The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-08
THE WORK ON Tan STREETS.
The Cause OF the Delay on the Jeffer
son Street Paving.

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Work on the jefferson street paving,
which has been delayed for some time, was
actively resumed yesterday The delay,
Messrs. Walker & Son say, was occAsioned
by the inability to get the granite blocks,
but eleven car loads arrived Thursday, two
more are on the way, and next week it Is
expected that six car loads will be received
daily, as the contractors are not depending
on one quarry alone but have three to
draw from. and Col. Walker said yesterday
that they anticipate no further Interrupt
ton from lack of material.
Alderman Harmon, chairman Of the
| street and lane committee Of council
was asked about the slow progress of the
work, and he said that it was
wholly through the fault of not getting the
stone, but it had made little difference The
contract was not given out until the grading
was done. Alderman Harmon said that
the curb has been laid to Charlton street
with possibly an exception Of about 30 feet,
aud the pavement will be completed to-day
10 the south side of State street. Alderman
Harmon went on to say that larger force
will be put on in a couple of weeks, when
other work now under way will permit.
The granite blocks are laid in sand,
| rammed down and the intersticas filled with
sand, and then hot coal tar is poured over
| it until all the crevices are compact and a
| light cover Of sand is spread over all No
water, 1t Is said, can penetrate the pave
ment
A force Of workmen is repairing the
| bowlder pavement on Bryan street, from
Barnard to Bull street, working east from
Barnard. Another force is relaying the
Randolph street powders and cutters.
which work is nearly completed. In both
| cases the cobble stones are being laid closer
| together and well rammed down. Repairs
will be necessary on the east side of Whita-
ker street, between Gordon and Hunting
don streets, as the pavement has sunk on
the west side Of Whitaker, aud repairs are
| contemplated on Drayton street and about
the market building. A force of hands is
laying crossings on FLOYD street.
There is considerable work being done in
| the squares. Walks of oyster shells, with
gas house lime and gas house asphalt sur
face have been laid in Franklin
square, as the experimental walk laid
Of that material in Columbia square early
in the spring has been satisfactory one.
Walks OF this material are being laid by a
force of men in Greene square, and it is
said the cost is but about one third the
price of brick pavements.
Speaking of oyster shells, Alderman
Harmon thinks that they are cheap and
durable pavement i'll themselves, aud easy
to keep in repair, and he would like to pave
South Broad street with them, or at least
one side OF the green as has been advocated
by the MORNING NEWS Speaking of the
squares, the chairman of the street aud
lane committee said that he is in favor of
removing the uusightly railing from all of
them and putting curbs around them, as
was done with Johnson square.
Quite lot of earth has been hauled to
the park extension, and the holes in the
parade ground have been filed up and
leveled off, and it is the intention next win-
ter to thoroughly level the entire Enclosure.
1t may be wondered where all the debris
Of lime and broken bricks has gone that
has been hauled away from the ruins of
the burned district. 1t has all gone
to fill up the streets running
westwardly from West Broad street from
Little Jones street to the Bay, and to fill up
the low places on West Boundary. Rail-
road street, in particular, is pretty well
ballasted In this way, and it is believed that
after few good rains the lime, sand and
broken brick will be compacted so that
water will not sta I'd on the street as il has
| done heretofore along the passenger shed of
the Central railroad. This material, Alder
man Harmon says, costs the city nothing.
except to spread it after the carts had
dumped it, as those who had the debris re-
moved, cared nothing for it after they got
| it loaded, except to be rid of it.
w ME on the SUBJECT OF payementS, it is
said by those best calculated to Judge that
the Liberty street asphalt pavement is get
ting harder every day. A gentleman who
was much preiudiced against it said yester-
day taat at one of the crossings on Liberty
street, where the asphalt was the softest a
few weeks ago, it is now hard, and is grow
ing harder under travel. There is no deny
ing the fact that it has successfully resisted
the heavy hauling from the Savannah,
Florida and Western yards, which IS a
severe test to put to any pavement.