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any clay in building a road. Next in order of cost 
comes the macadam road, which has proven very 
satisfactory where properly built and taken care of. 
It should be constructed in a manner similar to 
that of a good gravel road, each layer being rolled 
with a heavy roller before the succeeding layer of 
broken stone is applied. The coarser layers at the 
bottom may be replaced with slag from rolling 
mills, where this material is cheap, and will give as 
good, or better, results than the broken stone. 
A smooth wooden pavement is the most agree- 
able yet devised on account of its quietness, but, as 
usually constructed, at least in America, it soon be- 
comes uneven and very bad. The difference be- 
tween its cost and that of brick is so small that in 
the end the latter is far cheaper. Asphaltum pave- 
ments are, of course, the smoothest of any. They 
are also the most expensive. The objections to 
them are their slipperyness and the clatter made on 
them by the feet of horses. The latter objection 
applies with greater force to the brick pavement. 
Stone pavements ought not to be considered in con- 
nection with residence streets. On the whole, if 
properly cared for, I believe that for the ordinary 
residence street the macadam road is most satisfac- 
tory on account of its small cost, its durability and 
its relative quietness. Its care, if continuous, as it 
should be, will be a matter of small expense. It 
will include sprinkling and cleaning, which should 
be done in any case. 
CURBING. 
With gravel, macadam and asphalt roads curbing 
is unsightly and worse than useless, since, as before 
mentioned, it prevents surface water from soaking 
into the ground where it will be useful to trees and 
grass, and it sometimes causes serious accidents by 
upsetting vehicles. With brick and block pavements 
the curbing is necessary, but the appearance of the 
street would be far better if the 
surface of the curbing could be 
kept even with that of the road- 
way. Those who advocate the 
use of the ordinary curbing pro- 
jecting some distance above the 
surface of the gutter or pavement 
claim that it makes a definite 
line, showing how far the street 
is to be cleaned; that it prevents 
driving upon the sod, and keeps 
the grass from growing into the 
street. In any case the definite 
line will come only with care. I 
have seen grass and weeds grow- 
ing on the ordinary macadamized 
street until the curbing was hid- 
den. With a good roadway and 
neatly kept border there is no tendency to drive 
on the grass, excepting where vehicles approach 
the entrance of a residence. At this point the 
walk from the house, which is ordinarily built out 
to the edge of the driveway, is sufficient protec- 
tion. O. C. Simonds. 
SUPPLY WAGON FOR FOUNDATION WORK IN 
CEMETERIES. 
The accompanying illustration represents what 
Mr. William Salway, superintendent of the Ceme- 
tery of Spring Grove, Cincinnati, O. , calls a “sup- 
ply wagon,” and which was designed by him. 
The wagon is used to carry cement, sand, brick 
and water with which to build a foundation or other 
such work, while the rear part serves as a mortar 
bed for mixing. The barrel on the front part is an 
ordinary fifty-gallon barrel, provided with a faucet 
having a hose attachment, and the hose is provided 
with a coupling to screw onto a hydrant for filling 
the barrel. The hose also serves to conduct the 
water to the mortar bed. This wagon has been 
found very convenient, more especially for small 
foundation work, for it has the great advantage of 
keeping all the needed material together, and con- 
sequently saves disfiguring the roads by dirt or 
other matter connected with the work. It is drawn 
behind another wagon to wherever needed, and left 
until required somewhere else. 
This wagon being the first that was ever made, 
cost about $130, on which Mr. Salway says: “My 
drawing not being very definite, it caused the builder 
a little more trouble and expense than the second 
one probably would.” 
It will readily be seen what a convenient addi- 
tion to a cemetery plant this conveyor would be- 
come, and its advantages are manifest to those en- 
gaged in the practical duties of cemetery work. 
CEMENT WAGON. 
