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Show WHAT STRADAMANT IS. Tha Material Wilh YVIiloh It t Proposed to ! .Ion. The Timks committee of oue onuide-walks onuide-walks hunted up Willard T. Itarton, who is hero coaching tho Uemingtou proposition to furnish tho city with pavements, this morning and interviewed inter-viewed him with reference to the composition com-position of "stradamant," with which material it is proposed to do the work. Mr. llartonis very enthusiastic over the adaptability of stradamant to street paving, and argues for it a durability more lasting even than the vitality of the fabled Mothmelah. "Stradamant," said he. "owes its parentage par-entage to two lixed properties, is proof against all elemental influences, and is destroyed only by combustion. It consists con-sists of native asphaltum and sand, the mass representing 05 per cent iatid and "5 per cent asphaltum. The consistency ot this mass is, however, regulated by tho temperature of the locality for which it is intended. The first step is to determine the mean temperature, and the consistency of tho mass is do termined. We havo yet our lirst failure to record, and it has been tested all the way from San Francisco to Chicago, with Portland and Taeonia ou tho north. Their use in each and all of these cities has been of the most satisfactory sat-isfactory nature and I believe the an thoritiea have tinally agreed with us that the question of economical pavement pave-ment has been finally solved. The material ma-terial we propose to use here has a stretching capacity of ).S percent, a resistance re-sistance of HOOO pounds to the cube and l'.'OOO to the square inch, together with a tension of 10H0 pounds to the square inch. The foundation consists of one asphaltic concrete compound of gravel and asphaltum. while upon this is placed three inches of str-idamant that is proof against any kind of weather-hot weather-hot or cold. All we ask of your city council is that we be permitted to furnish fur-nish them with a sample on any street they may elect and if the sample is satisfactory to give us the contract on terms with which your readers have already al-ready bean made familiar." The question will be brought up again this evening at the session of the. council, at which lime Mr. Itarton will ho present to furnish any "education" that may be necessary. |