Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-29
S105, 4444 COST
To COUNTY
WEST AVE. JOB
M. Irving Demarest and Lid
die & Pfeiffer Are Awarded
Contracts for Big JOB
RECEIVE MANY BIDS
Work of Paving Two Sections
Will be Done Under 2 Sep
arate Contracts
PROJECT WAS LONG URGED
Will Connect This City With
Sewaren, Port Reading and
the Roosevelt Section
PROJECT WAS LONG URGED

IBy Evening News STAFF Correspondent
NEW BRUNSWICK, July %
At a cost of sos, 5,444.5S. the free
holders yesterday awarded the CON
tracts for the new concrete and war
renite pavement to be laid on West
avenue. Sewaren, following the re-
CENT of bids submitted for this work
by six different contractors.
This work will be done under two
separate contracts, the first section
being from the Woodbridge creek
bridge to Woodbridge avenue whlle
section number two will start at tne
point where section one ends ana VIII
continue on to the Roosevelt WOOD
bridge road at Port Reading.
This Improvement Is one that the
township committee of Woodbridge
have been fighting for for severai
years they having been supported IN
their last request by the Perth AN,
boy Chamber of Commerce as wei
as by the citizens of the borough OF
Roosevelt. who have repeatedly
pointed out the extreme necessity OF
a direct road between Perth Amboy
and Roosevelt as a means of carry
inc on the business in that section
of the county.
With the completion of suitable
navement to replace the worn our
macadam road which has long slnoe
outlived it's usefulness. is seen the
possibility of a greater deVelopmenI
in that section, as there are hund-
reds of acres of land available for
home sites while the shore land Dor
dering along the Staten Island sounu
with passable roadways leading TO II
is deemed to be an excellent loca-
ton for manufacturing plants.
Though the contracts were award
ed for both sections of the work, tne
actual operations will not start until
after the approval of the state high
wav commission has been obtained,
\ as the states allotment of money to
this county amounting to S4S,0Oo.
was given with the understanding
that it would be used on the West
avenue Job, the state authorities con-
tending that the road was the most
important one included in the l92i
building program.
Approximately one-half of the
cost of the construction work Will be
for the application of a two-lnch
lawer of warrenite as top surface
despite the fact that the requests for
this road specified concrete as
preference.
Section number one, ABOUT one
mile in length, that portion nearer
to Perth Amboy. was awarded TO
Liddle & Pfeiffer of Perth Amboy
on their lump sum bid of $49,713.4O,
of which amount S25,9S0.4S will be
the cost for the patent top surfacing
alone. '''-'
NJ. irving Demarest, of Sewaren,
will construct the balance, about
one and one-tenth miles in length,
at a cost of $55,730.90, of which
amount s30,174.16 represents the
cost of the Warrenite.
No definite date has been men
toned as to when the actual con-
struction work is to start on either
section, though Mr.. Demarest is said
to be in readiness to start his section
within the next three weeks. which
would allow ample time for the COM
pletion of the work before freezing
weather.
The following bids wee submitted
10 the freeholders for consideration
for section number one in addition
to the one submitted by the success
full bidder: NJ. Irving Demarest,
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