The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-28
TO BEGIN PAVING SOON.
THE NEW PAVING COMPANY GET
TING THINGS IN SHAPE.

The Company Organized and Working
Under a Board of Trustees Until 1t
Can Secure a Charter-The Machinery
Ordered and the Works to be Started
Up in TWO Weeks-Its Savannah
Contract.
The Southern Vulcanite Paving Company
is the name of the new company whose
complete organization is delayed because a
charter of incorporation cannot be obtained
during the absence from the city of the
Judge of the superior court, but the COM
pany is formally organized, and board of
trustees is temporarily serving until such
time as the charter can be obtained, after
which complete organization will be eff
fected by the election of officers, etc. The
trustees now conducting the business of the
company are Mr.. l.. H. Scott of New York,
a director in the National Vulcarite Paw
ing Company, Mr.. John G. Rowland and
Mr.. Wallace Cumming.
THE CoMPANY's CAPITAL.
The company is composed principally of
solid business men in this city, and the capt.
tai stock is understood TO be 5000, with
the privilege of increasing it to 100000.
The company has the exclusive right for
the states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and the two
Carolinas, and 1t expects to push the bust
ness in ali the principal cities of the eight
states mentioned.
The first work of the company will be to
complete the paving of Broughton street
from Abercorn to East Broad street, and
Liberty street ON each side of the
grass plat. Active operations are
already under way; the granite base
has been contracted for, and has the ma
chinery for the plant The work is TO be
done under the personal superintendent of
Mr.. J. V. w. Vandenburgh, who has had
eighteen or twenty years experience in
street paving. and who laid the first asphalt
pavement put down in this country. Mr.
i. H. Scott, one of the trustees has been in
the city for some days, but left yesterday
morning for the west to be absent eight or
ten days.
TO BE READY IN TWO WEEKS.
Mr.. Wallace Cumming, one of the trus-
tees of the local company, and Supt.
Vandenburgh, were interviewed yesterday
afternoon by a MORNING NEWS reporter
and from them it is learned that the
machinery is expected here in ten days or
two weeks, and can be put up in ten days
ready for operation. BY that time the
granite will be here ready for crushing. 1t
will be furnished by the Southern Granite
Company and will come from tia Lithonia
quarries, twenty-five miles from Atlanta.
The granite will be brought over the
Central railroad to the crusher, which is to
be located in what is now a woodward in
the Central yards, corner of Harris and
West Broad streets. Sheds will be put up
on the lot for the better protection Of the
machinery.
Temporary buildings will be located on
the lot at the fork of Bryan street on the
Ogeechee canal, where the mixing of the
sand, tar distillate and asphalt will be done.
The tar distillate and Trinidad asphalt will
come by sea from the north, but it has not
yet been determined whether in steam or
sailing vessels. The material will begin to
arrive within week. The sand used will
be the common Savannah river article.
A S20,000-PLANT
The entire plant will cost from $l5, 900 to
$4,000, and ample capital will be available
TO prosecute the work here and in any city
included in the territory controlled by the
southern company.
Mr. Vanderburgh says that the plant
while carrying out its contract for street
paving in this city will give steady employ
Inent to 100 men and several carts, laying
1000 yards of the pavement daily. The
mixing of the top coat and binder will be
done on the Bryan street lot, and the finish
ing composition will be mixed and put on
in the street. The vulcsitte asphalt pave
ment seems to have given the best satisfac-
ton, and it is now being laid at Indianapo-
lis and other northern cities.