Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1912)
THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 13i: G1VESFACTS OF VI1SBS0F STREET P1IH1 ; ... I Reliable Data Dealing'- With a Submitted for Taxpayers' Benefit by Samuel Hill. ; Interesting and valuable information f for taxpayers and others Interested tn , street pavements and their ooM has , been prepared by Samuel Hill, president of the Home Telephone company, and ' even better known as "the rood roads builder," whose roads near his country boms- at MaryhUl, Wash., are models ! of their' kind. Mr. Hill has gone to much pains and -. expense in gathering- his data to make Mt reliable and complete-, Soma con- - fusion exists In tha minds of many ; persons as to tha difference between . ' the various pavements on tha market. . and one of Mr. Hill's chief otjects has been to make bis data valuable for ref- erence in such cases. : "Asphalt pavement Is laid In two forms, sheet asphalt and block asphalt," said Mr. Hill today. "The sheet asphalt , Is the common American form of an i asphalt pavement."" Th wearing sur- face is made from one and a half to i 4 wo inches thick and is composed of r' about 80 per cent of sharp sand and 10 per cent of asphalt. Permanent Base,' . jcf'. "This pavement la always laid on a permanent base. - usually of concrete. Some cities have laid this Surface over .-. old stone block pavements, Between the ' concrete tase and' the wearing surface '"" described above there is usually placed a binder course of broken stone coated ' with asphaltie cement about one and a - half inches in thickness. This binder course is made richer in asphalt than the wearing coat so as to adhere bet ' - ter to the concrete base. A aheet as ? phalt pavement under the Seattle specl- Sficatlbiis has been laid by contract on a five inch concrete base for 11.45 per "squara yard,'' This is, however, a very cheap price."7 In" Portland it would be between" 11.88 and II. j .-rv "The asphalt block pavement is used f 'in a number of cities.' The blocks are ""' uniform in shape and usually 4 inches ! by S inches by 12 inches in sixe. They f are composed of a mixture of crushed stone and asphaltio cement in about the proportions 87 per cent of tha former and 13 per cent of the latter. Laid on a concrete base this pavement is very - r -similar to the sheet asphalt In Wash- ington, D. . C.. such a pavement costs .!. approximately $1.80 per square yard, Bltulitalo Pavements. " "Bltullthlc pavement Is similar to the sheet asphalt pavement except ; that crushed '"rock is used in the wearing iBurface f instead of the sand. This pavement Is laid oh either a concrete y tase or on a base of broken stone. The f price per square yard should not exceed that of an aspnalt pavement, but it usu . ally does because of the monopoly the "Warren Bros, company have on it. ,''wrrne.-Xi. Os JaVement is practically r''ffnH same as1 thebltullthle pavement. It is' "similsrly made but has another name. - 1 1 r "Bituminous" macadam is laid" accord ing to the penetration method;" the . Gladwell system and the mixing meth od, of which there are three patented processes: Warrenlte, Tarmac and 81- tumas. - ' - , "A bituminous macadam road is broken stone macadam in which an ...artificial tinder, has been used. This binder is. some . form of either tar or asphalt, or a combination of both. The penetration method is used in rebulld- - ing an old macadam road and also in H.the construction of a new road. The V surface to which' the hot bitumen is i to be applied Is loosened up so that i P the bitumen can penetrate aa far as Impossible into the surface of the road. !j tand or stone screenings are then ap plied and the road is thoroughly rolled. .The oil or tar is applied either from njjunaii-r wagon or under pressure by the English tar snraylnsr machine ,) - A second and sometimes a third coat of the hot bitumen and sand is often .J, applied. .. : - ' foundation Course. " , under the Gladwell system the I: i - For County Assessor I will, give persona! attention to the job all the time. Expenses of the Assessor's office 1 wi .dic uic onicc irom politics, ana that will save thetaxpayers' money .1 will not permit deputy assessors to pass out election cards and campaign literature inclosed in assessment blanks. , I will conduct the assessor's office according to law. No juggling with the assessment rolls. , I .will makeL the assessor's office an open book to the taxpayers No star chamber proceedings go with me. . V. . Multnomah County assessments have been increased at the rate of nearly . thirty per cent a yfr since 1904. Th tax rate was $1.48 per $100 of assessed value m 1905 and this year it is $2.44. Assessments, climb !iCur I ??' and,hVax rate climbs with them. The tax burden ( fills heavily upon, all classes of people, but heaviest upon the little . homeowner. 