Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1925, Page 9

DEPLORABLE STATE OF STREETS HERE LAID TO LACK OF FUNDS - _(Continuea rrom First Page.) | B street southwest, Seventh street. C street, from New Jersey avenus | southeast to First street southwest. | Vermont avenue, from ‘lnomas cir- cle to Towa cir Seventeentl, s K street. T street. from Third street to Flori- | da avenue. T street, from Vermont avenue 1 Btrest, ffom Sixteenth’ ‘to Sev-| enteenth street | Fourth street northwest, from G to | K street Fourth street from Florida avenue to T street Florida avenue, from Fourteenth to Fifteenth street | New Hampshire avenue, from V | street to Florida avenue. - Wisconsin avenue, from R street to | Thirty-fifth street. | Prospect street (Georgetown), from | Potomac to Thirty-sixth street New York avenue. from Seven- | teenth to . #.teenth street. | Seventeenth street, from Pennsyl- vania avenue to New York avenue. New York avenue, from,Thirteenth | to Fourteenth street Massachusetts avenue, from teenth to Eighteenth street Seott Circle. Thirteenth street, from setts avenue to N street I street, from Thirteenth to Four- | teenth street | | from Sixth to | -eet, from H street to ' Fifteenth street to| Four- including Massachu- New York avenue, from Ninth to Eleventh street. Fifteenth street, from Pennsylvania avenue to Ohio avenue Jackson place, from avenue to H street Eveneteenth street street New street Third street, from H to K street. Eighteenth street, from P street to New Hampshire avenue. Belmont street, from Fourteenth to Fifteenth street Thirteenth street. from L street to Massachusetts avenue. It will be noted that this list in- cludes our principal thoroughfares. those that are the most traveled | Pennsyivania | from I to K Jersey avenue, from H to K | | our | now | of asphalt. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. defect in the type of construction. The heavy wheels of truck progress put it jdown and out because it proved too expensive a design when it became necessary to use a concrete base. | The best job of street work to be | done in the Capital for many years s | the laying of some 25,000 square yards of gmanite block in M street, George- town, between Twenty-ninth and Thirty-fifth streets. This is also the with tar, Younger. That macadam is not a fit type of pavement for any fairly beavily trav- eled street brings up the very pertl- nent question, “Then why was this| most expensive job, for it costs $4.63 tvpe put In on what we know are main (& square yvard, exclusive of grading avenues of approach to the National |and other incidentals. Capital from the north, which must| There are als) 160 miles cut of our bear much traffic from sub- 550 miles of streets that have elther urban Mar: * The answer of |sravel or cinder surfacing, or no sur- highway engineers is that they |facing at all—just plain dirt were put in because sufficient funds| Where the improvement has come were not available for a more sub. |in the last few years is in replacement stantial base, and because at that|of inadequate pavements with good time the engineers thought a lot bet- |ones of a different type or in paving ter of macadam roads than they do [With a good tvpe previously unim- It was then the approved type. | proved areas. This replacement of de- T5 AT firners f must be remembered | fective or unsatisfactory types is best |c that the problems of traffic have been |lllustrated in the main arteries of ap. ieim tapmay daring the last few |Proach to the National Capital. Here years, and especially since before the |IS how this work is progressing: war. Automobile and especially truck | On Wisconsin avenue from the traffic haye during very recent ).eu.s\ River road to Ma:-chungtls avenue introduced new and very serious|Some 8.000 feet of concrete is being e | 1aid. Half the road is done, and it will The new main avenues of entrance 4!l be finished. the engineers promise. to the Capital are raostly all of con.| Within thrce months 4 crete construction. They started lay- Withtnr the last caupie of yesta Con- ing ‘these concrete highwase tn 1913, |necticut avenue has been repaved from We now have soms 53 miles o | Chevy Chase Circle to Macomb street. about. 500,000 square vards, much of | PArtially with concrete and partially i’ {with asphalt. these: comeent vonstruction. Al Of] " Georgia avenue was paved in the 4 dropped | e period, from Buchanan streat, a couple of inches below grade, 80 | ac® " Wiiter Reed Hospital, nearls that if they fall to stand up they | Pt Dibteics line can be salvaged by being used 48 8| "gpoge Island avenue has been paved base and resurfaced with a blanket | rom *4th “street east to the: Distriet {line with concrete and asphait Concrete Construction. | Bladensburg Road Repaved. The other types of road construc-| pladensburg road has been paved: ton have had many years of test’|trom I, street to the District line. and but the concrete roads being a more | monay is available during the present recent development haven't had the {iia) vear for completing the repave- practical test of many years. Just|ment from L street to Florida avenue how well they will stand up to the |with concrete strain time alone can tell. In fact.