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Street in St. Louis, paved in 1901

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: Main street, Daj-ton Ohio, paved in 1892.

Text Appearing After Image: Street in St. Louis, paved in 1901. , I ^>*.^^..r*^ * BRICK PAVEMENTS IN 1901. 81 VITRIFIED BRICK PAVEMENTS. THEIR USE IN THE UNITED STATES. During the past seventeen years there has been asteadily increasing use of vitrified brick for the pave-ments of the streets of cities and towns in the UnitedStates, especially of those of moderate size—that is, of100,000 inhabitants and less: the larger places wel-coming brick as a competitor with sheet asphalt, andas affording another means of escape from the intoler-able noise and dirt resulting from block-stone pave-ments and from the temporary and unsanitary featuresof cedar blocks, while the smaller western towns, withcharacteristic enterprise, have built miles of brick pave-ments to displace the natural mud. The total lengthof brick-paved streets in the United States in February,1902, is estimated by Wm. S. Crandall, editor of TheMunicipal Journal, at about 1300 miles. The following table is reprinted from the first editionof City Roa

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