing possible had no uncertain when he took office.
 Tn his first message the Common Council, 49I1s Mayor Wilson said:
 except extremely urgent by ordinance responsible bidder, and that the
  Three has the mayor given his waiver dispensing bidder, dollars of article Bridgeport has had little experience, and the little not encouraging.
 great emergency arose? What urgent occasion rsted? What made the sign those waivers? What urnency emergency what imperative him attitude from his solemn pledge, given in his message Dec. 4, 1911?
 Jersey committee found that under speei catos better could be laid 90 cents square yard
 Bridgeport paying thirty-th per rnleh getting permitting, the establishment precedent that will bring much extravaganza and many evils in the train