Show n III TIME THE PEOPLE SHOULD WAKE OP UP Matter of Street Macadamizing Submitted to their intelli intelligent intelligent gent Judgment FOURTEEN PLAIN VIOLATIONS Ordinary Observation Should I Convince Any One That Street r Work is Huge Blunder Many Miles Moro More or of Such Contract to 10 Ho He Through by ly the tilO City Administration In Tn view o oC tho fact act that tho city authorities us stated by the thc enamour are nr about to clinch tho bargain for far hundreds or oC thousands of at dollars worth moro or if it tho bo condemned and discredited street paving recently In jn Inflicted n on Third West Wesl Second West Vest Sixth street streel anil and elsewhere the th News urges tho ih people to be bc awake avak to their Interests as liS U taxpayers and to the tho welfare ot or tho ho city lo 10 oth T evidence as IS to tho the worth or 01 worthlessness of ot tho the tho recently macadamized streets ot their to bo ha presented at the tho proper time but hut for tho Iho present It sufficient nt to submit the caso to lo lohe the tho antl lIll judgment of ot an public before presenting other oilier phases of ot It POINTS TO OBSERVE i For tho the present It Is urged that Interested d should satisfy them themselves themselves selves by h b dIr t personal observation observation tion The Tho 1 ie people who live ilvo along alOn the I streets on which macadamizing by h tim city is now point on would do well wot I Ito to observe the process not noting notIng ing particularly the tho eight violations of or tim tha rules rus for far road construction previously pre y published l In I a this th is payer paper Observations should bo bB b made III In or oi order der dor to answer III moro particularly the th following questions 1 Is tho the foundation mudo mado hard and thoroughly compacted by b rolling preferably aIo by b tho working In Inor of or sand and grovel before any tny brok broken en in stone la Is i laid bin It U not hot 11 at the tho city 1st Is I Isa employing a method condemned by authority as ns a on Second avenue I 2 Are Ari the stones If U so soone soone soone one ot or tho the worst w frauds or blunders blInders according to authority Is being per perpetrated upon pon tho the property properly that hut t la Is L to be ho bene by bytho bytho bythe tho the paving This rii wa was tin thc enso co e on Second avenue on au the occasions of ot tho rho reporters r visits 3 z Is clay dust or or soil soli ot of any kind completely excluded from fron minglinG with tho broken rock If f not hot thoro thoroIS Is another serious and costly fraud or 01 blunder as am on Second avenue when observed Jd ono one week ago agol 4 l la III sand gravel or some other material employed In sufficient quan quantity to fill 1111 the time interstices among the broken rock r If It not tin mis on Second avenue the pavement Is at nt fault faulL 6 Ii Is each successive layer of broken stono thoroughly compacted by rolling before another layer Is It added If It not tho the road will be b loose like Uko that which the tile writer has Inspected on tho avenue 6 C Are stones larger than thon three In dimensions mingled with the smaller ones jnes It If so hero is another error as atm atmas was as observed on Sixth and Twelfth J as well as on omi the tho avenue 7 Is the screened stone slone assorted In Inlayers Inlayers inlayers layers the largest at nt tho bottom m If U so 50 tho larger pieces will work vork to tho thu surface as observed In tn various arlous parts of ot tho the city work vork SeIth this kind ot of pavIng J t 8 Is a layer ot of stone dust duat used to toi tom i m cover tho the surface of the tho compacted stone ns mis was tha tho case caso on some of Itha time the work observed If so the road be a disappointment as mum ft Is the thet t caso aso with nil the Limo macadamized roads TOadS to date dateS I S Is the tho soil surface rolled thorough thoroughly ly py from tho lImo extreme outer edges to the center beginning on the edges If It f not ins illS In tho the caso case observed on Second avenue lavenue the time road will not bo solid solIdS S 10 Is Ii the tIme binder thoroughly wetted vetted and thoroughly rolled In so o that t the fin resembles mosaic worK at f not and no such good was WIlS le CO anywhere during durIn the tha inspection Inspect Jon limo tho work In Is not nol really finished 11 31 Would auld a n bo ho broken under the Ithe roller before It could bo bu crushed into time the road 1 If It not and und no pave pavo anent nent 1 of or such hardness was observed hero 1010 the work would be bo condemned upon proper inspection 12 1 Wilt Will time the newly road rand en hire heavy sweeping with wIlls the thc city a steel brooms If It not 1101 it Is fatally do de and will wUl soon noon begin to ravel 13 1 3 Has tim the rolling boon beun prolonged untIl the tho stono ceases to creep In front of lot tho timO roller anti and until un tn the macadam U 11 i firm under the tho foot toot ns mis ono oo walks upon fit t If It f not good byo bye In Sn 1 a I very few tew ears to your our road 14 U la Is tho thu stone atone laid In lay la ws cr each mach not nol moro four tour to six alc si thick and nud each compacted by y rolling i before time the next lla Js ia laid bid It If not the tho road rond will not last Inston lastIng Ing on With these directions