The Newtown bee., 1891-09-11
sEwrowN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Ii, 1891.
LONG HILL.
THE MACADAM ROAD.

TIE MACADAM hOAD.
Dewhirst, Williams Il Parker of the
stone road construction company have
finished rather more than half of the
work on the new macadam road. From
the town line, the starting point, to the
rock ledge at Charles b. Wheeler's, the
road is completed! from there to Grace
church, the road is enlightened, graded
and ready for stone. Since taking the
contract, early in the Summer, the men,
bers of the company, particularly Messrs
Dewhirst and Parker, who have been in
personal supervision of the work, have
hurried it as much as possible. The grad
ing was begun about the first of July,
with road machines and plenty of men
and teams and much of the road was ready
for the crushed stone when the mhchin-
cry began operations in earnest, about
six weeks ago. A nearly uniform grade
was established by surveys for the three
and half miles of the road, from the
town line north to the head of Long Hill
street. The road has also been stright-
ened and widened. Cuts have been made
In front of the houses of Il. A. Mallett,
III. n. Ayres, Mrs Samuel French, Mrs
Susan M. Brothwell, NJ. o. Wheeler, Mrs
Ebenezer and Wilmot c. Wheeler, John
II. Beach, Hobart r. Wheeler, Aaron B.
Sherwood. The rock ledge at Charles
Il. Wheeler's is attacked, this week and
the knobs in front of FL. Turney and f.
M. Bcardsley are yet to be reduced, with
other slight grading at the upper end of
the road. There have been fills from II.
A. Mallett's to III. n. Ayres, Mr. Ayres's
to Mrs French's, Mrs French's to Mrs
Brothwell's, to NJ. 0. Wheeler's, to the
front of the Chestnut hill road, from d.
G.. Beach's new house to C. b. Wheeler's,
from the ledge above Mr. Wheeler's to the
Pork lane road and another in front of
the church. Considerable filling will be
done on either side of the knoll at f. M.
Beardsley's. In doing this grading Bridge
port teams were largely employed, al
though +. Middlebrook has provided three
yoke of oxen and II pair of horses and
other local transfers have carried stone
for ballast; among them, $. b. Beach, l..
+. Patchen, 81 burroughs, Henry Wills.
OF the entire three and half miles, about
1000 feet must be ballasted with eight in
chcs of stone before the macadam material
is put down; $3.50 feet of this is finished,
rs follows: Four hundred feet between
Mr. Ayres's and Mrs French's; 1850 feet,
from red store to Mrs Brothwell's; 800
feet, Mrs Brothwell's to MO. Wheeler's;
o. ~ I.
b. Wheeler's, just finished. OF the re-
mainder, 1000 feet is to be put down near
the church and the rest in two small sec
tions. The road has been widened con-
siderably in places and has been stright-
ened, particularly from w. c. Wheeler's
to the Julius Hurd place, where stright
line has been followed. Near the IIurd
place and between there and G. B.Wheel-
er's, it has been carried to the west, one
of the cherry trees Mt Mr. Hurd's being
sacrificed to make room. More straight
ening is contemplated on the upper end.
The macadam material is obtained by
cracking up the stone walls on the farms
of Il. A. Mallett, Carl Ochsner and John
Willis. About 5000 feet of fencing have
been used and very good material is found
in its boulders, though mica predominates
in the rock of the neighborhood. Two
men are required to feed the huge crush
err, which is run II hours day by 25
horse power engine and has turned out
as high rs 60 cubic yards of crushed stone
day. From the mouth of the crusher,
the material is taken by an inclined elev-
ator to the top of the huge bins, run
through rotory screen and the different
sizes separated. Neat board fences are
to replace the stone walls and Carpenter
William Warehouse of Seaview avenue,
East Bridgeport, has already begun to
put them up. They will be three and
half feet high, chestnut posts with pine
boards. l.. n. Mallett of Tashua and w.
b. Coan furnish posts, the former so, the
latter 700; the pine lumber comes from
Bridgeport. This week, the contractors
expected to test the road by hauling over
it their machinery, which is to be set up
on Modesty avenue, opposite L. G.Beers's.
The 30 Italians will also be transferred
from land of Charles w. Beach to that of
t.. MluuleDrOOk. Inc ROAD, at Il contract
price of $1l 400, is being thoroughly built.
Whenever ballast is used, there is an
eight-inch bottom of solid stone. Above
this, one four inches of two and half
inch stone, an inch of one-inch stone and
an inch of screenings. Where
ballast is not used, there is an additional
inch of the coarser stone. In both cases,
material is of such thickness that, when
thoroughly rolled by F. l.. Burton with
lotion Aveling Il Porter imported roll
er, it is of the required depth. The width
of the road over all is % feet; of the
macadam, IA feet; of the top dressing, -
feet.
George Williams, recently arrested
for violating the license law, forfeited
800 bond in the court of common pleas,
last week.
BETHEL.
Rev Mr. Langlois OBLIGATED on the Sd
at the marriage Of Miss Rebecca j.,
daughter of r., II. Crane to Eugene RaZ-