Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-19
OBJECTION AGAINST
0. ". RAMsAY'S BID
Hastings Pavement Company
Says Local Contractors Bid
Was Irregular.
AT ALDERMANIc SESSION
Ramsay to Show Aldermen
Samples of His Paving Work
in This County.

| Demanding that the bid of Oliver
w. Ramsay for paving number of
streets in the city be rejected, claim
ing it to be irregular, null and void,
the Hastings Paving Company's pres
| ident had a communication before
the Board of Aldermen at its ad-
journed meeting last night. Mr..
Ramsay and the street and sewer
! committee members agreed to go out
and view some street pavements,
samples of the low bidders work,
today. Ordinances for paving Con-
very place and Gordon street were
introduced and passed on first read
ing. Thomas J.. McDermott was
named as clerk to the assessors : /
other business was transacted, after
which the board adjourned to meet
Monday night. All of the members
were present. In the absence OF
City Clerk Wilbur La Roe. who is
on vacation, City Attorney Andrew
j. Wight acted as clerk
President E. j. Morrison, of the
Hastings Paving Company, had a
letter before the board, in which he
told of communication of objection
to consideration of the Oliver W.
Ramsay bid, having been sent to the
committee on streets and sewers. His
| company demanded that the Ram
say bid for paving Hall avenue, High
street, Watson avenue, Commerce
street. Brighton avenue, Catalpa ave-
nue. and First street be rejected. Mr..
| Morrison held that Ramsay did not
| comply with certain provisions of
the specifications in that he neg
lected to file proof of work done for
five years previous, now in place and
open for inspection, and neglected
to file two samples of the specific
kind of block intended for use on
the local jobs. The communication
was referred to the committee on
streets and sewers, which has the
bid in question in hand
Alderman John ]. Clark made a
motion that Mr.. Ramsay take mem
bers Of the street committee and
show them where he had laid asphalt
block pevements of the kind which
te city proposed to have laid. The
inspection was to be made between
the present time and Monday, ac-
cording to another provision in the
motion. When Mr.. Ramsay was
asked If this would be convenient
for him, he said 1t would and the
sooner the inspection was made, the
better 1t would be for him He stat
ed that he would be only too glad to
show the aldermen work which his
concern had done and which was
now in place and doing service. Ac-
cording to him, his concern used the
regular asphalt block, made by the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company at
its local plant. Later Alderman
Clark remarked that it would not
meter what Mr. Ramsay's concern
had done in the paving line, as the
only question involved what what
work he, the bidder on the local
pavements, had done. 1t was decid-
ed to make the inspection trip to
view pavements today
An ordinance to pave Convery
place between Smith street and the
-southerly abutment of the new bridge
and between Sayre avenue and New
Brunswick avenue, with asphalt
block, later changed to include other
suitable pavements, and between the
northerly abutment of the bridge and
Sayre avenue with granite block, was
introduced and passed on its first
reading. One section of it will be
paved with granite block because it |
is on an incline up to the new bridge.
At@the suggestion of Alderman F.
William Hilker, the provision for
fother suitable pavement" in con-
junction with the asphalt block |
clause, was inserted in the ordinance, |
after which it was passed on it's first |
reading.
1t is proposed to pave the lower i
portion of Gordon street, from Rec |
tor to Water street, and from Front I
street to the sound with two-inch as /
phalt block, and between Water and |
Front streets, which is the hill sec
tion, with granite block. Alderman I
William G. Wilson would have
clause to provide for other suitable
pavements incorporated in the ordi--i
nance for this job, but the other
members said 1t was not necessary, as
the people had considered and recon
sidered the subject and arrived at the
conclusion that they wanted asphalt
block, excepting on the hill section.
An ordinance WAS introduced and
passed on Its first reading accord
ingly
Miss Anna NJ O'Brien having re-
signed her position as bookkeeper
at city hall, the board named
Thomas ]. McDermott to become{
clerk to the assessors last night.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany complained by letter that sixty
five feet OF cast iron pipe had been
removed when New Brunswick ave-
nue. was paved recently, and 1t re-
Quested the return of the pipe. The
subject was referred to the street
commissionr.
Among the bills audited and or
dered paid last night was one for
1880 from Borden D. Whiting.
The amount was his fee as associate
counsel for the city In the certiorari
of David McGregor
against the city of Perth Amboy and
others to prevent the erection OF 4
light plant here. II