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screen.
This couree ¿hall be three
Inches In depth after rolling.
the contractor has taken out
I all “After
wheel and foot marks on the sec
HENRY L STIMSON
FvdCal Prosecutor Talked of as Next
Attorney General.
ond course aud has fiffisbed rolling he
nenry la Stimson, who has been
shull then put on the last or finishing
Value of a Day Spent With a course,
much
talked of iu connection with the
which shall cousist of 60 per
post of uttoruey general in the cabinet
cent
of
stoue
and
40
per
cent
of
bind
State Highway Commissioner.
ing material. No stone shall exceed of President Elect Taft, is United
one inch longest diameter. This course States district attorney for the south
district of New York and has been
ROADMAKING POINTS GAINED. must be spread with shovels either ern
from the wagon or from the gravel prominent recently in connection " HI*
dumped ou the shoulders. The eon- the court proceedings in his district
Right Way to Sprinkle a Macadam tractor must not dump the loads of directed Jigainst the Standard Oil trust.
Drainage gravel on the road proper. This course Mr. Stimsou was born in New York
Roadway — Three Wise
thirty-nine years ago and was grad
Ruiea—Forming a 8ubgrade—Gravel after bein* spread uniformly shall be
uated from Phillips academy, nt An
wet
down
and
rolled,
and
the
wetting
and Telford Road Construction.
dover,
in 1883 aud from Yale university
and rolling shall be continued until
“We start every mornlug at exactly the road Is solid and firm and will uot in 1888. He studied for the bar at the
kali past 7 o’clock,*’ Mid State High show the mark of hoof or wheel while Harvard Law school and under Sher
man Evarts in New York. Being ad
way Cnmmi.Mi.iiiw James II. Macdon driving over It.”
mitted to the bar iu 1891, he lie.-ame
There
are
many
miles
of
gravel
ald of Connecticut ou a recent evening
two
years later a member of the firm
when the writer was arranging for a 1 roads within the state of Connecticut
which
are
as
smooth
—
to
use
a
term
day’s trip iu the official automobile
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over the highways which have made that Is becoming familiar as applied
to improved rouds-as a billiard table,
that state famous for its good roads. and when, after a year or so of traffic,
It was then 9 o’clock or later, and the they are given the surfacing of trap
commissioner bad just returned home, rock splinters it Is difficult to note the
so we autlcipated a strenuous tomor difference I11 apiiearance from mac
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row. Promptly at the hour appointed adam. This construction affords a
hard, smooth aud durable surface.
all were ready for the start.
On this official tour of inspection
The Improved roads over which we
traveled have moderate grades and there was Included a stretch of telford
smooth surfaces. Though some of construction. Here the travel path
them were built a dozen years ago aud had been excavated to a depth of a
have never been treated with oil or f.xrt below grade line, aud then the
tar or any special preparation, they large stone for the first or bed course
were in perfect, condition except for was laid. In doing this class of work
aome few spots where the autos are the commissioner requires that “the
doing their destructive work, and the bed stoue shall be of the following di
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need of a little trap rock dust to pro mensions: .Six to ten inches in width,
tect the second Course of stone Is ap eight to eighteen inches in length and
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eight Inches deep, pluced by baud,
parent.
broadest
surface
of
depth
of
stone
One of the first points noticed ou
this trip was that the state roads out placed down and stones laid in courses
side of the villages were smoother than across the road, al) joints broken and
those connecting with them that are ail interstices chinked in and wedged
under the care of the municipalities, with broken stone. All sharp points
aays Charles 8. Ixmg In the Good of stone must be broken off with the
Roads Magazine. Within one town the hammer to briug the surface of the
HKNKY L. STIMSON.
commissioner called attention to a bed stone true to grade. The bed
sprinkling wagon that was forcing the stone should lie laid up full aud strong of Root & Clark, which afterward be
water down on the macadam and flush so as to allow for all settling in roll came Root, Howard, Winthrop & Stim
ing the flue dust to the gutters instead ing. In no ease will the contractor son, the senior member being the pres
of spraying it gently and leaving It to I be allowed to use stone that is not up ent secretary of state.
form a binder to the road. That kind I to all these requirements. After bed
of sprinkling tends to ruin a macadam I stone has been laid, chinked and
THE KING OF ITALY
roadway by removing the surfacing broken off to grade the roller shall be
material, just as the motor car and run over the bed stone until it is firm Hs
Knows How to Act In Face of
ly bedded and will not kick or rock
the wind remove it.
