Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-02-10
BAL |MORE LEADS
IN CODDLESTONE
CENSUS BULLETIN GIVES uN-
WELCOME FACTS ABOUT ciTps
HIGHWAY AND SEWERAGE.
oNE.THlRp OF BAD PAVEMENT
CREDITED TO METROPOLIS
OF MARYLAND.

Baltimore leads all or the cities OF
the United States in one Jhing-It
has more abominable cobbIestone
paving than any other city; 1t has,
In fact, more coblestone paving than
any two cities or any three cities.
More than one-third OF all the cob
blestone paving In the whole If the
United States is found right here IN
Baltimore.
All of this is made plain in the
latest report of the United States
census bureau on statistics of cities
Of over 10000 inhabitants This re-
port has just been issued, and syn
opsis dealing with such facts as paw
ing and sewerage, was made by e.
H. Mailing, division CHIEF, and sub
mitted ia Washington recently to Di-
rector Durand, of the census bureau.
There is no city in the country
which approaches Baltimore in the
matter of miles of streets paved with
the ante bellum oobblestones. Once
upon a time all cities used cobbIe-
stones very freely for street paving,
but while other cities have torn UP
the cobblestones and replaced them
with Belgian block or sheet asphalt
or other smooth paving, Baltimore
has gone along content, CT appar.
emily so, with its miles of cobDIes.
To find anytbing approaching Bal
timape's record the Census Bureau
had to group three cities-Philadel-
phis, Buffalo and Cincinnati. Taken
together, these three cities nave
nearly one-thfrti of the cobbIestgne
mileage is even less than the mile
age of cobbisstone paving in Bal
timore. Grouped together, these four
cities report more than two-thfrdstof
all the cobbie paving in the country
This sort of paving is almost extinct
in the other big cities like Boston,
New York, st. Louis, Chicago, San
francisco, tGec.
The total fenghh OF sewers of all
CLASSES reported for 157 OF the I58
cities of the United States which In
1907 had an estimated popu latfonlor
more than $4,000 each was Z2866.4
miles, according to the same Census
Bureau report, land here Baltimore
alone secures al unenviabAe fifst
place.
The sewerage system Of Atlantic
City, N. d, SIS not included i'm these
statistics, since 1T is owned 10y a,pr4+
Vate corporation. New York city,
which is first lin rank in population
in the country, is also first in rank
in miles of sewers, while Ch6G8go rs
"A close seconh.
The only large city in the country
conspicuous for the small nwrrBber OF
miles 'of sewers is Baltimore, with a
total mileage If only 62.3
OF the total mileage shown forCcp>
les reporting, T7,f22 miles, or R4.9
per cent, consisted. of combined san
itary and storm sewers, 1852 miles,
or % per cent, of sanitary sewers,
and 1,fS04 miles, or So per cent, or
storm sewers. The combined is the
prevailing type OF ssewer in all the
large cities of the country, and par
tieularly an the northern cities. Many
of the southern cities are conspicu-
GUS for reporting no sewers of this
type.
In thirty three cities the sewerage
is pumped land IN eighteen cities
methods of sewage publication. have,
been installed.
One OF the tables shows the area
in square yards and the length IN
miles of paved and improved streets
The classification, according to char
acter OF paving or improvement rs
satisfactory for only few cities, as
the greater number keep no RECORDS
containing this information and there
fore have recourse to estimates or
varying accuracy.
More than twO-thirds of'the wooden
block pavements in use In America
are reported from Chicago, Ill, and
Detroit, Mich. The other kinds OF
pavement are common in "a large
number of cities, although many OF
the larger Southern cities are con-
spicuous for reporting none or only
small areas Of macatiamized streets
In comparison with similar Stats
tics for 1905, brick and asphalt pave
ments have decidedly increased m
favor, and bituninous macadam even
more. The increases In these classes
of pavements have been at the ex-
pense Of wooden block, cobblestme,
gravel, granite and Belgian block.