. Water & sewage works . cure cheap for light travelledstreets, several kinds of bituminous con-struction were tried, using oil and asphaltapplied by sprinkling, by the penetrationprocess, and mixing method, and withvarious kinds of machinery. Work ofthese cheap kinds is included in thestreets complained of above. The type of pavement in most general December, I9li MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES 565 use on the main streets of the city is bi-tulithlc of which there has been laid ap-proximately 535,332 square yards, whichare now in their first to eighth year inage. But one street of this mate
. Water & sewage works . cure cheap for light travelledstreets, several kinds of bituminous con-struction were tried, using oil and asphaltapplied by sprinkling, by the penetrationprocess, and mixing method, and withvarious kinds of machinery. Work ofthese cheap kinds is included in thestreets complained of above. The type of pavement in most general December, I9li MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES 565 use on the main streets of the city is bi-tulithlc of which there has been laid ap-proximately 535,332 square yards, whichare now in their first to eighth year inage. But one street of this material ismentioned by the grand jury, and in thiscase, that of East Boulevard, the defectswere entirely confined to the block pave-ment along the rails of the street rail-way tracks. Cost of Motor Truck Hauling on Catskill Aqueduct Tunnel, New York We have made great headway by theuse of motor trucks, states L. C. Brink,General Supt., Pittsburgh ContractingCo. We have found no work whichcould have been profitably done with. MAIN STREET, Memphis, Tenn., equippepd with new ornamental lighting system. New White Way in Memphis, Tenn. The new Main street lighting system ofMemphis, Tenn., is composed of 320 orna-mental iron standards, each supportingfive high-power tungsten lights. One 100-watt light on each standard burns allnight, while four 60-w-att lights burn onlyuntil midnight. The accompanying illus-tration shows but a part of the new Mainstreet lighting system, which extends overa distance of 2i^ miles. The lamps wereinstalled upon the front-foot assessmentplan; that is. the owners of abutting prop-erty paid for the standards and for in-stallation, on a front-foot basis, and thecity maintains the light, supplying thecurrent and keeping the standards paintedand in good condition. The city has beengiven full title to the lamps. The stand-ards are placed 70 feet apart. They weremanufactured by the Casey-Hedges Com-pany, of Chattanooga, Tenn. wagons. We have saved from 20 to 25per
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