Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-30
PLAN JERSEY
ROAD EXHIBIT
State Highway Commission to
Have Booth at Trenton
Fair Next Month

TRENTON, Aug. 30.-For the
first time since the creation of the
State Highway Commission that de-
partment of the state government
is to have an exhibition at the COM
ing Trenton Fair, next month, ac-
cording to announcement from the
offices of the commission mere today.
y booth will be erected, various inn
plements used in road building will
be displayed in operation, types of
road building material shown and a
general exhibition of material and
information win be presented to in
form the public what the depart
ment is doing in constructing high
ways for the state.
The feature of this exhibit will be
the laying out on the grounds of Il
sample type of road which the com
mission has in mind for construction
in the many townships throughout
the state. This sample road will be
about 600 feet long and will lead
right to n of the main exhibition
buildings on the ground. IL will be
built of steam cinders. and because
of this unusual type of construction
it is anticipated that representatives
of many of the township committees
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fair to inspect the sample and see it
tested by the heavy fair traffic to
the exhibition building.
Economy is the thought behind
the construction of steam cinders.
1t is estimated that at prevailing
prices a steam cinder road can be
built at approximately $4,000 a mile
and it is for the purpose cf educat-
ing the public and the road officials
to the great possibilities for money
saving in this type of construction
that it is to be presented at the COM
ing Trenton Fair. At the present
time it is costing the townships in
the neighborhood of from 100000
to $4,000 a mile to build macadam
roads.
There are only two miles OF steam
cinder roads now built in the state.
This work Is between Sargentville
and stockton, in Delaware township,
Huntingdon county, and 1. was built
there only after much opposition
upon the part of the local authori-
ties. However. there has been con-
siderable repair work of this kind
done throughout New Jersey. The
highway commission thinks that if
the value of this type of road a
pS VI OuSl 1 lloIIle " the LOWI SIllD
authorities large sums of money will
be saved to the taxpayers. particu-
larry of the townships.
1.-THE State Highway Commission
in administering the funds made
available each year for township
road construction has had difficulty
in convincing the township commit
tees responsible for their local road
improvements that a very satisfac-
tory road for local purposes and
light traffic can be constructed with
steam cinders," declared George L..
Burton, chairman of the State High
way Commission, discussing the sub
let today. This kind of construc-
ton is desirable for two reasons.
First, because it can be built at a
very much lower cost than one built
of stone material which must be
transported from the quarry by rail
and then hauled overland by trucks
to the site of the works. Secondly,
because the cost of securing the
stone is very much greater than
the cost of securing the
necessary cinders and thirdly be-
cause the maintenance of a cinder
road is very much less expensive
due to the small cost of the neces-
sary materials, the ease in handling
them. elimination of equipment and
lack of need for trained road super
visors. and very easily Kept in re-
pair.
This construction is not in any
sense experimental. The borough of
Queens, New York, has laid several
hundred miles of steam cinder pave
ments on streets with such beneficial
results that the mileage is being
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