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Temple Street, Cambridge, Mass. Spreading and rolling the wearing surface.

Identifier: cityroadspavemen00juds Title: City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Judson, William Pierson, 1849-1925 Subjects: Streets Pavements Roads Publisher: New York : The Engineering news publishing company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: Adams Street, Lowell, Mass.Rolling and coating the base.

Text Appearing After Image: Temple Street, Cambridge, Mass.Spreading and rolling the wearing surface. BITUMINOUS MACADAM, 1901.132 DETAILS. pound will fill the remaining voids and make a solidand impervious mass. When this is accomplished, the result must be apavement which water cannot penetrate and whichshould support the passage of traffic without abrasionof the fragments upon each other and without thebituminous filler being exposed to action of theweather. It is obvious that the success of the pavement willbe dependent upon the care which is used in the selec-tion of the materials and the skill and thoroughnessshown in combining and placing them, and that thesefeatures are as important as for an asphalt pavement. BASE. The base for the new pavement is prepared as for amacadam road; the earth road-bed being graded,drained, formed and rolled, and then covered with alayer of the best stone available w^hich is crushed andscreened to two inches and larger and is rolled with afifteen ton steam roller into a compa

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