Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-03

have horses of your own. Just as an
illustration, let me ask If their stalls are
foored with wood or stone or concrete;
and if concrete or stone, whether your
stableman doesn't keep a bedding down
all day to case the horses feet?
Furthermore, / assume everyone will ad-
nit that horse falling OH stone. is
more liable to injury than when falling
on wood.
Would BE Burden on Team Owners.
Referring to the seventh claim, | will
say that under existing conditions IL
would be burden on some of the team
owners to bar them Off of Broad street
on slippery days In winter, but whenever
Mulberry street is put Into the best pos
sible condition and whenever this CITY
wakes up to the fact that the canal
bridges at Halsey, Washington and Plane
streets are the only objection to the use
of these three parallel streets for heavy
traffic at all times of the year, on &C
count of the steep approaches, then traffic
rules will be in order and can be eHec-
lively carried out on Broad street without
protest from anyone.
1t Is tpse, as you say, that any new
pavement viii enhance the appearance OF
Broad street while IL is in good condi-
tom, but while SO enhancing 1t, why not
put down the best obtainable? khaki
suit at $ will last as long as $50 tailor
made but do we wear the khaki? No,
aud for the same reason we ask for wood
block
BY referring to the engineers report of
the City Plan Commission, page 5. II
states-and this Is borne out by other
ahthoritles-that three horses slip on as
phalt to one ON wood block, and tho same
is the case with skidding automobiles.
All smooth surfaces are more slippery
than rough surfaces. and l venture to say
that If grouted granite has a smooth top
surface it will be just as slippery as any
other similarly smooth surface, and more
so than wood, which has certain amount
of give to II.
Upon investigation I feel certain that
the facts will prove that more horses fall
or slip on Bloomfield avenue and FIRE.
lingbuysen avenue than on Broad street.
Why? Because 1t Is smoother surfaced
street.
Would you call West Park, street I'M
sanitary? Would you eau Fourteenth
street unsanitary?' How can they be
when the wood Is thoroughly saturated
with an absolute disinfectant. and when
1t has been repeatedly shown that this
oil does not leach out of the block?
All the pollution of the streets than can
possibly be held by the wood blocks is
held by the ends of the wood fibre on
the very top surface which Is readily
washed away by any rain, and can
readily be removed by flushing at night,
same as Is done on all principal streets
the world over, whether the pavement be
wood, asphalt, granite or any other ma
tetial and a wood pavement cannot pos
sibly hold any portion of the pollution
of the streets, as must necessarily be held
in the small, irregular interstices of any
form Of granite pavement
Contractor Should Remove OIL"
1t is true that wood block pavement.
during the first summer, sweats out the
excess of oil that has been forced into
its pores. Part Of this fills up the spnce
Letureu the blocks, binding them into
one waterproof mass, and the excess
rises to the surface, which should be rc-
moved by the contractor laying the pave
ment, and which generally is provided
for In the specifications.
Permit me to say that l have given
tbs subject exhaustive attention and
consideration, and my statements ere
based upon the reports of the city IN
gineers of various cities of this coun-
try WHO have had experience with wood
l,loek pavements, and upon the reports
aud experience of the United States For
estrs Bureau. and the test made by The
ely Of Baltimore on Holiday street.
where wood bfurk outlasted all other lest
t,,tvcnmnts. and after seven years, wien
tho condition of the other payemsnts
ue,essitated the requirement. of this
street these very same wood blocks were
nsed in the new pavement; all of -.Lich
SHOW the lasting quality and durability
of wood block pavement and its par-
tirular suitability for Broad street.
In conclusion. you state that wood block