St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-11
NOT LIKE HhDES,
But With Solid Stuff Is the
st. Paul Auditorium
Paved.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBIT
OF Paving Material inspect
ed by the City Off,
Gals.
EVEN DOZEN EXHIBITORS
Display Interesting Variety
Of Brick, Asphalt, Granite
and Block.

The paving exhibit at the audi
torium was opened to the public
yesterday. While it did not attract
a surging crowd of idle sight-SeerS,i 1T
was viewed by a select number OF
citizens who are vitality interested
in street pavements, inasmuch as
several have been recently ordered.
The board of public works, notwith-
standing the abolitionist movement
OF the state senate, strolled collec-
lively up to Eighth street and gaZed
upon the models Of asphalt, granite,
brick and cedar pavements. Some
of the councilmen likewise dropped
in to study the engrossing pave
ment problem. Tim Reardon cast
doubling eye on every bloch of
pavement in sight, regardless of its
material, and even SHE'D suspicious
ly at the bottled samples of sands
and cements. AS for chewing a cud
Of refined asphalt, kindly offered
him by Messrs. Hennessey and Cox,
the assemblyman scorned the offer
y
muscles. Aldermen Ehrmanntraut
Kartak, and Markham looked more
complacently upon the pavements
They deposited their combined
weight upon several samples, but
failed to produce permanent i'm
preston upon the pavements-
though the exhibitors appeared duly
sensible of the honor
The board of public works, ac-
companied by the city engineer,
moved around in a more dignified
manner. They seemed to test the
pavements with their eyes, rather
than with their feet. They scru-
tinized the brick blocks, critically,
smoothed off the asphalt samples
with brush of the hand, looked
fairly through the cedar blocks, and
their concrete foundation, and gazed
sceptically upon q Minnesota stone
that has thus far so baff1led the
science of geologistsand invention of
chemists that they don't know what
to call it. 1t is advertised to stand
FIRE AND WATER"
The exhibit is instructive. if an
preached in the proper spirit. The man
who goes there only TO walk across
the sample pavements will not keenly
appreciate the difference between a
granite and cedar block paving. On
less he asks questions of the exhibitors
ne VIII not comprehend the distinction
between crude and refined asphalt.
cd lxtl,
plastic cement, dressed and undressed
granite. 1888 -f-;]-4t -eoa
AS for concrete foundation, it
would be an abstract proposition to an
INITIATED behoider. But our public Off
Gals are properly inquisitive, as they
should be, and as a result of their in
quiries and the reading of the ex-
pansive signs they learned that the
following concerns were exhibiting
their products:
Hennessey & Cox displayed samples
of Bermudez asphalt paving, asphalt
sidewalks, and asphalt fioorings for
breweries, which, if compared. in point
of durability. would read in the in
verse order, hardest, harder hard, the
brewery flooring possessing more soft
ness than street pavement. Numer-
Gus samples of crude and refined as
phalt were included in the exhibit, and
segments of pavement that had been
layed for several years and were torn
up to prove durability, were also
shown
The Warren-Schaarf Asphalt Paving
company, of New York, exhibited a
sample of asphalt pavement taken last
month from the center of Summit ave-
nue., at the intersection of Western.
1t was laid in 1886. and yet 1t exhibited
scarcely any wear. 1t was compressed
only one-eighth of an inch in the entire
nine years.
Des Moines, To-, contributed an ex-
hibit of brick paving that attracted
considerable attention The Des.
Moines manufacturers paving brick,
which covers nearly twenty-five miles
of the streets of Des Moines, is as
hard as flint, for it strikes fire at every
blow of the steel. The rock-faced brick
and glazed brick, to be used for build
ing purposes, also made in Des Moines,
were viewed with much interest.
The Diamond Brick and Tile COM
pany, of Kansas City, also furnished
an attractive exhibit of brick paving
and sidewalk. The brick is
SMOOTH AND HARD.
and great durability is claimed for It.
There is one mysterious exhibit. 1t
is that of the stone from Little Falls.
"nameless here forevermore" Quart
zite" is the designation bestowed upon
1t by some scientists, and considered
good enough by it's discoveries, Roth
well & Co. Other experts have called
1t all sorts of names, such as "n,ica
schist, quartz biotite," "hard sand
stone" etc. 1t is immaterial. THAT
which we call rock, by any other
name would feel as hard"
This rock is so internal tough" that
it will stand fire and water. From the
intensest heat of the former it will
plunge into the chill of the latter
without being phased. Those who have
tried to press and squeeze it have
found that it requires 5000 pounds
more pressure to the square inch to
make it yield than does the most
adamantine granite. The 'tuuartzite''
is a grayish stone, which it's discover
ers nave not yet put upon the market.
Granite pavements were exhibited by
the Northern Granite company. of ST.
Cloud. and by some thirteen other
quarters of granite in that vicinity.
They were SO undeniably hard that the
aldermen and AssembIyman Reardon
bowed to the exhibits and passed on.
They appeared somewhat stuck how
ever, on the cement exhibits of the
Milwaukee Cement company and John
Murphy & Co.
Fielding & Shepley displayed a good
sample of cedar block paving on a..
concrete foundation, and the Eureka
Stone company, Utley B. Curtis, pro-
prietor, offered an attractive exhibit
of tile sidewalk. There was also a.
display of Utah asphalt, which looked
just as black and felt just as adhesive
as the South American product.
The Minnesota Sandstone company
furnished an exhibit of Kettle river
stone for curbing, and the Anderson e.
| Barr Clay company displayed some
tough propositions in the way of
bricks, guaranteed to light sauarely
upon an ''Ethiop's" crown without
chipping.