The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-08
MONTCLA|R WILL
LAY TROUBLESOME
DUST OF STREETS
Superintendent of Roads Smith
Reports on the Various
Dust Preventives.
COUNCIL THOROUGHLY
INVESTIGATES MATTER
Town Proposes TO Treat l0O,-
900 Feet of Roads During
the Summer.

There is an ordinance now pending
before the Montclair Town Council
which provides for the oiling of about
100, 900 feet of the main streets of the
town. in an effort to lay the dust. water
sprinkling having proved unsatisfac-
tory.
The ordinance provides for the nay
ment of one-half the. expense by abut-
ting property-owners and tie remainder
by a tax levy on the town at large.
Since the ordinance was introduced,
about W. months ago. many citizens
have atended the Council meetings and
made objection to the streets in front
of their property being oiled: others
have advocated substitutes for oil,
which would lay the dust and avoid the
tracking of oil into their homes.
The Council is anxious that the best
and %cleanest methode be used and to
this end have held up the final passage
of the ordinance, it being understood
that the terms of the ordinance would
not be carried out until spring.
/ Superintendent of Roads Malcolm II.
Smith, having spent several weeks in
Boston and surrounding towns last sum-
mer, inspecting the different methods
of road building and dust laying, was,
on motion of Councilman Charles II.
Hartshorne, requested to reduce to
writing the different methods and APP
planes used in the several towns he
had visited, and the cost per season for
each material per 100 feet of roadway.
and present it to the road committee of
the Council.
Mr.. Smith has prepared his report
and in 1t he deals with the principal
dust layers, as follows:
"Dustoline is a by-product of Penn
~sylvania oil d%istilation, with a para
fine base. 1t lays the lust s~atisfactor-
lily, would require several application,
according to the weather, might make
the roadway slippery and is probably
destructive to rubber tires and does not
bind the road-bed, cannot be used on
tarred roads.
"Asphaltoline is the trademark of a
prepared residium of Kentucky as
phaltic oil. containing about so per
cent. of pure asphalt, dissolve in enough
petroleum to make it fluid. This prep
aration would be objectionable for a
period when first put on, and the road
bed will be sticky and muddy when
ever 1t rains
Texas road bed oil is said to control
the dust and is never muddy.
"Tarvia, or terra cola, is in a class
by itself. 1t makes a smooth, we'll
bound surface, which does not make
dust by wear or automobile travel, and
provides a surface from which little
is wished off by rain or which can be
swept. The result in this respect is
the same as with tarred macadam.
"Terracolio and oil emulsion are of a
class used with water from s%prinkling
cars, applied in mixture with water,
with special machinery for the pur-
pose, in solutions from % per cent. at
first to 10 per cent. in subsequent ap-
plications and applied at intervals Of
from twenty to thirty days. | have
been informed that carriages may fol-
low Immediately after the distributing
sprinklers, with little danger of being
soiled, while all disagreable SMELL is
gone within an hour or two, and it lays
the dust effectively"
Mr.. Smith then figures the cost of
each, for 100 feet. 16-foot roadway, for
the season, as follows: Dustoline, $40:
asphaltolina, $40; road-bed oil. $3.50;
tarvi7. IS: terracolia, $3.50 to 81; emul-
sion, So; s%prinkling with water four
times a day, $3.50. Mr.. Smith makes
no recommendation, as he was not
asked to, but the report would show
that he inclines to tarvia.
The road committee will study the
] tier and report its findings to the
Town Council.