Bloomington (Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana) Evening World, July 9, 1910, p. 1. Note: The remainder of this item was cut off in copying as indicated by ellipsis. MANY CITIZENS EXPRESS VIEWS On Bloomington' Street Paving Proposition. Next Monday night the question will come up before the city council as to whether Bloomington is to pave her streets with brick or bithulithic. A number of citizens have expressed their views to City Attorney R. L. Morgan, and they are given herewith in The World-Courier: W. J. Allen: "I am in favor of paving the square with brick in preference to any other material. Experience teaches that a street improved with brick will last twenty-five years, while bithulithic would have to be repaired within ten years. The council should keep its eye on the question of repair in the future." C. W. Booth: "The greatest paving material in the world is granite, but the cost limits its use. Fifth Avenue in New York City is constructed of granite and a finer street the eye never witnessed. Next to granite for street improvement purposes is brick. Brick is economical and it takes years of heavy traffic to effect it while time without use will disintegrate asphalt or bithulithic. This city is not financially able to use will disintegrate asphalt or bithulith- [sic] streets. We must be especially equipped for repair of bithulitic streets." H. B. Gentry: "Experiences forces me to be favorable to brick streets. Within the last twenty years I have paraded over thousands of miles of streets in cities and towns of the United States, Canada and Mexico, and I feel that the only sensible and general purpose street to construct is a brick street. Asphalt and bithulithic are nice and smooth when first constructed, but they soon disintegrate and go to pieces and then comes the expense of patching and repairing. I would like to see the public square paved with brick." County Clerk Joseph H. Campbell. "We cannot afford to improve the public square with any material other than brick. The first cost of brick pavement is about 30c. per square foot, cheaper than the bid on bithulithic and is more lasting and much easier to keep in repair. If bithulithic is used, the city will have to expend seven or eight thousand dollars for a plant to repair with. Our street commissioner can readily make any repairs to brick streets." James Karsell: There isn't but one thing to do and that is to use brick. A brick contractor will guarantee his work for thirty years, while you can't get a bithulithic man to guarantee for more than five years. I was a Delphi this week, my old home, and they told me they were compelled to re-surface a bithulithic street less than three years after construction. Down at Evansville the streets leading from the river wharfs are constructed of brick and they have stood the heavy hauling from the river up to the city for more than thirty-five years. Let's have brick." W. T. Blair: "Brick every time. Why, look over there at the hitch rack. That brick has been laid for twelve years. It is not the kind we would use on the streets, neither is it laid as we would lay it now, yet it has stood the pound and stomp of horses for all these years and it is good yet. The hitch rack tells every wise man that we should use brick. I am against bithulithic." Dr. John P. Tourner: "If you are going to improve let it be brick, but I would like to see the council keep that street roller running. The city ought to have a quarry and crusher of its own. We have plenty of hard stone in this county suitable for paving and with this stone and the constant use of the roller we could have good streets. However, I am in favor of improving the square with brick." Deputy Clerk John Kelly: "I want to see the square improved with brick. We know brick will last and the most of us don't know anything about bithulithic." Walter S. Bradfute: "I am for brick. When men like H. B. Gentry, Charlies Booth, and others, who have traveled all over the United States, say brick, I say brick. Why not?" .