The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-30
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has been in use for twelve years, at an ex
pense OF So 600 for repairs, and the city en-
einser reports that 5000 is now needed
Tor that purpose. Wooden block pave
msnt Of several varieties has beer
thoroughly tested and generally discarded
The city engineer reports It's durability mol
to exceed four or five years. In Central
Park the roads are OF macadam, built by
first laying down eighteen inches Of large
stone blended with fine sand or gravel,
then Of smaller unbroken stone blended
with sand as before, and then the top layer
OF broken macadam blended with gravel.
Each layer is thoroughly wet and rolled
hard and smoth with steam roller, This
costs from 81 to S. per square yard. This
Is recommended for pleasure driving and
light traffic, but costs too much to keep in
repair where the traffic Is heavy.
Robert Van Buren,, the chief engineer oil
Brooklyn, regards granite block pavement
us the best and cheapest IN the end. This
costs 81 10 per SQUARE yard, On side
streets, selected cobble--watCr stone-is
laid, and forms a cheap and satisfactory
pavement. This can DO laid OF the best
material so as not to cost more than 81 20
per square yard. The Abbott Company's
ASPHALT PAVEMENT
is pronounced good and fine for travel, but
needs careful management Nosprinkling
Is allowed, and the streets must be cleaned
daily, The cost OF this pavement Is Sl.80
per square yard. MIR. Van Buren, isopposed
to wooden payements Of every kind,
Buffalo has ninety miles Of streets paved
with stone, one milo paved with asphalt,
and four and 0ne.iOurth miles paved with
wood. Medina stone Is used in blocks,
eight inches long, two to four inches thick
aud eight inches deep. These arc set in
regular courses across the street, so as to
break joints, on solid foundation-the
stone well pounded down and covered with
an inch OF lake sand,
In Rochester, the Medina stone Is con-
sidered as forming the only good pavement
This Is laid on edge on solid bed Of sand,
gravel or broken stone sixteen inches In
depth, It costs S. per square yard,
In Montreal most OF the streets are paved
with macadam, but 1t Is regarded as UNI
suited for business streets, Granite blocks
laid on solid foundation are pronounced
the only pavement suited for heavy traffic.
Compressed asphalt blocksmake q fine and
durable pavement for streets Of flrstclass
retail business, For lighter traffic
NAcADAM is RECOMMENDED,
with wide water courses OF block stone, In
streets where horse cars run the pavement
should DO Of block stone Of unequal lengths
ut the sides OF the truck.
The letter Of b, L, Morse, city engineer
Of Cleveland, Is so much 10 the point that
we reproduce it nearly entire: 1--WE have
liity-two miles Of paved streets, Of which
ten miles are paved with wood, seventeen
and one.fourtll miles with stone, and four.
teen miles with wood and stone-stone gut
ters and wood in the center. The average
cost Of all wood pavement is 81 50 per
square yard, and stone 81 63. The wood
pavemGnts rot and become rough In about
five years and worthless in eight or
ten years. We have Medina stone
payenlents laid eighteen years ago, they
lre in good condition yet, with no general
repairs having been given them, Some Of
the stone paYenients in the main business
streets have been repaired by taking up
and relaying the Same stones at d cost Of
two cents per square foot while 1t has cost
from flity to eighty cents per square yard
to patch the good pavements to make them
last two or three years longer. The city
has paid s., 100000 for the experience in
wood pavements, which will be replaced
with stone within the next two years /
consider the life Of good Medina
STONE PAVEMENT,