The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-05
HOOTON'S PHARMACY.
lie. 1t is easily cleaned.

IL 1t is easily cleaned
I'll. 1t has a good appearance.
''12. It radiates very little, if any.
heat"
With these facts before us will we
continue to send to Trinidad Lake, or
BermudeZ, or even California for as
phalt when we have home material
that can be prepared by home labor
all money spent for sames kept within
our own city Hmits-which will make
better payement-better for man
and beast; more durable; less eXpen-
I.sive: easier repaired: less noisy;
more elastic; cooler in summer and
warmer in winter; possessing every
good quality known to other pave
! ment possesses pavement that viii
last at least fifty years?
The sooner we make the modern
wood block pavement the universal
/ pavement, for our heavy trafficked
streets, the more money we will have
/ for street purposes, and a more up-tO-
date city we will have
The city engineer of Toledo, Ohio,
writes: 'If all the smooth pavements
could be laid on six inches OF Port
land cement concrete foundation at
the same price, / would adopt the Gre
osoted weok block pavement for all
streets"
The MAYOR and city engineer of
Springfield, Mass-where wood block
paving cost three dollars and fifty
cents per square yard. when asphalt
could be had at two dollars, said they
both greatly prefer wood block even
with the difference in cost
With a plant, the cost of which
would not exceed five thousand dol
lars, | think could be bought for
three thousand, the city forces can lay
wood block pavement at two dollars
per square ward. 1t can be aid hv
contract for two dollars and fifty
cents, when We pay two dollars and
seventy-five cents for a miserable as
DhaIt pavement which will not last
One-fourth as long. and which has to
be repaired continually. The wood
block pavements on Magnolia stree
and Edgewood avenue bridges are i'm
provementS on any pavementS we
have, and yet they can be improved
upon. Both are laid on very heavy
sand cushions which was allowed to
become perfectly wet before the points
were pitched.
There should he nothing between
the concrete foundation and the
blocks but a thin coating of Acme"
asphalt cement, and into which the
blocks should be set while it is hot.
| hope the contents of this PAM
phlet will cause the taxpayers of the
city TO more carefully study the ques-
ton of street paving. and have ten
dency to stop them petitioning for
pavementS simply because Washington
City or New York City uses them.
Modern wood block pavement would
be more generally used in the East
If the price was not so high-three
dollars TO three dollars and One-half
per square yard, while asphalt is from
one dollar and eighty-fve cents to
two dollars and twenty-five cents,
and bricks from one dollar and fifty
cents TO one dollar and eighty-ive
cents per square yard With us it
is not so expensive, and would re-
quire scarcely no repair account.
I make bold to assert that no citi-
zen now owning property in this city
would live 10 see a properly construct
ed wood block pavement worn out
Can as much be said of any other
pavement
We have seen belgian block pave
ment become '-turtlebacked," brick
pavements worn full OF ruts, and as
phaIt pavements ground into dust
The modern wood block pavement
IS destined 10 become the most popu-
lar pavement of this country, as it has
Of England, France and Germany.
They have experimental for centuries.
and come to this conclusion Why
should we spend q lifetime and mil
lions of dollars experimenting, too?
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