1 think the time has come to investigate these heavy - increases and see what justifies them. VJiaifdo,you think? J.! ' I believe in. economy in public expenses, but" not in parsimony. We can . not tax ourselves rich, but we can tax ourselves poor, therefore. I am opposed to excessive .increases in assessments and excessive taxes. . If you believe as I do, vote for me in the primaries on April 19." Multnomah County, has been my home for forty-one years. I pay taxes on land as well as on personal property . , REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE. ; (Paid Advertisement) v ' Number Many Improvements rianned for foundation, course of number one or coarse rock is laid and thoroughly rolled. On this is spread a layer of atone chips coated with hot bitumn (either tar or ssphalt). This layer' is about five eighths inch thick. On this tarred course la spread a course of number two rock ( to IM inch). This course is made from two to three Inches thick. On top of this course is spread another course of the tarred stone chips of the same thickness as the first The road is then thoroughly rolled. The tarred stone chips are forced up and down between the number two rock and the whole la bound .into compact roadway. . "Under the mixing method come the various tar. and asphalt macadams, in which the surface course is mixed with heated bitumen. Warrenlte is one form. It is merely a cheaper class of bltullthlc. A foundation course of No. 1 rock is laid to a depth of six Inches and thor oughly rolled. On this la placed about two and a half Inches of their "hot stuff." This is rolled thoroughly, giv ing a wearing surface of about one and a half inches. . Hot Bitunon TJsed. "After rolling this course a squeezes coat of hot bitumen is slopped over the road and covered with sharp, sand or stone chips and is again rolled. Same as the Maryblll roads. The "hot stuff consists of approximately four parts stone screenings (that will go through a three-quarter inch screen), three parts of Mo. 1 rock and two parts of sharp sand. To this mixture of stone and sand heated there is added from tO to 23 gallons per cubic yard, of their heated bitumen. "Tarmac Is an English patented pave ment. E. P. Hooley is the patentee. Hot furnace slag is broken into various sizes and coated with a patented mix ture. The patent statea the following proportions: Tar, IJ.S6 per cent - by weight; pitch, 5.79 per cent by weight; Portland cement, 0.41 per cent, and resin, 1.24 per cent 'Bltumas is a mixture of heated bitu men and a min-ral aggregate obtained by passing the earth, sand and gravel excavated from the roadway through a heater, by which process all organic matter is destroyed. It is said to have given satisfactory results where It has been used. "Of concrete pavements there are three forms: Granitoid or blome pave ment: hassam, a compressed concrete pavement, and tar surfaced concrete pavement dolarway. Granitoid, or Blome Concrete. "The granitoid or blome concrete pavement consists of a base of ordi nary concrete well tamped. On this, before it has set, is placed a wearing course of rich concrete. This is struck off to the contour of the street sur face and thoroughly troweled. The sur- E.REED office, You will find me on the have increased 272 per cent since' 1903.' III i -i K - Un)l J J III 111 Ay ill In ill kV ' i Ml III ' " III- - -V I . 4 -..yvv J I I III jr - - i I I ttM" - v , ""-T. , 1 s ill 111 III 111 --ffii - bl"' " v :: ;:' ' ?1ii:Av -N--III l 1 i- .' of Park Workers Tlcasure Spots; Children's Maygrounis Particularly to le Made IJetter and More Extensive; Rose Bushes'and . at Two Tarks; First Straw Hat Puts In Appearance. , Scenes In Plaza blocks on first sunshiny days of spring, where homeless ones and , newspapers and warm breaths of spring. Buds,' sure harbingers of spring, have put In- an appearance already and the first lonesome straw"liat has already appeared on the street. In other words, spring time is at hand! ; L , Warmer weather and frequent bursts of brilliant sunshine during the week brought Portland's citizens to a realisa tion that the time for nature's great annual awakening had come and