City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. . varying costs from$ to $ per square yard, which in each case in-cludes guarantee for five years. Among these are Taunton, Mass., Norwich, N. Y.,Charleston, S. C, Yonkers, N. Y., and three miles of State Road leading south from Cleveland, Ohio,which last is to cost $ per square yard: also, twoand one-fourth miles of Seventh Avenue, New Yorkcity, from iioth street to 155th street, which, if done,will cost about $ per square yard: the five yearguarantee in this case being important, as the trafific isheavy. WIDTH AND GR
City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. . varying costs from$ to $ per square yard, which in each case in-cludes guarantee for five years. Among these are Taunton, Mass., Norwich, N. Y.,Charleston, S. C, Yonkers, N. Y., and three miles of State Road leading south from Cleveland, Ohio,which last is to cost $ per square yard: also, twoand one-fourth miles of Seventh Avenue, New Yorkcity, from iioth street to 155th street, which, if done,will cost about $ per square yard: the five yearguarantee in this case being important, as the trafific isheavy. WIDTH AND GRADE. The pavement usually extends from curb to curb,the widest built being forty feet at Salem, N. J., andthe narrowest being sixteen feet proposed near Cleve-land, Ohio. The steepest grades are eight feet to twelve feet per100 on Harvey street, Pawtucket, R. L, and ten feet tofifteen feet per 100 proposed at Yonkers, N. Y, OPINIONS. This new pavement has been in actual use onlysince January, 1901, but the opinions expressed by 135 CITY ROADS AND MAPLE STREET, HOLYOKE, MASS., and after paving with Bituminous Macadam. 136 OPINIONS. skilled road-builders, who have examined it critically,are favorable as to its durability and \alue. In addition to the officials of the various cities named,many city engineers and street superintendents ha\eexamined these pavements during and after comple-tion, and intend to build similar ones in their variouslocalities, it being found that the winter and spring of1902 have left these in good condition. Among these are the president of the Massachusettshighway association, C. A. Brown of Cambridge; thevice-president of the Massachusetts highway asso-ciation, R. A. Jones, of Waltham; Prof. A. W. Dow ofWashington, D. C, who is quoted by the MunicipalJournal as expressing the opinion, based upon what heknew of it, that this pavement exceeded in good quali-ties any other pavement that he had seen laid. Chas. of Newton, form
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