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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Road Constrtiction in Prospect ParK, Troy, N. Y. 
By Garnet D. Baltimore, landscape engineer. 
There has been no one subject more thoroughly dis- 
cussed or exhaustively written upon than that of road 
construction. As long as parks are enjoyed and ceme- 
teries are a necessity, road construction will continue 
to attract the interest of those in charge. 
In parks a well macadamized or telford road is al- 
ways in pleasant contrast to a city’s paved streets. 
The description of the method followed in construct- 
ing the roads last season in Prospect Park, Troy, 
N. Y., presents no claim of the writer to originality, 
but simply to care exercised in following out well- 
established precedents. 
The location of the roads having been determined 
upon, sewers or drains were laid at an average depth 
of five feet, the trenches carefully and thoroughly com- 
pacted. The side lines of the roads were staked out, 
sharpened lath being used for the purpose. The out- 
lines of the road were carefully marked out with an 
Eddy plow. The surface material was excavated to a 
depth of not less than a foot, ranging in accordance 
with the grades. All soft spots were removed, by fill- 
ing with stone or dry material. A “New Western’’ road 
machine or grader was used to form the contour of 
the road, sufficient crown only being given to properly 
shed the surface water, after which a Buffalo Pitts 
i2j/2-ton roller was used to thoroughly compact the 
surface. Wherever a depression was noticed mate- 
rial was added to preserve the contour of the road. 
Broken stone of a limestone nature, accepted from a 
quarry in the vicinity and complying with the follow- 
ing specification, was used : 
“The broken stone and screenings must be of hard 
and compact texture and of uniform grain. The stone 
must be broken as nearly cubical as possible and 
screened through a rotary screen which will produce 
stones of the sizes herein specified, having rough sur- 
faces obtained by fracture. Water worn pebbles will 
not be accepted. 
Disintegrated matter, weather-worn stone from the 
surface of a quarry will not be accepted. The stone 
must be thoroughly cleaned before crushing and well 
screened, clean and free from injurious matter of 
every nature. 
“No. i. Kind and Sizes of Broken Stone. — The 
broken stone to consist of two sizes for roads, broken 
in sizes varying from a minimum of ij/2 inches to a 
maximum of 2p2 inches. 
“No. 2. — Top dressing, shingle or screenings shall 
not exceed *4 inch in size, and shall be free from 
earth, loam, or vegetable matter, and shall contain 
all the dust of fracture 
The stone had been deposited along the sides of the 
roads (due to a delay in obtaining the road construc- 
tion machinery). It was brought upon the completed 
ROAD machine at work in prospect park, troy, n. y. 
