The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-05-19
,,D-MAkING.
klau of Construction
I n RepairinS.

E3' when the Scotch Turn
fheen about twenty wears
nd roads were still being
There. He got appointed
| of Roads, and afterwards
kistol, where he obtained a
Id was made a magistrate.
(mania on the subject, he
t,9i to travel over the
| own cost, and these Ia
kued from lverness to the
Sr xix and twenty years.
|urpose, apparently. than
\ well.made road and the
making one.
blan of road making differ.
6m the old way which he
Atlon as q bridge does from
nd of going deep for \
he worked solely on the
OF producing u peaked.
: of rough, soft rubbish, he
pth surface. In lieu Of q
a half feet through, lie
ID most ten inches in thick
rocks and boulders he sub
broken small. His leading
that q road ought to be
an artificial flooring SO
IN as to let the heaviest We
/ it without impediment.
egan to hear with wonder
and forty feet wide rising
hes in the centre. and he
the extraordinary heresy
nd more lasting rood could
the naked surface OF a
ver solid rock, Another
tt principles was that the
8 more resistant when dry
1t, and that in, reality It
hot alone the traffic but
il ought to be- kept in a
reatest resistance; that the
Reping it dry was toput
ling impervious to rain
ct--and that the thickness
ne was to lie regulated
ion to its imperviousness,
a. to its bearing of weights
native soil was quite equal.
gging q trench. therefore.
III the surface Of the ma
he carefully respected
ed his road sufficiently
let the water run OIL.
ty he obtained by the
cOverv that stones broken
AIKEN aud pressed together.
Nc on II road, rapidly set
x To face and angle to an
b a. close q mass rs . wall.
eneral now believe that this
1t McAdam invented; the
ten. That important frac
scoyeries is what has given
ito macadamize' ITO pava
small broken stones.
% the French their nouns.
"NOm dun pavage inventr
lais"--Littre), "macadami'
be verb "macadamizer. II
cked down by on omnibus
E OF the boulevard. Il pari'
Ter will nowadays say, "Je
o sur 10 macadam.'
OllOwed surprise. Road.
mere layers of broken stone
hi even as little as tire,
ckness, passed through thu
ira without breaking up
be coachman used to say
true; the wheel ran har'
/ ran upon the nail. Com
ould not believe their eye
w. new roads made for mucl
lad cost them yearly to re
} ones. When an old roa'
into McAdam's charge III
n new one Of ii for eighty
b u mile, while round Lon
Of annual repairs had heel
d and seventy pounds a mile
that the roads--s!lch ha'
nOrant waste-generally con
rial enough for their ,lse 70
Is. II properly applied. Tn
d was hopeless, he went !.
Tactical, cheap way; first cut
D "gridiron' of ruts in tn
! level with the bottom Of til
ben picking the road up t
-four inches, removing oil tn
or mud, breaking the larg
III, and simply putting theI
| and one OF his directions
kn was that nothing is to |
clean stone on prentice {
But too often the ROAD vi
tt Egham, that it had to !
! its foundations.
repairs of his roads, whe
he always chose wet weath'
ened the hardened surfat
before putin. on the Tres
he; things familiar to Us noS
xes, then. to all the lcadin
tiles of the roads. IN tn
)d the greatest success vii
he near Bath, and on a rot
|tpl toward Old Down, who
had always said that a go
never be made with the III
liable. This impossible ro'
bliles, which the Postmast
a last resource, was about
perfected in two months
fty.hye pounds a mile. ]
materials, they were to sor
latter Of indifference to hil
|hey were stones ana ston
BIT Essex and Sussex, hr sal
excellent road II on
roperly small. Ljmesto
merset and Gloucester 60
10 soonest of all. bnt is not t
ing. The pebbles of ShrC
StafTOrlshire were also GOO
beach pebbles of Essex, he
TX were some Of the best n
the kingdom; but the VIII
tanite of the north and OF Sc
denounced the most durable
n the breaking of stoI
made a revolution. lie 81
bodied men, standing up W
hmers wasted the greater =
leir strength. He made
kers sit. so that all the FOL
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