Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Rubber For Paving Streets [ARTICLE]

Rubber For Paving Streets

Manufacturers Declare London Will Eventually Discard Old RoadMaking Methods—-Kills Noise. London. —London will be better worth living in when rubber paved streets have made it a city of silence. Imagine, if possible, what the English metropolis will be like when the roll of wheels and the trotting of horses no longer make a lasting din and the noisiest of motor buses make no more than a passing rumble. Rubbermakers think this paradise of quietude sooner or later will be realized. At any rate, when the International Rubber Trade exhibition opens on June 24 at the Royal Agricultural hall there will be displayed for the first time samples of rubber paving, suitable, it is claimed, as a substitute for the present-day methods of paving. A rubber roadway 122 feet long by 10 feet wide will be laid and although each manufacturer employs different

secret processes, all claim to have prepared a durable material. The initial outlay for paving roadways with rubber composition will cost only a little more than the system at present in use and will be more than compensated for by the prolonged life of the rubber. During many years rubber paving has been used with satisfactory results at some of the railway stations in London. Further, rubber paving blocks are reversible. The opinion is now confidently expressed that the new product is bound to supersede the old style of roadway and paving. If its introduction means the constant roar and din of the traffic is to disappear, then Londoners will gladly welcome It .