The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-13
The Trinidad Asphalt Mon
opoly Threatened by a
st. Louis Concern.
YITRIFIED BRICK MAKES GOOD ROADS
Interesting Paper on the Durable
ity of the Various Materials
for pavements.

$50. 900 of asphalt paving In that city.
Among the bidders was a rank out
sider.r as one New York newspaper put
it. The announcement was sufficient to
attract a delegation of public officials TO
the Department of Public Works In New
York from every community of any con-
siderable size for many miles around
New York that has under consideration
the question of street paving.
In New York city the asphalt paving
has been of hate pareeled out to two
asphalt paving concerns, the Barber
Company and the Sieilian Company. AS
In Newark, it has been charged that
specifications for street paving have
been so worded as to prevent any blu the
Barber Company from bidding. The
specifications have provided for genuine
Trinidad lake asphalt" which is con-
trolled by the Barber people. In Newark.
where the New Jersey Company, under
some sos1t of arrangement with the Bar
Der Company, may secure the genuine
Trinidad lake asphalt" the work Is
about equally divided. In New YORK the
Barber Company has been laying asphalt
at $S.47 a square yard, with a fifteen
year guarantee. This is the owest price.
THE NEW COMPETITOR,
Tn Newark the lowest price has been
s2.77. with a fye-year guarantee. When
the bids for the $3.50, 900 of asphalt paving
now contemplated in New York were
opened the other day, the Fruin-Banl-
brick Construction Company of St. Louis
was among the bidders. It's price for
asphalt paving ranged from 1913 to S3.64
per square yard with a fifteen year
guarantee. This company offered to use
asphalt as good as the best, and here
came in the difference. What Is known
as the land asphalt is to be used, 1t Is,
the old problem. All sorts of influences
ware used against the new corners but
thew offered to put up a plant and go
ahead with the work Immediately If the
contract wal awarded to them. They
have opened an office i'm New York and
have works located in Jersey City,
where the asphalt is refined. The COM
pany is said to be an extensive one and
has done a vast amount OF work In
western cities. 1t deposited good bonds
In New York and compiled with all the
conditions.
A reporter visited the office of the
Department of Works in New York the
other day TO investigate the new COM
petitor. Mr.. Stephen Towle. the consult
ing engineer of the department, who is
said to be one of the leading experts of
this country aIgns or Europe Pc On pa atuaIsd ei #
both here and abroad, said: LAS to the
difference between genuine lake, and
land, asphalt, there Is no question IN my
It is more uniform and yiscid, or glIb5inltt
that is good. but much OF It has deter
We have had an example OF this differ
cost has beer. some $4,000 o Eighth ave,
With land asphalt. 1t Is fair to say,
however. that had both avenues been
kept In repair they would have worn all
pan psnl5 failed. With a sound company, the
hfteen-year guarantee is certain, to Keep
the street in proper condition, whether II
paving must be kept In repair, and needs
faction. In some Of the European cities
the city. A contract is. made with a COM
pany to construct and maintain, an as
phaIt pavement for a series Of years.
s generany yar ar'n per year e. NY recollection
IS that the price is about fifty cents a
At the office of the new company in
We are here to stay. We have been award.
in IN B fgteldls1s are the lowest We have
aiven surety of the best description for
the proper performance of our work. SO
men 1 in repair for dfteen years Is as
good aus 1t can be. Our refinery Is In Jer-
sey City, and our new works VIII be To-
what. on the genuine lake asphalt?'
Fit is all lake asphalt. It all comes out
.rThen how do the specifications of
some cities bar you out?' asked the re-
porter. -
presentative Of the company continusd:-
sfThe lake is owned by the British Gov
eminent: and the sxelusi y right to r rs
IN His every sense of the Word, and Vi paw
Ing; with gdans the guarantee s,,st as g 70 ks ! na y N ret
as AZ an Il. 0f hou { w ialeSSi i i The K 'l hea de s1ffei
at a fixed Charge. ana a Contract made
to keep it In repair for ten years at q
charge of half a cent a square foot each
An effort was made by. the board Of
Works of Newark. some time e to OBJ
tain bids for asphalt paving from out
snown asphalt PAYERS were communicated
trench on the territory of the existing
AsPHALT IS SHORT LIVED.
AT a meeting Of the Street. Committee
of the Newark Board Of Works on Tues
On the different Kinds of pavement His
most important statement related to
asphalt. He said.-'Tt is. however, ex4
pensive short lived. -Wheter the
travel is as heavy as On North Broad
street, or light as it may be on some
of our side resident streets, II Is doubt
full if It's life Is more han from twelve
to fifteen years, with more or less out
lay for repairs during all Of that time,
It does not wear out with the travel
upon 1t, but loses It's strength and dis
integrates with the. changes OF tempera-
ture from extreme heat to extreme cold,
and also from the action of water upon
It." Property owners who have paid
about J s1Sg per pern city Iy lg Ct for sarn asIphaait tk pave,
viii VIII lat ayIns 9n tSat tg tima Win Fl t aftse ~ yea oni
Of repair. ~ discussing the matter Mr..
II am very confident that after the
five years are up the asphalt pavements
will rapidly go to pieces, and 1t Is very
necessary to And out what repairs will
cost before, going much further with
aspA ViTRsiFiBD BRICK r. GOOD,
About vftriied brick Mr.. Van Duyne
Said
''This pavement is not affected by the
extremes of heat9dri cold, nor lis water
detrimental to Il II the bricks and pro-
perly selected. While 1t will not d. In the
place of granite In the main streets that