The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-26
GAYS THE PAVING IS ALL RIGHT
,DERMAN DAVIS DEFENDS THE
hull STREET GRAVEL.

herman Krouskof Not Fully Sat
,-6ed With IL and Thinks the
paving should Be Given a Thor
ab Test Before Any More Is
Observation-Disclosures of Public
,,-ort.s WiIIink VIII Not Discuss
The Iatter-A General Opinion
THAT he Liberty Gravel VIII Not
DO.
cbaira T. J. Davis of the Council
..r,roi+r-- on streets and lanes does not
.,nsidsr he Bull street pavement as so
Car completed failure. In fact. he con-
.,7.rs +. ute the reverse. The material
MT only frst-class. he says. but will
.,.,.l as sood a pavement as any roadway
a,,strcted with gravel to be found in The
county
,,snv psople who travelled over the pave
r,ert vesterday did not agree with Alder
man Davis. The pavement had dried off
and was not as rough as It was the day
before. 1t was rerolled blythe city's heavy
steam roller but the ruts and ridges were
still there The pavement still had more
of the appearance of country road than
that Of city street.
Alderman Krouskof inspected the
having. He was not pleased with
il and expressed the. belief that
it would be wen TO go slow in the mat
ter IT would be well to stop the work
and give that portion of the pavement
which has already been tried a months
rial" he said. "If it shows up all right
AT the end of that time, well and good,
If not. we will have saved ourselves con-
siderable trouble and disappointment by a
little delay
Alderman Davis expressed himself very
positively concerning the pavement. THE
material is all right, he said, land will
make as good, if not better, pavement
taan the Augusta gravel. That the pave
ment should get mushy at the first rain is
nothing There were no cutters to carry
off the water and it was all absorbed by
the material. Simply rolling gravel with
heavy roller does not make pave
ment out Of it. 1t requires travel to do
that. The eastern end of Dale avenue is
as there was. little travel over. il when 1t
was wet. it is not so badly cut up
number of wagons and bugges went over
the Bull street pavement when it was
water soaked. New Houston street was
just the same way when the-first rain fell
upon it. Now it a good pavement"
Alderman Davis said he does not look
with especial favor upon gravel for city
paving but he is satisfied that the gravel
used on Bull street will prove fully as
good as the Augusta gravel used upon
the county roads. The Bull street gravel
is from Liberty county. 1t was expert
mented with he says, alongside of samples
from several other counties al the city lot
before a decision was arrived at, and ap-
peared to give very good results.
The general comment made upon the
material, however by those who have ex-
amined it is that il appears to be more
clay than gravel. Parties who have ex-
amined the Augusta gravel, however. say
that the Liberty county material appears
to contain more gravel than that from Au-
gusta, and that the trouble may be just
the reverse, too much gravel and not
enough clay. 1t may be that the Liberty
county gravel lacks the glutinous con
sistency which makes the Augusta gravel
impact so readily, though it sticks well
enough TO a bicycle tire
The property owners on Bull street who
are to pay two-thirds of the cost Of the
paving, are considerably stirred up over
the matter. They are not satisfied with
the paving so far as il has been laid on
account of the washing and softening by
the rain. If the results of another rain
should be the same as that of Saturday, it
Is likely some action will be taken by.
them
The selection of the gravel for Bull street
was made after considera BILE delay sam
pies Of gravel being submitted by several
bidders. These samples We're in the office
or the commissioner of public works and
test was made by the latter of the sew
efal samples by the construction of a min
azure pavement at the city stables lots
Inc various samples were put down side
Oy slde, packed and wet down. and then
subjected to several tests to prove their
gauhtes OF endurance. Apparently the
HDerty county gravel offered by Messrs.
D. H. FOX & Co. of Savannah stood the
est test and it was accepted by the street
qua zane committee, the price being 81 per
yuolc yard. This was neither the highest
t t'r lhe lowest priced material offered, the
vas ranging from 80 cents to 81. 20 per Gu
W YARD 1t was stated at the time the
.ouIdci was awarded that the Liberty
ttOun'y gravel was selected because it was
4evea TO be the best material Offered
NHhout regard to price ~