Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-03-19
Board OF Aldermen Plan To Improve -Four Streets;
State An1ericanzation Workers Open Campaign Here
FAYETTE, LAURIE,
ELM and SMITH TO
BE FIXED BY BOARD
Contract is Awarded for Fay
ette Street rk--Petition
From Smith st. Residents

The Board of Aldermen last night
awarded the contract for paving Fay
cite street, from State street to the
Staten Island sound, with Warrenite
to Liddle & Pfgeiffer, the lowest bid
derS on the job, for $31,394.50. The
work will be started Immediately.
There were three bids for the work,
Liddle & Pfeiffer, being low.
An ordinance was passed on first
reading last night to pave Elm street
with Warrenite, from Market street
to New Brunswick avenue, and notice
was given that at the next meeting
of the board, an ordinance will be in
troduced for paving Laurie street with
asphalt block or some suitable pave
ment
Residents of upper Smith street last
night petitioned the board to pave
that portion of the street between
the car barns and the city line, which
is not to be paved by the county.
The aldermen are also contemplat-
ing other paving work, to be done
both in the northern and southern
sections of the city.
The bids as received from the three
contractors follow:
Liddle & Pfeiffer-Lump price.
$31,394.50; excavation, 1000 cubic
yards at s2.25 a yard, s2,700; con-
crete base. 1000 square yards at
plsoo u ydlof 4IlBOoVg boA
facing, 1000 square yards at S2.10 a
yard, $14,700: $50 feet of linear curb
ing at s1.25 a foot, S812.50; 1850
linear feet of curbing to be reset in
concrete at so cents a foot, $3.50;
seven manholes to be reset at s6 each,
s42.
Standard BituIithic Company of
New York-Lump price, s31. .51S.so;
excavation at 81 a yard, $2,400; con-
crete at s1.7S a yard, $12,460; War
renite at s2.05 a yard, s14,350; new
curbing at $1.18 a foot, $767; reset
curbing, at Sc cents a foot, s1,4S4;
manholes reset at $3.50 each, $3.50.
M. Irving Demarest of Sewaren-
Lump price, s33,150: excavation at
$40 a yard. $4,000; concrete base
at s1.S5 a yard, s12,950; Warrenite
s1.45 foot $942.50; reset curb at 65
cents a foot s1,722.50; manholes re-
set at 81 each. s35.
An ordinance for the issuance of
bonds in the sum of $4,000 to pay
for the. cost of paving Fayette street
passed on first reading.
Plans and specifications for paving
Elm street, as prepared by City En-
gineer Morgan +. Larson were ap-
proved by the board.
The Smith street residents, nine
teen of them. requested that the board
pave that portion of that street not
taken care of by the recent action OF
the board of county freeholders
This will mean but a small expendi-
ture of money, as the county will
pave twenty feet of the road and the
Public Service Railway nine feet,
leaving the city but five feet TO pave.
along the street is also asked
for.
The street commissioner and city
engineer were authorized to notify
residents along the west side of Ann
boy aenue between Hall avenue and
Myrtle street and on the south side
of Compton avenue from Amboy ave-
nue. to Green street to lay sidewalks on
.heir property within thirty days or
the work will be done by the city and
charged up against the property own
eiS.