Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-11-25
A SANDY FOUNDATION.

A SANDY FOU NDATION.
 The new Brazilian government is in a peculiarly delicate position, and if it does not prove itself equal to coping with extraordinary emergencies it is not improbable that the people will cry out again for Dom Pedro. It will be imme diatelv confronted with serious issues that will test its strength and capacity, | even if it shall have the primary advan- l tage of establishing itself without mili- tary assistance.
 Dom Pedro still has large following and his personal popularity was intensi- fled by his graceful, manly retirement from the throne when he saw that tn 2 will of the ma jority was against a mon- archy. The admirers of the deposed ruler will foment disturbance if the new government makes false step. It is impossible to conceive how seri- ous mistakes can be avoided when the unsettled finances of the country are taken into consideration. Then. too. there will be new demands for indemni- ficatlOn for emancipated slaves.
 GOOD ROADS AND POOR.
 In an address at Syracuse last week Col Albert L. Pope of Boston spoke up on the benefit and good roads. Col Pope must have heard of Waterbury. for we have received marked copy of the Buff falo Express containing his address, in which he says the American roads are notoriously the poorest in the world.
 If you cannot pave or macadamize all your roads at once, said colonel Pope, do what you can at it, beginning at once, and lay as much pavement in 1890 as you can afford. but as far as you go, do It right. Good roads are unquestiona- ply cheaper to maintain and to use than poor ones. Speaking of the different kinds of roads Colonel Pope said:
 For suburban roads nothing can be better than what Is known as the maca- dam system with firm and well-drained foundations, six or eight inches of good crusted stone, as near as possible to uni form size, from one to two inches in diameter, very compactly pressed down by steam roller and With thin crust of find gravell on top.
 While the macadam system is durable and by all means the most comfortable and satisfactory for its cost for streets immediately outlying the city proper and for those used principally for pleas ure driving; in the central business DOT tions, where more active traffic is to be provided for, where commerce plants hel heavy foot, and the wear and tear arc considerable, there are no better anC more appropriate pavements thar granite blocks. or perhaps the bes grades of fire brick, wheIe the street have the toughest usuagc or are more liable to disturbances by those dreade, nulsances, the street gangs of the wate and sewer department. And betweel the suburbs and the business part of tn city where the traffic Is the heavies asphalt paving will be found to be yer, desirable and probably the best.
 In the matter of cleanliness and com fortable use, the smoother the surfac the better I believe asphalt shoul, be used wherever practicable. It noiselessness is desirable feature and its more general use in ou city streets will have very beneficia effect on the nerves and in consequence the general health of our business an professional men, and all who hay occasion to endure the incessant noise c the busy street.
 As result of elaborate experiment. made to ascertain the relative resstanc of friction of different pavements, it ha been established that while 200 pound of force is required to draw one ton owe an ordinary dirt road, 100 pounds WI do the same work on macadam, 33 best granite blocks and b asphalt