The record-union., 1895-12-19
cad the specifications they could do so

read the specifications they could do so
| at any time.
Mr. Phinney then showed samples
| taken by him on Tenth street. He had
never made a speciality of macadam
roads, but he felt competent, from his
reading, to judge whether they were
good or not. He thought Seventeenth
street was fair, but had not been suffi-
/ GENTLY rolled. Eleventh street was also
! fair, Tenth street was better rolled,
| Eleventh street is breaking up, as it
| has too much fine stuff in the top layer
! He could not distinguish between the
| top and bottom courses on Seventeenth
street and he thought till he examined
the specifications that perhaps there
was only one course. The two courses
on Eleventh street were quite distinct.
In answer to questions by Mr.. White,
he said that his main knowledge of
macadam roads was derived from read
ing. He had read authorities who rec
commended. a moderate use of fine ma
terial. The fine stuff Sits down and
fill the interstices Of the large rock. He
cid not think the specimens of the
/ Tenth street macadam were as good as
| they should be. Two inches of such
fine surface material would not make
good street.
A well-built, two-layer macadam
street would require some slight sur
years. OF course, the foundation would
not need repairs. If much fine stuff and
dust were used for the surface he
thought it would soon filter down, and
the second layer would be reached. The
dust would blow away in dry weather.
He thought the stuff from half an inch
to an inch, if put on the surface, would
make a street that would wear the long
est
He thought the three-inch stones
would make a better sub-roadway than
the large fat stones shown by the re-
monStrants. He could not call the latter
first-clasS macadam.
Bragg asked if the specimens shown
were in accordance with specifications,
/ and Mr. Phinney answered that they
were not.
Mr. Platnauer handed him a sample
taken from Tenth street, and asked him
what was in it. He answered that it
contained broken rock, rock dust, some
clay and some gravel. He thought it
would pack and make a better street
than broken stones an inch or two in
diameter.
Mr.. White asked him if he thought
that a top layer running from quarter
of an inch to an inch would not make
| better road than the fine material
would, and he answered that it would.
| He could not remember who suggested
! putting on the fine stuff.
Street superintendent Murray testi-
! fed that he had charge of the Tenth
! street work When Mr.. Avery objected
! to the size of the rock, some of it was
picked up and put into the Subgrade at
/ the intersection at F and Tenth streets.
| The rest was sold to sidewalk contract
! ors He thought the rock was as good as
/ the State could produce. The top course
| was Cordelia screenings. Some of the
! finer screenings was hauled away, and
! some was spread on the street. He
thought the work done by King was
| fair, but could have been done better.
! He did not like his spreading the
| macadam with rake instead of
! shovel He thought there was too much
| fine stuff on one end of the street. and
! too much coarse stuff on the surface of
] the other. The property owners wanted
/ it that way, however, and he found
! them hard to please. He thought some
! fine stuff was best for the street.
! Mr.. Sweetser complained to him of
/ the fineness of the top dressing, but he
| thought it was very good. He went up
/ to look at it and ordered Mr.. King to
/ take off some of the piles of fine stuff.
! He also examined some Of the carloads
/ and pointed out some that were too
/ fine The property owners all wanted
course top dressing, and he told King
! that il would not bind. King said the
property owners wanted it, and he told
| King to go ahead and please them, as
| he must get his pay from them.
When it was done, the property own
ers kicked because it did not bind, and
! King told them that it was as they
! had wanted it done.
MIR. White asked why Superintendent
J Murray did not follow the specifications
/ and the latter answered that he did not
think that any specifications were ever
made that could be strictly complied
/ with He considered the big fiat stones
| shown would make a good substratum.
/ He denied having a controversy with
! Contractor Labs because the latter in
! sisted on using coarser stuff on the
/ Eleventh-street work
He said that where the rock was