Scientific American Volume 65 Number 20 (November 1891) . 100 feetin height, and the centraltransept, 130 feet wide,will be surmounted bythree domes 250 feet iron and steel willbe rolled at the ReadingRolling Mill, but the fab-ricating and fitting willbe done at whole is to be com-pleted and in place byMay, 1892. © 1891 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. 3o8 SFmntxiu ^mtvmn. [November 14, 1891. BAD PAVING IN NEW , the great thoroughfare of New York, forthe past two months has been practically closed tovehicles, by reason of its occupation by the street rail-road comp
Scientific American Volume 65 Number 20 (November 1891) . 100 feetin height, and the centraltransept, 130 feet wide,will be surmounted bythree domes 250 feet iron and steel willbe rolled at the ReadingRolling Mill, but the fab-ricating and fitting willbe done at whole is to be com-pleted and in place byMay, 1892. © 1891 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. 3o8 SFmntxiu ^mtvmn. [November 14, 1891. BAD PAVING IN NEW , the great thoroughfare of New York, forthe past two months has been practically closed tovehicles, by reason of its occupation by the street rail-road company in laying down the required parapher-nalia for cable propulsion in place of horses. This jobis now nearly completed, and has beenexecuted in themost substantial manner. The city authorities haveundertaken to relay the stone pavement between theouter rails of the cable road and the curb stones. Weregret to say they have adopted the same old good-for-nothing system which previously existed; to wit,bedding the stone blocks in soft sand. The result is. the evenness of the pavement only continues for a shorttime after it is laid down ; the stone blocks rise in someplaces and sink in others, and the general surfacetakes on an appearance like the waves of a choppy pavement must then be taken up and relaid. Thisis a method considered best by the politicians whomisgovern the great city. It brings to them a peren-nial flow of money from the city treasury on whichthey fatten while the tax payers suffer. Fig. 1 shows how the pavement looks when it is firstlaid down. Fig. 2 shows its appearance after it hasbeen in use for a short timo.
Size: 2161px × 1156px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectel, booksubjectengine
