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THE CONCRETE AGE

DALTON and Atlanta GEORGIA

VOL. XXXII. April, 1920. No. 1

PUBLISHED MONTHLY
Devoted to Modern Permanent Construction.

CONCRETE AGE PUBLISHING CO.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
In the United States and Possessions (Hawaii, Phillippine
Islands and Canal Zone), Mexico and Cuba, $l.OO per year.
Canada, $1.50. All other foreign countries, $2.00 per year.

Advertising rates given upon application.
Entered as second-class matter October 18, 1905, at the Post-office
at Atlanta, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

The Editor solicits correspondence from readers on matters per-
taining to the concrete industry. Descriptions of concrete work
done anywhere that is of general interest accompanied by clear,
sharp photographs and going into details as to methods employed
will be published and paid for if found acceptable.

TO OUR ADVERTISERS.
Our advertisers are requested to have copy and
cuts for changes for advertisements in this office not
later than the 10th preceding the month for publi-
cation.

We cannot be responsible for changes not made,
when copy and cuts are received later, or submit
proof.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Editorial 7-8
Report of National Committee 10
Builders Advised Not to Wait 15
An Old Ontario Hotel 18
Three-Day Conference in Chicago 19
Pennsylvania’s Good Roads 21
Federal Engineering Changes 25
Savannah Builders Meet 25
Street and Road Construction 26
Cement Walk for Seismograph 27
Concrete Oil Storage 27

How’s the Weather —and the Roads?

One would scarcely look for an editorial on roads
in the daily Forecast Bulletin of the United States
Weather Bureau, especially an editorial promoting
permanent highways— yet you'll find one there from
time to time just the same.

In the bulletin issued February 6 by the Lansing,
Michigan, branch of the United States Weather
Bureau, the condition of the highways as affected
by the weather, formed the sum total of the report.

A portion of a paragraph from this report reads
as follows:

‘ ‘OUT OF DETROIT : Roads in Wayne County
are cleared and in good condition. ****’’

It will be remembered that Wayne County has
nearly 200 miles of concrete roads.

Nnpaved roads vary with the weather—paved
roads are constant. When the weather is good,
dirt roads may be passable if they have been con-
tinuously dragged, but they are no roads for truck
and outomobile traffic, so characteristic of the high-
ways today.

The Highway Weather bulletin is an important
and useful contribution from the Department of
Agriculture, mads doubly so by recognition of the
fact that the state of the roads is more important
than the weather, and that you needn’t worry about
the weather if the roads are paved.

War Trucks for Road Builders

One month ago the War Department had turned
over to the United States Department of Agriculture
approximately 24,000 motor vehicles, as provided in
congressional legislation empowering the latter de-
partment to distribute this war material among the
State highway commissioners for use in road build-
ing, allotments of the vehicles to be based on the
amount of Federal aid for roads which the States
receive. This is practically all the vehicles which
the War Department has to release. If this total
12,000 have been delivered to the State. The re-
mainder will be distributed as fast as railway cars
can be secured for their transportation. Represen-
tatives of the Bureau of Public Roads, in charge of
the matter, believe that within two or three months

DALTON and Atlanta GEORGIA

VOL. XXXII. April, 1920. No. 1

PUBLISHED MONTHLY
Devoted to Modern Permanent Construction.

CONCRETE AGE PUBLISHING CO.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
In the United States and Possessions (Hawaii, Phillippine
Islands and Canal Zone), Mexico and Cuba, $l.OO per year.
Canada, $1.50. All other foreign countries, $2.00 per year.

Advertising rates given upon application.
Entered as second-class matter October 18, 1905, at the Post-office
at Atlanta, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

The Editor solicits correspondence from readers on matters per-
taining to the concrete industry. Descriptions of concrete work
done anywhere that is of general interest accompanied by clear,
sharp photographs and going into details as to methods employed
will be published and paid for if found acceptable.

TO OUR ADVERTISERS.
Our advertisers are requested to have copy and
cuts for changes for advertisements in this office not
later than the 10th preceding the month for publi-
cation.

We cannot be responsible for changes not made,
when copy and cuts are received later, or submit
proof.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Editorial 7-8
Report of National Committee 10
Builders Advised Not to Wait 15
An Old Ontario Hotel 18
Three-Day Conference in Chicago 19
Pennsylvania’s Good Roads 21
Federal Engineering Changes 25
Savannah Builders Meet 25
Street and Road Construction 26
Cement Walk for Seismograph 27
Concrete Oil Storage 27

How’s the Weather —and the Roads?

One would scarcely look for an editorial on roads
in the daily Forecast Bulletin of the United States
Weather Bureau, especially an editorial promoting
permanent highways— yet you'll find one there from
time to time just the same.

In the bulletin issued February 6 by the Lansing,
Michigan, branch of the United States Weather
Bureau, the condition of the highways as affected
by the weather, formed the sum total of the report.

A portion of a paragraph from this report reads
as follows:

‘ ‘OUT OF DETROIT : Roads in Wayne County
are cleared and in good condition. ****’’

It will be remembered that Wayne County has
nearly 200 miles of concrete roads.

Nnpaved roads vary with the weather—paved
roads are constant. When the weather is good,
dirt roads may be passable if they have been con-
tinuously dragged, but they are no roads for truck
and outomobile traffic, so characteristic of the high-
ways today.

The Highway Weather bulletin is an important
and useful contribution from the Department of
Agriculture, mads doubly so by recognition of the
fact that the state of the roads is more important
than the weather, and that you needn’t worry about
the weather if the roads are paved.

War Trucks for Road Builders

One month ago the War Department had turned
over to the United States Department of Agriculture
approximately 24,000 motor vehicles, as provided in
congressional legislation empowering the latter de-
partment to distribute this war material among the
State highway commissioners for use in road build-
ing, allotments of the vehicles to be based on the
amount of Federal aid for roads which the States
receive. This is practically all the vehicles which
the War Department has to release. If this total
12,000 have been delivered to the State. The re-
mainder will be distributed as fast as railway cars
can be secured for their transportation. Represen-
tatives of the Bureau of Public Roads, in charge of
the matter, believe that within two or three months