The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-24
TO DECIDE WHICH STREET.
The Council Having a Hard Time With
the Paving Question.

/ The West Broad Street Property Own
ers Pushing Their Protest-Three
Paying Companies Urging Their
! Claims-Mr. Wadley's Proposition
| to Give ebert Trial-What He Says
About the TattnaI County Material.
Talk About Paving Montgomery
Street.
The city council will meet to-day at
noon to discuss the paving question. A
delegation of West Broad street property
owners will probably be before the
meeting to present their objections to the
paving of West Broad street with granite
block.
The mem bers of the street and lane
committee have been having a lively time
with the paving contractors this week
Three contractors were in the city yes
terday, each representing a different CON
Germ and different paving material and
each satisfied that the material used by
his company would give the greatest sat
isfaction, and prove the cheapest in the
long run. They were Mr.. Patterson, of
Venable Bros, of Atlanta, who had the
contract to pave Jefferson street with
granite blocks Mr.. Lassiter, of the Ten
nessee Brick Company, of Chattanooga,
manufacturers of vitrifed brick, and
Mr.. Geo. w. Wadley who owns the ebert
mine on the Chattanooga, Rome and
| Columbus railroad.
vENABLE BROS CLAIM.
Venable Bros. are swinging on to their
contract with the city to put down $4,000
square yards of granite block with a
death grip. Mr.. Lassiter, of the Ten
nesee Brick Company, is so we'll satisfied
that he can establish the desirability of
vitritied brick as pavement that he is
| anxious to have the street and lane COM
mttee take trip either to Jacksonville
| or Chattanooga, at the expense of his
company, that they may see the brick
pavements in use in those cities.
MIR. Wadley, who is now devoting
his attention TO ebert, said to a MORNING
NEWS reporter last night that the people
Of Savannah are entirely mistaken in
their estimate of ebert as a paving ma
terial.
"Chert" said Mr.. Wadley, "is not
material merely available for residence
streets, similar to oyster she'll On the
contrary, the more trafic it
gets the better for 1T. In
stead of wearing away it simply
becomes harder and more compact. 1t is
used in Birmingham on the heaviest traf-
fc streets and gives entire satisfaction. L
have just finished putting down half a
mile of it on Peachtree street in Atlanta,
where the new asphalt pavement ends.
have also put down lot of it in Westview
cemetery in Atlanta. The cemetery
streets were mush of red mud before
the ebert was put down, but now they
are as hard as asphalt"
The portion of New street along by
the Central railroad warehouse, which
mt down n bnut he
not been repaired since that time and is
now as hard as floor"
WANTS TO HAVE TRIAL.
MIR. Wadley has talked with Mayor
cDonough, City Engineer VIM, Alder
man O'Brien and the members of the
street and lane committee and finds
them all favorably impressed with ebert
as paving material and DESTROYS of
giving it more extended trial in Savan-
nan. Mr.. Wadley thinks they have a
chanceinowto giveichert trial on West
Broad street. He is willing to pave the
street i've to six inches deep with ebert
and give guarantee of three to five
years alta cost of about $l,05 q square
yard.
If the council wants to improve Dray-
ton street, said Mr.. Wadley, II can sur
face it with ebert three inches deep. at a
cost OF about 80 cents per square yard.
The cobblestone pavement already on the
| street would not add greatly to the
| dura b1llty of the pavement, as the ebert
! really needs no foundation Five or six
inches of ebert, well-packed, is Just as
good without any foundation as with 1t"
THE TATTNALL COUNTY DISCOVERY.
Mr.. Wadley discovered the beds of low
grade hematite ore on the Savannah and
Western railroad, to which Mr.. c. B.
! Warrand has recently called attention
! Valnabla ayyincr ma aria1 IL H.,
was general superintendent of the Cen
| trial railroad
There is plenty of 1t there" said Mr..
WadIey, in referring to the hemati te
and all 1T would cost the city would be
the transportation. | tried it as ballast
for the track, but found it useless, as it
retains water and becomes mushy in wet
weather"
The supervisor of that section of the
Central railroad, who was in the city
yesterday, confirmed Mr. Wadley's state
ment as TO the results from the use of
hematite.
City Engineer Winn, who was spoken
TO about the matter, said he knew
there was bed of hard material
running through that section of the state,
and extending down as far as Jesup. Col
| Wlnn said he had never known of this
substance being given trial as a paving
material, but he knew that there were
some good hard roads through the section
crossed by these beds. Whether these
roads retained their hardness in wet
weather he did not know.
1t is probable that the West Broad
street property holders will urge the
paving Of Montgomery street as a street
better fitted TO divide the traffic with JEFF
erson street and better able TO bear the
cost of the assessments, as the property
on that Stl Get is more valuable.
You can't make new arm with Salvation
Oil, but you can cure the bruises with 1t. 25c.