En Samling Afhandlinger Om Veje 1876-1881

OUR ROADWAYS. 29 pavement. But in this matter it is needless to urge other than the pecuniary argument, that nearly six times the quantity of slop must be taken off a Granite, and twelve times the quantity from a Macadam road- way as we have to remove from Wood. At the present time the expense of removing this slop is increasing to an alarming extent. In the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, Mr. Livingstone, the Surveyor, says that 5s. per load is a very moderate estimate of the cost of removing slop. As an evi- dence of this, the figures and estimates lately sent in to the Vestry of St. George’s, Hanover Square, may be referred to, from which it appears that the cost of cleansing the roads in that parish was £8,075 in 1874-5, and in 1875-6 £8,534, while the estimate for the coming year 1876-7 is £10,194, an increase of nearly 20 per cent, on the cost of last year. Several of the Metropolitan vestries are now undertaking the work of removing the dust, &c., instead of en- gaging contractors, and some have established de- pots for the distribution of such refuse as is useful to farmers. Under such arrangements the supe- riority of Wood Pavement will become yet more manifest, for not only will it have a much smaller quantity of refuse to be removed, but at least nine- tenths of the sweepings of Wood Pavement will prove valuable, consisting, as they must, of ma- nure. With such a pavement as that laid down by the Asphaltic Wood Pavement Company, little or