The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-07-17
DESCRIPTION OF
PROPOSED ROADWAY
Board of Public Works Is Glad That
the Problem Has Been Threshed
Out at Last and Settled to the
Majority of the Taxpayers Wishes
and Sanction.

At last the property owners on South
Holman street have come to decision
regarding the kind of paving material
the city will be asked to use on this
south side residence street.
South Holman street is TO be paved
with n composition asphalt beyond the
question of doubt. All of the own
ers of frontage with the exception of
four have decided on what is known as
mineral rubber roadway.
The surprising thing about the whole
deal is the fact that ii did not take
the property owners but few hours
to decide when a sample of the new
street was placed on exhibition by a
representative of the company and its
advantages were explained.
What the>Pavement Is.
The new paving is a composition ma
terial composed of a high grade of
asphalt into~which is mixed a guam
tity of crushed stone. This asphalt
stone mixture forms a surface about
two inches thick which is placed on a
| foundation of rolled crushed stone. 1t
is topped with a coating of torpedo
sand and is said to be one of the best
pavements obtainable.
AS soon the representative of the
Metropolitan and Moulding Brick COM
panies announced that the price of
Metropolitan brick had been advanced
50 a thousand over the price which the
property owners on State street have
been compelled TO pay, the property
owners got up in arms.
They saw in the deal an attempt on
the part of the brick merchant to COM
pei the adoption of the moulding block.
Hammond property owners have been
stung so frequently on inferior pave
ments that the brick proposition was
killed then and there.
New Agent Appears.
Just at that time the representa-
tive of the Standard Roadway company
appeared with his sample of the as
phalt crushed stone pavement 1t
looked good to John w Dyer. Hugh
Meikle. Joseph Ibach and some Of the
others who were called to look a it.
and SO a meeting Of the property own
ers was called at John Dyers office
in the Commercial bank.
A petition was signed by all of the
property owners present and it was
then circulated among the frontage
owners who were not present. Tne re
suit was that the decision was almost
unanimous in favor Of mineral rubber
roadways. The following is the de-
scription of the new pavement
The Road Described.
"A road constructed with mineral
rubber cement and according to miner
al rubber roadway specifications pre-
sents the non-sIippery features of the
macadam. the resiliency and noiseless-
ness Of a dirt road the sanitary and
waterproof quality of asphalt. the dust
less features Of a recently oiled road.
1T is strong pavement, built with
a cementitious binder and stone ag
gregate combined in such manner as
to secure the strongest wearing sur
face It cannot be washed out will
( not creep. crumble. soften. freeze or
crack.
Z Street Quickly Laid.
ITO the engineer it offers a solution
! for his road king problem, being
) quickly laid a low cost requiring lit
! tie maintenance. and presenting dur
able. dustless surface, not subject TO
disintegration under the new traffic
conditions imposed on roads by in
! creasing use of automobiles.
! ITO the property owner, it presents
the advantage of a permanent. noise
t less pavement. equally good for horse
: or automobile traffic, free from even
5 the click Of the horse shoes-the acme
Of comfort to the public in general
The cost Of this pavement is s1.5o a
lineal foot less than granite, asphalt
brick or block and is not much more
b expensive than macadam
Horses VIII Like It,
This pavement has surface like
$ macadam without the dust or uneven
= wear. and is especially good for horses
s 1t will outlive sheet asphalt. or any
e form of tar or asphalt macadam under
E like traffic conditions. II will cost
y less for necessary repairs for openings
T than any other form Of povement
= The appearance Of the pavement is
e agreeable to the eye. lacking the glar-
ing white effect of macadam