Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-07

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St Charles Avenue.
The paving on this street is at length
finished, and New Orleans is the possessor
of the longest asphalt paved street in the
United States. 1t is true that in Wash
ington over 100000 square yards have
been laid, and that many OF the streets
there have been thus paved Tor several
years, and that Buffalo, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore. ST Louis, and Louisville
have many streets paved with sheet
asphaltum, but no one OF them has con-
tlnuOus asDhaltum paved drive on any
one street OF the length Of st. Charles
avenue.
The plan of paving this street and re-
deeming IL from its unsightly condi ton
| originated with The late Charles A. Whit
ney; and at his invitation number OF
the property holders on the avenue met at
his office for consultation. In July. 1882,
q meeting of the property holders decided
on the report of a committee, that sheet
/ asphalt was the best adapted for their
| purpose. The committee was composed
! Of Messrs. Hernsheim, Hutchinson, Co
milla, Seton, Gidiere, Jacob Born aud j.
X. Bell.
Many serious difficulties presented
! themselves. Arrangements had TO be
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/ proportion of One-third Of the cost under
/ that provision OF the statute relating to
/ what are called neutral ground streets.
! and with the New Orleans and CarrOllton
/ Railroad Company tor It's ass umption Of
/ that portion of tue expense which the
/ city was required to pay. The paving
company was DELAYED in its work by the
| extraordinarily bad weather of last win
! ter, and still further annoyed and delayed
! n NJ PnOfFnV9FgIRE with the
! city and the railroad company. Several
! legal points had to he adjudicated
by the courts. Fortunately, all con-
| trOverted points were disposed of
| by the decision Of Judge RghtOr
in a mandamus suit by the paving
company against the city and the Carroll
ton Railroad Company, in which the
court decided that the law required the
J citv to nav oQe-third of the whole cost OF
the DdFIug and Jhe enJ.Ir cO5g - J,5so1,in z
the Intersections, and that, under It's con-
tract with the CarrOlltOn Railroad Com /
pany, that company assumed the city's .
obligations. The court also decided that 4
all the work had been done in accordance /
with the contract. This decision removed /
all legal obstacles.
The length of this beautiful avenue, as /
now paved by the asphalt company, from (
Lee Circle to Madison street, CarrOllton, /
is six miles on the south side, and one and |
three-quarter miles on the north side, in !
all nearly eight miles.
The Pavement of streets-statistics in /
Support or Asphalt the Universal Ma /
terial Therefor.
At meeting of the American Society of
Civil Engineers IN New York last Wed F!
nesday Capt. F. V. Greene, Of the United
States Engineers, read paper entitled
IAN Account Of Some observations of
Street rafiic," in which he gave the re-
suits of very extended observations on
street traffic in American cities, touching
on the weight of vehicles and loads car
Tied. character Of pavements, width Of
streets, aud 20 forth. These observations
were made by a corps OF investigators
VINO reported TO Capt. Greene, the cities
visited being New York, Philadelphia, I
Chicago, Boston, st. Louis, New Orleans, /
Buffalo, Louisville and Omaha.
the observations were recorded by the
observers by the punch and "trip-slip"
method in use by car conductors, slips Of
different c0lors beirg used for vehicles OF
different tonnage, and sent to the author |
who then computed the total tonnage per |
vehicle and tonnage per foot OF width Of
street. Accidents to hOrses we're also OBJ /
served and recorded, note being made. (
state Of the weather, the temperature pre- I
Yailing, average speed of the vehicles, /
and the length Of the street on which ac- /
cidents were observed and recorded. The /
payements on The streets observed were
Of asphalt, granite and wood.
The average daily tonnage per foot OF |
width was found 20 range from 273 tons /
on Broadway, New York, to 7 tons on |
Olive street, st. Louis. The average /
weight per vehicle varied from .6S ton on /
Fifth avenue, New York. 10 Dos tons on |
certain part Of W abash avenue, Chicago. I
Several instances were given OF the man
ner in which smooth asphalt streets have
drawn away the traffic from stone pave
ments. the most noticeable instance being
in 81. Louis. where. on Olive street, which
is paved with granite. the daily traffic per
foot Of width is only TONS while on To-
Gust street 10 ia i03 tons, the two streets
beng parallel, adjacent, and having been
paved az the same time. Comparison was
also made with London observations,
showing a very much larger traffic { a.
high as 40 tons ON one street ia the latter
city, And the cause OF the difference was
stated 10 be the absence OF street cars and
the large number Of cabs and Omnibuses
thus rendered necessary.
In obtaining statistics with REGARD to
accidents, tine standard Tor comparison
taken was the q stance travelled before an
accident occurred. This was obtained BY
multiplying the distance over which The
observations were recorded by the num-
Der OF horses traYersing it, and dividing
product by the number OF accidents. The
result was: On asphalt, 6s3 NILES on
granite, 4l3 miles; on wood, az miles /
Tie large number Of observations taken I
over 100000 horses and $1,000 miles
trayeled-iusuhed tina conclusion that
Tower accidents occur on asphalt that on
granite. This agreed with the result OF
similar observations iu London. though
IN that city The accidents recorded were
about three times as numerous as I'm the
American cities observed. This probably
D. owing 10 the greater density OF pOpula-
ton OF toe British metropolis. Cant.
Grpene's paper favored asphalt az the
universal pavement material, as from the
tables compiled by him 10 was evident
that tine heaviest tradic sought streets 30
paved iu preference 60 those constructed
~ either granite or wOod.--ddr.
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