Earthquakes and Eruptions.
Speaking of a stretch of road that uuder the roller. No nests of small
stone
will
be
allowed,
nor
will
the
con
King
Victor Emmanuel of Italy Is
extended like a ribbon of asphalt until
the perspective brought It to a point at tractor be allowed to use rotten stone. very popular with his subjects, and Ills
“The second course shall be four (Mipularlty Is in part due to the way
the farthest limit of vision, the com
missioner explained that it was con Inches over all after rolling and must tn which he exerts himself whenever
structed of gravel anil bad been sur be broken trap rock unless otherwise there is any great calamity like that of
faced with trap rock dust. Many of specified. The stone used for this the recent earthquake in Sicily :ind
the dirt and gravel roads of the state course slihl) be from three-fouths of Calabria. During the last eruption of
are being treated in this way. They an inch to two inches longest dlame- Vesuvius, when 50») people were sup
are graded and rolled and then, after ter, mired In the screens (not in the posed to have lost their Ilves, he was
• year or so, are given a surfacing of bins), the smaller sizes to predominate. very energetic In devising means for
trap rock splinters and dust, which The size of stone for this course must the public safety or for succoring the
abound in the state. The state fur be strictly followed to the letter, no victims of the disaster. The king even
nishes annually a certain amount of tailings will be allowed, and any de went Into places of danger himself In
broken stone or screenings to each parture from the size specified will be his eagerness to see that everything
town, and along the sides of the roads at the contractor’s risk. The stone possible was being done in behalf of
are to be seen piles of this material must be dumped on the sides of the his afflicted sub
surmounted by signboards bearing th« road proper or on the bed stone foun jeets. At the time
dation and lie scattered with shovels of the recent earth-
words “State Property.”
When a road of whatever kind of to tlie required depth sufficient to roll quake shocks the
construction is to be built with state down to four Inches. Tlie rolling shall Italian monarch was
i
aid in Connecticut the plans are drawn be continued until the stones are thor hunting in a district
oughly
united,
firm
and
solid
under
near
Naples.
He
nt
In the commissioner’s office in the cap
once Issued orders
ital building at Hartford. Au engineer the roller.
“
The
top
course
shall
be
one
inch
that preparations be
is then sent to establish the grades
along the proposed road. These grades thick when finished. Trap rock screen made for a trip to
A
are verified from time to time by the ings, including dust (no screenings Calabria, which Is
larger
than
one-half
Inch
stone
will
southern
Italy
kinu
victor
E m
In
engineer, and stakes which may have
manuel .
been displaced in the prosecution of be allowed), shall be used as a finish and with Sicily
the work by the contractor are reset, ing course. The screenings after roll forms the center of the earthquake
so that the flnished road shall conform ing lias been done on the last course district. Between the earthquake of
of broken stoue shall tie carted on the 1905 in this district, which destroyed
exactly to the original specifications.
Drainage Is attended to first on the sides of the road proper and dumped thirty towns and cost about 3.000 lives,
principle of the commissioner’s famous at suitable intervals, after which all and the eruption of Vesuvius in the
three “keeps”—viz, “Keep the water wheel tracks aud foot marks of horses spring of 1906, the southern portion of
off the road, keep It out of the road, shall be carefully filled and then rolled King Victor Emmanuel’s realm has in
keep it from under the road.” This down firmly. Then screenings shall receut years been very much ill treated
having been attended to, the neces be scattered dry over the surface so by the forces of nature.
sary bridges and culverts are arranged as to fill all interstices, and the roller
for. These are being constructed of shall be run over the surface so sb to
THE STEINHEIL CASE.
shake In the dust. Immediately after
concrete as fast aa possible.
a
sprinkling
cart
shall
be
used
and
Then comes the forming of the sub
M. Steinheil and the House In Paris
grade. The contractor Is required In the screenings washed in, after which
In Which He Lived.
