The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-19
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four bidders for the job, all of whom
 bid a price similar to the Standard l Company, although slightly higher. | Evidence was brought out to show
 that these bidders must have. been dummy or Accommodation" bidders,
 acting in the interest of the Standard ECompany.
 Two of the bidders were afterwards employed by the Standard Company to supply stone to the job. Another of the bidders was a contractor ire l quentIy employed by the Standard Go.
 to do its concrete base work.
 County's Loss $ao,OO0.
 ! A number of witnesses testified, in
 substance, that about $2o,ood would have been saved to the county in the cost of surfacing the Pompton Turn pike under on open specification.
 Regarding the more extensive ope- l Iratfons of the Standard Bitulithic Company in the City of Newark start- ling testimony was given by Charles I F. G1llens one of the city commission 3ers having charge of street construc- ftfon. The paving specifications pre- pared by the engineer excluded every type of hituIninous concrete except the paeented BitulitE1ic. There was the same fraudulent pretense of cOmpeti- taOns however i'm the working of an ArTang genaeME by which the Warren I Brothers Company filed with the city isealefz1eer a u11i9orm price for which ftlze u1R1eria1 would be supplied to all lcozatTabbors~
 1.-two and one-half inch depth. A con traceor who would pay this price and Il add eighty cents a yard for building I the concrete base, and twenty cents slEfor hauling and laying his material. sfWould find the actual cost Of a yard a-of pavement exclusive Of prof1ts, to bes<2- 81 Adding a reasonable prof I it he would have to bid about S3.25 ito compete with the Standard Bttu-
 nthIn Companyss price of $2.2S- Hon- I est conpetition was, therefore, out of sthe question.
 TT WAS BROUGHT OUT THAT 1.-THE STANDARD COMPANY HAS A f3 STAEF OEH PAID SOLICITORS T WHOSE BUSINESS TT IS TO GO .iEROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN THE
 AND ASK PEOPLE TO PETITION q THE CITY AUTHORITIES ITO LAY -d dBE7TdUII1E7EC PAVEAEErET IN 1ERONT OF IEHEEIE2 HOUSES.
 A4pmnpO1y on Asphalt.
 Heterogeneous had also been per- lfected. it sseemas to give the Standard fConpany a monopoly on sheet as- sf decided to lay sheet asphalt a
 1axxznba< oR streets and the city engin- Il ger included in the specifications the ! en1snt that the successful con AkkAAk58e a i. lsdng plant wffhins tlaiKty days after the aaaEzazs1lnss oGF any of tho contracts, to lsbe maintained for i've years. Such E "a plant. 1t was test1ded, would cost f$H6s0O0- CoxnxniHah0ner Giuen told 'e4Aozd hoxxhe had protested against E6Sax1d1zx1s C0upanys which was the \ sSon1y GneH at that tirae which had a ' zz1az1antpl lalsts within a mile Of the tcaty. Has sfougnt vadn1y to exclude tal wE fpzrw -~ EW -Z1.
 Kzaa1y OE New York unexpectedly ap- sl paaNeH aA taes b1dd1ng and offered to ssl coxupay sgzEh the unusual requirement. ' for eshabzfszaang plant and also do fhe paxfug. work for from fourteen to i, 4seseaatesn cents . yard sIaSe than the ? iSeanLzErd Cun1pa41y.
 Ha Inc boamd then YsostaDoned action in 4a aBrza<lang GIle contracts and in the
 EneaaEt1mne At appears, the solicitors of ssats3aae 61azldaNd Company got busy and Et o1s1asned tho Signatures from a mum ta1ee Of tho pnorerty owners asking l.lzaaA lzae avzzEd of tho contracts for { eiEknaaa EaEt1culax streets be postponed. . lN0h1cz1 was d0ne.
 l 1Goe3 Mgu1hcant was the fact, as S suOxrrtctsty hGr. GiI1sn, that the city's
 iaapalaEE EepaE plant was engaged in e fae tMginess of keeping much of the Fl Bzkuli i1zatc pavement in repair and that 5 Ig1zae acEua2 cost of producing not in .sl ckuazng E,e cost Of hauling and lay Elm&a Enc repair material was about
 k1oEtpsdvescentss yard
 nl M POINT OF STABILITY THE
 lH1BIRaED PAVE11EENTS LAID BY fEH11 CTTY UNDER AN UNPATENT- s. H1D GREECEBECAHEON WE'RE EQUAL 4i iTO~OR EUFERIOR TO BITUIHTHlC 2 A former representative of the ka Seandard Company produced before
 fthe con1nzifbee detailed figures, said
 ttO have been taken from original u1eEncRauda4made at the time, show S1 ing the exact cost account of the N Standa Company in connection with
 the@Iay1ngnof B9tulffhic in Weehaw-
 ken
 N EBsahoweds that the cost of produc- \ d iue@ ats yard of BfEuIffz1ic, two inches
 tE11Ez<y y16o beeflft -ni1ae cents. The cosi Eof zza1azxlg and laying was about six IsdgenSy-1 cenEss Adding twenty X per cent for profit, produced ninety MkEcEuEs aatg the fair price for laying a # lyazd of sef1eE material. The price re-
 Eeeeved by the company in Weehaw- HI ken, 2hea wtfzaesa understood, was 2 S1-66@and one at West New York : IS&1-ze. ThisAwftness said he knew il
 Ito be- customary for the Standard
 Ioonnpany to manufacture the appear -sl. szEsces C& competition by having certain k kcUn4TacDOrs put in fake bids at figures -a,I a little higher than the Standard.
 Assratsuaent from the engineer com -zI111fsazoneRs of Washington. D C., show L Led the cost there Of similar type o1 sa paNenent rto be about one dollar a $ yard with three cents per yard per : tyear<addedsfor maintenance
 Anongefhes remarkable statements -s sIsNoRn to by Cc0nantssioner GiIIen astwere thsse.
 when came into soffice Fl found thespaviz1g ring in complete control of the city. I tried to smash their grip tore up their 3 streets, for streets were laid that
 were lacking in quantity and