The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-17
TALK ABOUT STREET PAVING.
EXTENSIVE WORK LIKELY TO BE
UNDERTAKEN NEXT YEAR.

Given Out Tomorrow Night-An
Experiment with ebert to BE Made
on DraytOn street-Dr. FaIlIgant
Continues to Urge the Merits of
Augusta GrnveI-He Points to the
Fine Condition of the Augusta
| Road-GrnveI Likely to BE Used
Extensively Next Year, Mayor
Myers Says.
The question OF street paving will again
come before the city council tomorrow
night
Bids for paving South Broad street
with sheet asphalt are to be opened at
the meeting. Only two bids are expected,
both from the Warren-Scharf Asphalt
Company. one at $2.1 per square yard
for laying a standard sheet asphalt pave
ment, and one at $1.s5 per square yard,
for laying a standard light sheet as
phalt pavement. The only difference be-
tween the two pavements is a one-haif
inch cushion coat laid next to the con-
| crete.
In addition to guaranteeing the pave
ment for five years, the company will I'M
dertake it's maintenance for ten years
thereafter at the rate of 5 cents per
square yard per annum This insures
flrst-class pavement on South Broad
street for fifteen years at any rate. The
asphalt company is ready to begin work
within few days after the
signing of the contract, and work will
probably begin by Dec. /.
Bids will also be received for the main
tenance of all the asphalt streets of the
city upon which the five-year guarantee
has expired and of the other streets from
the expiration of the guarantee for
period of ten years. Only one bid is ex-
pected, that of the Warren-Scharf AS
phalt Company. which Is expected to make
a bid Of cents per square yard per an
mum for the period Of ten years This
will include Broughton street. from Abb
ercon to West Broad. upon which the
city is now paying the Warren-Scharf
Company 10 cents per square yard per
annum for maintenance.
Some action looking to the improvement
of Drayton street will probably be taken.
Mayor Myers stated to a Morning News
reporter yesterday that council would
probably order the shell or what is left
of it scraped off from several blocks Oh
Drayton street and several inches of ebert
laid for the distance for the purpose of
test This test would probably include
that portion of the street from Bay to
South Broad or perhaps as far as Lib
erty. If the test proved successful 1t
would be extended over the whole street
Mayor Myers was asked if it were not
intended to give Drayton street perma-
nent pavement. He replied that this is
not settled by any means
ITO tear up the cobblestones and lay
an entirely new pavement would be cost
ly, said he. IF the ebert laid over the
cobblestones will give a satisfactory pave
ment, then the improvement can be made
at small cost. If the ebert experiment
proves a failure, then we have not lost
much. The trouble with the oyster shells
on Drayton street is that they are ground
up and converted into mortar. This can
not happen to ebert"
Some of the members of council do not
agree with Mayor Myers on the subject
of ebert. Alderman Hudson believes
that asphalt block Is the thing for Dray-
ton street. 1t would make a handsome
and durable pavement, well suited to the
traffic on that street. "Drayton is a mar
row street. he said, land the property
owners on that street can well afford to
pay the cost of a first-class pavement. -
Alderman Falligant thinks Augusta
gravel would prove sufficient on Drayton
street, south of Liberty street.
DR.. Falligant will bring UP the subject
OF Augusta gravel again at tomorrow
nights meeting. He is so Thoroughly i'm
| pressed with the value of the gravel as
| paving material that he doesn't in
| tend to let up on 1t until his fellow al
oermen consent to at least go out on the
! Augusta road and see what a fine road
way the county has got there of the ma
terial 40"
"a morning News reporter took a ride
OUT the BAY street extension and the Au-
gusta road yesterday. Bay street extend
ed Is laid with ebert from the terminus
OF Bay street proper to the CITY limits
! ha ND
street mas a foundation of broken stone
with SIX inches of ebert on ton ana is
as sood as any pavement in the citv bar
ring none. This stretch of 500 feet cost
So'No' including curbing, catch basins and
other expenses. "''N
AT the city limits the ebert stons and
the gravel pavement begins. The dfffer-
ence would hardly be noticed. excent for
the 1act that the curbing is disconfinue5
at thls point also and the road ma
uoWn 10 twenty-one feet. In the first half
mlle there are several places which look
as II the pavement had broken and been
! repaired. This, mr. Falligant exn1ained
was due TO the independence of the roo
gang In the use of Augusta gravel. After
the hrst half mile the road is as pretty a
| piece OF roadway as can be found anv-
where in the country 1t is smooth. hard
shows but little indentat ton Of wheels or
| hoofs and but little dust
| AhO ShleA virtue OF the gravel roadway
| Dr. Falllgant explained, is that water in
stead OF inJuring 1t, only packs IT The
harder, ana heavy vehicles passing over
lflt serve the same purpose. On his recent
trip to Augusta, he said, he saw equally
as good roads which had been in use sew
eral years with but little repair and ono
road almost as good, which had been i'm
use nIteen years, with very little renair.
The great advantage of the gravel roads
! is the cheapness of construction. He was
SHOWN roads near Augusta, which cost
only N,0OO mile. Commissioner Chanlic
informed him that the Augusta road cos
the county $500 a mile For a CITY street
with a roadway of thirty feet in width
including drainage, he thought the eost
would not exceed $1,000 a mile.
THE two twenty-hve-foot roadvavs ~,
South Broad street." said DR.. FaIIipant
could be paved with Augusta gravel at
between 5000 and $1,000, and vet the c,t,,
proposes to pay nearly $4,000 10 ba,ye
them asphalted The gravel" he SAYS
would look just as well and would en-
ser every purpose. II could be snrinkled
to keep down the dust without daneer ~
| injuring the pavement and would 800
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