. Water & sewage works . heschool. New Publications A new magazine is entitled The Effici-ent Citizen seems to be devoted to thework of the business booster, the citydevelopment promoter, the commercialorganizations which can do so much forthe uplift and advancement of their com-munities. It is published in New Yorkand is a monthly. Concrete Roads and Pavements. ByE. S. Hanson, affiliate member of West-ern Society of Engineers, Editor TheCement Era, Chicago, 111. Cloth, 227 pp. Annual report of the Department ofPublic Works of Cincinnati, O. Paper,118 pp. Victor T. Price, director of pub-lic s
. Water & sewage works . heschool. New Publications A new magazine is entitled The Effici-ent Citizen seems to be devoted to thework of the business booster, the citydevelopment promoter, the commercialorganizations which can do so much forthe uplift and advancement of their com-munities. It is published in New Yorkand is a monthly. Concrete Roads and Pavements. ByE. S. Hanson, affiliate member of West-ern Society of Engineers, Editor TheCement Era, Chicago, 111. Cloth, 227 pp. Annual report of the Department ofPublic Works of Cincinnati, O. Paper,118 pp. Victor T. Price, director of pub-lic service; Henry M. Waite, city en-gineer. Wright on Quantities, a plea for a bet-ter system of estimating cost of build-ings in the United States, 16 pp., 50cents: Wright on Building Arbitrations;a manual for architects, students, con-tractors and construction engineers, 46pp., $1. By G. Alexander Wright, M. SanFrancisco Chapter A. I. A., M. Tech. Pac. Coast. 571 California street, SanFrancisco, Cal. Ifovember. 191S. MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES ••r i\.: ^, Pavement Doubly Reinforced Both top and bottom of the concretepavement laid in Parlvview avenue, De-troit, Mich., in October, 1912. were rein-forced with a mat of round bars fabricat-ed on a wooden frame having the exactslopes of the finished street. Stools madeof 3/16 by 1 by 1-inch angles support therods exactly in place and tie the top andbottom bars together. While this streetis in a residential district it leads avenue to the water and sewagepumping stations, to which there is moreor less heavy teaming. Formerly this 2S-foot street was paved with cedar blocks,of which very little remained. The con-crete pavement is G% inches thick, laidon what was left of the old macadambase. There is a 4-inch bottom course of1:1V4:2 mixture, over which there waslaid 2^2 inches of finish composed of1 part cement to 2 parts crushed granitechips. Both ways the 14-inch bars on top arespaced on 2-foot centers, while the
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