Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-06-06

increases in the bids are warranted
The contractors. il is said. point out
that they will be forced TO cart the
garbage to new and more distant
dumping grounds in the future. TAX
ing more time and making 1t nee
essary to use more teams, wagons
and men.
The point of whether the city'a
street department, with a few addi-
tions can take care of its own gar
bage collection and disposal is like
ly to come up for serious consider
alton at the meeting tomorrow night
Although the prices quoted by the
low contractors last night are high
compared to the contract price OF
three years ago, the amount of 455.-
$40 year is said to compare favor
ably with the price being paid for
garbage collection and disposal in
other cities the size of Perth boy
Garbage contractors in the past have
claimed that they were operating at
loss and this probably has also
been taken into consideration by this
years bidders in the estimate given
by them last night.
1t is known that the aldermen are
going to give this matter long and
serious consideration when they get
together tomorrow night in order
to derive at q decision whereby they
believe they are getting the work
done at the lowest price.
Addition of a number of small
automobile trucks TO the street de-
partment's equipment was menfion-
ed recently during discussion on this
matter when il was suggested thai
the city do its own garbage collect
fro T% k-<
greater speed could be made in col
lecting and transporting garbage
to the dumps and the trucks would
do away with a large number of
slow moving horse-drawn wagons
and also a number of men employed
on the wagons.
Three bids for the collection and
disposal of garbage were received.
Graham & McKeon's figures were
low, they being as follows: For one
year. $56, 200; two years. SIP 400:
three years. s16s,600. city TO provide
dumping grounds. Furnishing their
own dump, this concerns bids were
s55,540: two years s111.0s0: three
years, s166.620. They have avail
able three dumps, according to their
letter, one with a capacity of 30o.-
600 cubic yards and the other two
with a capacity of 100000 cubic
yards.
In addition to the bids for the
garbage disposal the aldermen also
received last night bids for the Le--
high Park section sewer system
These also were referred to the
street committee and city engineer
for compilation. action to be taken
tomorrow night.
The bid of Feter H-asen and
Christian Andersen 1or the garbage
removal was second, the figures be-
ing as fellows: o. own dump, cns
year. $4,000: two years. s114,ooe:
three years, S169.000: on city's
dump. one year. s56.000: two years.
s11S.O00; three years. s16s.o0o-
The other bidder was Liddle &
Pfeiffer. Their figures were the
same irreSardless of whether they
furnish their own dumping grounds
or the city did il. For one year their
price was s62, 500; two years. s127,-
500. and three years, s191. 400.
Four bids were received on the
sewer work. each bid having prices
on thirty-fve items. Those bidding
were H. P. Hansen and Soren I. Jen
sen, Jens W. Rohr, Liddle & Pfeif-
fer and the East Jersey Bridge
Company. Owing 10 the complicated
bids and large amount of figuring
necessary 10 arrive at a total the al
dermen did not know when they ad
journed last night who was low.
The Liddle & Pfeiffer bids would
seem low from the itemized bids. al
though they were higher than some
of the Other bidders on certain parts
of the work.