The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-06
PAVING
IN OTHER CITIES
COUNCIL COMMITTEE GAINS VAL
UABLE INFORMATION.
Milwaukee, Chicago, Canton and Cleve-
land Each Have Lessons for Mime.
apolis- Creosoted Wood Blocks in
Milwaukee Too Slippery Oil
Sprinkling Success in Chicago.

The council committee on paving, ae,
companied by City Engineer Andrew
Rinker and Assistant Engineer p. r.
Dutton, returned today. from short I
tour of inspection, including MllWau-
kee, Chicago, Canton and Cleveland.
1. Milwaukee is partial to brick pay
ing and has miles Of it in all parts of
the city. The favorite block is tho
Metropolitan, Of which 10000, square
yards were laid this year in Minneapo-
lis Milwaukee has some fine asphalt
streets, this class of paving being uni
formly in much better condition than
in Minneapolis Notwithstanding the
good asphalt streets. brick is preferred
as paving material for reasons OF
economy. A comprehensive series of
experiments has been made by the city
en- gineering department. with practical
ly all the different makes of paving
brick in the country, and great deal
of valuable information has been OBJ
+ Pavement Is Slippery.
The city has mile of creosoted wood
block paving and is not particularly
enthusiastic over it.. Tho universal
complaint is that the paving is slip
perry, 50 slippery that horses, unless 5
ing. Many drivers refuse to use the
viaduct on which the paving is laid
and travel long distances out Of theix
way to avoid it. The viaduct in ques-
tion crosses the Menominie river val.
ley, is one of the main connections
with the South Side and under favor
able conditions the traffic is very
much surprised over the state Of tho
creosoted wood pavement in Milwaukee.
as that objection has never been raised
in this city. The weather conditions
have been chiefly responsible. Last
Friday there was rain or sleet and in
the night there came freeze and the
result was disastrous to the reputation
Of pavement, The asphalt streets were
not very much better in that, respect.
In Milwaukee the travellers were
under the care Of B. W. Perrigo, assist
ant city engineer; Stanley E. Czerwin-
ski, commissioner Of public works, and
George J.. Schwarz, northwestern agent
for the Metropolitan Paving Brick
company.
III silspripkle&a! streets # Chicago 2 60
of boulevard were sprinkled with oil
last summer with satisfactory results.
These boulevards are macadamized
with limestone. In dry weather they
are very dusty, even tho wet down four
or five times daily, and in wet weather
they tn y, are e; very muddy. The white glars re
being trying to the eyes. :.
The oilsprinkling has removed all
these objections. A patent preparation
known as Westrumite, with an Oil base
is used with water for sprinkling. L
unites with the dust, making a smooth
, resilient coating impervious to water
and, an excellent roadbed. The sprink
; ling is done at night, about once II
: three weeks. The park officials are
highly satisfied with the experiments
and will use .Westru1nite on all the
.. boulevards and park drives next sea
: son. The preparation can also be usec
on asphalt paving and ordinary dirt
: roads. . .. Z. .-y..' .-."-
Lasted Six Years.
The creosoted wood paving in from
Z Of the Auditorium, which has beer
: down six years, was found to be in al
excellent state.
/ At Canton the party visited TIT
plants of the Metropolitan Paving
Brick company, which turns out Il, 1000,
: 900 brick annually, and are the larges
!, works of their Kind in the country
! Canton is the largest paving brick man
:. ufacturing center in the United States
and the use Of that material is univer
4 sal there. Not only the streets, bu
I the sidewalks are paved with brick.
e Cleveland has all kinds Of paving
including a great deal of sandstone
/ The principal downtown streets, an
even parts of Euclid avenue, recoe
i nized. as one of the finest streets i
r. America, are paved with sandstone.
is noisy, but the streets of Clevelan
are kept remarkably clean and presen
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