Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-18
THE PAVING QUESTION.

A Boom for Mscadam in Preference to
Wooden neutrality-suspicious. of Stran-
ger In Visiting Friend.
To the Editor of the Globe.
al was shocked Amazed, to see the
streets and roads about st. Paul in such
q condition." This was the exclamation
of q stranger, gentleman from Ken
lucky on arrival.in the city last week.
The gentlemen had friend living
three miles out on the Fort road and
went to the livery stables to procure
conveyance to go out to his friends house,
but when the liverymen ascertained that
he wanted to go out the Fort road they
declined to hire HIM buggy or hack, and
informed him that that road was impas-
sible, and he was unable to get team at
any price and was compelled to walk and
did walk out to his friends residence.
Now, after our experience of last fall and
this spring with the mud, l take it, that
every citizen of st. Paul and Ramsey
county must feel some chargrin, aye dis
gustl At least that every one IS willing
to take lively interest in the grading
and improving of our streets and roads
that lead to the city. How shall our
streets and roads be improved?
Will answer. will tell you howl
The Pioneer Press has scheme, and
wants to lay our streets without foun-
dalton. l want foundation to
begin with. We want durable streets
and roads that will last for all time.
We are unwilling to be assessed every
few years to relay and rebuild our streets
with wood blocks. We should use the
hard material which nature has provided
and lay our streets with stone. l propose
that we take Machadam's plan of making
roads and make them with rocks. Now
we have an abundance of blue limestone
which is the best material ia the world,
and is the same stone which is used for
macadamizing the roads in the states fur
Their south. These turnpilkes, as they are
called, are the pride and joy of the people
wherever they are used. They are imper-
vious to water. No roads can COM
pare with them in durability, cheapness
or usefulness And the only reason that
these pixies are not adopted in every city
and in all parts of the country is because
all parts of the world are not supplied
with the material to make them.
Nature has been liberal in furnishing
us with the material, and it is nonsense
to reject the God given stone, and argue
for wood and talk of other cities using
this and that, and fail to bear in mind
the reason for others not using stone is
because they haven't got it to use. Now
let us get an idea of how roads are mac
adamized. And as there is a fine
stone quarry on the Fort road
we take that thoroughfare and make
turnpike. We first grade the street well,
making the center higher and slipping to
the clean bitches on either side Then
we haul our rock and dump it along the
grade, and beat 1t up as it lies on the
Grade so that no stone will be more than
five inches in diameter. This is the first
and coarse layer. Then we haul more
rock and dump it on top of this and
beat il up fine, so that no stone will be
more than two inches in diameter. This
fine stone is leveled and placed nicely,
and little clav dirt or gravel spread
over, and we have the turnpike COM
plete.
Al first as the heavy teams travel over
the road and some RUS appear, more fine
stone should be placed in the depre5sions
and after year the road will be settled
and cemented and no more ruis can be
seen. The center being several degrees
higher the water is drained INTO the
bitches on either side. We shall have an
adamantine bed, impervious to water,
macadam road, the cheapest, most useful
and beautiful road under the sun. Let it
rain; let it pour; no more mud never
more We shall hiring ont OuT fine car.
riages and drive to Smelling evermore,
and rejoice as the clean wheels whirl
over our beautiful macadam road.
MUD Halter.
st. Paul, April II, 1882.