thou sands who hovered near stoves and radiators since December, scurried for the parks and open spots when - the sun shot Its beams through ths ever widening rifts in the storm clouds. Throughout the week the parks and rest places were animated with a con- face la then marked Into small rectan gular blocks. A comparatively smooth surface is, left. Expansion Joints are left on both sides of the streets at the curba and across the street at Intervals so that the pa vsnient wilt . not crack. A great deal of this pavement baa been laid in Spokane. - . : ; f "Hassani, named after the patentee, is a compressed concrete. . The . broken stone Is laid between eight and nine inches deep on a well rolled sub-grade, similar to laying a macadam road. It Is thoroughly rolled, but no binder Is used. This gives a mass of well con solidated broken stone six Inches deep, with a minimum of voids. Over the surface of the stone is flushed a grout of one part each of eement and sand, having the consistency of rich cream. The road Is then rolled and the cement grout pumped all through the mass of stone. Another application of grout is given and the surface of the road is covered with a, thin coating of pea gravel or. stone chips and la thoroughly rolled. After It has thoroughly set for about 10 days travel is turned on. Many miles of this pavement have been laid In Portland. fi Tat Surfaced Concrete, , "Tar surfaced concrete pavement or dolarway consists of a concrete base of carefully laid concrete and a bitumin ous wearing surface.' The concrete la thoroughly tamped and the surface troweled thoroughly or rolled with a hand roller until the cement mortar la brought to the surface. It is finished by brooming so as to leave a rough ened surface. Great care must be taken to leave the surface of the concrete even and uniform, corresponding to the fin ished surface of the street The con crete is" kept wet for seven to 10 days. It is then allowed to thoroughly dry and a blanket coat of hot bitumen is applied. From one-third to one-half gallon per square yard. This is covered with torpedo sand or fine stone chips. Soma engineers roll this course and some do not. This pavement has been In use for three years and has given satisfaction. Great care has to be ex ercised in its construction. Its cheap ness and the ease with which the wear ing coat can be renewed are its prin cipal features. "L. w. Page, director orrice public roads. U. 8. A 'recommends that in mixing the surface layer of concrete there be added to the . batch a quantity of heavy residual oil equal to 10 per cent by weight of the cement in the batch. ' Befined Tar Coat. "Then,, that a blanket coat of refined s,r or asphalt be applied and covered with screenings or sand. If desired a second application of tar and sand may be applied. . r "Expansion 'Joints i sre lef t on both sides of the street at the curbs and at least every 50 feet across the road. These are filled with the bitumen. "Brick pavement is laid with a 9 Inch concrete base and 2 Inch sand cushion, anil the bricks (2x1x8) are laid on edge. Joints between the bricks era filled with Portland cement- grout. Ex pansion Joints on both sides of the street next to curbs are filled with tar and sand. "Stone block pavements include sand stone block and granite block,( laid over a ( inch concrete base, with 2 inch sand cushion. Joints between blocks 'being filled with Portland cement mortar. ' "Modern wood block pavement li laid on a -inch concrete base, with ftishion of tar, Portland cement mortar or some time of sand. Sand is very bad on grades, because 'if water gets under the Wood blocks-it may wash the sand to the foot of the grade.' . "Joints between the' blocks are filled :Wlth a bituminous filler. - "Wood blocks are treated with some preservative, usually creosote or carbo 'llnaum. Expansion Joints are filled with tar on both sides of the street next the curbs." lactoiyJoiLReiiL. Two floors In new brick building just completed at Hood and Baker streets. South Port.and. Long lease, low ren tal. Building is well lighted and wlh make an ideal location far. man uf act ur ulant. A. L. FISH, care of Journal. Increased to Prepare stant flow of humanity. . "Down and outers," crooning lovers, nurses with squalling infants and tired men and women, anxious for short respite from business grind sought the park benches or strolled over the trails. A few of more heroic mold defied the grippe and picknlcked. on the. damp sod. In preparation for the spring and