The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-10-23
BRICK IS BEING LAID
And the Expert Brick Paving Layer
is Attracting a Crowd Who
t. Watch His fast Work.

After so long a time the first
brick on the big paving contract were
laid by the Ford Paving Co. Tues
day. The work was commenced at
the northeast corner of the square
and the square will be paved first.
Seven car loads of brick had arrived
up to Tuesday evening and ship
ments will be received daily from
now on. 1t is the first time that many
of our citizens ever saw brick paw
ing laid and there is big crowd
watching the expert bricklayer, c..
Triebel, all the time. Mr.. Triebel
is young man only % years of age,
but he is there with the goods when
it comes to laying paving brick. Yes
terday there were ten men at work
carrying brick from the wagons to
him, and he had no trouble in hand
ling all the brick they brought to
him and was waiting for brick a good
part of the time. The brick weigh
nine pounds apiece, and the first day
he was working c. A. Mannasmlth,
deputy clerk, held watch on him
and he handled 1O8 brick in min
ute. That means that he hadled 972
pounds of brick in minute and we
don't know how fast he could handle
them if they could get the brick to
him. He never misses brick when
he reaches for it and never drops
one, and they 60 into place like clock
work. An ordinary days work for
him is 10000 brick. Many have ask
ed how much he got for laying
brick. He is under contract with the
paving company by the year and
1or rnnth
whether he works or not, but from
our observation he sure works II they
will furnish him the brick to work
with. If you want to see what
young man can do we advise you to
drop around and see Triebel at
work. He stands on his feet and
reaches clear down to the paving to
handle the brick and it is a job
which mighty few men could stand
for very long.
The brick are all being carefully
tested under the supervision of coun-
Gilman Morris Gardner. The city
purchased a new rattler testing ma
chine. 1t is big iron drum and
ten of the brick are put In 1t with
number of steel balls and cubes
and then the drum is run an hour at
speed of 80 revolutions to the min.
ute. The brick are weighed before
being put in the rattler and after be-
ing run an hour they must not lose
more than 23 per cent in weight
from wear and chips The tests made
so far have been entirely satisfac-
tory and the brick have been we'll
under the prescribed loss in weight.
Twenty brick are tested, taken
at random from each car. The bricks
are the Flint Brick Co.'s which are
recognized as being the best paving
brick in the west. -
The paving company has been up
against it the past week on account
of the weather, not being able to
work much of the time, but have
utilized every minute when they could
work. They are doing all in their
power to push the work along, but
unless we have, exceptional good
weather from this time on it begins
to look as if they would not get
their contract completed this fall.
However it is to their advantage to
push the work as fast as possible, as
they do not receive any money until
it is all completed and accepted by
the city and if it is not finished this
fall they will be the losers.