Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-05-04
ALDERMEN RECEIVE
BIDS AND PETITIONS
Bids for Grading and Curbing
Sutton Street, Curbing
Brace Ave-, Sewers, Etc.

ton street, for curbing Brace avenue
and for placing twelve inch sewer
extensions in Pacific avenue and
Kennedy street were received at
meeting of the Board of Aldermen
last night and were referred to the
committee ON streets and sewers.
Petitions were received for sewers
in other streets and for paving
portion of Front street, the street
committee reported favorably on re-
quests for other street improve
ments and several other subjects
were handled at the meeting. All
of the aldermen were present. The
night.
Contracts for the grading and
curbing of Sutton street, curbing of
Brace avenue and placing sewers in
Pacific avenue and Kennedy street
could not be awarded last night be-
cause the preliminary assessments
had not been issued. The bids were
referred to the committee on
streets and sewers and the city sur
veyor for tabulation. Th9y were as
| follows:
For grading and curbing Sutton
street, Wilbert Blue Stone Com
pany, $1,320, or forty-fOur cents a
cubic yard for grading and $3.50, or
| sixty-five cents a lineal foot for new
curb; Liddle & Pfeiffer, forty-two
cents a cubic yard for excavation and
seventy cents lineal foot for curb
in; Graham & McKeon, forty-four
cents a cubic yard for excavation and
sixty-two cents a lineal foot for curb;
Hans Satter & Son, thirty-eight cents
! cubic yard for excavation and
sixty-nine cents lineal foot for curb
| For curbing Brace avenue-Wil-
bert Blue Stone Company sixty-fve
cents a lineal foot; Liddle & Pfeiffer,
seventy cents; Graham & McKeon,
>sixty-two cents; Hans Satter & SepT
sixty-nine cents.
For placing sewers in Pacific ave-
nue. and Kennedy street Twelve
| inch pipe sewer in place, $1.28 a
| foot; manholes, SIS each; receiving
basins, $38 each. Carl Poulsen, sew
er, sixty-eight cents; manholes, $28;
receiving basins, $40. Jens w. Rohr,
sewer, siXty-nine cents; manholes,
| $29; receiving basins, $50.
| Petitions from Stephen Fedor and
others for extending sewers in Law
renee, Myrtle, Grove, Alpine and
Kenne streets, were received and re-
| ferred to the committee on streets
and sewers. Similar action was taken
upon a petition from w. w. Sofield,
the Raritan Yacht Club and others,
requesting the placing of a concrete
| ant hnf m
Market and Gordon streets.
recommendation made following
| favorable report by the street com
mittee on street improvements were
adopted unanimously by the council
| for placing a receiving basin in
Pulaski avenue, for grading Pulaski
avenue, for curbing Compton avenue
and grading Morris street, Colgate
avenue, Raritan avenue, Carlock ave-
nue. and Bingle street.
A resolution was adopted to have
the city clerk give public notice of
! intention for establishing and work
ing the grading of Bingle street, Car
lock avenue, Raritan avenue, Colgate
avenue, Morris street, to curb Comp
ton avenue and to re-establish the
| grade of Pulaski avenue and Central
and Valley places.
An ordinance to prevent the erec-
tion of wooden garages and stables
| within the city limits, and to provide
for fireproof structures of that kind,
was introduced and passed upon its
first reading. If the buildings are of
hollow tile, the outside walls must
be plastered, Roofs must be of metal
or other areproof material.
One of the aldermen complained
to members of the Board of Health
last night concerning alleged unsani-
tary conditions in yards west of park
No. ] along the southerly side OF
Fayette street The health commits
sioners promised to have the subject
attended to. Health Commissioner
MAIDS Dinesen declared that eondi-
tions were pretty bad" on the for
mer Merritt tract and stated that the
board thought it was the duty of the
garbage contractors to keep the rut
bish properly covered with dirt.
An ordinance to change the date
of the fire department election this
year to the second Monday of May
was passed on second and third anC
final readings.
A request from the Fords Porce-
lain Works, asking for refund oi
$4,000, overpaid as taxes on plant
No. 2, in Lehigh avenue and stock
ton street, was referred to the com
mittee on taxation.
| Complaint was made by A. CerbC
and A. Della that a Mrs. Nitsche anC
a Mr.. Goldman were. doing an EN-
Iployment business without license
II mac rofarred fo fha i,1dipia ~ rom.
mittee. An application from Mike
Jimbrecki for license to operate al
employment agency at sos State
street, was referred to the same com
mittee.
The constable bond of John Toolin
of the First Ward, was received an(
referred to the judiciary committee.