The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-06

savannah, Ga, Nov. 5, 1S96-Editor
Morning News. City: Dear Strive beg
to ask the use of your columns in answer
ing inquiry appearing in your paper a
few days ago, signed by "Indecision."
Having been furnished by friend, a
property owner on South Broad street.
with literature and illustrations supposed
to represent the actual condition into
which all vitrined brick streets degener-
ate in a short while, which information
is being furnished gratis by enterprislng
asphalt manufacturers, 1t is indeed easy
to understand the objection being made
by some Savannah citizens to the use of
vitriiied brick as a paving material f
what has been slIetched were true The
photographs, however, we are Informed,
represent scenes that have long ceased
to exist, and which were due only to the
grossest negligence in the selection and
laying of bricks. The thousands of miles
that are annually being put down of this
pavement by the most progressive ard
far-sighted cities In all parts of this
country, the satisfaction due to its dura-
bility and other merits, would seem 10
indicate that the period has passed i'm
in an experimental stage, and that it is
destined to be the street pavement Of the
future.
1t combines more different advantages
than any paving material that has ever
been introduced, its points of superiority
over all other pavements, which actual
usage in hundreds of our cities have DEM
onstrated, being
/. Low Cost-Brick pavements made of
the best and purest stratas of clay, the
vitrihcation of which creates material
not second to any material in USE can
be laid for less than any other smooth
and desirable pavement.
2. Repairs.-The annual reports of every
city where it has been used shows that
| this pavement is the most economical,
| when 1t comes to repairs, It being more
durable and requiring less attention than
| any other pavement, besides any ordinary
| laborer can make necessary repairs at a
| nominal expense, when necessary to re-
! move portions of pavement to put down
| or replace gas, water, sewer and other
| pipes, which in itself is an important
| item, when 1t Is considered that property
owners have this expense to shoulder from
| time to time. over 400 cities in the United
States are now using vitrihed brick pave
| ments.
g. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES brick are
| impervious to water; the joints being
filed with pitch, filth cannot accumulate
| and breed disease. There is no dust which
| the varying winds can watt into houses
along such thoroughfares, as the pave
| ments can be sprinkled and washed with
/ out injury which fact does not hold good
| with reference to asphalt
A. Safety-Brck, unlike asphalt, are not
more slippery when wet than dry; they
afford a sure foothold for horses Under
every condition, and our cycling friends
cannot fail to record their vote for brick
If after heavy shower, they will take u
| quick spin over portion of our asphalt
streets, and then over either Abercorn or
Habersham streets on which brick arc
laid for short distance.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
| railroad Company, at their .Chcago
| freight yards, experimental with all kinds
of paVements, finally using brick as the
best, and found that after a tonnage OF
1850 tons had passed over 1t daily for four
years, but one brick had been broken.
From Baltimore, Md, a letter from
Capt. Jones Talbot, who has charge of
Chase's wharf, where heavy traffic lie
continually carried on, says: I'm 1892
$500 yards of vitriied brick pavements
were laid on the wharf As heavy loads
as are hauled in Baltimore pass over It,
and 1t as yet shows no bad effects" In
| Baltimore there has been general salts
faction with brick pavements.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean, March 1,
streets paved with brick, running from
Madison to Washington on La Sale
street, have had harder test than any
street running parallel with it, as it's
smoothness makes it easier for heavy
loads to be drawn, and Transfers will 20
a block out of their way to take that al
vantage, yet the pavement shows little
wear These facts are worthy Of notice.
and in the future contracts for pavement
should be selected that will show these re-
suits"
]. G. Flagg. chief engineer city of Chi
cago, says:
Comparing brick pavements with as
phalt, believe that for general use brick,
properly burned, and Of the right sizes,
properly laid, to be superior to asphalt, as
to its first cost, It's facilities and cheapness
for repairs, its sanitary qualities, its ease
upon horses, and last but not least its
durability.
Properly constructed, brick pave
ment, built of the best re-pressed brick,
will last, II not disturbed, on street or
ordinary traffic. fifteen years with scarce
ly no repairs"
Dr. J. P. Halle, Charleston, w. Va,
says:
Summers street has been in constant
and hard service every day from 1873 Ia
date (23 years., and is to-day in sound
serviceable condition. / doubt II It has
cost the CITY, within that time $25 for re-
pairs. If there is a pavement in America
of superior record / should like to know
it,"
Atlanta, Chattanooga, Louisville, Knox.
vile, Memphis, Jacksonville and many
other enterprising southern cities are
largely using vitriied brick for street paw
ing and are well pleased with the result
In conclusion, we will add that the com.
pany we represent Is prepared to lay and
keep in repair for term of years vitrl-
fled brick on South Broad street, guaran.
teeing a better pavement than can be had
of asphalt and at a saving to our citizens
and the city of Savannah of large
amount of money. MacDonell & Gordon
Attorneys, Virginia Paving Brick Com.
pany.-ad.
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