| Central avenue is now being paved some of the first to be laid have ypder contract to be completed within not stood up well. None of those in |«iy weeks, from Benning road'to the | use exceeds 10 vears of life and some | District line began to break down under traffic in| Within four six or eight years. These have been |avenue has been extended from the covered with asphalt and are now | Eastern Branch to Alubama avenue very satisfactory and should last for [and Alabama avenue from Pennsyl- 5 or 30 vears. vania avenue to the District line. There is a large area east of the|This is. the road to Marlboro, which Capitol which has asphalt block | has been made an asphalt surface pavement—31 miles of streets with| Good Hope road has been resurfaced 612,000 square yards of surface. That | with asphalt from Minnesota avenue type of construction gave excellent [to Naylor road and Naylor road from and are a great deal 'K years Pennsylvania | [f tion, not because there was any real |bridges and since 1897 as engineer of highways. J. W. Dare, the assistant engineer, has been on the job here since 188% and Is In direct charge of all the out- door work. It is claimed that no man In the country has had better expe- rience or done better work. He stands 8o high with the profession that his formula for street crowns is cited in Blanchard's Engineering Handbook, the bible of the profession. Col. F. 8. Besson, formerly Assistant Engineer Commissioner and author of 2 text book on “City Pavements,” has Just been in Washington, and, after a tour of inspection of the streets here, said, “Those who are complaining about Washington streets ought to see some other cities The street engineers give credit to the work in the laboratory which makes studies and tests of road mate- rials for our District streets. There has been a remarkable succession of hemists in charge of this laboratory. For 35 years this laboratory has main- tained excellent control of our pave- ments and is recognized for this fact among other municipalities. This s The New Brushed-Wool Sweaters Are Light as Down nd golf coat styles—heather mixtures or plain shades to match the tweed F:rowru lnd .uh-dn of 55.95 In both chappi skirts. Tans, blu green. sy believed to have been one of the strongest factors in giving the streets of the National Capital a longer life than those of many other cities. Out- side contractors have bld low to lay streets here just for the advertising they will get in having made good un- der this laboratory control. So we come down to this condition about our Washington streets: Many of them have outlived their natural life, even though they have given service for 8 or 10 years longer than similar types of street construction in other cities. Our highway engineers are recog- nized as among the very best in their profession and we have a laboratory studying materials that is envied by other great municipalities. For many years, until the present year, we have not had adequate funds to merely keep these roads from de- terforating. We are at last started on a steady grind to hold them up to what they must be to care for the traffic over them. The first big step in improv- ing the very bad condition that re- sulted from war-time neglect and 2 1216 F St. N.W. MONPAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1925. rough usage has been in repaving practically all of the big avenues of approach to the Capital. Now, specifically, as to wherein our streets are bad: The basic trouble with the asphalt streets is that they have outlived their natural life, and the answer Is that they must be resurfaced. Maintenance of old asphalt streets necessarily tmplies considerable patch ing, and that patching—no matter how well done—wlllaiot furnish a uni formly smooth surface. Automobile traffic s sensitive to such uneven sur. face, and while the integritv of the surface may be maintained it is not comfortable to ride over. The asphalt block pavements are not only as a class of considerable age but unequal in design to the modern legal wheel loads that run up as high as 6.1 tons on a wheel, or more than 12 tons on an axle. This makes dents and ruts and even kicks up the asphalt blocks. Such cement concrete roads as we have are in good condition; when they | tractors, or for a sewer trench are not in good condition they are converted by asphalt resurfacing. fore being resurfaced. S The trouble with the macadam streéts Is that they are inherently unequal to the leavy truck loads that use them. Another grave trouble, that has cut up our streets of all types, all over the District, is “cut-ins.” 