The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-02
BRICK PAYMENTS.
They Are . Perfect eucoess-The Mater
ial Can Be Obtained &C Home.

They Are . Perfect success-Ths Mater
ial Can Be Obtained at Homo.
PORT TOWNSEND. Aug. l, 1892
To THE EDITOR: In your issue of the 24th
notice an article on street paving, in which
your correspondent advocates the use of vitri-
fed bsick, which has been used with marked
success in Eastern cities.
In order TO have an intelligent understanding
Of the subject We must, to use your CORE
spondenes words. remove from our minds ell
impressions that We have formed Of the bricks
we see used for building purposes, which would
crumble to dust beneath the wheels of a COM
mon dray. Paving brick IL within fraction of
being as hard as flint and has nearly the same
crushing force as granite. From the C,ay
Worker. q valusble journal published In In
dianapolis. Ind, devoted to all clay working in
terests, take the following from the April
number, 1Ss2, rsge 80:
SEVERE TEsr.-The street committee OF
New Haven, Conn, In order 10 test the hard
ness of vitrifed brick. had three bricks and
eighteen pieces of pig iron, weighing ls5
pounds placed in a rolling barrel, which was
reyolved for five hours, making twenty eight
oponed il was found that the iron had reduced
two and one half pounds, but the weight OF the
brick was not lessoned. Other tests were made
afterwards with practically the same results.
II the bricks had been of the ordinary kind they
would have been ground to powder.
Brick Is not an experiment for street paving
In Europe they have been in use for more thsu
q hundred years. In Holland brick pavemsnts
are extensively used Amsterdam is almost en-
tireiy paved with brick. The road between
Utrecht to Gonnighem is twenty seven miles
long and is paved entirely with bricka The
wear and tear on the business streets of Am.
sterdan is fully equal to that of New York, and
and yet many Of those brick pavemen;s
have been down over fifty years without any
VERY great signs of wear. Brick streets
sorbent and exceedingly durable. They wear
better than granite, DO not become polished and
slippery like granite pavement, but have a vel
vesy wear which gives q firm foothold TO horses
The roadway is easily repaired and made whols
as when new. The city of Steueenville, o. is
termed 50 brick-paved city" in the Cyav
Worker, and has obtained q national reputation
for its fine streets. "The FIRST brick street pave
men,," says M. John l. Means, OF steubeuviIle,
WAS laid during the summer Of 1884, one
square, and il Is today a. smooth and solid.
looking Is any of the othen; which is quite re.
markable, as when IL was put down il WAS
mere experiment and new business for the
contractors. and the material used was the COM
mon mill friedrich. The brick now used ara
much harder, and are made especially for psy.
ing"
since 1854 there have been about twelve mi
of frebrick pavement laid in steubenyilIe an
under the supervision Of the city engineer. M
]. Mortimore Barclay. Tie prices for having
the various streets ranged from 65J, cents To
sLle per square yard The paving OF Market
street, which was done under contrac, in 1891
cost IS cents per square yard. This Included
the tearing up OF the cobble stones with which
the street was formerly paved.
The paving OF ssEreet with brick il rstbar ~,
interesting operation The street is frs, ploued
with an ordinary plow, and excayatet IN a
depth Is designated by the engineer, so that 4,
Will have the same couyexity as the payernen,
when finished. Gravel is then put on in .ufj.
cieas amount, 90 that after being rolled NV !.
seventeen roller IL will have the sDeeif;sd
depth, usually about six inches The g-svaI
foundation is then covered with sho,s ,wo
inches Of sand. This is leveged by rnssns IS
lutte sliding ever two skIds Tha
skids are 30 placed that alter the lr,a
il pulled along them IL leaves the sand rs.sx
for the brick 10 Be laid This is repeated ,1il
all the sand IS smooth The bricks s-e sslec,aa
and inspected By experts, and soft and defactiva
ones thrown out TIE bricks are laid on edo.
iengtnwiss ACROSS the street Any ordinary fs.
borer does this. no particular skill being "a
CURED After this . thin layer of sand IL SCAT.
tered over the pavement and swept fnto tha
seams and then rolled with . light roller and