Provo Dispatch | 1894-02-15 | Page 3 | London Streets

London Streets. Tiie chief engineer of the London Gas j i -company has found that in some streets j L the pavement of wood blocks laid on j concrete now forms a kind of arch capa- ! " ble of supporting traffic, while in many : places the earth has settled away to such i an extent that a man can crawl under the pavement. This is made a serious matter by the fact that the space between be-tween the soil and the concrete proves to be filled by a mixture of gas from leaky ! mains and air a mixture very liable to reach explosive proportions and to be accidentally ac-cidentally ignited, when the street might be blown into the air. London Globe.