Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-11-22


materials" etc, as follows:
All excavation not exceeding 9 inches
below surface of finished pavement
per square yard. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IL
Foundation ready to receive block stone
per square yard. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 30
All block stone paving with sand or
screenings filler, per square yard... LOO
Furnishing and setting to grade all new
curb, per lineal foot 30
Re,lressing and re-setting old curb, per
lineal foot. .......... .......... 70
Lowering street-car track, per lineal foot 80
Agreement made August IS, 1902, OBJ
ligates J. C. McSpadden, contractor, to
do the work of grading and paving
Union street, as per plans, profiles and
specifications in Office of town engineer,
and in strict obedience to directions
which may from time to time be given
by said engineer, or his duly authorized
assistants with the following specifica-
tons:
/, Remove all material OH street be-
tween curb lines, dress and set curbs,
and pave street in accord with plans, etc.
2, Drawings shall show profiles for
curbs and cutters, plans for paving and
disposition of surface water.
3, Grading shall include all material
Oh street engineer may designate, not
exceeding . inches below surface of
street when finished, except where soft,
wet or spongy places are encountered.
1, All material not needed on Union
street for filling shall be disposed of by
contractor at his own expense at such
places OH other streets as the Street COM
mittee may direct, the limestone to be
separated as well as can be done, and
said material to be hauled not more than
1000 feet.
), The roadway shall be excavated to
the depth of inches below the top sur
face of the finished pavement then
shaped, and all wet and spongy places
excavated and filled with broken stone,
thoroughly tamped until the cross-sec-
ton is shaped as shown Oh plan and sub
grade throughout and shows thorough
ly regular and compact surface; after
which the sub-roadway shall be prepared
to receive the paving, As follows:
6, A cushion of sand or stone screen
ings shall be placed on the subgrade to
depth of 3 inches.
I, Paving shall then proceed in rapid
and workmanlike manner. Block stone
shall be laid as shown on plans. each
course breaking joints with preceding
course. After blackstone has been laid
distance of one block, same shall be
rammed with blackstone hammer I'M
til top surface is i'll its true grade line
and elevation; then sand or stone screen
ings shall be swept into joints until
same are thoroughly filled.
8, The entrances to all public alley
ways or cross streets shall be paved as
shown on engineers plans.
The contractor shall furnish and set
all new curb redress and reset all old
curb required. All curb shall be in true
grade line and curb elevation and tightly
jointed; curbs shall be of good hard
stone, equal in quality to the Cleveland
sandstone; dimensions-2i inches deep,
not less than 3 feet long and ) inches
thick at top surface, and shall have front
face to "A true plane surface down at
least inches, and shall be even enough
to lay blackstone against for further
depth of 8 inches; the back, next to side
walk, shall be cut to true plane sur
face parallel to front face to at least
inches down from top, and all joints
shall be cut down to a true plane at
least II inches from top of curb and
must also be perpendicular to both faces
and top surface of stone. At street in
tersections curb to be curved and have a
rddii as engineer may direct.
Half of street, including railway track
to curb, to be completed OIL or before
November Is, 1902, unless prevented by
circumstances which contractor cannot
control: remainder to be finished at
once, if practicable; if not, before June
/, 1903.
After completion, and inspection by
engineer, pavement shall be covered
with half inch layer of sharp sand or
stone screenings.
Payments shall be made monthly upon
estimate of engineer, 90 per cent. to be
retained as guarantee against poor work
manship and material, retention to con-
tinue until mo nths after work is COM
pleted. Within this period engineer
shall have right to compel contractor to
replace imperfect work, or raise to grade
any paving which shows signs of settling.
Contractor shall fill bond in sum of
5000 for faithful performance of this
contract, at which time this contract
shall go into effect.
Thirty Years Ago.
For the week corresponding with this
in 1872 the paragraphs below comprise
in part items of occurrence then new:
William Wonn, of Eckhart, presented ST.
Michaels Church fair with a fine set of