Show NEW STREET PLAN HAS GUTTERS IN THE CENTER I t SAVE ON ORIGINAL COST AND ALSO UPKEEP r e d d W t I CROSS SECTION CROSS SECTiON et w DO P NT 0 1 10 1 I 2 r rrt i t d t h f a 9 S Sa t tr r v Q Chicago Is pl to 10 2 25 more miles or of this shaped J R John J Sloan in inset t Is its advocate adoc The diagrams sow the difference in constructIon between tho old stile crown ro n and the new nr Dr ROT HOY j GIBBONS NE KEA t Sen Ice riter CHICAGO May Hay Because H-Because 11 Because a youth was WIlS rolled roiled by the th eight of young oung mothers trying to jostle their baby tics bus oter over oer high curbing and determined that some day dy he h would remedy the situation Chicago Is to adopt a anew anew new typo type of ot concave thorough thorough- thoroughfare tare fare John J Sloan president of or the board of or local Improvements Improvement Is chief advocate ad of or the tho plan and incidentally Is s 1 the tho he same samo young oun man of ot years ago aeo I Sloans Sloan's Sloan streets will 11 be b dish dish- shaped That is both sides tides will slope lopo toward th the center and there will be no curbing Instead of ot gutters cutter and catch basins along either side as Is the common practice there then will wll bo be a 17 common gutter cutter directly In the tho middle This new manner of tion accord according In to engineers will save millions of ot dollars every year First It Is Is- Is estimated that by having the gutter cutter In the center draining both aides from an al- al almost al almost most Imperceptible grade the tho city can cut Its approximate cleaning bill In two By this new principle origin origin- originally ally ln ally advocated In la less complete to form Im I'm by Benjamin Franklin more than years YC ago 1110 the city street cleaning department will havo bavo halt half as much work to do Pedestrians will have hav dry toot foot footing tootIng Inc foot Ing all the way ay across for the reason that the drainage will bo be boI I constant and more frequent Also the tho new plan will cut I down enormously t the th e specIal as- as assessment a taxes faxes of ot abutting prop prop- property property property erty owners In districts where streets are to be bo laid widened or improved ed Sloan Ioan estimates the new type ot of construction Is almost 15 percent per percent cent cheaper than the tho lh old type and that the saving In taxes to the assessed r property owners will wll amount to from 20 30 to 40 40 a front toot foot I In addition Sloan says such a street presents a uniform and at- at attractive attractive at attractive appearance The Th central gutter cutter formed by what amounts to a three Inch three drop In a foot toot street serves Ea as a line of demarcation for tor op- op opposite op opposite bound traffic thus sting accidents accidents The plan Is 13 not easily applicable applicable bl ble to streets street having ha car lines and has been tried out In CM- CM Chi Chicago cage cago In an experimental manner with such great creat success In a crowded market center that now 25 miles of or the Iho new type con con- construction con construction Is being contemplated |