The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-08
Standard Oil Co. Will Send
Machine, Oil and Men
to BrattlebOrO
STONE ROADS ALSO
WILL BE REPAIRED
Road Commissioner H. r. Brown Elk
poets Boston Experts Next Week to
Make Estimates improvements
Will be of Thorough Character.

Things are moving along here in the
village in street department work
much more rapidly than the ordinary
everyday individual, who stops to
grumble at the dust and wonder why
the holes in the roads and streets are
left, has knowledge.
Road Commissioner Henry r. Brown
has arranged over the telephone with Il
Boston contractor to come to Brattle-
bOro Wednesday afternoon and accom-
panv him over sections of stone roads
i'm the village with an idea of estimat-
ing the cost of re-binding them and
putting them in first-class condition.
Mr. Brown saws lie has seen others
with more knowledge than he pretends
to have try repeatedly to put them in
good condition and he purposes to have
someone who makes that business
at least give an estimate on the cost
| of the work. He will inspect from a
point near the town hall building to
! the Wells fountain, a section of Green
/ street and the sections of stone road
near the concrete bridge in West Brat
/ tIeboro.
| Some road and street oilng has been
! done in and about Brattlehoro this
spring, but there will be some real
road oiling done in the near future
! This will be done by a special machine
of the Standard Oil company which
will be sent here as soon as work
which is about to be done in Rutland
! is completed. \ tank ear of special
oil also will be sent here. The company
in selling the oil puts it on with this
special machine, which spreads it
! properly over the street under a press
u of 4. Ii
effective in laying dust and for a
longer period. Furthermore the site Ky
puddles of the odorous liquid are not
left as under the method heretofore
used here and elsewhere.
This oil is to be SPRAYED upon tn,
main roads leading into Brattleboro
one-half of the expense of this being
borne by the state unless there shoul,
be a sufficient demand for it by resi-
dents to have it all used elsewhere il
the village If that should prove t.
be the case another car will be prompt
~ obtained and properly put on b,
the Standard Oil company.
Mr.. Brown estimates, as he said a
the village meeting. that it costs ahou
one and one-ffth cents a square var,
to oil street and this makes the ex
pense for the ordinary lot very small
II Deln8 inquired thdt one dressing o
oil is sufficient for about two month,
or three dressings during the season
Anyone desiring the street oiled i
front of his property should Motif
Mr. Brown before the Standard o.
company gets here with the machin
] and the OIL and the work will be don
Z by experts in that line of work.
Mr.. Brown says he will have will
III very short time the create
amount Of his heavy roadwork con
pleted and will devote the rest of tn
Z season to keeping the streets in cor
I dition raking the stones out, filling Ii
holes while they are small, fxin
I crosswalks and doing sidewalk wor
He says more attention will be pal
4 to sidewalks this year than in Il
past, as he believes there are enoua
J people who walk to have the walks r
ceive some attention