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dies the defects, and imparts to the road surface a soft 
yellow color. 
In constructing macadam roads the sand and binding ma- 
terial used should be saturated with Westrumite in a solution 
of 25 per cent, and then for rolling a solution of from 5 to 
10 per cent should be used in place of clear water. The 
amount of rolling required will be less than heretofore neces- 
sary, since the Westrumite binds the road-making materials 
together more rapidly than water. This prevents the softening 
of the foundation by e.xcessive water sprinkling, as well as the 
partial pulverizing of the upper layer through long-continued 
rolling. In addition the street body may in most cases be 
made ten to twenty per cent thinner than is now possible. 
Since the cost of Westrumiting will not exceed 20 to 40 
cents per square yard, and will be repaid several times over 
by the increased life of the road, the decrease of the thick 
ness of the street body effects a direct saving in the cost of 
construction. If we consider further that a Westrumited road 
in many cases renders unnecessary the rebuilding of the road 
in granite, brick or sandstone, by reason of its deterioration 
by heavy traffic, and that this is done at an expenditure of 
from 20 cents to 40 cents only, as compared with an expendi- 
ture of $1.05 to $4.50 for a new pavement, another wide field 
of usefulness presents itself for Westrumite. 
The treatment of granite, brick and sandstone pavements 
when constructed with Westrumite is as follows: 
The dirt generally used as a foundation layer is saturated 
with one gallon of Westrumite to each square yard of surface, 
requiring consequently four gallons of the solution of Wes- 
trumite and water. This mixture will make a compact and 
elastic foundation, which will remain so permanently, since 
Westrumite is a mineral which will evaporate only at 300° 
Celsius. 
When the joints also are well saturated with Westrumite, 
the traffic cannot force the sand from below up through the 
joints, and thus no dust can be created, and the street will 
remain more even, and can be more readily cleaned. 
The present method of filling the joints with a mixture of 
pitch, asphalt and oil, requiring from three to four gallons 
per square yard, and in case the stones are widely spread 
apart, ten to twelve gallons per square yard, is entirely 
eliminated. 
Aujiual 7'eports or extracts from them^ historical sketches^ 
descriptive circulars^ photographs of improvements or dis- 
tinctive features are reqjiested for use in this department. 
The South Park Commissioners of Chicago and the Di- 
rectors of the Municipal Museum have arranged to co-operate 
in a' series of lectures and entertainments to be given in the 
Field Houses in the new small parks of the South Park 
System. The intention is to open the audience-rooms of the 
Field Houses six evenings of the week, three of which will 
be devoted to lectures of an entertaining and educational 
character. A fourth will have a musical and creation pro- 
gramme under charge of one of the settlements. Another 
evening will be open to free discussion, when a chairman 
from the Municipal Museum will preside and present a 
neighborhood problem of local interest and several other 
persons from the museum will be scattered through the 
audience and lead in an argument with the intention of 
arousing a debate. Another evening probably will be given 
to the presentation of matters of health and city sanitation. 
A number of prominent lecturers have been engaged to fill 
the year’s programme. The City Homes Association has pre- 
pared a special coiffise on ‘‘Sanitary Housing,” which will be 
presented in popular form with pictures. Orville T. Bright 
will appear in the spring with a series of illustrated talks on 
the improvement of school grounds and on trees and home 
yards. Dr. Carlos Montezuma gives a special illustrated lec- 
ture at all the centers on “Indian Life.” It will be illus- 
trated. Professor A. H. Cole of the Lake View High School 
talks on “Popular Science,” presenting microscopic slides with 
the stereopticon. Walter M. Wood of the Y. M. C. A. talks 
of the work in his special province and E. G. Routzahn, a 
leader in neighborhood improvement work, will present his 
plans for getting together people in a neighborhood for mu- 
tual benefits. 
* * * 
The work of restoring Forest Park, St. Louis, has begun 
with the transformation of Art Hill. The foundations for 
the pedestal of the great bronze equestrian statue of St. 
Louis, which the World’s Fair will donate to the city as a 
permanent souvenir of the e.xposition, has been begun on the 
crest of Art Hill. Work on the Plateau of States has been 
finished, and the restoration in charge of D. W. C. Perry is 
following closely the progress of the wreckers. 
The monument will overlook the gently sloping hill and 
the lake at its base, being immediately in front of the center 
door of the Art Palace and some twenty-five feet back of the 
rear of the dismantled Festival Hall. A grassy plateau, of 
an area of about 65x100 feet, will surround the monument, 
from the northern end of which a broad flight of granite' 
steps will lead to the old walk in front of the Colonnade of 
States, which walk will be retained, being continued from the 
present terminus at the twin restaurant pavilions on either 
side down to the base of the hill. It is proposed to reproduce 
in cement the two statues — Atlantic and Pacific — which were 
the fountain-heads of the two side cascades. The road back 
of the Colonnade of States, which runs in front of the Art 
Building, is to be retained, and will connect with a series of 
new roads running up from the lower level and skirting the 
hill and the lake at its base. But little change is to be made 
in the natural contour of Art Hill, except to fill up the 
gaping cuts left by the structure of the three cascades, and to 
slope off the intervening land to make a natural basin of the 
hill’s center. The grand basin and parts of the lagoons are 
to be retained and added to for a greater and less formal 
waterscape. By the execution of these plans Forest Park will 
have a greatly larger and more beautiful body of water than 
it before possessed, the new watercourse combining the grand 
basin, part of the connecting lagoon system and all and more 
of the old Silver Lake. In the making of the lake the formal 
will be strictly avoided, and although the general contour 
of the grand basin and connecting lagoons will be used, the 
revetments will be torn out and the angular lines will be 
broken up by curving irregularities, bays and indentations in 
the bank line. The restored Silver Lake will have two 
wooded islands. 
All that was formal in the landscape treatment of the Art 
Hill of the days of the Exposition will give way to the natural 
treatment of the restored hill. Its grassy slopes will be re- 
tained, but the formal gardens will give way to irregular plan- 
tations of trees and shrubberies. 
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