The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-19
THE PAVING SITUATION UP TO
THE HOUR.

to have found new propelling powers.
under the current of. the tide and
for the sake of the property owners.
who, like jones of Binghampton. paw
the freight after all, it may be of in
terest to review the pavement stu
alton to certain extent. We are
going to concede for the sake. of the
discussion that in every community
there is a certain percentage Of peo-
pie, whose chief vocation in life is
knocking; they carry their little ham
mer with them and they knock,
knock, knock on the family tree" of
most of the men who occupy places in
official life.
However they are known of their
acts" and few people take them seri-
ously, so that their outbreaks have lit
tie effect with town builders and rec
pie who make fer progress and civic
betterment. However, when a whole
community of intelligent people, with
few exceptions, get busy on the lob
of criticising a great public measure
like the first laying of vitrifed brick
pavements in a city where such an
Improvement had been ''consumma-
ton devoutly to be desired for years.
then take it from us there is a reason
fer it.
Conservative citizens of Brunswick,
independent thinkers, who care not a
rap for either of the factions in coun-
cil-and we dont-must confess that
the paving work has been the subject
of general adverse criticism and open
condemnation. It's an open secret
that the material was below specifca-
ton provisions and those in position
to know assert that the paving has
been put down in an unworkmanship
manner. These facts formed the basis
for original disapproval of the work
on the part of vast majority of the
people An investigation was made
by those Of an inquiring frame of
mind and here it was revealed that
the contract for the work was placed
with concern whose bid was eight
cents per yard higher than a COM
petitive bidder and whose material.
according to accredited authorities on
tests, was inferior and was so mad
to appear when placed upon the cru
cial in the shape of standard tests!
Some 5000 yards of this material
vas used, hence it will be seen that
he city paid $640 mere for it than
would have been the case if the other
1id-that of Messrs Bowe & Page, of
Jharleston-had been accepted. When
his fact became generally known and
busy politicians saw to it that the
public was not slow in getting all of
the facts, public criticism became
more pronounced and a closer inspec-
ton of the work On the part of rigid
observers found faulty curbings as an
additional clause fer the general in
|dictment of the job. The tests of the
material used and the material turned
down, incidentally, it ought to be
|stated, were made by the Spackmau
engineering company, of Philadelphia.
and in each instance, according to our
information the rejected material the
Catskill bricks, showed up to better
advantage than those accepted. For
instance the rattler test, showing the
endurance quality of the bricks, in
which the standard is estimated at
~ per cent. of loss and no material
is used in first-clas paving work,
where greater loss is shown. the
Catskill bricks only showed a loss of
1858 per cent, while those of the
Georgia Engineering company went as
high as 26 per cent. In the crushing
test, showing the pressure per square
inch Of the two bricks, the Catskill
again made better showing of 6.1S9
as against 5.747 made by the Georgia
Engineering material. In the cross
breaking tests the Catskn material
was an easy victor, going up to 1901
pounds as against S.72O pounds
achieved by the Augusta brick. Yer.
for reasons sufficiently strong 70 the
p'rtias 2warding the contract. 81 went
TO the Georgia Engineering c-m~opy.
whose bin made no deductions for in