Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' GOOD F. I Virt^lS WORTH LIVING ON | 1 Making the Streets Clean and Attractive Starts an Endless Chain of Improvement?"Aesthetic Value" Soon Turns Into Cash. ' PREVIOUS articles In this series liave emphasized the dollars | and cents value of good pave- | merits. It is easy to appreciate tbe difference j between living on au unpuved street j and u smooth, clean thoroughfare that ! Is never muddy or dusty. j It la easy, too, to believe how effective are good pavements in increasing property values. But there are other reasons for Insisting upon street improvement?reasons almost as important as those noted, but often overlooked. These secondary reasons for good pavements are that they Increase the health, beauty and general welfare of any community. People who are forced to live on , dusty streets absorb more pernicious germs and impurities in half an hour ou the front porch than they can keep out of their systems by a week's use KaIIa^I ?111 J ?s?s_ * ? uviicu ttuici, nieniul'u iuiik ana strict avoidance of tbe foods on which Dr. Wiley frowns We go through all the motions of purification and sterilization, from banishing the roller towel to installing filtration plants, and then submit to streets that are productive of a mora unhealthy condition than anything short of typhoid infected water supply can produce. And. besides tbe unbealthfulness of poor streets that cannot be kept clean, the dirt and dust from them ruin clothes, house furnishing. lawns and flowers and make life a burden to the housewife. With or without a sewerage system, a good, smooth pavement can be drained so that It dries olT quickly and, in fact, keeps Itself clean because there la no place for the lodgment and retention of dust and filth. A Potent Factor In Progress. Probably some of us are not greatly impressed with the so called aesthetic influence of Rood pavements. But tt Is a potent fuctor In progress and Improvement lu every direction. Pave a residence street and almost immediately there begins an improvement In the appearance of lawns and houses. People who were content with shabbines* ^ ?If they ever noticed It? I>cr1ii to paint and repair. Pave a business street and the stores begin to freshen up iuslde and outside, with resulting advantage to trade. An article published lu the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News comments as follow* on this very point: "Did you ever notice a locality that had no paved streets, was anpplied with old fashion ed brick sidewalks and that was possibly not provided with a sewerage system? Have you ever watched the change that came over e InraHfe* at this kind the minute new cement sidewalks were made and a aew MflaK street had keen laid? The cbaa#? In appearance Is certainly marvelous. The chance In advanse ef abutting property Is Mr more so. There are streets and localities la Fort Wayne that are today dean and attractive that a few years age were scarcely ever to be foand la tHe real estate transfer eotamn." One Imprevemewt Leads to Another. If this la aesthetics, the more the better. What H mesne N thst progress feeds on Itself and one Improve I meut inspires Hitudirr On thin subject so pmctlcal an histl mtlon us the olUce of pub.lc roods of the department of aiTK iilrurc aaya in one of Itn bulletin*: 'Tlit* utntMfc1 value of road* well built nltd clean in notnetlmeo reluctantly conceded or even dented by Individ Unlit It In noticeable, however, tbat Pi aloun; Improved roadn there i* a visible ' tendency to Improve the appearance of l homes uud bui.dliiK* 'n fact. Lite 1 preaence of koimi ruidn neemn many 1 time* to etlo'uijite Intent adf reapeet i xj] f " i n-Ji.' v.-\' ; f I rim ' 'i ^L^iNTJ .VI ! iI . A STRSiFT LIKE THIS 0 ^ into practical expression. There is no , I wonder tbnt a tog of well nigh tin J passable mud before one's door slioulu ! react unfavorably upon the entire futn I tlv rw.. Imi ? -? --- ? 1 1 ?J Jkiiv iait/iu<CU 1VUU IIUI Oiuy IJU> | .1 an aesthetic value In Itself, but It is potent lu awakening the dwellers along ]! | Its borders to u sense of aesthetic vnl- *1 J ues In home surroundings."- !! Local Pride Awakened. I "What can yon tell other cities about *| i the paving experience of Lexington. I Ky.?" was the query nddressed to one 0 of her progressive citizens, and this 19 I I Ids reply: "Approximately 140.000 yards of as- I phalt pavement have been contracted for bere this year. So. you see. an | ti asphalt street Is not only what the peo- I pic want when they know what It Is. ! p but Is the best friend of a progressive j e administration that desires to make a good in street building. 1 can say without fear of contradiction that I.ex- u ington's awakening is due solely or ( T nriinarilv ??