Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-30
! auohable Attempts Of City
Road Makers to Patch
Surface Defects.
HOLES IN THE NEW STREETS
Famous "Macadamizins'' on
Second Avenue is a Yer
table Farce.
.orat Loads of Loose Rock Already
uauled Away from the Recent
J., Finished Streets.

pes,dents along Second avenue nave
.aan entertained in a novel ana ,eAas'
.,rr manner during the last he"
DAYS. The second act of the expenSi'e
,arce called "street paving ~ pen's
4 .raced before their very eyes I"s
costly comedy goes merrily on. Inc
4 ctors dance. But the dear peo-
nile are paying the fiddler.
WHAT WAS PREDICTED.
some three weeks ago it was state
!, this paper that the macadamizihs
-, the avenues was likely TO be uhsatis-
factory; that the rock materiai
r,oved is too soft and lacks cemehline
Qualities: that it is not OF uhilori''
&c according to rule; that II Is
screened before laying, In oppositioh W
authority; that the rock, peihs VI u
snual sizes irregularly mingled, wou so
hermit shifting among the pisesv ,sstiv
that the larger fragments wouio h""A'
work to the surface, etc.
1T HAS HAPPENED.
Well. the expected has happened. on
second avenue, the loose rocks are al
ready being raked together in piles anu
carted away The larger stones al
along the sides of the newly paved OF
nacadamized streets are already WORK
Ing to the surface. The man Win q !
hoe a rake. or a shovel-1t doesn
matter which--has been scraping these
large fat pieces together into piles ana
long lines along the curbstone. Another
man with wagonload Of loosely put
VERIFIED black stuff has been following
the man with the hoe, ana mas peeii
dumping few shovelfuls of this ma
terial into the holes thus MADE IN tne
.payement." Another man has been
Mating down this patch in the
pavement with shovel. And SO, IN the
course of a week, all the holes in the
new pavement have been mendeo, anu
the road is now as good as 1t ever Was
better than ever in fact; TOT .ne
large, loose, irregular stones have peen
replaced by a loose, soft, shaieys stvi !.
that does beat down under dry-weathe1
fraffc into the semblance OF a street
pavement.
SOONER THAN EXPECTED.
Rut who would have thought. who
could have thought, that this patching
up of or, of the Tribune's solid ana
baautiful'' street pavements would nave
to be undertaken before 1t had poen
supposed 1t would be good for three
months. at least. and plainly SAID SO.
Put alas for his faulty Judgment! some
of the work thus raked ana scrapeu
and filled in again Is barely two weeks
old The reporter did not even sur
mige that the newly paved roads wouio
have TO be patched and doctored AT one
end of one block before the roiier mo
finished the furthest end OF tho DOCK
next 10 II. but this is the fact, and so
II must stand written here.
WHY USE HOE AND Howell.
One thing, howeser, the reporter
cannot understand. why is it neces-
sary to have men with hoes, or shoV.
els TO pick up these loose and floating
shale slabs. or rocks, that have been
so indiscriminately thrown into the
street pavement? Any child with MS
garden rake could do 1t Just as wen.
Why pay men to do what any boy with
a big stick would have huge fun In DO
ing? Why not turn the children loose
on the soft and fraying 'pavements,
and let them pick II out with the toes
of their shoes. or dig 1t out with chop-
sticks? They can do II. Three KICKS
from any city councllmans boot VIII
loosen the pavement almost anywhere
on the center OF the street. even where
II is most compacted by traffic; while
on the sides OF the street, one GOOD KICK
viii begin the havoc.
CHANCE FOR KICKERs.
Here, then, is a rare chance for Kick
ers. Let any one who wears heavy
boot, wager with any member of the
city council that he can kick hole five
inches deep in five minutes in the hard
est square rod OF any part OF any
maccadamized pavement now bains put
down. The Tribune sneak may VI
course say that this exposure of street
rottenness would be the work OF a
kicker; but such a miserable subterfuge
would be, in the language OF the rhe-
toricIans, utterly, totally, and meanly
false" No one needs TO be a kicker,
In order TO knock holes in the city
streets. Any one can do IT, Even he
Tribune sneak, who brayed aloud that
the only thing the News" could find
against the roads was that the makers
thereof did not pay tithing. could easily
be shown how to kick a gully clear
across this latest and most Landed ex-
ample of his solid and beautiful'
paved streets.
Wherever the traffic has been CEN
tered on the new pavements. there Is
an appearance OF compactness and SOL
idity. But II Is only an appearance.
At the intersection of Second and r.
streets, where there has Decn a rev
weeks traffic north and south. ruts
have been cut already into the soft
surface that for a week or two looked
quite hard At all places opposite 10
the water hyrants, where the city wat
er teams stand for a few minutes
while the tanks are being filled for
street sprlnkling. the pavement Is lit
orally ploughed loose by the horses
feet. and could be shoveled up In
barrow-fuls, Take a glance at such
spot near II street In front OF the
water hydrant. About street as the
writer passed there this morning along
Second ayenue.a long line OF loose stones
that had been raked out OF the pave
ment' lay along the gutter for almost
d block. This was right near Coun-
gilman Tuddenhams residence, Are
nearly all the councilinen asleep? or
90 they acquiesce In this miserable
BUSINESS?
SOME CHANGES MADE
II 10 noteworthy. however, that some
changes are being attempted since the
News articles exposing the street
paving sham have come out, Now the
rolling Is done close up to the curb,
and the foundation has more appear
unoos OF having been rolled bffore
spreading on the rock than It formers
~ had So, too. the sprinkllns APP
nsars 20 DO more thorough than before;