The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-10
OVER ONE YEAR
ON WASHINGTON
LAST BRICK LAID ON ClTYS
MAIN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5000 SQUARE YARDS.
READY FOR OTHER WORK
Board Of improvements viii Hold I'M
portant Meeting This Week
viii Form Cement Filler
and Brick Pavement.

Contractor Williams finished paw
ing Washington avenue Saturday all
but putting in the filter on the
block at the lower end. which would
have been done yesterday had the
weather been favorable. 1t has taken
"a little over year to pave the ave.
nue., work having been commenced
April II, 1905 but in the meantime
Mr.. Williams paved Poplar street and
made good Roadway on Sycamore
street He will complete Sycamore
to Thlrty-fourth street in little
while, two barges of brick for this
work arriving yesterday
Other Work.
Work on Thirty-fourth street viii!
be begun in about two weeks by Con
tractor Johnson, who will begin get
ting his paraphernaiia and material
here this week; and other streets will
soon be ready for bids.
The Board OF Local improvements
win hold an important meeting this
week, at which propositions relating
to upper Sycamore, Elm, Walnut
Eighth, Twenty-hrst, West Thirty
fourth, Park Place West, Holbrook
and other streets will be taken up and
advanced step.
For Cement Filler.
The Board is understood to have
decided not to use any more rubber
filler, but go back to cement filler,
which makes the pavement cost s
cents per cubic yard less. This would
have made a difference of $1,000 in
the cost of the Washington avenue
pavement. This change is made on
the advice of Engineer Thisilewood
who believes that the rubber filler
causes brick to chip more readily I'M
Ter horses feet, than would be the
ease with cement filler. The latter
makes more rigid or solid surface.
The argument made for rubber filler
hat ii allows expansion under the
action of heat and thus prevents the
OF brick is good as ter as it
goes. but this objection to cement
iller will be met fully, in the opinion
If the city engineer, if an expansion
oint of asphalt is put into the pave
nent at shorter intervals than was
tone in the Twenty-eighth street pave
nent, say every % or 80 feet. On
rwenty-eighth street these joints are
hought to be a little too far aparl
md some citizens claim to have heard
i hollow sound when a wagon passes
over certain portions of the street,
which they declare is caused by a
bulgiDg OF the pavement owing to
he expansion of the brick under the
influence Of warm weather. II this
IS true IL does not seem to be Sc
rious trouble, for the Twenty-eighth
street pavement is looked upon by
all as. a very satisfactory pavement
This and the Ohio street pavement,
both filled with cement seem to give
good service in winter and summer.
Other Than Brick.
The Board will also be asked to con
slider some other material than brick
for paving some OF the streets, cs'
pecially Walnut. Some strong repre-
probably, viii be made in
favor of the so-callcd asphalt concrete
Or mineral asphalt, a composition
pavement, being a mixture of asphalt
and gravel EX-Alderman Fraser has
A sample of this taken from Pitts
burg street that has been in use six
years and has shown good service.
The composition is spread four inches
hick upon a concrete base the same
rs that laid for brick It is claimed
hat this pavement costs from % to
IS per cent less than brick, and lasts
Is we'll or better, and is noiseless. 1t
S as easily repaired as brick, no
liant being necessary.
1t is known. however, that the
Board is strongly set in favor OF brick
in cases of all streets thai
are. or are likely TO be heavy traffic
streets; and it will take an extraor.
iinary presentation of facts to induce
hem to change their views. tta