Glass Cinders for Paving, Valverde glass used to patch holes in street

GLASS CINDERS FOR PAVING

The citizens of the town of Valverde are much wrought up over the way in which Alameda avenue, the principle thoroughfare in that town, was repaired by the town marshal on Saturday, acting, it is supposed, under instructions from the mayor and council. The ruts and holes in the street were filled with cinders from the glass works, composed of broken glass, bottles and insulators from the factory dump. Though an effort was made to smooth it down, the glass sticks up in splinters, which are very dangerous to horses, and means a puncture in every bicycle tire that runs over it.

The citizens are exercised not only because of the danger to animals and damage to bicycles, but because the filling of ruts should have been done with gravel, which could have been taken from the bed of the Platte river. The river is nearer the avenue than is the glass factory, and gravel could have been hauled for about one-half the cost of the glass refuse. They have taken up the matter and will ask the wheel clubs of Denver to co-operate with them in having the glass removed.

The Humane society will also be asked to demand the removal of the glass. The people of Valverde believe that the mode of repairing the street was due either to incompetency on the part of the officials or to prevent the boys riding their wheels over this street.