South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-29
MANY TRY OUT NEW
LINCOLN WAY W.
Three and Half Miles of Pave
ment Completed Give Sat-
a iSfying Ride.

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A considerable number Of the South
Bend automobile parties taking pleas
ure rides about the city these days
are taking advantage Of the OppOr-
tunity TO try the three and a half
miles of Lincoln highway w. which
have been completed. Although the
new cement paving cannot be reach
ed without first enduring a devious
drive over bad and Indifferent roads,
get the satisfaction Of a Commute
ride over the new road bed Is worth
the price.
If there Is another week Of the sort
Of weather that October has provided
thus far, the highway viii be COM
pleted from the LapOrte county line
% within a short distance OF the Au-
gustine hill, eight miles west from the
city limits of South Bend, with tho
exception of a short distance east
from New Carlisle, the work on which
will be held up pending tie chang
ing OF the crossing o'e r the Lake
shore, South Shore and Northern In
diana railroad tracks.
Access to the pavement now can
be gained via the Division st. road
and the road leading north from PO-
land town and passing Zigler station.
Taking this route gives the autOist
view Of the method by which the
gravel used on the highway is un-
loaded from the cars and hauled to
the mixer The gravel is freighted
over the South Shore and is unlOaded
at Zigler crossing.
Little Manual Labor.
The work of unloading is done with
the minimum amount of manual Ia
Dor The gravel and sand is dumped
from the cars into a pit under the
track. From this pit the material
is hoisted INFO bins by means of cups
on an endless chain. From the bins
the material - again loaded through
shutes onto small dump cars which
are hauled by horses and by a dun
my engine over tracks TO the mixer
two miles away.
Each of the small cars carries 80
cubic feet of sand, gravel and ce-
ment in the proper proportions TO be
emptied at once into the mixer. This
material is mixed in the proportion
OF nine cubic feet and sand, 3 cubic
feet Of gravel and six cubic feet of
cement The mixer handles a car
load at a time and the prepared ma
terial is spread on the road bed with
a rapidity remarkable to one unac-
customed 20 viewing such work.
The cement is being laid over a I
width of IS feet and to a depth or
inches on the sides. 1t is spread be- /
tween iron rails and every so feet /
Joint is made by embedding an iron /
laid across the rCadbed and holding /
a felt" which allows the cement (
blocks to contract and expand with /
the weather changes As soon as the 4
cement has hardened the side rails /
are moved forward and dirt is graded /
against the side of the cement The /
of s hpfnU
finished smooth. but is left slightly I
roughea condition believed TO be more |
satisfactory for horses.
The laying of cement is now being /
done over the fill which has been ]
made on the marsh just west of Dunn 1
hill This fill has been made by dirt I
taken from the hill and the road at I
this point has but a slight grade, /
whereas formerly it presented a diff !
cult point for heavy traffic. over the I
Grape Vine river cement bridge 50 /!
feet wide. made Of precisely the same \
material that is going into the road. /
has replaced the old 1S-foOt steer
bridge.
Pavement Best in Z. 8.
Experts have pronounced this lin |
coin highway paving to be the best |
cement paving in the United States |
The contractors say that speCidca- /
tions for pavement have never before !
called for more than One-siNth or /
one-seventh part of cement, whereas !
in the specifications for this pave !
nent the amount of cement is one |
fifth or as high as is used i'm build |
ings. no traffic is permitted on the !
pavement until it has stood three /
weeks IL is said. however. that IL /
becomes steadily harder with age, /
even though il has been found thar !
portions of IL. after only three weeks. /
cannot be broken without at the same 1
time breaking the hardest bits of /
gravel which enter into its compost /
ton.
The completed work extends a half |
mile west from New Carlisle TO the /
Laporte county line. West from the \
county line there is a stretch of half /
mile which viii not be paved until F.
spring. This viii be paved with brick /
to connect with the maCadam paVins
which has now been laid ON the high-
way through nearly the entire length
of the highway in Laporte county.
The completion of the paving west
from New Carlisle makes a beautiful (
driveway OF low gEade over hollow
which was formerly one of the worst
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