Show KElSEY RETURNS I NEW IDEAS City Engineer to Recommend Use of Oil on Macadam Streets PROVES SUCCESS IN EAST Satisfied That Thai Creosote Paving Blocks Are the Most Serviceable L L. C. C I el city engineer has hns re returned returned re- re turned to his lila desk desi after an extended tour which t embraced almost e cr every evor cit dry city of or note In the East Mr It I went wC to Washington ton to attend tho the annual 1 meeting of or the American Water Yater Works ns association May In 11 to 16 IG of or which hotly body he was col elected a member r. r On Oil th the he way east he stopped at D Denver r n I Kansas nn aR CIl City and St. St Louis Loui Returning h he hurc Baltimore Phil adelphia New w York Providence Boston Doston Dos Bos ton ton Rochester Cleveland ad Indianapolis lis liR and Chicago In all nil of or these cities J Jh h he he got ot in touch with tho the city engineers engineers' engi ensi- fleets offices antI and made malIc a point of looking Into the tho paving problems of each city I 1 am ant satisfied that hat the tile best Pl pave pavo- ment mont in use today is 18 the tho creosote wooden woollen blocks This costs costA 1 5 a yard more mor than asphalt hut but It is dunable durable dun dur able ablo and anti efficient A pavement omont laid on lower ow 1 Broadway In New York where hero granite s blocks only last ot 13 years was laid two years ago ngo an and except pt wh where re It had been torn up for tor public public- service sr work It was Just as 38 good as new nt In Indianapolis I saw w some of this laid 14 years all ago o anti It was a In splendid condition Work oik at nt Moderate rl Figure Wo We are all getting our contract work quite a as cheaply ply as nB of any of or the thc Eastern East East- ern era cities and considering tho the advantages n an Lates they have in the tho thoVa Va way of or cheap labor anti and materials we do 10 b better Of Ot cou course e. e thc they use granite block creosote and brick pavements hut but there is a great groat deal of asphalt The Trinidad anti and Bermuda asphalt is chiefly u used cd anti and this is 18 much the thc same In quality as tho the California product u ed her here Washington ha hn th the best hest pave pave- ments They Thy can h by law Jaw only pa pay pal a yard but hut th they make up lip the difference the thc contractor to In other branches In Boston the cost of asphalting Is j a yard and the they arc are doing some somo surfacing re without the foundation which co costs ts them We c are arc getting get get- e lUn l- l Un ting our 11 asphalt for u a n. yard This is in spite of or the thc prices we have ha to 10 pay ny here herc for COl labor and material And Anti our work vork is quite as well wen done Jon anti and a as durable I II I intend to take up with tho tile council council coun coun- cil the tile matter of or oiling the tile macadam str streets ets of the tho city ll antI and will ill recommend that it be he done at once I am convinced con con- vinced vincel that this is th the best t method of or preserving them In all tho the Eastern cities they are arc doing this and It works worl well ell They found that the tho automobiles Wel were vero tearing them thom up and that the oiling while it tines does not s ine n them al altogether al- al to together l' l helps much in Massachusetts etts etis tim tho highway is oiling oiling- ho tho highways S and roads In t u I as was much Impre impressed with tho the bl blI big I garbage reduction llon plant of Cleveland Ohio They save c all the tho by products I which are oro used larJ largely ly for the lie greas anti and fertilizer fhe The rev revenue U I from this source ce was in ou one year yen I 3 and he the entire co cost t o of collection and I lion ion of the garba garbage e was only Furthermore the city expects the tho plant eventually e to meet the tho expenses of running The American n Water ater Works Yolk association association asso asso- elation which Mr r attended dealt leall with all manner of oC problems deaHn dealing with wat water vator r supplies and ancl there h he accumulated much valuable mation Mr 11 K took tool a camera with him anti and brou brought hi lack hack 2 50 0 photographs of or city work in various stages from most of ot th the cities clUes he visited S I |