INDEX 



129 



Paths, 62, 112 



asphalt, 70 



brick, 70, 112 



cement, 67, 112 



crowns, 67 



foundations, C2, 65, 69, 112 



gravel, 69 



scantlings, 112 



wings, 65 

 Pavements : 



bituminous concrete, 123 



bituminous macadam, 120 



brick, 71, 124 



concrete, 123, 124 



dust palliatives, 116 



macadam, 71,115, 120 



surfacing with light oils, 117 



surfacing with heavy oils, 119 

 Philadelphia parks, 5, 8, 22 

 Pile bulkhead, 54, 55, 103, 109 

 Pile driver, 87 

 Piles, 53, 55, 107 

 Playgrounds, 9, 22 

 Plow, rooter, 83 

 Ponds, 52 



Pressure distributor, 119, 121 

 Prospect Park, 6, 8 

 Pulsometer, 83, 94 

 Purchasing of lands, 23, 24 



Retaining walls, 55, 57 

 River fronts, 10 

 Riverside Park, 15, 19, 103 

 Roads, 70, 115 

 asphaltic oils, surf acing macadam 



pavements with, 119. 

 bituminous concrete, 123 

 bituminous materials, impreg- 

 nating new macadam pave- 

 ments with, 120 

 brick pavements, 7, 124 

 calcium chloride, sprinkling with, 



117 



concrete pavements, 124 

 crude oils, impregnating earth 

 roads with, 120 



Roads, light oils and light tars, 

 treating surface with, 117 



oil emulsion, sprinkling with, 117 



oiling, 119,121 



rolling, 49, 120, 121 



salt water, sprinkling with, 117 



water, sprinkling with fresh, 116 

 Roa Hook gravel, 69 

 Rollers, road, 49, 120, 121 



Scrapers : 

 drag, 100 

 wheel, 83, 110 

 Sewers, 43, 93 

 combined, 48 

 grade and line for, 91, 94 

 sanitary, 48 

 storm water, 44 

 Shanties for laborers, 90 

 " Sherwood Forest," Philadelphia, 



5 



Sod steps, 59, 61 

 Specifications, 78 

 Stables, 90 



Steam shovel, 32, 91, 95, 98 

 Steps, 58, 59 

 Sureties for contracts, 79 

 Surface drainage, 15, 41, 45,49,51, 



55, 57, 65 

 Surveys : 



hydrographical, 32 

 property, 23 

 topographical, 25 



Tars for roads, 117, 118, 119 

 Telford pavement, 71, 115 

 Tile, 39, 90 



Topographical survey, 25 

 Topsoil stripping, 29, 37, 97 

 Turbidity of first wash in storm 

 sewers, 47 



Underdrainage, 39, 55, 62, 90 



Valentine, Commissioner, River- 

 side Park, 103 



