The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-03
STREET PAVING.

The subj ect Of street paving has
been for some time agitatiug the peo'
pie OF our ueighboring CITY. Steuben-
vile, and committee of the city coun
Gil was recently apo to make .
visit o. inspection 10 other c!ties. 90
last Tuesday evening the committee
submitted Their report. They had visit
el sni Inspected streets in Cincinnati
Dayton AID C!evelsn', Ohio, Richmond
AID Iudauspolis, Indiana. aud Pitts
burgb, Pa. The following extracts
from the report II he found interest,"
ipg here. Speaking FIRST Of Cincinnati,
the committee say:
Here we iouud mostly boulder paved
streets, the boulders b ipg OF small
slZ-, the coet OF which varies from 81 90
10 81 10 per square yard. On q lev o.
their reefs they have the Nicholt on
pavement, which in many places, where
il has been laid from three to tour
yesrs, is almost rotted out. Our atten-
teulion WAS called to one equ.re Of the
Locust Block paving, which had been
laid from four to Eve years on . street
where there is come OF the heaviest
traffic. 1t seems a. firm as
ever. only that tue tops OF the blocks
are worn slightly rounding, showing no
signs Of decav. On some OF the streets,
iu The snbu bao part OF the city, our
attention Was called 10 the new Nc
Adams plan OF paving. which is about
Is follows, w: Tue street. is grade!
seventeen ipcaes below the grade line.
then layer OF broken line slone, abou,
five inches in SIZE, is spread TO q depth
OF eign; inches, whIch is thoroughly
rammei aud rolled with s,esn roller
weighing upwards OF twenty thousand
pounds, after which there is another
layer o. broken lime stone, about TWO
aud oue-hali inches in size, spread
10 the depth OF FIVE inches, which is
again rol aud rammed with the
steam roller. Then there rs q layer OF
clean. hard gravel spread on top OF that
about tour iuches 10 depth, which is
thoroughly rsnmed sud rolled in the
same maune! s. the preceding
layers. This paving is done 8,
from 500 TO So % per squre
yard, and makes a good, solid road.
Tue rcxt city your committee visited
was Dayton, Ohio. where We were
kindly shown around hy Mr.. ldl.ngs,
Precedent OF the City Council. Here
We found nothing but gravel paved
streets which present a very so'id ap
pearaDce. TIE gravel used is . very
bard limestone gravel OF which they
have so abundance in the immediate
vicinity. 0l our way to Irdsuspolis
We had about Que hour ST Richmond
Iud. Your committee took . hurried
walk and as far az we went We found
nothing but mscsdsnizsd streets, viii
one or two exceptions. The streets
seemed to be in q very good condition.
We next visited Indianapolis, Indiana,
where We found sone wood. stoae,
boulder aud macadsm;z-d paving TIE
recently paved streets look very well,
but auy that had been laid
from three TO four years were
fast dec.ying out. Aueution vss
called 10 the non6escript wood paving.
Toe blocks used for thus pavement are
about the same as those used 10 the
Nicholson pavement. The mode OF
laying this pavement is about as fol-
lows: The street rs graded down, and
su even bed OF fiue gravel sud sand is
spresd. Then the blocks are set i'm .
nedlarely on top o. this bed in dla'
mond rows, sod are placed tight up
against each other. After this pave
ment lie completed the surface pre-
ssnrs an appearance similar TO the
Eicholsoo, oGiy rhs, there is no open
space between the blocks. This pave
neut cost SIS per square yard ex-
elusive Of the grading.
Ia Cleveland many OF the principal
streets are paved With the Nicholson
pavement. Those that have teen paw.
ed IRON tour to five years are fast de.
csyiug. Ou one stree, our attention