Public works . lamped around the ropeand allow the rope to be drawn through it, a vi-iper on theupper end of the box wiping off the excess and the boxbeing kept filled with the lubricant. Ropes should be inspected every day by the foremanor other competent man, noting the wear of the wires,the stretching of the rope, any broken wires, etc. Specialattention should be paid to the rope just above the socketat the clamps, where the rope rests on a sheave, and whereit leaves the drum at each end of the hoist. ROAD SITE BUILT UP BY GRASS. San Francisco began on May 13 of this year the pavingof a roa
Public works . lamped around the ropeand allow the rope to be drawn through it, a vi-iper on theupper end of the box wiping off the excess and the boxbeing kept filled with the lubricant. Ropes should be inspected every day by the foremanor other competent man, noting the wear of the wires,the stretching of the rope, any broken wires, etc. Specialattention should be paid to the rope just above the socketat the clamps, where the rope rests on a sheave, and whereit leaves the drum at each end of the hoist. ROAD SITE BUILT UP BY GRASS. San Francisco began on May 13 of this year the pavingof a road known as the Great Highwa5\ This is aboulevard along the Pacific Ocean from the Cliff House toSloat Boulevard and is one of the citys most picturesqueand most traveled highways. The stretch paved is mileslong and contains about 56,000 square yards. It was com-pleted in a little less than 70 working days. The cost,$85,000, was paid out of the good roads fund, which isderived from state automobile .\t the northern end, the construction is of concretebase with an asphalt surface, costing $ a square remainder of the road consists of two inches of asphalticconcrete on top of the old roadway, which was first scari-fied,, the holes filled in, and rolled. The cost of this, in-cluding the scarifying, was cents per square yard. This road is paralleled by another road, which is usedfor business and local traffic, while the one above referredto is a motor promenade and sits higher than the few years ago both roads were at the same level; butJohn AlcClaren, superintendent of Golden Gate Park,planted along the shore a variety of beach grass whichtends to build up the ground by catching and holding shift-ing sand, and this effected the raising of the ground levelten or twelve feet. It is on this higher ground that theroadway just completed was located. The illustration snowsthe new and the lower roadway; also the grass that causedthe raising of the r
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