The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-16
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his Republican colleagues are really
eager to find work for the unemployed
they could get bids on authorized work
and Immediately award contracts with
the understanding that the work be be-.
gun at once. The letter wassearked
To Avoid Contract pdsputss
A plan to avoid disputes gbetween the
city and the contractor over the build
ing of the intercepting sewer protective
wall is contained in an agreement which
the City Commissioners to-day author
lied the Board of Public Works to en-
ter with Sucker Brothers Construction
Company.
= Under this agreement, the city at
once will pay to the contractor $4,000
of the $50, ,S64.90 due on the completed
work in addition to 1900 representing
extra work not provided for in the
original contract. In consideration of
that, the contractor agrees to accept all
future estimates of the eity's engineers
as to the value of extra work done and
to complete the unfinished work on the
protective wall on or before July 1,
next ensuing.
hC uHhHloHtu WOTh OH Tile retaining
wall includes the building of FIVE Sec
tions of steps at Market street and the
construction of the walk from Market
street north This will cost about SIS.
600. The $20,S64.90 which has not
yet been paid the contractor represents
trifiee more than fifteen per cent. of
the work completed by the contractor.
Ordinarily it would have been retained
hv tho .cif Nv untn fba ,rl, =
The agreement to submit to the en-
gineers estimates is an assurance that
the city will not be prosecuted because
of any disputed claims.
Coal Wharf Bill Amended
The ordinance giving the Harrisburg
Light and Power Company permission
to build coal wharf on the Hargest
Island was amended as proposed by
Commissioner Bowman and was passed
on second reading. When it is called up
for final consideration sone week from
to-day the City Planning Commission
ers and representatives of the light COM
pany will be asked by the City Com
missioners to point out what good and
bad features there may be in the bill ..
The planning Commission sent let
ter to the Commissioners to-day point
y
the ordinance should not be passed.
Briefly the Commission holds that the
ordinance will not entirely abolish the
Market street wharf, that the city's
island is not the preferable and logical
location for the wharf and that a bad
precedent would be established to lease
the city's property to private corpora
tion.
Without offering reason Commits
sioner Lynch had postponed the ordi-
nance which provides for the opening
of Walnut street, over the Pennsylvania
railroad, from Cowden to Tenth streets.
| This measure, it is said, is preliminary
to the building of Walnut street bridge
to give the Allison Hill residents an
other outlet.
''Quiet Zone Approved
The Mayor S ordinance establishing
"quiet zones" around hospitals was
passed finally. Nine water mains in
as many street sections are proposed
in an ordinance offered by Commissioner
bowman as follows: Wiconisco street.
Front to Jefferson; Penn, Emerald to
Seneca; Prune, Kittatinny to Swatara;
Monroe, Calder to Verbeke; Thirteenth,
Herr to Cumberland; Paxton, Rollerston
to Nineteenth; Mulberry, Eighteenth to
Twentieth; Yale, Eugene to Mulberry
Green, Woodbine to Seneca.
An ordinance providing for the open
ing of Carlisle street from Holly to
Derry was offered by Lynch who also
put In these sewer measures; Derry
street, Eighteenth to Carlisle, and in
Carlisle street, Derry to point 1O2
feet south of Holly street.
Contractors desiring to be considered
when offering proposals in competitive
bidding for city jobs hereafter will be
required to file certified check for ten
per cent. of the amount of their bid,
according to Lynch resolution adopted
by the Commissioners.