The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-03

Irified, and must not absorb more than
four per cent OF their weight In water
latter being broken and immersed for
Iforty-eight (4S) hours. When desired
by the said Board OF Local Improve
ments or by the City Engineer of the
city, the bricks shall be submitted to a
test Of one Cd hour In the National
Brick Manufacturers Association
Standard Rather and under conditions
prescribed by that association. and II
the loss by abrasion during such test
exceeds twenty 900 per cent of the
original weight of the bricks tested
Itfen such bricks shall be rejected.
They shall not contain lime in such
quantities as TO cause disintegration
or cracking after being immersed in
water ten (l0) days.
Section IT, The crevices between
the gutter flags and the brick pave
ment and between all brick joints
| shall be poured full with an asphaltic
cement filler equal in quality to the
American Asphaltum and Rubber
Company's Cement Filler.
Said filler shall be free from any
coal tar or its products and shall
contain not less than 995 per cent
pure asphaltic bitumen, composed of
GS.3 per cent petrolene and 31.2 per
cent. asphaltene.
| The specific gravity OF the filler
shall be 0,99 Beaume at 60 degrees
Fahrenheit; ii shall not commence to
melt below 1875 degrees Fahrenheit
nor to run below 215 degrees Fab
renheit, nor shall it become brittle
above Sc degrees Fahrenheit. Said
asphaltic filler shall weigh approx
mately pounds per gallon at 60 de-
grees Fahrenheit,
The said asphaltc cement filler
shall be poured at temperature Of
425 degrees Fahrenheit by means Of
pouring cans especially adapted to the
purpose. No asphaltic filler shall be
poured when the mean daily temper
atnre is less than fifty degrees Fab
renheit, nor when the bricks may
have become wet, nor until bricks
are again free from an excess of
moisture.
| Section ~. The Cairo Electric &
Traction company, in the improve
ment Of that portion of the said ave
| nue. of the width of nineteen 09) feet,
| from the south line Of Sixth street, TO
he north line of Twentieth street, as
provided for by Ordinance No. 119.
approved March %, 1907, shall exca-
vate and grade the same to the said
contour or shape of an arc, whose
chord is sixty-eight (6S) feet in length
and whose middle ordinate, at the
center line of the said avenue, Is nine
co. inches in length or height; and
| the surface of the said portion or
strip, nineteen (19) feet wide, shall
be made firm and solid by rolling and
other suitable MEANS as is herein re-
CURED for the other parts of the
said avenue; and upon the foundatio1
thus prepared shall pe placed a bed
of Portland cement concrete, six
inches In depth, composed OF one 0l)
part of cement, three CD parts of
clean sharp sand and six 60 parts of
hard limestone broken in sizes which
will pass through a ring Of two 90
inches inside diameter, and free from
mud. dirt dust and loan and screen
ed when necessary; and upon this
bed or foundation of concrete, the
cross-ties for the two street car tracks
shall be placed, and the spaces be
ween the said ties, for the whole
length of the same, and the space be-
tween the adjacent ends of the ties
between the two tracks. shall be so
filled, rammed and tamped with con-
crete of the kind and description here.
in required for the foundation of the
brick paving for the other parts of the
avenue, that the ties will be com
concrete, and upon this concrete shall
be placed the said sand cushion and
brick paving, of the kind, quality and
description as herein required for the
paving of the other parts of the said
avenue; but filler and stretcher
bricks. of the same general dimen
sions. character and quality, shall be
used next to the rails on the inside of
the two tracks. The filler to be used
to fill the spaces between the bricks
shall be the same as that herein re-
quired for the brick paving on the
other parts of, the said avenue. and it
shall be prepared for use and used in
the same way and manner as re
quired for the other parts of the paw.
ing The excavation and grading as
above required shall be TO such
depth as will bring the tops Of thu
rails, described in said section three
go of said ordinance No. 119. ap-
proved March %. 1907. to the same
elevation as that of the top surface of
the finished brick paving as required
herein
Section 10. At the time Of the paw
ing of the said avenue. as herein re
quired, all the other street car tracks
of the said Cairo Electric & TTac-
ton company. on The said avenue, 1
shall be reconstructed and rebuilt in /
the same way and manner as is herein |
required for the above described two /
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