Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-10-21
WAUSAU MEN ON A TOUR
Delegation From Here and Merrill Look
Over Cement Streets in Various
Cities.

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Lastweek, Tuesday and Wednesday,
party or Wausau and Merrill citizens
and city officials went to Sheboygan,
Port Washington and Milwaukee on
the invitation of cement dealers. A
special train took the party to Sheboy-
gan where they were met by the
officials and given an auto ride about
The city and inspected half mile of
concrete pavement laid two years ago.
1t has been the experience that
macadam streets like ours have rapidly
gone TO pieces under automobile
travel, but that the concrete pave
ment had been a success and that
the t1rst cost as compared with brick
or creosoted blocks is very much
lower. The cost without curbing in
Sheboygan was S125 a yard. The
officials said that the pavement needed
no sprinkling and that there was no
dust arising from it. The cleanliness
OF this kind of a street was very
noticeable to all and THAI it had been
in use for several years and showed
no wear, was quite remarkable.
A street was bling paved i'm Sheboy-
gan and work of construction was in
progress. A two course prvement was
being laid of which the Merrill Herald
in its description said: The base is
one part cement, three parts sand,
and i've parts stone. The top dress
ing is one part cement and two parts
of mixture of granite and sand. The
granite is put in to make it of last
ing, wearing service, where, in Mer-
rill and also at Wausau. the cost of
concrete paving ought to be consider
able less than at Sheboygan because
they have to pay an average price of
$500 cubic yard for the granite and
at that the average paving cost in
1911 was only Sl.20; in 1912, 81 IS;
1913, Sl.3t. Here they are using what
is called the Carey Elastic tar felt
board for the expansion joint. 1t is
somewhat better than the tar filler
The one thing that they seem to be
particular about, was to have clean
material, clean stone and we'll washed
sand. Good concrete paving cannot
be constructed if you use pit run
gravel and sand.
The delegation went to Port Wash
ington, where various concrete paved
streets were inspected and from there
to Milwaukee where automobiles
carried all out to what is known as
the Blue Mound road where there are
seven miles of concrete paving, Is feet
wide not reinforced as it is not con-
sidered necessary on country roads
where traffic is not so heavy. Other
roads were inspected and the Wausau
contingent came home very enthusi-
astic for concrete payements.
On Tuesday evening at Hotel Pister,
Milwaukee, the party were the guests
of the concrete dealers at a most
dinner. This was given in
the banquet room on the fifth floor of
that popular hotel. 1t happened
that the PILOT man was in the hotel
at the time and was going up the
elevator to his room when he ran onto
the Wausau crowd and nothing would
do but that he must also be present
as this dinner. About fifty men sat
down to table laden with delicious
things to eat. A post prandial pro-
gram followed with l. NJ. Clecquennoi
as POSTMASTER. Many nice things
were said of the delightful trip and
of the merits eff concrete paving.
The following were in attendance
from Wausau: B. G. Gowen, city
engineer; e. K. Schulze, Fred Mohr,
Walter Pierce, Herman Marquardi,
Oscar Luebner, Roman Deutsch, A.
C. Schmidt and W. B. Pedigo.