The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-03
STREET PAVEMENTS
SUBJECT OF REPORT BY COMMIT
TEE or CAPE GiRARDEAU
CITIZENS.
Favors creosoted Block Over All
Others--Brick Cheapest But
Not Durable as Laid
in ST. Louis.

in St. Louis.
Cape Girardeau's city council an,
Commercial club sent joint com
mittee TO st Louis last week to ex
anime the lifferent street payements
in use there and report as to cost
aud durability, with a view to decid
ing upon what character of pave
ments to be put down on certain
streets 10 be paved, The committees
report is given in the Daily Republ.-
can, rs follows:
Brick Pavement
Brick is the cheapes pavement.
! first cost. Of the four hard payements
discussed in this report. The brick
makes a noisy and rough pavement.
and we found no brick pavement that
would compare fayorably with any of
the ether payements for durability.
The principal reason urged for using
brick is the cheapness of the pave
men in putting it down The first
cost is much cheaper than any of the
other kinds OF pavement, and this
fact alone seems to account for the
use Of the brick pavement.
Asphalt.
Asphalt pavement when properly
constructed made a splendid showing
for durability and makes a very pop.
ular driving street. 1t is easily
cleaned, has very little dust. ana is
much easier on the horse ana vehicle
than the brick. It makes sanitary
ana SNOWY street, but the committee
Is satisfied thar asphalt is not desir-
able for use in our city Unless there
should be n sufficient mileage Of this |
pavement to Justify the maintenance
1t this place OF an asphalt repairing
plant
Bithuithic.
This is very muca Ike the asphalt,
md would cost about the same: Il
makes a very snowy street and in
he opinion of the committee has
about the same advantages rs the
sphalt, and for our use would have
he same objections
Creosote Wooden Blocks.
In view OF the fact that a majority
i the property owners on Main
treet had asked for this material for
he proposed improvement on this
traer. the committee went iato
borough Investigation 10 learn every
'eakness of this kind OF pavement.
ome of the committee wera some.
hat prriudiced against this pave
lent in the outse, because Of the
Expense of first cost. and also regard.
i IT In the nature Of an experiment.
he committee found that this pave.
tent had been put through a very
borough test in St. Louis, and the
-reet commissioner caused TO be
lken up and furnished to the com
iittee sample or the block pave.
lent which had been in usa for over
TX years; this showed and evenly
crn surface Of less than one-eighth
an inch. This pavement had be N
use for more than six years with
ut any expense for maint enanca or
n repairs. And after comparing the
story of the creosote blocks with
her pavements the committee unani-
ously agreed that ii was the desir.
Die pavement for use on business
reefs in our city.
Cost Of Pavements.
Brick-First cost in st. Louis, !.
.G5 TO $1.S0 per square yard.
Asphait-First cost in St Louis,
ZOO per square yard. :
Bithulithic-About the same as the
phalt In ST. Louis.
Creoscted wooden blocks-First
.st in St Louis. $500 per square
rd.
Macalam with Taryia binder-In
sidence streets, - cnts per square
ri.
II will be noted that first cost of
Q wooden blocks is higher than any
the other class Of pavemeuts, andt
q committee only determined TO
commend the noode blocks, be-
use OF the fact that It combined =
@ desirable qualities Of the other
yemants, was much easier kept up \
repaired, and as a pavement would
Owe much cheaper for the str cts 7
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