more
screenings
must
be
added
and
building any kind of road to remove
The strange case of Mme. Steinheil
sprinkled
and
rolled
again,
and
the
all loam, roots and vegetable matter
continues to excite the interest of
from the proposed travel way of the screenings, rolling and sprinkling must Paris. The woman who had so many
be
continued
until
all
the
coarse
road and also everything of a spongy
Intrigues with famous men of Frnnce
nature. If there Is not material enough stones have been covered and the In
terstices
completely
filled
and
the
road
to bring the subgrade to the height
required the contractor must supply is smooth and will shed water and
the deficiency. If there is an overplus measure in depth one Inch of screen-
from cuts it must be disposed of ac Ings for wearing surface, The con
cording to directions. The subgrade tractor is not to be allowed to put on
la rolled thoroughly with a ten ton the screenings all at one time, but
steam roller and brought to the exact must spread them on as described
contour of the finished road surface. above, and he is not allowed to devi
Importance is laid upon the manner of ate from the above treatment In any
buildlug the shoulder. In fact, impor way. The contractor must not wet
tance la laid upon every step In the the screenings before they have been
progress of construction, for the com- scattered on the broken stone, and,
niiMioner aays that there are uo “little furthermore, they must be perfectly
things” In roadmaklng, and the con dry before they lire put on the road.”
It requires constant vigilance dur
tractor is required to extend the shoul
ing
tlie term of construction to insure
der several inches on to the travel
way aud thoroughly roll or ram the value received in road building. And
material down to the established one who has traveled for a day at a
grade and then cut it back to the line. time with several state highway com
Thia renders it firm aud unyielding to missioners appreciates that the office
is not a sinecure.
the metaliug.
In the construction of a grave) road
Holyoke*« Test of Tar Macadam.
it la specified that “the first course
A year’s experience in the use of gas
shall consist of good, clean gravel, uot
less thau 80 per cent of gravel, the tar produced at the municipal plant in
balance material that will bind. No Holyoke, Mass., has increased the con
fidence of the members of the board
loam will be allowed
“The gravel shall range from pea of public works in the value of that
stone to three inches at its longest di- material In the construction of macad
a meter. Care must be taken to have am roads. The tar from the city gas
the gravel as near uniform in quality plant costs only 2 cents a gallon as
as possible, avoiding Baud, the small compared with 6 cents or more for the M. STEINHKIL ASD U11U8K HK L1VKII IN.
aises to predominate. The grave] ordinary commercial article. Although has retained to ¡tn uuusual degree in
shall ba apread on uniformly and roll not carefully refined and brought to a a person of her age her remarkable
ed down, after which a sprinkler shall uniform standard, the material has beauty, aud her daughter is also a
be used and this course wet down and given good results at a remarkably handsome woman. This fact Is not
then rolled again and continue rolling low cost. As laid In Holyoke a new lost upon the French public, suscepti
until it is firm and thoroughly com macadam road can be laid with two ble as it is to the romantic features
peted. This course shall tie three pourlugs of tar on the surface coats of a case. The house in which M.
Inches in depth when complete after for 80 ceuts a square yard. This year 8teinheil lived ami in which he was
the tar macadam will tie used on more murdered has naturally figured a gts’d
rolling
“After the first course the second heavily traveled streets than those laid deal in the proceedings The Pa
course shall be put on, and the Mme last year. To get the best results ex risians have studied carefully the de
method shall be pursued in Its treat- perience has taught that the broken scriptions !n the newspapers of the
meat In every particular as described stone screenings should tie free from location of his apartments, of those
for the first course, eicept that the all dust and as clean as If «'ashed. If of his wife and her mother. Mme.
she of the gravel shall not be larger the fine stone on which the tar is ponr- Japys. numbered in the cut 1, 2 and
tkaa will go through « two Inch rd Is dusty the tar doea not «tick.
I respectively.
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Tlie Xew, El«*gaiil ly Fitted ami Speedy Nteaiarr
Notice is hereby given that the
Cónniy Board of Examinéis of Coos
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County Oregon w ill hold the regular
semi annual examination of appli f
cants lor state and county papers in I T
the court house in Goquilfe bigin
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ning on Wednesday Feb. loth, at
9 a.m., 1909, and cont nuing until
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Friday Feb. 12, at 4 p. in.
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Program for County papers:
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raphy, Reading, Physical Geography
Arithmetic, Teaching, Grammar,
Physiology, Geography, Schoo,
Law, Civil Government, English
Literature.
The program for Stale papers will
be arranged to suit the convenir nee
of the applicants.
Dated at Coquille, Oregon this 25
day of January 1909.
W. H. B vnch ,
Co. Supt.
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