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... Gutter - Estimated Cost - Sidewalks , Stone , Brick , and Cement - Specifications for Sidewalks in Different Cities- Gutters - Street Grades - How Established and Recorded . 421 459 CHAPTER XV . ASPHALT PLANTS .. Capacity of Plant ...
... Gutter - Estimated Cost - Sidewalks , Stone , Brick , and Cement - Specifications for Sidewalks in Different Cities- Gutters - Street Grades - How Established and Recorded . 421 459 CHAPTER XV . ASPHALT PLANTS .. Capacity of Plant ...
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... gutter ... 59. Section of cement - concrete gutter .... 60. Diagram of grades at a street - intersection .. 441 441 443 445 445 446 447 447 448 448 453 453 455 457 466 467 470 476 477 477 477 481 481 485 STREET PAVEMENTS AND PAVING ...
... gutter ... 59. Section of cement - concrete gutter .... 60. Diagram of grades at a street - intersection .. 441 441 443 445 445 446 447 447 448 448 453 453 455 457 466 467 470 476 477 477 477 481 481 485 STREET PAVEMENTS AND PAVING ...
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... gutters soon became torrents . " Walter Besant in his " History of London " states that in the Elizabethan period carts only were allowed on the street , and their number was restricted to 420. Merchandise was carried on pack- horses ...
... gutters soon became torrents . " Walter Besant in his " History of London " states that in the Elizabethan period carts only were allowed on the street , and their number was restricted to 420. Merchandise was carried on pack- horses ...
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... gutters shallow and laid round without edges , which makes the coaches glide easily over them . " On another page he says the material was a very hard sandstone , and that all the streets and avenues were paved . Aaron Burr in 1811 thus ...
... gutters shallow and laid round without edges , which makes the coaches glide easily over them . " On another page he says the material was a very hard sandstone , and that all the streets and avenues were paved . Aaron Burr in 1811 thus ...
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... gutter on each side very near the houses . It is fine sport for the cabriolets or hack - drivers to run a wheel in one of these gutters , always full of filth , and bespatter fifty pedestrians who are braced against the wall . " A ...
... gutter on each side very near the houses . It is fine sport for the cabriolets or hack - drivers to run a wheel in one of these gutters , always full of filth , and bespatter fifty pedestrians who are braced against the wall . " A ...
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Page 402 - All loss or damage arising out of the nature of the work to be done under this agreement, or from any unforeseen obstructions or difficulties which may be encountered in the prosecution of the same...
Page 412 - ... authorities, and •whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In the case of neglect of any corpo-ration to make these pavements or repairs after the expiration of thirty days' notice to do so, the local authorities may make same at the expense of such corporation." The street-car companies, however, have not always lived up to this requirement, and it was stated in a paper read before the American Society of Civil Engineers in December, 1896, that bills aggregating...
Page 412 - Every street surface railroad corporation so long as it shall continue to use any of its tracks in any street, avenue or public place in any city or village shall have and keep in permanent repair that portion of such street, avenue or public place between its tracks, the rails of its tracks, and two feet in width outside of its tracks, under the supervision of the proper local authorities, and whenever required by them to do so, and in such manner as they may prescribe. In case of the neglect of...