The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-06-19
CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICAL
Cost of Streets Which Seem to Give
Good Satisfaction in Sheboygan is
Considerably Less Than the Cost OF
Either Brick or Asphalt Streets.

Officials of Kenosha visited Sheboy-
gan and Plymouth on Sunday with a
view of inspecting cement streets the
building of which is now being sug-
gested to properly owners in the city
of Kenosha. The city party included
Mavor Dan o. Head, Alderman John
Hegeman, Alderman W. I. Marlatt
and City Engineer B. c. Brennan The
trip was promoted by the Universal
Portland Cement Company. During
the day the officials covered more than
two hundred miles on electric ears and
in automobiles and saw some four
miles of the new streets.
The cement street has a lot to
recommend it, but the main claim that
is made for it is that it is pavement
just as good as brick or asphalt and
that it can be built at a cost at least
one-third less than the cost of the
other pavements which have been in
general use. Sheboygan has taken
very kindly to this kind of pavement.
A year ago more than mile of the
cement pavement was laid in Sheboy-
gan and contracts have been let for
the construction of another mile of it
this year. The Kenosha officials saw
the work under construction and talk
ed with interested property owners and
all of them seem to be entirely salts
fed with the pavement. At Plymouth
the reinforced pavement is the only
type of pavement in use. Cement was
placed on the main street of Plymouth
the fact that the street has very heavy
traffic including an interuTban rail-
way line the pavement was in good
condition and seemed good for gen.
Grafton. Mayor Sterritt of Ply
mouth declared himself as an ardent
supporter of the pavement and assert
ed that the council of Plymouth had
made contracts for the laying of more
of the pavement this year. The main
objection to the reinforced concrete
pavement seems to be the finding of
proper joint. At Plymouth Cypress
boards were used as joints while at
Sheboygan the joints have been filed
with asphalt The latter construction
seems to he the most satisfactory.
The city street built of concrete is not
used extensively in the rural towns
1t is what is known as a two course
Job. The concrete is laid On foun-
dation exactly the same as called for
in the Kenosha specifications for brick
or asphalt pavement and above this
foundation is laid the reinforcement
and the three inch wearing surface.
The reinforcement similar to steel lath
is tamped into the foundation for the
street while it is green and over this
is laid the surface of neat cement.
Over this is placed layer of granite
screenings.
The roadway when completed is easy
to clean, perfectly smooth and partic-
ularly adapted for automobile traffic.
Heavy traffic on it has the effect Of
chipping off some of the edges of the
wearing surface, but in the cities Wis
tied the two years use Of the streets
have not shown any more wear than
would be shown ON the brick streets
in the same time. The fact that the
street is easy to clean is strongly urg-
ed in its favor. Flushing tanks are
used in 10th Sheboygan and Plymouth
and officials of the city claimed that
the daily flushing of the streets at
very small cost entirely eliminated the
necessity of street sprinkling.
The laying of reinforced concrete
pavements is a great saving to the
property owners. In Sheboygan the
cost of these streets including excava-
tions excavations are paid for by the
city in Kenosha), is from $1.22 to
$1.25 square yard. The pavement is
laid with concrete curb and gutter
which costs in both Sheboygan and
Plymouth 52c inare foot
The cement company in charge of
the trip on Sunday is not interested in
the building of the streets more than
in the sale of the cement for them,
but efforts are to be made to have a
few blocks of tbs sort of pavement
laid in Kenosha as sample IN order
to show the people just what can be
done with it.
SENECA STEWART, RECORD 2:24A