> Um fir-wt ' , ? U4UV uopuail OH CVV 31 that was laid here. Since then nu endI less chain of improvements have fol- \ lowed closely on the street Improve- a ments from year to year. It has made s life worth living in our town, and Lex* ingtonlans pride themselves on having one of the beat paved cities for its size . in the south." j Better than mere assertions that in the awakening of local pride good pave- t( ments work wonders is such evidence as these editorials from Wisconsin and Indians papers: Q Attains Reputation For Boauty. \ "Green Bay." the Gazette of that city d ays, "has attained a most deslrablo ] d reputation for being a.beautiful city j 2 largely through the extensive use here of asphalt, which has proved so uni- , o vcrsally successful during the nine o years it has been used. The sixteen or ti seventeen miles of asphalt now in use si present to the visitor an unbroken vista d of attractive highways that are not n surpassed in any city of the state. b "Green Bay has not only been fortn- w nate In having always secured good, o responsible contractors who understand how to lay this pavement but t< also la having continued to use the tl natural or lake aapLalh which comes s from Trinidad or from Bermudez lake. South America, it making an ideal li pavement which haa stood up during t< It* entire use. while other paving ma- E t*rials, macadam, tar macadam and y brick, have proved partial or entire failures and required frequent repair* or renewals at considerable cost "Where asphalt has been used not a 1 cent has been expended for repairs on > ^ any street during the entire nine years ai since this paving whs introduced here, P1 although many of the streets now v paved have been subject to the bard- i " est and heaviest kind of trafllc, and i w yet these asphalt streets are in as Der- I feet coudltlon ns when Orst laid. ?* Best Is the Cheapest. CI "The result of Green Bay'* expert- w ence Is that a well laid natural sheet asphalt pavement, such as we have in Q) this city. Is the most satisfactory and m the cheapest in the end, even though th# Initial cost may be a trifle more. 7: It Is also rnoro sanitary and certainly ^ much more attractive to the eye. tr' '"The city and taxpayer* can be eon- M gratulated on the fact that thfti city 9 baa so many mllee of street* Wthti with natural asphalts and that Green Bay ban fully earned the title bestowed upon It of The Asphalt City.'" An Indiana paper, the BvanavfUe Courier, comments In much the same vein as the Wisconsin paper )uat qeoted: 'The city is about to 1st contracts far a targe amount of street paving. The tendency has been for the selection of asphalt for all residence streets. It Is to be hoped this will be continued. we aooaia nate to aae I backward moTeniMit In tbe Improvement of Htuavllla "The coat of asphalt paving has bee* materially reduced this year over proceding ream. Tbe difference la coat between an asphalt paring and a good brick with axphait filler Im now an amall ax to be negligible, rtilx la eepectally mo Itecanae the Improvement b? practically permanent. It will lag fur twenty-? ve yean*, and the dectxk?n of tbe property owner cannot be roveraod If a mistake la made. Man's Only Right. Each man has but a limited right to the good things of tbe world, arid .tha natural allowed way bv which be ia to oompasw the posaesalon of tbeso things ia by his own in.'natrloun aololaltion of tta?m?South THE LANCASTER NEWS A *{T> TTT^x 4^) ? t '/-%i^JL/ I 1 c. o m a typical, cte.w eh4 1 l-M-M-M >-M -H 1 I-l-1-I -1 t , RESOLVED: :: I That this community * wants and is going *r 1 to get more good ! ( pavements. ? < "y-t- i-i-m t-11 t- i-r-h-h-h-h-m- i-t* rUIS Is a resolution to whftrh ev- < ery citizen eun subscribe. If we mean what we say we shall get the pavements. 1 What other places have done this j I awn can do j Qood pavements mean increased ( roperty values, health, beauty and 1 ouifort and municipal progressivenesa 11 along the line. j , Good pavementB are no longer a lux- I ry that only big cities can enjoy. : 'hey are a necessity that no progres- ' Ive municipality cun do without. We can't afford it? Oh, yes, we can. Vhat we can't afford is to flounder round over rough, dusty, muddy treets. What Other Towns Have Done. I A few years ugo there seems to have een a concerted movement ambng owa municipalities to pull themselves ut of the mud. Now nny number of awns In that state have pavements as ood as New York's or Washington's, 'hese towns include Charles City with i ,000 population, Webster City 5.000, i Vlnterset 3,000, Blooinfleld '2.250. lnianola 3.5'*V Boone 10,000. Shenanoah 5,000. and Hamburg with only ,000 people. I Of course Iowa towns are not the niy ones that have pulled themselves ut of tbe mud. Oklahoma was a built o order state?that Is, It did not grow , lowly; It sprang Into being?and what | o we find there? Enid. Tulsa. Shaw- | ee, Chickasba, El Reno and other awns with hard, smooth pavements < ueh as are usually associated with , Id. rich and