|
|
Portland Paving Company
| Name | Portland Paving Company |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Wegebau |
| Quellenangaben | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 159] |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Straßenbelag |
1891 |
[Philadelphia] |
1891 |
[Philadelphia] |
|
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The paving of streets of great cities has within the last few years attracted more attention and caused more study and experiment than it did for hundred of years before. It is within the memory of even the youngest when the cobble stum was thought to be the perfection of city road-ways ami it was not until after it was demonstrated that the roadways could be better paved, that the attention of inventors and capitalists was turned to the side walks themselves. The first pavement of the sidewalks if it can be so called was a wood platform and when that was superseded by brick it was thought that perfection had been reached. When natural stone was after a while substituted for brick pavements for sidewalks, it was declared impossible to go any farther. But the expense, the trouble and the delay in placing the natural stone, with very often not very satisfactory results put the wits of the inventors to work, and artificial stone appeared. There are numerous compositions and many possess excellent qualities but the expense attendant upon their use is too great to allow the general adoption of some of them. Mr. W. H. Jenkins, head of the Portland Paving Company, has invented an artificial stone which combines durability with the advantage that it can be placed at comparatively small outlay. It is called "Metalithic" and derives its name from the use of an iron chain introduced into the blocks of granite and cement compound as a binder. It is extensively used not only for paving but for varying building purposes, curbings, etc. Any design or color can lie obtained. Its tensile strength which is very great is largely in favor for such uses, it being guaranteed at 150 tons per cubic foot. Science coupled with indefatigable energy has brought this material to such perfection that it is now very largclv used in the construction of buildings, especially those designed to be fire-proof. It is here used in a manner which once would been deemed impossible, as for sills, lintels, steps, floors, for which it used to be supposed there was 110 other Proper material than wood. The business of the firm in Philadelphia is very extensive and in the matter of paving alone they are doing as much as any other house in the city. It is now fulfilling contracts for a number of the new buildings being erected throughout the city. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 159] |
| |
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Warner H Jenkins |
| TEXT | Warner Haddon Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, February 27, 1864. He is of English descent, his ancestors beiug of good old Quaker stock and remarkable for their longevity. His paternal grandmother was Patience Jenkins, a well-known Quaker preacher of her time. His father, Colonel Samuel Howell Jenkins, was among the first to offer his services to the Government at the beginning of the war of the rebellion. Mr. Jenkins was educated at the Friends' Select School at Fifteenth and Race streets, where he studied for three years and afterwards acquired business methods and stenography at Lauderback's Academy. He subsequently entered the senior class of the Newton Grammar School, and then was admitted to the preparatory class of the University of Pennsylvania, and he finished his education by a private course of mathematics and the sciences under the tuition of Professor Yerger. While still a young man, Mr. Jenkins became a clerk in the office of the Cambria Iron Company and he retired a year later on account of sickness. He then studied practical surveying and was appointed a solicitor of contracts for the Columbia Paving Company. Eventually he entered into a partnership with Mr. George W. Bush for the manufacture of artificial stone, under the name of the Portland Paving Company. The partnership continued until 1886, when a stock company was formed under the same title, both partners taking a large interest in the concern, and Mr. Jenkins acting as Superintending Engineer and general manager. The business of the Portland Paving Company has now become very extensive, and its only rival in this city is the Vulcanite Paving Companv. Mr. Jenkins is a competent hydraulic engineer and he is considered an authority in all matters relating to patent paving, cements, etc. But it is to the invention of "Metalithic" that Mr. Jenkins owes his fame and a good part of his fortune. To push this great and useful discovery Mr. Jenkins has entered into partnership with H. Victor Gause, with offices in the Drcxel Building. "Metalithic" is now being introduced throughout the United States, and it is certainly one of the most important discoveries in the building trade. Mr. Jenkins is also Consulting Engineer of the Empire Paving Companv of New York. He married on May 2S, 1883, Miss Mary Lewis Rowland, and he has two sons and a daughter. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 159] |
|