summer worn Superintendent of Parks E. T. Mische has Increased the winter force of 40 park workers to 80 and is launching all manner of improvements. , At present the children's playgrounds at the City Park are being improved, wading ponds are being added and part Of the grounds are being resurfaced. The work of transplanting the ten- Semi-Official paper of Vatican Sees Danger in the Rapid Spread of Socialistic Doc trines. By Henry Wood. (United Tress Leased Wlra.t Rome, March 30. That Socialism is fast becoming a serious rival of the Catholle church Is the - admission that has practically been road by the Vati can itself. The rapid spread of Soclalslm during the past few years has forced the church to consider methods for preventing So cialism from encroaching on its own field of Influence. ' The situation has really become so serious that it has found Its way into the Catholic papers of Italy, and "Rome." a semi-official paper of the Vatican recently went into the subject thoroughly. Because of Its high stand ing with the Vatican, the sentiments ex pressed by "Rome" may be regarded as the actual sentiment at the present time of the Pope and the church in gen eral on the subject of Socialism. Tli review of the (situation by "Rome" is in part ss follows: "Socialism Is Increasing steadily all over the world; in Germany and France it has almost gained control of the state; in Italy, under the new franchise, ForStieFlfi CALLS SOCIALISM SERIOUS MENACE TO GATHOLIGISM XIlll yZ;; .y.' ' : ' ''--- " -j - -in- Willis Fisher ; ' - REPUBLICAN Born, raised and educated in Portland ' No- promiseother-than Will Make Good .. , Mr. Voter, it is up to you. ... Advt) for Awakening of others meet and enjoy derer plants from the green houses to the out of doors will be started as soon as the weather settles. At present 13,- 000 rose bushes are being planted and next week 15,000 pansles, will be set out in the City and Peninsula Parks. "The spring rush has hardly begun," said Superintendent Mische yesterday. 'The park employes, have their hands full; however, and with trimming, plant ing, transplanting and getting the parks in order, they will be mighty busy for some time to come. Spring Is upon us and as the great majority of city folk can enjoy it only In the parks we want to be ready and have the parks beautified to add to the people's pleas ure." ' It will become the strongest homogene ous party In the country; in Austria and Hungary it is spreading rapidly; in the United States and England the masses of the working classes ars approaching more and more closely to It; In Belgium it is rapidly absorbing Liberalism. There Is no country, not even excepting Tur key, which has not been affected by it. Nor can we guage Its strength from its forces in the various legislatures many " Socialists are indifferent about parliaments, many hundreds of thou sands of them scattered here and there in all countries Jiave . been unable to obtain legislative representation. ; "According to several ; of its most authorltlve spokesman, socialism Is fundamentally opposed to Christianity, but slnte-the birth of Christianity It self "no movement has grown steadily, has spread so widely, has taken so deep a hold on the people, has shown such marked characteristics of permanence. Sjoclallsm Is Compact Organisation. "In different countries , its followers may differ In detii!s--they may be more or less revolutionary, they may adopt different methods of propaganda, they may be more-or less' disposed to form a temporary alliance with other parties tn the state, they may be more or less disturbed by factional strife. But the great outstanding fact is that Socialism, although it possesses no central author ity and no universally recognised Inter national leaders, is a united movement, thoroughly international, independent Of THE TAKE A TRIP OUT THERE ON THE OPENING DAY OF, THE FISHING. : Special Round Trip Rates on Sundays. ................ ... .75c ' . Saturday-Monday Round Trip Ticket . . ... . . .......;,. . . $1.00 . Regular Fare, Round Trip .