'You will be driving along quite comfortably on | what looks Iike the smoothest street in town, when all of a suddent you strike a place where the pavement has been cut across to make a trench for plumbers, or public service con- The hole has been filled in with dirt and left to settle; a rain has settled it, leaving a gulley in your path which throws you from your seit and per- haps breaks a spring ir _our car. There are something i %: 60,000 of these cuts a year, with u total area of more than 80,000 square yards, and it cost about’ $425,000 last year to patch them up. The District gov- ernment maintains a separate organ- ization for this work. That means about 200 cuts every working day. First they are filled in with dirt, which is left to settle be. Usually one 9 | rain and sometimes two come before | the repair job is done. When repafrs |are ‘made in an asp surface 4t takes Lwo gangs to repair them—the first puts in a_concrete base and t | other comes along later and -pmz | and rolls the asphalt covering. These cuts should be repaired as 80on as possible in the interests of traffic, but if they are repaired too' | soon they make the condition evem worse by allowing the pavement to | sink. Every proper consideration r.ust be given to the comfort and con venlence of traffic in hastening the repair work The fact that these “cutins” are scattered all over the city and in all types of street consiruction necessari 1y means a lapse of time before thew are repaired. The District authorities cordially invite those using the streets to keep headquarters in the District Buflding advised of the location of cut-ins that are in bad condition and should be most promptly repaired. Czechoslovakia plans government ald of home building. Smart New Tailored Blouses Feature They're of radium collar The Club Collar silk—overblovis mod Showing also the mannish shirt neck and the roli making a V neckline, Turn-back $7.95 First With Fall Fashions Everybody seems to look to Jelleff’s for Fashions and they are not disappointed. You may not be ready to buy Fall clothes, but you are surely ready to see what they are like. Stop and see them this week! Tomorrow— GREAT SELLING dally service until the heavy wheel loads | Good Hone road to the District line. i 3 . | which they are now getting under| On chols avenue a concrete road- Macadam Fairly Satisfactory. | 14-ton trucks began to play havoc | way has been laid from the main gate Nexi largest to the asphalt streets| with them. We now hive a large |of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital to Fourth 8re those of macadam construction, [ part of this asphalt block pavement | street, with a small stretch not yet | of which there are some 1.800.000|in the northeast and southeast that |finished, but under contract square vards. Practically all of this|is in a horrible condition, a disgrace | Lieut. Col. J. Franklin Bell, the En- receiv bituminous treatment. This ! under the very shadow of the Capitol | gineer Commissioner, in defending the is the type of street surfacing that | Buildings. streets of the National Capital against has been put in on Sixteenth street| The greater portion of this asphalt | criticism from outsiders, protests that | north of Columbia road and on Four- | block pavement was lald on a gravel | those in charge of our roadbuilding in teenth street north of Park road. The | base, and gave magnificent service un- |the Capital are recognized in their pro- Jlow down™ on this type of street |til the wheel loads became too heavy |fession among engineers and authori- work Is that it is only fairly satis-|for it. Then when it came to supplying [tative writers throughout the Nation fhctory They haven't a conerete |the needed strength by putting in a |as unsurpassed in training and expe- hase and suffer especially from trucks | concrete base the cost ran up so that |rlence and ability, because thev are not strong enough it lost out in_competition with sheet| C. B. Hunt, the engineer of high.| fo carry the load. They have this asphalt. Our highway engineers have | ways, is a graduate of Rensselaer Poly- in their favor, however, that the bad | not iaid any of this asphalt block work | technic Institute, 1882. He has been asphait streets haven't—they are |for 10 or 12 years. It passed into the |with the District Government since under constant patching and spraying | discard because of economic competi. | 1890—for 35 vears, first as engineer of Cash or Credit the Price is the Same OF HIGHER-TYPE FALL HATS 7.85 The choice is exceptional; the price extraordi- nary! New, Paris-inspired colors are found in pro- fusion. T The New Velvets—Smart Brims—the Rich New Ve- Satin Hats — Velvet-satin lours—Large Dressy Hats combined—Felts with Satin —Small Tailored Hats Millinery Shop—Third Floor Gold Stripe—Silk Stockings That WEAR! It’s Time You Increased Your Supply of Them! And if you haven't been wearing them at all, it's time you, too, began enjoying the beauty 1k 1060% Pure, the protection afferded you v the paterited Gold Stripe, that prevents garter runs from passing down into the visible part of the stocking. And fully as important, the serv- ices available to wearers of Gold Stripe- Stockings. Ask about these tomorrow, $1.85 pair or With Silk Garter Hems $2.25 a Pair, or Box of 3 for $6.60 Street Floor For Office Wear—for Sports Wear for Travel—for School These are only a few of the places in which vou can wear a Balbriggan One-piece or Two- piece Dress to advantage. We are now ready with an immense stock of Balbriggan Frocks, in a generous choice of styles and colors. Every smart woman and miss now takes balbriggan into important consideration. Practical Points to Know About Balbriggan —It is light in weight, warm and yet not too warm for September