New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 3

NE\N; BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1929. Improved Road-Making Machinery Lay Highways With modern road building wcth inate hand 2 methods of a few At One Operation | the ods, 1t spreaders (above) elin- years ago. Concrete mixers moving under their own power (below) mix twice the amount of material pro- duced by machines five years agc. Washington, Au road 1ding 1 rapidly and the fuils to keep up to datc hind. The road builder today, with larse contracts to complete, think of using the slow m equipment of a few yea involved much manu cost would be too great. The spr finishing 30 ()—Styles in hinery chane road builder is left labor. . gberation by hand, now more cfficiently by machine. With the nossible as ment on American and more increase in result of th hway Road B tion says, has comc spondir g decrease in costs of construction ard the public reaps the henefit by, pay- ing less per mile for pavement than it did five year ago. The almost universal adoption of the gasoline engine for powering road building machinery has res ed in more efficient machinery w which tasks can be completed in much less time than formerly. The number of road building ma- chinery manufacturers has increass1 greatly in the last decade in re- sponse to the demand for larger and more efficient equipment {0 keop pace with the vast construction pra- grams. Hi contractors have in- creased rapidly in numbers and with keen competition and falling prices, the necessity for increased production has called for machinery of much greater speed and offi- hway c productton and quality of pave have improved witn the improvement in the design of machinery, voad points out. Conerete capacities of {wice mixers have those of five vears ago, and con mixed. New machines spread, smooth the heen poured, g in constra tion of higher quality and great smoothness. The old I laying asy way to machines which spread an smooth the material for roller: produce a better quality pavement than did the older methods. Even grading and preparing is better tatmp concrete after it resultin nd-raking method or t pavemenis has g i road ®ed 1y done largely by hors pment. now rushed v machines whis scoop ihe load it on tru and smoot PARIS SIDEWALKS IMPORTANT FAGTOR Striking Side of French Life Commented on part 1 low National from J. R , notes that not even tI lks of New York” 7 o important in the the side- capital do in n to Hildebr: a part e of their city as walks of the Irencl Faris. ached Homes a Novelty sidewalk cafc is familiar, b isian finds multitudinou: other uses for his sidewalks than ting them. He he ites his letters, he st on hie his d i his wife does her sc on shops, olls paper wirg and > even fishes from them these reads ly ther toms lies civie an intere : bit of Paris is a Gnly the homes, of A ty of"aps thy Out in St it hot detached Cloud a number W have rericans hay thos crected homes ican suburb, nd the sig ars show them I novelty of to French viat 54 the city Touses not i Paris allow uctures mo; partment of Taris, skyseraper va - ntial ty no reside § storics high, not even he 1t respect, if an Amer- in Doston. 1 ;. iction he- she remen fire. The city’s fire d manned by soldiers ey h n few other ican co “Paris go on duty, on their brass helmets, FOR S A NETTLE SHOE COMFORT last day tomorrow LE TON BANNISTER RALSTON SHOES FOR $14.00 SHOES . $13.00 SHOES $10.00 SHOES .. $ 8.00 SHOES $ 650 SHOES ..\ .. Other Globe HTEIN S . $12.25 $11.25 3.00 $ 5.50 Ads Appear op 11, 21 Today Pag M GLOBE CLOTHING HOUSE WHERE WEST MAIN STREET BEGINS | Lona e members suggestive bf mounting guard in sult of elling is that the hich would have a 7 or 8 room home in the United States usually has 3 or 4 rooms in a Paris lodging. Even if the family dines at home, its stroll out to the and when t sit for coffee this apartment erage family re tired an or a liquer at at and Sew on Side- walk lhere father smokes his after nch c Mhere with her friends and the dren sit for awhile, then play on lewalks. And ‘playing in the connotation York. Front ya Inown in Paris Gaes “Down along as chocolate sun- the Seine virtually sidewalks, and them are the famous book The space is apportioned down to the inch; and the numbers and lines along the sione walls, that S or late evening visito bout denote the les pace where, in daytime, t seller puts up his little wooden stand with the paper back books and in- finite v y of magazines and newspapers. are the au alor won- of “Much of the reading matter in th wtioned bookstalls may sidewalks | hour or | ¢ sidewalks. its tablets, pens and ir who would after 1 have been written on tk Every sidewalk cafe paper, | the customer bis corresponde dined or sipped. } poets have done the that sidewalk ble for has and essayists are reputed to composing in this or cafe. And the scrib- and even sketch ¥, over in the Mont dent quarter does not go to his ret for inspiration: he tak |at his favorit | “The sidewalks | from the bookstalls are lin | fishermen, especially on 8 | Tn mid-summer fishing contes held. The competition is for | bers caught, not ror the crowds the Seine > Seine with num- Thoug fish in size are 'a the are ex is tempted to add 1y watching much fishing City’s First Sidewalk 160 Year: | “It was just a hundred ye that the fir }walk was constructed over Parisians aver, by Odeon Theater, today one of | oldest and quaintest Paris. Since then the thusiasm the quarters of en- side- Parisi | and affection for | walks has grown misgt if | { he would honor a name or a datc | his first thought is to name a street {for the person or event. 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