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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919 Township Highway Commissioner's Rpeort (Continued from last week) While all of the foregoing is vital to the success of the plan, its value is determined largely by its prac- tical application to the work itself. The earlier months of the season, April and May, were spent in remov- ing obstructions from the existing roadside ditches to permit the quicker passage of water, and the institution of a plan for dragging all Township roads after each rain. Many of our roads had been crown- ed so high by the grader that the best that could be said for them was that they shed water quickly. In it- self, this is a good thing but the maintenance of a road by this meth- od is a questionable practice in that it forces the traffic to the center of the road. This quickly produces ruts which are the most expensive of road faults to repair. With a high crowned road the passing of vehicles is annoying and sometimes carious, as when the roads are slippery, tending to shunt the vehicle toward or into the ditch. Therefore the drag, spoken of be- fore, was put into use not only to re- duce the crown of the road but to draw into the ruts and depressions in the road the loose material and compact it by its weight in passing over it. A further advantage of this method is that much material is sav- ed in working the road, because by the drag method, the material which under the grader plan was brought to the center of the road where it would be of little value, is brought down to the sides of the road where it becomes a part of the wearing surface of the highway. In the past about sixteen of the eighteen and one-half miles of Township roads had been improved at one time or another by the appli- cation of crushed limestone or gravel after the road had been shaped. This construction was the work of former Commissioners. All of the roads needed more ma- terial in spots. As soon as the heavy spring rains had stopped and the roads had had the drag applied considerable number of times a a patrol system of maintenance was brought into being. Up to the time that the Govern- ment request came for release of all cars possible for war work, crushed limestone and screenings were used for the repairs made to Glenview and Lake avenue, Hohlfelder road and Ceunty Line road. When the ban was put upon the transportation of material by rail a contract was made for a good grade of gravel from a pit located and privately owned in the township. All of the repairs in the south part of the township which is the larger half have been made since that time with gravel and with good results. At the same time the cost of the gravel is 44.6 per cent less than that of the stone. The cost of hauling was reduced 162/3 per cent at the same time. With the road maintenance actually well under way a number of men were placed under a foreman em- ployed because of his ability to handle men and to do the engineer- ing incident to drainage work. This : received one hundred dollars man [ per month. His work had a great deal in it to bring commendation irom the thoughtful tax-payer. His records show the character and ex- tent of all the drainage work done by him during his several months in the employ of the township. : The use of this cost record in this report is simply to acquaint you with the fact that the work that the dollars of the citizens of New Trier township is doing, is-under scrutiny ond tlhe recerds in such shape that intelligent criticism may be made of the work and that conclusions may be reached more definitely and easily in planning future improvements. Through the Commissioner the County Board has been induced to join with the township in the ex- pense of the erection of headwalls and the pipe extension in the ditches at all the intersections of roads in the township which were potential death traps because of the necessarily deep ditches close to the road. At these points the roadways have been widened and headwalls built so that free and safe passage of vehicles may bé effected. 2 ; The two foot outlet running irom the west branch of the C. & N. W. railroad to the North branch of the Chicago river, over two thousand feet at a depth of five to six feet under ground, was found early in the <eason to be totally inoperative. To determine the extent of the repairs and their location it was necessary to have man craw! through this cin fant nipe with a flash light and note book. This was done. Each pipe was noted as being broken or out of place or defective in some other way, or good. An estimate was then made of the cost of digging up and repairing the broken pipe and remedying the other defects. The pursuit of this method saved several thousands of dollars which would otherwise have been spent in the un- productive digging up of the good a Il portions of this sewer. The neces- sary repairs were made and an idle investment is again working. As much as 662/3 per cent of the total mileage of roadways have been ditched on both sides the past season. With the exception of a short piece on one road which was emergency work done under bad working con- ditions at the end of the season, all this work has been put on a straight line and with proper fall. All of the! outlet ditches received early and careful attention. ; Sign posts for all the roads are a | part of the general plan to be in- stalled as soon as roads widths are | definitely established. Harms road from lake avenue to; { Glenview road (7/8 of a mile) has | been ditched and graded, and four | inches of gravel to a width of four- teen feet has been placed thereon in the past year. This is a much used | pre- | road which has been expensive to, ' keep up on account of the mud en- countered after every rain. ' The] shoulders of Green Bay road from | County line t& Glencoe north limits | are being built up to make safe this | heavily used thoroughfare. | Some one has recently said in a! well known magazine: i "That highway engineers and of- ficials have generally failed to con- cern themselves about book-keeping | is an indictment against them: few branches of engineering endeavor are as careless about, and are leav- ing as few accurate records for the general use of the profession, for the | public and posterity." It has been our aim to prove the exception to this rule not only keep- ing cost records, but showing the summaries of these efforts in the Treasurer's books and ih the reports made each month regularly to the County Superintendent of Highways. It is my duty and privilege to acknowledge here the willing and competent aid given by both the Town clerk, Mr. Walter S. Crozier, and the Town treasurer, Mrs. G. M. Thurston, in the compilation of re- ports and data which have been a substantial aid in the work of the Commissioner. The Treasurer's books now show in a very readable, understandable way not only the amounts received and expended, but for what purpose and where used. The balance sheet as of December 31, 1918, is here given. Report Balance on Hand April: i, 1018 .....: $33,188.81 § 90.00 [Received during Year i 0 15,199.41 *300.00 Total iio. S50 $48,388.22 $390.00 Orders drawn dur- goyear oo... 18,347.62 248.67 3alance on Hand January 1, 1919 ....$30,040.60 $141.33 Distribution of Expense Farth roads--construction ..$1,296.77 Earth roads--grading ...... 164.65 Earth roads--dragging ...... 248.67 Hard roads--construction . 2224.06 Hard roads--maintenance 1,407.20 Bridges and Culv.--const. 443.32 Bridges and Culv.--rep. . 3,775.66 Machinery purchased ....... 21300 SUPPHES aan vv rans 88.59 Miscellaneous «...........onvis 1,441.72 0YBUR 615 Davis St., Evanston Matinees 2 and 4 Evenings 7 & 9 Friday March 6 J. Warren Kerrigan in "The Prisoner of the Pines" ETHEL CLAYTON in '"'Maggie Pepper" NEXT WEEK Mon. and Tues. March 10, 11 FRED STONE in "Johpnie Get Your Gun" Wednesday March 12 KITTY GORDON in "Mandarin's Gold" and HOUDINI in "The Master Mystery" Thursday March 13 MONTAGUE LOVE and BARBARA CASTLETON in '"'Rough Neck" v ge Diseling TR CRS Se 820.8 ment for ditching of Wil- eed cutting .............. .. 52. low street and Thalman *To Road drag fund. ......... 300.00] avenue in Winnetka ...... 316.50 N. J FEI ! OWS . W. S. Crozier, Town clerk. | Of this total the amount derived $15,199.41 REGISTERED from taxes was ............$1366.67 || This item includes cost of repairs Interest on Liberty bonds to Wilmette outlet sewer and the ex- OPTICIAN and on moneys in bank tension of culverts and erection of amounted to: iv vai 916.24 | headwalls at seven intersections : Received from Village of that were widened as noted in the Eyes Tested. Frames Fitted Winnetka as reimburse- report. 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