Paris Experiments In Pavements

Considerable difference of opinión )eing found to exist among experts as o the best kind of wood for use in treet paving, the Paris munioipality ïas undertaken an experiment which will be watehed with interest. Thê ?aubourg Montmartre, one of the I reatest arteries of the Prench capital, ' long which particularly heavy traffic I asses all day long, is being repaired with no fewer than six different kinds of wood. These are pitch pine, pine from the great swampy district in the 5outh of France called the Landes, the inhabitants of which have to walk about on high stilts; teak, red karri, box and a particularly hard woorf irort Borneo. Each of these materia Is has particular qualities of its own, such as impenetrability, non-slipping surface, etc. Prom time to time a committee of experts will visit the place and draw up a report as to the substance which best stands the rough wear and tear.