The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-12
| SLIPSH0D WORK,
City Engineer Has a Plan te
Stop 1t.
Paving Excavations VIII No
Longer Be Neglected.
FIXES RIGID RULES.
Those Who Dig Up Pavements
Must Conform to Them.
Will See That the New Rules
Are Enforced.

The city engineer has prepared g
| little communication to be sent to the
! city council at the next meeting
this communication is in the form of
| suggestion and without a doubt will
be pushed through the council with
| unanimous vote of the aldermen. 1t
is scheme whereby the plumbers
| and other workmen who make holes
in the paving will find it necessary to
| repave the hole with better material
| and in better shape than formerly
used in the paving itself.
Under the conditions made by the
| city engineer the repairers will have
| to make a concrete base of much bet
/ ter quality than used by the paving
| contractors and it will be extended
| out into the earth below the original
| foundation. This will make one of
the firmest patches possible and will
| give the paving an additional
| strength.
''It is the most discouraging thing
in the world to find our paving all
| engineer to the State Journal re-
| porter this morning. 1--WE work here
| in the office and in the council to give
| the city the very best paving possible
|
| fight the council chamber full of irate
| citizens. Then as soon as the pave
| ment is laid we. have to look out or
our Office windows and watch it torn
| to pieces and ruined"
| The new set of rules originated by
Mr.. Rogers will do away with all of
| this In the first place it will make
| the paving stronger and more
durable In the second place the
i cost of such elaborate patching will
| = hot q hesitate
| a number of times before putting the
| money into 1t. At the last meeting
of the city council man along the
East Sixth paving asked for per-
turned down with jump by the city
engineer. This paving has not been
on the ground month ana the a.
lowance would have spoiled the
smoothness at once
The new set of rules adoptedby Mr..
Rogers is interesting in every detail
and will make the average man think
twice before asking. The thing to DO
is to tap the mains before the paving
is set and then the charge, expense,
and maintenance will be minor
matter.
The new rules should be read very
carefully. They are as follows:
"AH openings must be filled to the
level of the base of the pavement with
earth we'll tamped in by layers not to
exceed by is inch in thickness or
earth thoroughly settled in trenches
by flushing with water.
"On brick paved streets only the top
course of brick will be relayed and
that on a course of concrete not less
than six inches in thickness, with L
inch of sand on top OF concrete.
ION asphalt streets the concrete
| will be replaced and asphalt reiayed
with new material
"On cedar block pavement the con
crete must be replaced and the blocks
replaced with filler of asphalt or
boiling tar.
"On sandstone pavements the sand
stone must be replaced on a firm
foundation to the level OF the sur
rounding pavement
"On limestone pavement the stones
removed shall not be replaced but
ooncrete will be substituted of a
thickness of not less than SIX 1ncnes
and to the level of the surface OF the
surrounding pavement
ssIn all concrete work the concrete
must be of a width of Is inches in ex-
cess of the width of the trench ana
inches on both sides of the trench.
concrete under these specifications
must consist Of / part Portland ce-
| ment 2 parts clean sharp kaw river
sand and 4 parts clean limestone
: broken to pass through 2 inch ring
: and in no case will any materiai thal
has been once used in concrete De al
lowed to enter into the composition
| of the new material.
"All concrete when finished must
he covered with earth or sand to the
level of the adjoining pavement Tor
ten days before any pavement shali
he laid on same, this specification
shall be in force on and after the zotn
day of November, 1901"
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