The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
(specia1 to The Farmerl


 New Haven, July 25-The exigen- cies of litigation produced some pecu- liar effects on Bridgeport's popular pavement-War renite-yester in Judge William H. Williams. court.
 It was necessary for the purposes of the defendants in the suit of Clar- ence c. Anderson vs. City of Bridge port, an action to restrain the execu- ton of $160.0 worth of paving con tracts, ito show that Warrenite is not. permanent pavement.
 The occasion for this necessity is that the charter of Bridgeport gives the paving commission the power to select the kind of permanent paves ment to be used, and the duty of su- pervising the construction of such pavement.
 Under this necessity Bridgeport's | miles of Warrenite. hitherto popular ly supposed to have the enduring quality of the pyramids, took on the fraeility of prtnrese path of daI- lance. and it seemed to a lay listener in the court room as if there are few things on this earth so perishable as bitunfnolHs macadam highways, not even fish in August, or a political promise made two weeks before cleo ton.
 Tn the strenuous race for the right to expend $160,0 of taxpayers dol. lars many cherished traditions dis appeared.
 Shattered is the pleasant dream that, under the tutelage of reform administration, equipped with prince " revenues and a burning desire for progress, the highways of the city have been improved in an unusual
 Upon the potent word of Director Jacob X. Courtade, 1t appears that Bridgeport streets ''are very bad dangerous in fact-and need all the
 
 need it at once.''
 In the face of this Illuminating statement of a pervading peril there was little difficulty in perceiving that MT. Codrtade had gone to the War renite contracts as to a sacred duty.
 Every stroke of his pen eliminated peril. Every dollar of that $780, 900 removed danger. Alack and alas, that cruel judge seems likely to expose the people of Bridgeport to further dally1ng with hazards, be- side which riding on New Haven raiI- road trains, or Westpott trolley cars, or climbing mountains in Switzerland, is a tame sport.
 From all this hur1y burIy of desire to keep that $160,OOO in the Warren ite family, there arose a row of ex- perts. Men they were with high l foreheads, broad between the eyes, of l assured mien, and certain language, who soon established the fact that nothing in this world is permanent, no not a single thing, and especially not pavement
 And pavement, it seems, is of vary ing degrees of irnpermanency. Just where the degrees ended, or where ] they began, nobody was quite certain, and no two agreed entirely except in this, that Warrenite IS NOT per manent pavement. There was upon this question of Warrenite, that ab- soIute, unqualified and delightful animity so frequently found among experts employed on the same side of the same litigation in American courts.
 At any rate the lay listener observed this truth. No paveme ent is perma- nent, and especially not Warrenite.
 At one time it seemed as if there ] might be an agreement between one of those experts and MT. Nicholson, of counsel for the plaintiff, regarding some term of practical permanence
 City Engineer A. 1T. Terry was on the stand, expert for the defendants He listened with the rapt attention of one who understands perfectly, while MT. Nicholson read from the con- tract of Bridgeport-or rather of Mr Director Courtade-with the Warren ite company, thus:
 'fThe contractor shall execute a suitable guarantee and surety com pany bond and shall bind and obIigate itself to use such material and so construct said pavement that it will remain in good repair and condi- tion for and during a period of five years from the date the roadway is completed and opened to traffic over it's entire length, so that at the end of said period, said pavement shall be in good serviceable condition and free from any defects that will in1- pair its usefulness as a roadway, or dinary wear and tear accepted From MT. Terry-clear in his con- cept that Warrenite is not a perrna- nent pavement clear that it is not suitable to lay in the neighborhood of trolley tracks and crystal clear to the idea that it is not as cheap in the long run as some other pavernents-came the admission that a pavement which ! did conform to the terms of the-guar-