The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-12
ORDERS Investigation
OF NEW STREET PAVING
Ridges and Depressions Reported in
Recently Laid Asphnltic
Concrete.
BOARD DIRECTS AN INQUIRY
City Engineer Boiling Asked for Spc-
cial Representatives, Discussion
of Merits OF Various Forms OF
Street Surfacing.

city Engineer Boiling WAS directed
by the Administrative Board yesterday
to make an Immediate. special and
careful examination" of the smooth
paving Oh Meadow and Allison Streets
from Broad to Grace Streets and to
report 10 the board It's present condi-
ion. He is To report also his views on
the prospect of the paving standing up
under the traffic which these streets
handle.
Air. Eolling Is instructed to examine
carefully and to report whether or not
the material used In tho pavement Is
properly miN"d and whether any of II
has been subjected to too much heat
and Is burnt.
Tho pavement on Meadow and All
son Streets. between points named Is
aSphaltic Conrrcte-a class of paving
which came prominently in tho lime
light last March. when the hoard lot
contracts for the years smooth paw
ing. The board was sharply criticized
IN some quarters for awarding a CON
trac' for hitu!ithic paving to the At
lantic Iiitulithic Company, over a low
or lid submitted by the Central Con-
atruction Company. which offered 10
lay aSphnlttc concrctc--a paving held
by somc to be rs good as bitulithic-
ut gross savin" on the contract OF
approximately $1,000.
WOULD NOT PIT Nil.
IN ONts
Echoes Of the paving award have
been heard from time to time. Tn.
board has taken the position cNprcssed
In PARTICULAR by Chairman W-hittct
that 1t considered II unwise to place ali
the eggs in one basket by contract
ihE Tor only one class OF smooth paw
ine. This would have been done had
.hc hoard needed tho cry for the
cheapest, and limited itself to nsphal-
iic concrete. The last-naIned paving
according to Mr.. Whittet. Is still i'm lis
experimental stage owing TO the use
IN II of Mexican asphalt instead OF the
'crlnuda asphalt, used in the btu
ithic. and ;hc bourd desired TO give |,
try-out before making Its adoption
general
Notwithstanding the considerations
Indicated, the Administrative Board did
award 20 ;hc Central Construction
Company asphaltic concrete pavipr
contracts aggrcgating in value nhom,
$2?:ooo. The paving on Meadow and
NiilSon Streets represents part OF the
asphaltic concrete a,ard.
REPORTS MADE OF
DEPRESSIONs AND RIDGES
fAe order entered Yesterday is for
the purpose of establishing the quality
OF the paving rs far MS It can now be
determined. According TO several per
sons VINO have seen the paving on
these streets in the last few DAYS. the
surface shows few depressions and
ridges which the City Engineer is now
erected TO investigate. According TO
Assistant city Engineer r. r. Talia-
ZERO. the presence of depressions and
ridges is no indication of faulty con-
s'ruction. and may indicate n con-
traction that is entirely consistent with
good paving.
Inc board awarded yesterday con-
tract for the construction of a retain
ing wall AT the foot of Fifth Street
along CANDLES Hill Park. The CON
tract went 10 Charles Gasser. the low
est bidder, who undertook to do rho
FORK for $1,000. The highest bid re-
ceiVcd was $4,000. The work is 10 be
cone in accordance with specifications
Cor the improvement prepared by Col
oncl G. i. T.. Burgwyn.