Evening star., 1915-12-08

tReplaced old sheet asphalt and asphalt bloc
The sums appropriated for expenditures
during the year under this head were as
follows:
For paving new roadway and repairing
old roadway Tavements ............ $J79 Oc0 o
For the construction and repair Of sub
urban roaos ~ 500
For grading streets, avenues and alleys. 1900
Sheet asphalt has continued to be
the material used most extensively in
roadway paving, 63,504 square yards
of new work of this class being laid.
Concrete roadway has been laid where
traffic conditions were not too severe.
No asphalt block pavement was laid
during the year.
Broken stone uuarried at the Dis
trict workhouse at Occoquan, Va, was
used in laying concrete base where
such use proved practicable and eco
nomical. The contracts for this work
provided that such stone should be
| furnished contractors at an agreed
price per cubic yard delivered on
wharves at Washington.
The prices paid under contract for
| roadway pavements during the year
were as follows:
Per square
Laying sheet asphalt pavement -(e,s Inch
pn.n.s,n asphalt surface q. Finch binder. before :,
Laying vitrihed block cutters, with g.
Laying % asphaitie case concrete pavement - i''
Inches thick after compression, on o.
1arinr asnhal,pn oncrs,o ,.,sn,on, % lo
inches thick after compression, on broken
stone base sc
The prices for the fiscal year 1916 are
as follows:
Laying sheet asphalt pavement (2la-inch
asphalt surface. Pinch binder, before
compression. with 6-inch concrete base. SLID
ySif inch
Laying sheet asphalt pavement (2is Inch
asphalt surface, pinch binder. before
c,mpression,, with 5-hch concrete base. 143
Laying vitrifed block. with 5-inch con-
crete Dafe LIS
Allowance for stone furnished by District
of Columbia:
On District wharf. yer cubic yard 80
On barges alongside District wharf,
per cubic yard 10
The current prices for resurfacing
a contract for period Of two years
beginning July l, 1914. are as follows:
Per square
yard.
spS. sufae aspha neh Pnaer
eompressionl, with 6-inch concrete base,
Laying se sheet asphalt surfsce iai. inches '''
before compensatory per square yard. -. .62
Laying asphalt hinder tin connection with
Laying sheet asphalt surface tor repairs
and miscellaneous work. cuts. etc,). Per
Laying asphalt hinder jfor repairs and
miscellaneous work. cuts, etc., per
Laying sheet asphalt for repairs. etc. .''
within the space required by law to he
kept in repair by street railway compa-
Layins asphalt binder for repairs. ETC.
within the space required by Law to be
kept in fspsir By street railway
Laying asphaltic concrete, pavement O.
inch asphalt concrete surface after com
preston. with 6inch concrete base, per
Laying atphaite concrete surface ia inches LOO
after compressl0n) ..:............:.... 80
Laying asphaltic concrete surface lin
connection with resurfacins work., per
CUBIC Ieot .J1
Especial attention was given to the
repair of the macadamized trunk high
ways leading out of the city to the
boundary lines of the District Bla-
densburg road, North Capitol street,
Georgia avenue, Park road, Sherman
avenue and Connecticut avenue We're
sive repairs were made TO Nichols ave-
nue., Rhode Island avenue, Michigan
Avenue, Wisconsin avenue. Belt road,
Massachusetts, avenue and Canal road.
finished ~ -
The annual cost for the repair and
dust prevention Of macadamized roads
averages about 70 cents per square
ydTu Inc approximate COST per
square yard for resurfacing macadam-
lied roadways where not too badly
worn, Interchangeable average cost Of
grading. is as follows, this work being
done by day labor:
Per square yard.
nacadam with 2 or inches of stone 81. 20 80
This lasts with patching and sur
1ace treatment from l to years,
depending on the traflc.
For resurfacing with btuminous mac
adam on the old stone base, to
Life probably at. least 5 years.
with some repair.
crete on the old stone base. Pinch
'Afif Life unknown. probably 10 to Il ~
years., depending on base.
For lay Ing new cement pavement
inches thick with tarred surface. LOS
Life unknown. but probably at
For laying new hituminous concrete
or standard sheet asphalt on
e'faf LIE Dsat' Of surface about 20 years; ''
Of base, indefinite.
Approximately $4,000 was expended
during the year for surface treatments
of roads with tar, and oil to prevent
dust, and $2,400 for watering streets
not reached by surface treatments.
BY the District appropriation act for
the fiscal year 1915. approved July p,
1914 one. .half the cost of. laying a new
pavement or resurfacing5 roadway,
where the material used is sheet as
phAlt. asphalt block. asphaltic or btu
fixed roadway pavement, is assessed |
against the abutting property to the |
extent of a forty-foot roadway. There |
is excepted from this assessment the |
cost OF the excess OF roadway over |
forty feet in width. the cost of street |
and the cost of work |
within the space for which street rail- |
way, companies are responsible-that |
is. the space between the rails and |
tracks and two feet exterior to the |
outer rails on each side. The abut- /
ting property. is not assessed, how
ever, for the expense. Of maintenance !