The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-02
DELAYS IN THE PAVING.
ACCIDENTS INTERFERE WITH THE
CONTRACTORS WORK.


The Paving Company's mixer" and
Stone Crusher Break Down and
the Work on Liberty street Set Back
Everything to Be in Working Order
Again in Day or Two-The street
Railroad Connections.
There is no little activity on Liberty
street. Between 70 ty and fifty meu were
grading and laying the ba @ and putting on
the binders for the asphalt pavement w bile
1t Is true that TIE time expired yesterday
for the completion Of the pavement, Maj
Vandenburg said last night that it is not to
be Supposed that the city will rigidly enforce
the contract, and for various reasons. The
time Of beginning WIS delayed, and while
the company could have obtained all the
material up the North river and brought it
here by sloop loads and completed its work
by the time specified the company, being
home company, had rather chosen to keep
all the money in Georgia that it could and
had bought its granite here. The delays IN
shipping Of the granite have caused the
DELAYS.
The crusher, which has only a capacity of
$50 tons, has been worked up to 1870 tons
necessitating repairs which will be com
pleted to-day, and it will be in operation
this afternoon. There has .een no finishing
course put on the pavement for the last
three days, as three OF the teeth III The
mixer broke out last Tuesday, and the COM
pany had to telegraph to New York for
duplicates. They will reach here to-mor-
row, and the mixer will be in operation
again on Monday. There are 1000 yards
" or ssbi ha hraa kc
at the two yards have not interrupted any
Of the other work on the street until yester-
day, when the stock Of ground stone was
exhausted.
Maj. Vandenburg said that the pavement
would have been completed east Of Bull
street by tonight had it not been for the
accident to the mixer. As it Is, he says the
people will See pavement laid very fast next
week.
Nal. Nandenburg was asked how he
accounts for the disintegration of the War
ren-Schaarf pavement on Congress street.
He replied it was not unlikely that Mr..
Schaarf had been too much afraid
Of the effect of warm weather
on the asphalt, and got the finishing strata
too hard to stand the cid weat ec The
fine sand, be said, had deceived Mr.. Muir
dock, which accounts for some defects in
the Broughton street pavement laid by the
company will remedy when it completes
be pavement on Liberty street, which Mai
Vandenburg SAYS will have no such defects.
The turnout is being put iu at the south
west corner of Liberty and Habersham
streets by force of workmen to connec.
tho City and Suburban line of street rail
ways, the Coast Line having purchased
control of the City and Suburban. 1t is ex-
pected that the two lines will bs thoroughly
amalgamated into working order in a short
ii re.
The Belt Line track has been laid from
Liberty street along East Broad to juno
tson with the track at Preside I I'd East
Broad streets, and a force Of workmen is en-
gagged in fl ishiug up a turnout on East
Broad between South Broad street and South
Broad street lane. The connection aud
turnout will be completed early next week,
and the Belt Line cars will then 90 south
on East Broad street from Bay to Gwinnett
street