. The Street railway journal . is company has used woodextensively in paving its tracks, and hasused a large variety of it: pine, hemlock,cedar, maple, elm, gum wood and lignumvitas. The gum wood was in round blocks,and in a short time wore into an oval shapelike a saucer inverted, and became so ob-jectionable for horses to travel on we hadto take it out. None of the woods lastedfor a satisfactory period, and all were veryhard on horses. Whea frozeu, the animalswould strain all the cords and muscles toretain a foothold on the slippery pavement,and soon became disabled, mauy of themfalling and
. The Street railway journal . is company has used woodextensively in paving its tracks, and hasused a large variety of it: pine, hemlock,cedar, maple, elm, gum wood and lignumvitas. The gum wood was in round blocks,and in a short time wore into an oval shapelike a saucer inverted, and became so ob-jectionable for horses to travel on we hadto take it out. None of the woods lastedfor a satisfactory period, and all were veryhard on horses. Whea frozeu, the animalswould strain all the cords and muscles toretain a foothold on the slippery pavement,and soon became disabled, mauy of themfalling and breaking limbs or otherwise in-juring them. In the summer time the casewas but little better when the blocks werewet and greasy. On State street, fromMadison to Lake street, the company re-newed the pavement regularly every sixmonths, and sometimes it would last onlyfour months; but in my estimation a muchmore serious objection to wood is the effecton health. Let any person come into thecity from the lake or the country, where. THE GIBSON TRACK CLEANER. thit is bolted to the board over the oppo-site rail is reached. This gives a flexible or floating bladebetween the two. There is a hole slottedin the plate over one rail which allows theblade to expand or contract, and to passa horizontal line in dropping from a con-vex to a concave track, three inches belowthe top of the rail or three inches above clearer is the only part of the plowthat it is necessary to purchase, as it canbe attached to the scraper board of anyordinary plow. •(Ubson & 330 Market street, St. Louis, Mo. If a horse rubs his mane and tail, washthe rubbed parts daily with soap andwater and apply vasaline to the use equal parts of bay rumand water. air is pure, any warm morning m summer,just after a shower, and walk down anystreet which has been paved for six monthswith wood, and he can taste the bitterpoison in the air which comes from the fer-mentation and decomposition of the fib
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