Health in home and town . Wood Block Pavement Brick Pavements. — Streets of brick paving areincreasing in number. They are largely used in Phila-delphia, the cities of Ohio and Illinois, and in manysmaller western cities and towns. Such streets offer asufficiently smooth surface, are easily repaired andcleaned, and are not very noisy. Asphalt Pavements. — Asphalt forms a very smoothand popular paving. Philadelphia has over 350 milesof it, and Buffalo over 200 miles. It is noiseless,easily cleaned, durable, easily repaired, and producesneither mud nor dust. It makes an excellent street foreithe
Health in home and town . Wood Block Pavement Brick Pavements. — Streets of brick paving areincreasing in number. They are largely used in Phila-delphia, the cities of Ohio and Illinois, and in manysmaller western cities and towns. Such streets offer asufficiently smooth surface, are easily repaired andcleaned, and are not very noisy. Asphalt Pavements. — Asphalt forms a very smoothand popular paving. Philadelphia has over 350 milesof it, and Buffalo over 200 miles. It is noiseless,easily cleaned, durable, easily repaired, and producesneither mud nor dust. It makes an excellent street foreither city or suburban districts. Broken Stone Streets. — The streets in the suburbs ofa city are often made of broken stone. They are easy THE CITY STREETS 219 for driving, comparatively noiseless, and of moderatecost. They are, however, muddy when wet, dustywhen dry, and are difficult to clean. Many of the parkroads and state roads are built of this material. Someof the smaller cities have fine stone or macadam Asphalt Pavement, Chicago The city of Newton in Massachusetts has sixty milesof the finest kept roads. Waltham and Cambridge, inMassachusetts, and Staten Island, in New York, havemany miles of macadam streets. Boston has threehundred miles of such streets, mostly in the suburbs. Dusty Streets. — The prevention of dust on streetshas come to be a serious question. Since automobileshave become common, the raising and scattering of dusthas greatly increased. The broad heavy tires of auto-mobiles draw out the small particles from the road, andraise clouds of dust. The wearing away of the surfaceof some pavements also causes dust. The damage from 220 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN dust may be very serious. When blown into a houseit settles upon pictures, furniture, and books. On somestreets closed windows are more comfortable than openones. Occasionally the value of fine estates have beengreatly reduced by the constant presence of great cloudsof dust raised by the passi
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