Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
TO TRY new PLAN
FOR RESURF AGING
OLD PAVING HERE
fommission WIN Experiment With
Lut System of Placing As.
phalt on Old Brick.
M IMPROVE SIXTEENTH STREET
authorities VIII Close Deal With Com
pany and Secure Betterment at
Greatly Reduced Cost.

The Rock Island municipal commits
sion is to give trial to the latest and
improved method Of resurfacing all
kinds Of pavement with asphalt at a
cost Of one-half under the system Of
repaving used in the past. Improve
ment of Sixteenth street between Sec
ord and Fourth avenues will be per-
formed with the new method, the city
to stand the cost
II ". Patterson, superintendent of
maintenance of the Peoples Asphalt
Maintenance company of Kansas City
Yesterday afternoon addressed the
council and explained that with the
services of Lutz surface heater, brick
or asphalt pavements can be resur-
faced TO give the same If not better
satisfaction than tearing up the old
navement and relaying with brick or
uniting on asphalt.
For many years engineers have tried
various methods of placing asphalt
IN old brick pavements but in most
eases they met with failure because
the brick was cold when the asphalt
was placed on top. The Lutz heater,
however. heats the brick to the same
temperature as the heated asphalt and
the temperature practically Vulcanizes
the two.
Sixteenth street between Second
and Fourth avenues is in poor con-
dition. The paving has sunk in some
places and the corrugated surface has
brought lamentations from many who
travel over it. 1t has practically as
much traffic as any of the street inter-
secting Second avenue, and in view OF
the fact that the city hall and post
office buildings are located on the thor
oughfare the commission thought it
an ideal roadway upon which to eX-
pertinent with the paving.
Start in Spring.
The work will not be started until
spring. Holes in the present paving
will be filled with concrete and then
the asphalt placed on top, the layer
TO be probably two inches thick. 1t is
thought that the brick has settled and
worn off at least two inches.
The company proposes to give the
city the pavement at cost, 81 pei
square yard. The street is SO feet
wide and the district proposed paving
is 600 feet long This will make the
cost to the city about $4,000. Under
the old plan repaving would mean ar
expense of $4,000. II is interesting t
note that if the experiment proves al
that is claimed for the new system ant
the city decides to adopt it in the re-
surfacing of all pavements where
needed property owners can secure
practically new pavement at a low
cost. Owners of 50-foot lots on streets
IS feet wide could secure the improve.
ment for 500, which assessment
spread over period of 10 years would
make the cost only SO per year.
Paving on a number of streets IL
the city is in poor condition. Success
of the new plan will solve a problem
that the city sooner or later would bt
forced TO deal with.
Either asphalt or brick pavements
can be resurfaced through the use o.
the Lutz heater" Mr.. Patterson said
THE Lutz method consists in drawing
large volume of air, heated to proper
temperature, from a heating chamber
and blowing it with great force upor
the asphalt or other pavement, thereby
gently heating and softening the Ole
pavement to the same consistency o
the new material. This is done with
out fame touching the pavement.
Yields Two Materials.
Then with the use of hoe and {
rake. all disintegrated material ant
uneven or worn surfaces are removed
and joints cut, and while the pave
ment is still hot, sufficient new mate
rial to bring up the grade and contoul
Of the street is added. The temDera
lure OF the material, being at a Wi
canizing point when tamped, smoothet
and rolled produces perfect weld ant
leaves a finished surface.
Instead Of having a patch the re
pair becomes q part Of the whole. Bed
ford avenue, in Brooklyn, and street!
in Kansas City, Chicago, st. Louis
Washington, D. c., New Orleans, st
Joseph, Mo-, and other cities are i'm
proved with this new method and goot
satisfaction is given"
Because of the possibilities Of i'm
proving at a low cost streets ALREADY
paved here, the council deemed 1t wis
TO try the plan. The Peoples Asphal
Material Maintenance company vii
send contract to the city for sigma
ture.