South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-21
AGREE To EXPERT
SUPERVISION IN
BUILDING Of ROAD
Citizens Committee Meets the
County Commissioners and
Surveyor and Plan to Super
wise Highway Construction.

Expert supervision Of the work be-
ing done on Lincoln highway west
seems assured. A meeting was held
Monday morning with the county
commissioners at which session Is
representative men of the city we're
present and sought some kind of su-
-pervision OF the highway that could
be called expert.
1t took only about 10 minutes Of
talking on the part Of the citizens,
when County Surveyor Henderson
Mcclellan and the county commits
sioners agreed 10 cooperate with the
committee in getting expert super
vision. The county commissioners and
the county surveyor both agreed that
expert supervision is necessary and
were willing TO have IL.
A committee was accordingly ap-
pointed by Chairman y. G. Graham
to meet with the commissioners and
survey to outline a plan TO obtain
the necessary supervision. This COM
rnittee was named as follows: Henry
Christman, J. ID. Oliver. Fred a.
BRYAN. l.. G.. France. c. c. Hanch,
William Happ and County Surveyor
Henderson Mcclellan.
Each one of the committee present
Monday had had considerable eXper-
ience with concrete work and held out
that satisfactory work on a concrete
highway is impossible without an eN-
pert at the head. II was pointed out
that continual close watching is neces-
sar to obtain the best results. Not
only must the cement be tested care
fully. but the mixing of sand. cement
gravel and water also requires special
care.
Cement to be Tested.
Surveyor Mcclellan stated that he
had sent samples OF a carload Of
cement TO State GeolOgist Barrett for
a test and expected TO receive a re-
port in due time. " V Duncan, a
representative of the Marquette Ce-
ment Co. which has the contract to
furnish the cement for the Lincoln
highway in this county, was present
at the meeting and stated his firm is
ready 10 stand as rigid a test as the
authorities care 10 make.
Immediately following the session
with the county commissioners the
committee named by Graham went
into session and elected +. A. Bryan
chairman and William Happ. secre-
tary Resolutions were adopted by
the committee providing that the
commissioners engage some cement
testing concern to test the cement
sand gravel and water which goes
into the highway and also that plan
be worked out whereby a strict super
vision and inspection may be made Of
the roadway while in course OF con-
struction. r. g. Christman. Hender-
son Mcclellan and G. c. France were
named to work out the scheme for
work inspection. The resolutions
were accepted by the commissioners.
Invite Hines Here.
II was planned by the committee
TO invite Chairman Hines Of the
Wayne county (Mich) highway COM
mission TO visit South Bend and meet
with the members of the committee
for the purpose of giving advice on
the work of cement road construc-
ton. This action was decided upon
for the reason that Wayne county has
the largest amount Of cement road
way of any county in the United
States and all of the road work has
been done under the supervision Of
Mr.. Hines.
The committee informed the COM
missioners that the Cement Manufac-
turers association would probably
furnish one Inspector free of charge.