Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-21
speo,al to the ETETING EEws

New brunswick, Sept. 2l.-E1ght
banking companies were represented
yesterday afternoon, when the Board
of Freeholders opened bids for the
$50, 200 bond issue to pay for the
cost of the new bridge over the
Causeway on the South River-Sayre-
vile road. Much to the satisfaction
of the freeholders, all the bids were
above par, the entire issue being sold
to Farson Son and Company, of New
York city for $69,952, which means
that Middlesex county will receive
1852 more than is called for by the
bond issue. The bonds are divided
into sixty-nine bonds, at $1,000 each,
bearing interest at four and half
per cent, maturing from 1915 to
1945.
Each of the eight bids was &C
companied by a certified check for
two per cent of the amount of the
bid. The following were the bid
ders, showing the amount bid above
par: R. M. Grant, New York, 100.78:
Outwater and Wells, New York,
.10O.871; First National bank, of
South River, 100.26; Farson Son and
Company, of New York, 101.38;
George B. Gibbons, New Yorh 10O.-
40; John B. Everitt and Company,
York, 10060S; Kuntz Brothers,
100-5S2. The contract was awarded
to Farson Son and Company, upon
resolution Of Freeholder Alfred T.
Kerr. Director Anthony J. Geb-
hardt, Clerk Asher w. Bissett,
County Collector Edward Burt and
Solicitor George L. Burton will go to
New York city Thursday to sign the
bonds.
VIII go TO Roosevelt.
The freeholders will go to Roose-
velt this week and inspect section
three of the Roosevelt Woodbridge
road, unde~ improvement by the
Utility Construction Company, of
this city. The contractors forward
ed lengthy letter to the board.
which was read yesterday, explaining
why the work has been delayed on
this thoroughfare. Freeholder Will
liam D. Casey, who lives in Roose-
welt, requested that the board in
spect the work as a committee of
the whole. The Utility Construction
Company was the lowest bidder on
work the contract was awarded last
week to Thomas F. DUNCAN, of
Woodbridge, who was S400 higher
than the local bidders. The free
holders were advised by Solicitor
Burton that the bid of the Utility
Construction Company was Illegal.
1t now appears as an additional
cause for the award to Mr. DUNCAN
that the freeholders desire the Rah-
way avenue improvements finished
without delay. The Utility Con-
struction Company has been working
for several months on the Roosevelt
Woodbridge road.
Abraham Jelin, of this city, was
awarded the contract for the extra
ordinary improvements to section
one of the South Amboy-
road for s41,121.3S This road is
to be improved with a brick pave
ment. The board recently rejected
all bids on sections two and three of
this road because Jelin, who was the
lowest bidder, bid on pavement not
satisfactory to the freeholders. Jelin
was not low on section one; the low
est bidder was Thomas H. Riddle, OF
New Brunswick, who bid on a brick
not acceptable to the freeholders.
The next lowest bidder was Meagher
& Smith, of Perth Amboy, whose bid
was illegal, in the same manner as
was the bid of the Utility Construc-
ton Company of the Railway avenue
Job. They did not bid on the ap-
proved form, or accompany the pro-
posaI with proper certificates of
equipment. 1t is extremely rare that
a contract is not awarded to the
lowest bidder.
TO Improve Amboy Avenue.
Upon resolutions of Freeholder
Kerr the board approved the plans
and Specifications prepared by Coun-
ty Engineer Alvin B. Fox for extra
ordinary repairs to Amboy avenue,
from the Perth Amboy city line at
Spa Springs to Myrtle avenue, and
New Brunswick avenue, from the
Perth Amboy city line at Florida
Grove road to the easterly side of
Mitchell place. Bids will be received
on these two jobs next month.
Freeholder Andrew ]. Ely pre-
sented a resolution granting permis-
sion to the Inter-Ocean Oil Com
pany. of Roosevelt, to lay railroad
tracks across Woodbridge avenue,
and pipe lines two feet below the
surface thereof, at a point distant
three hundred feet easterly from !
Railway avenue. The company re-
ouested this permission two weeks
ago and it was objected to by the |
Wheeler Condensing & Engineering
Company of Roosevelt. The same !
resolution was passed by the bor-
ough council in Roosevelt and win
now have to be approved by the
Utilities Corc mission.
A contract for the erection OF a