East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-01

would apply to the question, Why did
Bitumass jump from indianapolis to
Bellingham? and why did Westrumite
jump from Chicago to st. Johns? It
they use IT, 1t Is true that there are
some boosters to every proposition
and often the booster Is friend Of the
promoters, one way or another. For
example: You as a property owner
have recently received copy OF
letter from the promoters Of Dollar
way" signed by the manager Of the
Bell Telephone company at Ann Ar
Dor, j. c. Givens, in which Mr.. Civ
ems lauds the tar coated concrete to
skies. On Jan. 18th, 1912, the same
man made the following statement:
Ann Arbor. Mich, Jan. 19, 1912.
Statement of Mr.. ]. c. Givens, dis
trict manager of the Bell Telephone
Co.:
THE pavement laid here known as
'Dolorway,' in my opinion is not
satisfactory pavement. 1t has only
been down one winter and had to
have much of the construction work
gone over the following summer. The
bituminous coat became soft and
sticky and when fine stone was sprin-
kled over it, it only made bad
sticky top. The concrete showed
marked signs of disintregation after
the first winter-ano this under very
light traffic.
This statement shows how Givens
felt on January 18th and the letter
forwarded you dated three months
later, gives a glowing report of its
merits. The reason for the change of
heart is not hard to imagine.
The coated concrete experiment
eminates from the city engineer of
Ann Arbor, Mich.
When the latter gentlemen heard
that Givens had made the statement
quoted above, he got after him,
and as Givens represented public
service corporation ana knew the en-
gineer would give his company the
worst of it on permits, etc, and he
therefore might lose his job, he flops
An interesting sequel to this is the
following head lines from the Ann Ar
Dor Daily TimesNews for May 23rd:
"City Engineer Groves is Discharged
from Office-Board Claims He Has
Not Attended to Duties of Office
Properly"
The following is a true report OF
crete in every place where this idea
has been tried out, the oldest two
years:
Report of examination April II
1912, Ann Arbor:
All of the pavements subjected t.
extremely light traffic. A genera
surface so soft that unless frequentl.
covered with sand or screenings viii
be seriously Objectionable and tract
| into houses. Reports made during
1910 and 1911 show that pavement
laid in these years required extensiv
patching of the surface.
Baltimore, Md, Roland Park. Lai'
1911. Reports early in April shoV
the following conditions:
There is only a sample piece lai
last October, traffic very hgh
Through the crown and on outer quar-
ters the tar coat had worn off exceI
in several small patches On the in
ner quarter the tar coat still remain
ed, but was worn off in small patch
es, and could be pulled off in piece
at all points. The concrete surfac
was raveling in several spots wher
the tar had worn off.
Patterson, N. j., George street:
The pavement was very soft, al
though the temperature was not high
er than 65 degrees F. On the edg
of two manholes the base shows clea
in several places and the surface pee
off easily. There were about so bar
spots of at least four square inche
in one block of pavement The traf
fic is exceptionally light.
AS to the use of this Dolorwa
pavement in Ann Arpor would poin
out that the only consideration whicl
served to warrant its adoption wa
its low first cost (S5 to 81 cents pc
square yard, or 81 Is including grad
ing and curbing, according to state
ment of Mayor Walz) as compare
with the prices asked for other pave
ments at that place. Here in Pen
dleton an entirely different conditio
exists, however, where the price ask
ed for Dolorway is $1.S5 per var
against $1.45 per yard for gravel b
tulithic making a difference of les
than $40 for a so foot lot, which am
cunts to less than S1.00 per year fo
ten years time if advantage is take
of the bond issue.
Calgary, Alberta. laid few block
of this experiment last fall and tn
surface has all scaled off and a re
cent news item appearing in the Cal
gary paper states that the council
asked to rescind the contract on &C
count of the dissatisfaction given.
st. Johns has its Westrumite-
failure.