populous cities. It would require a page of this paper | > catalogue the smaller communities \ lat have proved that where there is a 'ill for good pavements there Is also way to get them. This lq tbe teachig of an Investigation that has ex- 1 nded across the continent from Rock ' [ill. S. <through tbe little town of < feet Plains. Mo., to Kosebnrg. Ore. A Prime Essential In Progress. No time was wasted In big cities, for lat would have proved only what we 11 know?that there good pavements J re considered a prime essential of rogress and always go along with it /hat was sought for was evidence ( lat no community Is too small to be ell paved. This Investigation developed stories ( T municipal uplift that do not get Into , le magazines, hut that are no less , ^lightening and Inspiring on that actum. I Let's start at Rock Hill, S. C.. a town | f 7,000 people. It had never bad any lodern pavements until a year or two ( po. Then, after a great deal of talk. ' J ie authorities decided to as* for olds i asphalt paving for two or three j aln streets. The owners of the abnt- [ , ng property were to pay thelrshare. ' in AM ILLINOIS Town , Al'dUST a. 1915. ,r-v rj t:* c vw>Oi<^o>j i I wp l* PI/ JffiMMHMQH -y.yy. UHpMBHL * IOLAMD TOWN d ?. If course some or tbem oojected. Ou oue or tbe streets wus n piece of property owueii by two ladies, wbo made a regular campaign against the improvement on the ground that the.v could not afford It and were so sue- > cessful that the city and the contractor agreed to pave up to their property. *kip it and resume the work on the jther side. lint before this actually happened the ladies came down to the city liall. s gned a petition to have the street paved in trout ot their property itid joined the rauks of "asphaltettes." In this same town the secretary of the chamber of commerce had been offered a piece of property for $700 on one of the streets to be paved. After the pavlug *hs done he found that the price had gone up to $ 1.250 and that there was an eagei demand for the tame lot that had gone begging at $700 Hut this article is not about the increase of property values that good pavements urine That will come later. What we are trying to show now Is that what other towns have done this town ran do Most, it not all, of the towns from which oar evidence Is drawn are smaller and less wealthy than our community. Look, for instance, at West Union, la., a little place of less than 2,000 In habitants that never had any paving until 1914. Then it saw other Iowa villages getting good pavements and made up its municipal mind to have them in West Union Last spring 30, 000 yards of paving were contracted for. Upon their completion the peoplewere so well pleased that a boulevard lighting system was ordered, to be in keeping with the nuvcmenr The merchants and residents of the town became imbued with the improvement tdeu. and stores nud residences began to freshen up. The lum her dealers, builders, carpenters and painters say that I'JH was the greatest year for business the town ever bad. The fact is that West Dulon has cbang ed from a shabby, slow going countrytown to a well kept little city, busy, proud of Itself and with every resident turned into a "booster." No Trouble Paying the Bill. And all of this is directly traceable to good paving. Tbe people bad no trouble paying for it, for the share of Mich was small and the time allowed for payment long enough to make It easy for every one. It Is a noticeable fact the country over that when an old town begins to iuj Huuu |/uiruifiiuf ana waeo a new town starts out with good pavements In both cases the good work Is kept up. In the case of older communities, once started, they are never coutent until all the principal thoroughfares are paved. The resident of the unpavtd streets sees how good the paved street looks n.id demands the same thing for bis street. New towns and suburbs that start life with good pavements rarely go backward. A man who has lived on a well paved street that Is never muddy or dusty, that can be cleaned and that IraIns off quickly Is never willing to to back to living on a street that Is inches deep In dust half the year and i mudhole the other half. IvMJI k of ?.000 POPULATION. TRAFFIC LIMITS ON VARIOUS PAVEMENTS.)t T ? How Life of Highways Is Measured In ' T; England. X By trallic limit Is meant. uccordlng to ; T current usage of the term, the amount 1 ' and type of trallic a pavement will car- v ry without undue wear, says Eugiueer- ?! ing and Contracting. The measures , ( used In determining traffic vary, no one of them being universally employed. |v In England It opi?eui\s to be a current | T opinion tunc ir a water bound macnd- ! + am road does not last two years with- : 4! out resurfacing auotlier type of con- struction should be used. It is believed * I that n trallie of about 137 tons per yard width per day. or 50,000 tous |>er 4, annum, is the limit for this type of 3 pavement. Traffic amounting to 1.200,- ?! 