d —Dust shakes out of it readily because it is a_knitted fabric. —Wrinkles do not go in deep—but come out easily when hung up over night. Fashion Points to Know About Balbriggan —Harmoniously blended in two-tone heather and shrub colorings. —New turtle necklines; V necks that can be buttoned up; smart kick pleat skirts. —Smart_new trimmings of velvet kidskin in matching and contrasting colorings Three Big Groups Tomorrow $10.75—$]13.50—$16.50 Sports Shop—Street Floor. Right & Tre-tone Balbrig- zan_becomes nearly eversbody—and this frock’s made of it' Note the scarf ef. fect” of ita roil col. iar, ‘its cuffs and vpockets ' trimmed with contrasting color, and the front kiek ' pleat skirt In all seasonable shades. $13 Cash or Credi the Price is the Same combines with look of free dom in this CLOTHES OF CHARACTER FOR MEN AND WOMEN briggan _jer- Hinciively ueed s Inetively used as in this two-plece froek. Long. tight sleeves, “the high neck-line, the new fingertip-length Biouse. ‘ma_ weil as the ~pockets _an: covered buttons— stamp _ this _frock with style distine- tion. £16.50. Left Striking con- trast fs gained fn_ this one- piece Balbrie- gan_frock by the ase of Aif- ferent colors for the vestee. eollar. cuffs and buttons. The dress is in tre-tone Bal- brigzan. $13.50. For the Larger and Taller Woman Style Show and Sale Style Show hours: 10:30 a.m. to 12; 2 to 4 p.m.; fourth floor Tuesday — An important Fashion Event! Ordinarily you would pay $3.95 for any one of these new Silk Chemise ou salo here $2.95 tomorrow, at By buying a large quantity of them we realized a decided price concession, of which you can have the benefit tomorrow. " Crepe de chine of a quality usually found in higher priced chemise is used. Daintily trimmed with fine laces and ap- plique net. Tailored styles, too, with hem- stitched yokes. In flesh color, orchid, nile green, peach, coral and maize. Silk Gowns, $3.95 Pleated sides give these gowns extra full- ness. The fine quality of the crepe de chine and the yokes of wide lace recommend them, too. Some have val lace insertion. Tailored styles also, with shirred yokes, bateau necks or strap shoulders. Flesh color, orchid, peach, nile green, maize and coral 2-Piece Pajamas, $7.95 When you see the beautiful crepe de chine of these clever pajamas, with their wide French val lace trimming, you'll want several! In flesh color and white. Lovely Breakfast Coats—Only $5.95 Both satin and crepe de chine—your choice. Trimmed with self ruching—and they fasten at the side. Copenhagen, pansy, rose, French blue and changeable colors. Robes of Embossed Corduroy, $5.90 Their long tuxedo collars, the side-tie fastening and the beau- tiful lining of seco silk make these unusually charming. At the same price are plain corduroy robes, unlined and bound in contrast- Living models from New York will d play again Tuesday New Frocks, in slen- derizing modes. Not the usual dresses in larger sizes, but dresses designed exclusively for the larger womah, with a keen appreciation of her requirements and figure. Created in extra size dresses— smart, slenderizing— in silks of the newest weaves, daytime and evening modes. 1f you are of the opinion that smartness and size cannot travel together, you're wrong — as you'll discover if you attend this event tomorrow. Choose your dresses here for a twofold reason; you will achieve smartness in- stantly, and the mirror will reflect a much slen- derer person than you ex- pect to see! Luxuriously Fur Trimmed Coats 1297 The fabrics are “soft and flexible — Roulustra, = Vivette, Kashmirelle, Needlepoint, Kashoretta, Lustrosa, Fortuna and silken velvets. Dresses 4% lustrous satm, Luminette, crepe back satin, frost crepe, spiral crepe, chiffon and bro- caded velvet fit the waist with clinging suppleness, and break impulsively into bold. flaring sides, front or back. circular godets, kick and in- verted pleats. Fall and Winter Fur trimmings of Marmink, Sealine, Coney, Lynx, Wolf, Natural Squirrel, Beaver, Mink dyed Squirrel, Fox and Greenland Squirrel. ngle and Double Breasted Models—guaranteed ali-wool materials, including a large stock of the ever popular Blue Serges and Worsteds Our EAY PAYMENT 1. Dress In The Height Of Fashion WITHOUT PARTING WITHYOURREADY CASH A Little Down—And A Little As You Can Spare It Heref: a Jelleff Extra! 100 New Fall Handbags At a Most Unusual Price for Ny K Smart Bags for dress wear; small tailored effects in the finest leathers: Their Quality Both leather and silk lined bags in Pin Seal, Beaver Calf, Morocco, Va- $6).95 this specially purchased assortment. 2 chette; in every wanted shade! Y Leather Goods Section—Street Floor ing colors. These are draped to the side. In cherry, Copenhagen, pansy, rose and maize, Third Floor. . Extra! Costume Slips 1. Lovely radium silk. $ 95 2..Deep shadowproof hems. - Some are gilt mounted and many ?pomdu Tl,i‘ utn-ll;"l have banity httings. Many hav.e in- 'ound in shps, at ly side frames. These slips have neat hemstitched band tops and may be had in fawn, cocoa, pansy, pencil blue, Copenhagen, rust, brown, taupe, flesh. white, black and navy blue-—could you want a more generous color choice? This Sale on Street Floor—Opposite Elevator.