as all guide poato almost any one should bo b able ablo to do de eldo cub for himself whether or 01 not ot the 1110 city street work is proceedIng upon established principles or whether It itu lis u a ft delusion arid and snare naro that wilt will he bo hethe the most costly or ot blunders to tha tM he city real reo I progress TIlE THE DINDINO D MATERIAL There Thare Is a n I difference of ot opinion among engineers n nil atm to the tho best heat meth method od 01 ot of applying time the binding material Rome Borne apply It Il on Ott the top of ot each course and saute omo on top lop op of or only anI the tile lust lest course In III n tho time first w cuse the Uie theraid voids olda raid from train the bottom to tho the top lop ot or ortho the limo road rond are ure tilled filed with line flue muter Jill hil In tho the case the binder usually Sills the tho voids of ot the top course only If It the stone Is 18 hard Ard or orIf orIf If tile the lower layers have 0 not ilot helm been thoroughly compact d by rolling up UI plying the tho binding pictorial material on the top tOI of or th the last a t course courso practically 1111 1 the to tho the earth eurll foundation It If the limo tono In the lower coulee Os Is In soft 01 or If It the thu top ton of or tha tM to last course Is la thoroughly rolled applying the tha binder on arm the tha top tap tills the tho he voids In use tho top only ony It U IN is I said to bu be smut nut to tu TIll nil tha tilli 1 VOIdS olds ot or the Iho top tom course hut which of at thes alterations U Is accomplished acc ac in III thu limo of It our streets now paving U is not clear cl or Along Alone Ls tha tho I ISO binding hi ur In IH II laid lold on the th top toll only ll In III op 01 opposition opposition position to tn former practise In lit it C very rY ibm lur This net Is IN of pt lt Itself elf un nh admission that he layer IH Is IHnot not mInt no Intended In i to U I o I the thIn in 10 Ii till t Ii I yet rot the t il contractor Mr Air Mol for forIn tn In n bU that all MI au the tho between the stones fire are so filled Under tinder the tho former practise this might have been so eo but certaInty certainly not flot now when the tho theory theon seeni to 10 bo be that as us the upper layer wears away the dust will wash down Into Inlo the tho lower honey layers In such sucha a n way 10 as pa to put the tho three or tour four In Inches Inches Inches ches Just below the surface properly bound The present method employ ed cd does not seem Beem to lo accord with eith er recognized theo thea of ot working In ill the thc binding material anti and to the thc writ er or it is III a n puzzle to know Just what WUll theory the he city are pro BOH gon all In this particular which j by ly the way ivay ay Is III very el Important one on See Seo linkers Treatise on all and und Pavements Pavement Illa 23 to 2 4 VS It ii hums has been beon proved that the th blue hili limestone binding does not cement It tt appears to t first but so ss will cloY clay rock dust or any kind soil gravel And even cven tithes ashes If t wetted and thoroughly pressed together by h a heavy roller The smooth pretty surface of at tim the newly finished road therefore proves nothing Any road rood looks good If It swept rIcan plean sprinkled thoroughly and then heavily rolled Fifth l Hast I for example with no pavement having the theod old earth road Oad and receiving nd ad such Hatter Jug Ing III attentions Is really almost as sol eol id as aB the tho newly paved Sixth last East Eastland and Ind If It leveled sprinkled rolled etc eta with n st little gravel on top It would wouW look Just JUAt ns us good and possIbly pos II I the thc same service as tho Tribunes called l solid Pod and beautiful h a Sixth East Thorn Is la n a Idu difference between een the th surface appearance rance and the real value vahe ot or a a newly macadamized street ON GOOD HOAP One OM of 01 o the th morning papers paper says sa sars a ot or the thc reporters recent visit with wills Mr 01 K Kel Itel Kelsey l sey scy the city engineer that the party went vent out oat by the federal military res tess reservation nn an were shown slown some good macadamized road the Intention being to lay macadam on all streets street from South Temple to and Including Fifth FIrth South street This ThIe Is humorous The Tho city engineer shows shawl tho the OIK OIl good macadamized made inside by b the th federal 1 authorities three years ago ao from the lime hoc rock similar to that owned by the th city In Its the Uty UI Ds Y canyon on ledges tedge l and then explains that It Il Is the Intention to lay ma lIIa macadam nu cadam adaui on all streets from Tem Tern Temple plc pIc to and und Including Fifth FIrth South street It Is time then that the tM peo pea people people plo living on these Streets lre ts were wah a aIn ing In up For If It as itS this remark implies II the time contract be closed clo cd at III with Mr Moron Moran for Jor PU these extra miles of macadamizing with the tile worth worthless less Jess blue rock now purchased from private parties then other hundreds 01 of thousands of dollars of tim the peoples money will have been tied up to bo be badly spent before the Iho people are aware of ot what whal the tho rash plungers now no run running ning the city ellY ari ar aI really doing doln |