#road paving

[mayapapaya33]

Ow ow ow. I just saw the parallels between Zerxus and Cassida both wanting to save a God. Zerxus wanted to save Asmodeus, both spiritually, by redeeming him, and physically, right at the beginning of Calamity, he wanted to save him from The Dawnfather, the "pitiless face of the sun." Cassida wanted to save the prime deities, all of them, but specifically The Everlight. Possibly both spiritually, by supporting the Everlight with worship, the Everlight, who's worshippers were slaughtered by Asmodeus, and physically, by ending the war with the Betrayers.

Zerxus and Cassida both doomed themselves and their cities (with help from their friends/coworkers!) because they wanted to save the gods. They committed incredible acts of hubris and incredible acts of love. And to have it be those two gods specifically! Oh No. I'll definitely probably speak more about this in depth another time, I just needed to get this out. Ouch.

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The residents of a remote village in Morocco paving the road themselves, after their requests to the elected councils were ignored.

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"VICTORIA MAN GUILTY OF TRYING TO BRIBE SAANICH COUNCILLOR," Vancouver Sun. November 1, 1913. Page 1. --- Represented Canadian Mineral Rubber Company and Offered Mr. Quick Five Thousand Dollars. ---- WANTED HIM TO VOTE FOR PAVING CONTRACT ---- Appeal Will Be Heard at Vancouver Court on Tuesday - Sentence Is Postponed. ---- VICTORIA, Oct. 31. - This afternoon Herbert P. Winsby was found guilty by a jury of having attempted to bribe Councillor F. G. Quick, of the Saanich municipal council, în connection with a paving contract.

The $400,000 paving project which the council undertook early this year occasioned a great deal of feeling in the community and on the other hand rival paving concerns made a great fight for the contract.

Flood of Rumors Winsby is a real estate man, who is a native of Victoria, and his services were enlisted by the Canadian Mineral Rubber Company, which had a large contract in the city. In the state of public feeling at the time, there was a flood of rumors of bribery, but in this one case, at any rate, there was given ground for the popular belief.

Winsby approached Quick with the suggestion that if he would vote for a certain change in specifications there would be $5,000 in it for him, and he added that "they had all got their little bit," and Quick might as well have his. Quick repelled him indignantly, but Winsby persisted, and fol- lowing up the first conversation, called on Quick at his house.

Trap Is Then Set. It was then that the councillor decided that he would lead Winsby on to commit himself, and in this he succeeded. Two days after the first visit Winsby kept an appointment in the same place, not knowing that the chief of police was in an adjoining room. He wrote out a ninety-day note for $5,000 and before he signed it, wrote out an undertaking setting out what Quick was to do in consideration for the money.

These papers were then signed and they were in the act of exchanging them when Quick gave a signal and the chief of police entered and arrested Winsby with the undertaking in his hand.

To Court of Appeal. With such a clear case as the documents established, there was no defense possible, but Mr. H. A. MacLean, K. C., did what he could for his client. He was granted a reserved case on the point as to whether the indictment disclosed an offense, and this will be argued before the court of appeal when it opens in Vancouver next Tuesday.

Mr. Justice Gregory charged strongly against the prisoner and called upon the jury to vindicate the honor of the city and province by a conviction. The jury was out only nine minutes.

Sentence was postponed until the court of appeals decides the point.

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"Reports on Road Construction," Owen Sound Sun. September 26, 1913. Page 1. ---- Mr. M. N. McDowall who made a trip to Toronto recently to make a study of methods of road construction there does not give a very encouraging report as to the efficacy of raw tar for the macadam roads. His report, which was submitted to the council on Monday night, was as follows:-