000 tous per yard width in one year ?$ will wear out the pavement wlthiu j jjL the year. Auotlier criterion is that j v two-thirds of a cent per ton mile of j ?! cost of maintenance is the limit at + which further use of a macadam surface becomes uneconomical. Bituminous penetration macadam and bituminous concrete appear to have a "4* ; 1 traffic limit as high us 1,000 tous per 4. j yurd width per duv. under which traf- 1 v I Oc the surface would probably ueed ; T. j renewing every four years. This trafj tic is from tive to ten times that ex- 1 + isting 011 ordinary heavy traffic roads 4. . 1 in the United States. In Knglund, in 4. j one locality, a bituminous concrete sur- v- . I face seven years old bears a traffic of * 70,000 tons a yard width a year and I It i>i bl'lipvml ran lu> mblnfolnnH l? .l,.n i . uitel3' under present conditions for 12 v j cents u square yard a year. One esti- T. j mate places the life of tids pavement 4 ' at eleven years under u traffic of 120,- -h . 000 tons per yard width per year ! j Greater uniformity of surface and less- '< ! er cost of maintenance are secured + ; with the use of bituminous concrete ? I i than when other methods of construe- r I tion are employed T i Paying For Pavements. ' 4- | An investigation of the methods in J I vogue in fifty large American cities of T j paying for pavements has been made T 1 by a committee of the Cleveland (O.i ! chamber of commerce. The results are j a, \ as follows: i I 4* New raving.?In 02 per cent of these T. cities the property pays ail; in G per i* ; cent the property pays 00 per cent; In X ' 10 per cent the property pays more } than CO per cent and less than 100 per j X . cent except in one city, where the prop- ! T i erty pays 30 per cent; in 22 per cent ii of these cities the city pays all. ? Repaying.?In 42 per cent of these X < cities the property pays all; in 10 per cent the property pays 00 per cent; in + , 8 per cent the property pays between ji, 50 per cent and 100 per cent; in 40 per v cent the city pays all. Approximately 25 per cent of the + cities pay the major part of the origi- j. nal paving, while 40 per cent of the T cities do the major part of repavlug. ^ Vln Ordinaire. + Why, how do you do? +H' | seen you in a long time. How are you? That's good. Yes. I'm well. You're looking fine. No need to ask you how you are. Yes, I've been well all along. Hope you have. You cer- ST tainly look it. No, I wouldn't say that unless I meant it. Yes. I feel By first rate. I never felt better. I'm 1 | mighty glad to see you looking so ma j well. You weren't feeling so good at of one time, were you? No. neither was I. But I feel fine now. I certainly never saw you looking better. I'm aul glad you think I look well. Of course, re(^ you never know. 1 really am feel! Ing first rate. Anybody could see you're well? | Etc., etc., etc.?Life. ftt she Have a Good Bed. In F&nn and Fireside a contributor, " ( writing a practical article about mat- ,jav tresses and other provisions for beds, makes the following general comment: "In furnishing a home the housewife should give most careful thought to ? the beds and their equipment. We i spend at least a third of our lives in tjie bed, and it is worth while to make gro that third pleasant and refreshing The best mattresses and springs are none <lU too good when one is storing up an<' strength for some work. Hesldes, as is the case with most household purchases. the best are really the cheap- Exe est in the end." J <1 WE. CArt WVE STREETS ' 1J 9^> J A JL *- J> ? L * n Auici SMOKE SHOPI CIGARS-TOBACCOS I I Daily and Sunday PAPCDCt I ni Li IV O | ShoeshineS 1 * | My Cigars are | the Best, and are j Kept the Best. | ? i TRY ONE j And j You 1 wiuj | CALL AGAIN | LATTA DAVIS I HOTEL ROYAL BUILDING. ^ CITATION. K>_ AT,E OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Lancaster. J. E. Stewman, Judge of Probate Whereas. Maggie C. Maglll ha* de suit to me to grant her letters administration of the estate and >cts of John B. Magill. deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and nonish all and singular the klndl and creditors of the said de.sed, that they be and appear bee me, in the court of probate, to held at Lancaster on August 10th. 15, next, after publication thereof. It o'clock In the forenoon, to >w cause, if any they have, why said administration should not granted. liven under my hand, this 27th of July Anno Dorn.ni 1915. J. E. STEWMAN, Probate Judge. iotice to l?clitoi> and frciliton. ill persons hf.virig claims against estate of U. M. Neal, deceased, hereby notified to file the same, y verified, with the undersigned. those indebted to said estate will ise make payment likewise MATILDA M. NEAL, icutrix Estate of seid Deceased uly 2. 1915. ~~\5Ustjt)S&%AjOi ^ :V? " >. ?, ,v.:,;- r * j AS GOOD AS THIS.