$1.35 " Trains leave oif Sunday every hour (45 minutes after the, hour) ; - - week days every two hours,: starting at 6:5a, 8:45, 10:45 A; M.; ' 12:45, 4:45 and 6:45 P.M. H1 W n - h v v . . i ; y , ,.t . r y y. i ; y - - : -, - K t : . . - PUY-TICKETS"AT-FIRST"ANDALDERAND EAST ' r v OR GOLF JUNCTION Spring Tansies Are Being Transplanted conditions of race, climate, language or social development "Nor la it confined to the proletariat as many suppose it . is making con quests in all grades of society. We have to come to this: In tha modern world today there are two and only two forces that are homogeneous and international and these are the Catholic church and Boctalism. , "Such Is ths situation. That we are becoming and more awake to it is evi dent from the extraordinary attention which is being devoted to the topic of socialism by exponents of Cathollo thought . ;".' '".r "The 'theology' of Socialism is hope lessly wrong. It Is easy enough to prove A LITTLE DANDERINE WILL MAKE YOUR HAIR LUSTROUS, SOFT, FLUFFY, ABUNDANT Get a . 25 Cent Bottle Now and Forever Stop Falling Hair, Itching Scalp and Dandruff If you Wish to Double the Beaut of your Hair in Ten Minutes surely Try a Danderine Hair Cleanse , Your hair becomes light, wavy, 'fluffy, abundant and appears as toft, lustrous and beautiful at a young girl's after a Danderine hair cleanie. Just try this moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand , . at a tune. This will cleanse tho hair oi dust, . dirt and excessive oil and in Just a few . moments you have doubled the beauty of -your hair. A delightful surprise awaiti particularly those who have been careleis, whose hair has been neglected or is scraggy, faded, dry, brittle or thin. Betides beautifying the hair at once. Danderine dissolves every particle ' of dandruff i cleanses, purifies and invigor ates the scalp, forever (topping Itching and falling hair. Try as you will, after one application of Danderine you cannot find any dandruff or a loose or falling hair, and your scalp will never itch, but what will please you most will be after a few weeks use when you will actually see new hair fine and downy at first-yes but really new hair sprouting all ever the scalp. Danderine makes the nair grow long, heavy and luxuriant and we can prove it. . If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it surely get a 25 cent bottle of : Knowlton's Danderine from any druggist - or toilet counter, and just try it F IN OREGON IS AT ON THE O. W.P.UNE TROU SEASON APRIL 1ST OR ANY TIME EIGIIEI LOIS SOLD AVERAGE PRICE $1 The German Realty Trust company report the sale of 18 lps- in Altamead last week for an average price of $500 a lot. the total consideration aggregate Ins;.! little above $9000.. When Altamead was put on the mar ket last fall there was a total of SBt lots in the tract and there now. remains less than 60 unsold. Six new homes are under construction in the tract and lot owners in the addition are making preparations to build a large number of dwellings this spring and summer. Ce ment sidewalks and curbing- are being laid throughout the tract. - that. But it may be found that 10 per ' cent of Socialists are Socialists not.be cause but in spite of the theology.. Its philosophy la absurd. All right but the people do not vote for it on account Of its philosophy. It destroys the na tural and supernatural conceptions of family life. Very goodbut the prude ' fact is that Socialists, in .flesh and blood, taking them In the mass, have about as much (and as little) respect for the marriage bond and for the ties of family aa most people outside tha Catholic church who are not Socialists. "There can be no question that great -numbers of Socialists are antiChrlstla but it is also well to remember thatV some Socialist leaders proclalm.tbat the question of religion does notnter es- v c sentially into Socialism, and itMs high- ly doubtful if any large proportion of Socialists In Germany or in English speaking countries have been drawn into the movement by its anti-religious 'prln - -clplea. , -j ' ; "What Is drawing them? Putting it broadly it seems to us that the multl tudes are being Influenced "chiefly by two sentiments; one of discontent With . 1 tha present economic structure of so ciety, the other of a desire for a prac tical recognition of the brotherhood of ' man and for the abolition of barriers which prevent this recognition." . In the closing part of the review which is devoted to a statement of tha manner in which the church can best triumph over Socialism, it is suggested that it would be far better Instead of oppoaing Socialism, for the church to work more strongly for tha .same ends that are common both to the church and .the Socialists. By this course, it, was believed, the church would become tha stronger of the two. f. 'Miin'-" t ' V- . $ l r' , 1 .viii ii ' i I -If ft t I " t'l' J i , , . I , I FISHING j ; .4 . AFTERWARD. WATER," HAWTHORNE N 7T 1 n, ...