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lu <br />I• <br />n <br />U <br />note that the contractors' maintenance warranty had expired on several streets <br />and that arrangements with the Asphalt Company would be needed to effect <br />temporary repairs until bricklaying crews were available. By way of an <br />alternative, he gently suggested that the city might provide its own repair <br />plant. Finally, he indicated that "The purchase and use of a Standard rattler <br />for testing bricks had proven of great value to the Department". Table no. 8 <br />of this report was dedicated to the test results comparing various brick <br />pavers. <br />In the same year, John P. Butler, street commissioner, requested the <br />institution of a deposit system with the purchase of any permit to cut into an <br />improved street as the system of holding contractors and plumbers answerable <br />for repairs to streets on their bond had proven problematic.(11) <br />In the first decade of the Twentieth Century the length of street in the <br />city of South Bend nearly doubled.(12) However the trend toward other sheet <br />laid pavement material was on the rise. By 1906 there were 42 miles of <br />pavement in city, 36.5 being paved with brick.(13) Other paved streets were <br />principally asphalt with some remaining cedar block. In 1907, the original <br />experimental section of brick pavement was removed although it was reported to <br />have been in good condition. In the same year the city council outlawed brick <br />as a sidewalk material in favor of concrete. (14) New street work declined <br />(11) City of South Bend Annual Report 1905, Report of the City Civil <br />Engineer <br />(12) City of South Bend Annual Report 1911, Report. of the City Civil <br />Engineer, table 11 <br />(13) Howard, P. 370 <br />(14) ibid <br />page 5 <br />