I beg leave to report that I made inquiry in Toronto as to tar macadam. I went to the city hall and had an interview with Mr. Scott, the engineer of road improvements, and also works as commissioner. When asked if they were doing any work in the city with tar they informed me that there had been no tar macadam put down for six or seven years as they found it to be a failure in its crude state. That which was seen was Tarvia and was mistaken for tar, the Tarvia being very satisfactory. They advised me to go the Parliament buildings and see Mr. McLean, engineer of roads and highways. When asked if they would rather have tar in its crude state with the macadam in the old way, they said that they would not recommend it in its crude state for macadamized road. I then went to see Mr. McLean at the Parlia- ment buildings and had a very pleasant interview with him. He also spoke in much the same strain as to tar in its crude state. He said when it was refined it had been very satisfactory. He recommended me to go to Guelph to see how they were using it as they refined it there at the gas plant, and were using it with very good results. I then went to see some brick pavings for crossings and saw a number of samples of brick and wood pavements and by the advice of some of the parties I came in contact with I went to West Toronto. There I went to the works of the Ontario Paving and Brick Co., and think it is very good material that these bricks turn out, for our crossings. I brought a sample with me and by the advice of the committee purchased thirteen thousand at thirty-one dollars per thousand, laid down in Owen Sound. They have arrived and are being laid down and a stone curb placed outside the block and it appears to make a very nice crossing.

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"Paving a Great Bridge," Daily British Whig (Kingston). April 4, 1913. Page 7. ---- The paving of a highway bridge has long been a matter of much perplexity to Canadian engineers and city authorities. City streets can be paved with stone or various combinatons of asphalt on concrete foundations, but on a bridge such pavements are out of the question on account of their enormous weight. In the case of grauite blocks, this weight is 900 or 1,000 pounds to the square yard, while brick, which is less durable, weighs 400 pounds. Most bridges, therefore, are paved with heavy planking. Although the best kind of wood is used, these planks splinter and tear under the action of horses' hoofs, and within a very few months after they are first lald they are very rough and weak. On many Canadian bridges the plank floors have to be renewed entirely every year at enormous cost. This was also the case with the old Brooklyn Bridge between New York and Brooklyn. When the second New York-Brooklyn bridge, called the "Williamsburg Bridge," was planned considerable study was devoted to the discovery of a pavement which would be light in weight, yet of sufficient durability to be used economically, and it was found in the wood block pavement which was introduced into the States from Europe about that time.

This pavement of wood blocks is shown in the above photograph of the "Williamsburg" Bridge. The blocks are laid directly upon a steel floor with the grain vertical. The joints between the blocks are very tight so that the blocks cannot splinter or tear apart as the planking does! and the wear of traffic coming upon the end of the grain of the wood bas practically no effect upon the pavement.

In order that the pavement will not be slippery, each block is notched so that the pavement presents a surface of shallow grooves, which are filled with paving cement. This pavement, instead of wearing out in a year as planking does, is expected to be good for at least a generation, and the adoption of it for this bridge was quickly followed by its general use all over the country on highway bridges. A good many Canadian engineers who have observed the success of New York's experiment are planning wood block pavement for Canadian bridges.

The same pavement has been used with great success for several years on many city streets, for which, indeed, it is primarily intended. For street use, the blocks are laid on a concrete foundation, and the durability of the pavement exceeds that of stone or asphalt. A point in its favor is that, although it is a smooth pavement, It furnishes a good foothold for horses on account of the yielding of the fibers of the wood. The fact that it is smooth like asphalt makes it very much less noisy than the stone block pavements, and the blows of horses' hoofs are muffled and deadened so that the usual clatter of the stone pavement is almost entirely done away with. In many cities this denture of the pavement has brought it Into much appreciated use for residence streets, where quietness is desirable, and also around hospitals, office buildings and schools, for the same reason.

Such pavements have been in use in Europe for upwards of a generation, and it is strange that with the cheapness and wide use of wood for other purposes in Canada, we have been so slow to make use of it for paving. Its durability makes its use economical under either heavy traffic of business streets or the light traf- fic of residence sections, and its silence makes its adoption popular everywhere.

Wood block pavements in Canada are laid by The Canada Creosoting Company, 1 King Street East, Toronto, Ont.