The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

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II YOU are IN doubt about your disease write d.
| rect 10 Prof. Munyon l3O5 arch St. PhilSdel-
CURES B @s9ie PA for free ,ssTyu
| - Munyon's Rene luHiI
dies for sale at all druggists Mostly % cents
sioner of public works succeeds in per-
| suadiug the gas company TO replace II. The
| next spring the water commissioners de-
| eide that larger pipe should be laid III
| that street and the pavement is torn up
| again. The year following another gas
! company is formed and the pavement Is
| torn up In order to enable 1t to furnish
| competition with the old one. The next
| year the first gas company discovers tina,
! its facilities are not adequate and rips
! up the pavement again. Every reader win
| recognize his own experience and realize
| that within a period of ten years an
| amount equal to the original cost of tins
pavement is wasted in repairs and in re
| placing il for the purposes named without
considering the Inconvenience and annoy
ances suffered by the people who live ih
| the street.
In Germany they do things differently.
| Before a pavement Is laid the experts
| ana they are experts with university de-
| grees framed and hanging in their offices,
! not ward politicians-who have charge of
underground engineering put their heads
| together and consider what pipes and con-
ASStAVliS dIt llhety 10 De neeued along Lnat
| particular street during the next three or
| four centuries Then when these are sup
| piled the pavement is laid, and 1t Is not
| laid upon thin crust of broken stone,
| but upon foundation that will last for
| ever. saw some workmen trying to cut
away a section of pavement in Berlin to
| make room for the foundation of new
monument. With crowbars, pickaXes,
! chisels and drills they had gone down
| about twelve or fourteen inches into the
| pavement and were just able to jam a
| crOwbar into the stuff so that 1t would
support itself. This pavement cost money
when 1t was originally laid, but was put
| down to stay, and 100000 expended in
| that manner at the start will last longer
than $l,0O00GO worth of the pavements
| that are laid in American cities.
Tue same thoroughness and permanence
| characterize all public undertakings. Nor
| Is the greed of spectators allowed to in
| tertere with the architectural appearance
| of the new streets. No building can be
erected until the plans. specifications and
| samples of the materials have been APP
| proved by the building department. We
| nave way in the United States of build
! Ing houses ito sell" Fortunes have been
made in that line Of business in all our
| growing cities The outside IS fair to
look upon and often imposing. The in
side is shell, which would fall down If
there We're not a dozen more houses just
| like it TO support one another. The man
who purchases one of these houses be-
gins to make repairs a the end of the sec
ond year. At the end of ten years he has
spent as much in that way as the house
originally cost him. AT the end Of fifteen
or twenty years he tears down the old
shell and builds a new one or sells 1t to
somebody who has less sense than he.
In Germany that sort of thing is i'm
possible. When building is erected bad
construction, inferior sanitary arrange
ments, poor materials and other defects
are not permitted to disturb the harmoni-
| Gus appearance of the street. Every house
must be OF certain hight with the win
doWs and the water courses on the same
level, and it must be- built of materials
similar to others in the same block The
architect may vary the ornamentation ac-
cording to his taste, but there is an inhex-
lble rule in regard to the dimensions The
interior walls must be of a certain thick
ness the floors must be laid in a certain
| way the chimneys must be so construct
| ed that fires from defective flues may con-
tnue to be unheard Of in Germany and
| other conditions are required which are
| autocratlc and expensive IL is true but
are economical when one considers the
| future. German houses very seldom need
| repairs. When man buys one he knows
| what he is getting, because the builder
has been compelled to observe the reeula-
| tons and cannot cheat the EXPERTS who
are employed as inspectors. Furthermore
contractor who uses poor materials or
violates the regulations will lose his IL
cense and be compelled to go out of bust
ness.
The same rules that apply to private
buildings are followed in every line Of
public construction. The water works the
slaughter houses the markets, the hospi-
tails, the institutions for the relief of the
poor and the afflicted, the city hall the
police stations and other municipal build
tngs. the parks, the roadways are all
that extends much farther into the future
than an American economist or statesman
is willing to intrude.
When the government of the United
States erects custom house or a post
once or one Of our cities
builds court house or a
school house, 1t provides for existing
necessities, and as a consequence has 10
pull down the building a few years later
or put up larger one elsewhere to meet
the requirements of an increased popula-
ton. In Germany the architects of such
structure do not consider what is need
ed now, but what will be needed a hundred
years hence. They consider this economy.
A similar principle is applied to their
roads. Not only do they require good
streets as essential to the comfort and
convenience OF people in the town but the
that bad roads in the country are very
expensive luxurles anG cost more in the
wear and tear Of the animals and the We
hicles that pass over them than would be
needed to bring them to a state of perfec-
ton. They argue that 1t is cheaper for a
farmer to contribute by taxation to the
construction Of a smooth, solid roadbed.
from which the rainfall flows into a gutter
as 1t does from q roof, witboutleavine the
slightest bit Of mud, than to wear out his
wagons and his horses hauling heavy loads
through mud and ruts such as are COM
mon In the farming country of America
While the population is more dense and
the distances are shorter in Germany than
they are In the United states, the princl-
pie is the same everywhere and 1t is one
that the country commissioners and town
ship trustees Of the United States should
come over here TO study.
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