Show A great movement is going on In the Host in both city and country to have vehicles made with wider tires The arguments are many I Is claimed that in cites the are 3 great saving ot pavements which Is D clear prop p o ltion It the weight of 3 load Is distributed dis-tributed over twice a much surface by wide Jrcs as It would b by narrow tires It Js n clear case that only half the pressure would be on any particular particu-lar pot of the pavement under the wheels So on the country road the tendency ten-dency Jo cut the road Into ruts would be reduced accordingly and not half the work at present needed to keep I the roads in repair would be required For several years an ordinance of the city of Rochester N Y has been In force cimpelllruj the usa of wide tires rmfe lr tres and now the Democrat and Chronicle uiyn the law under the discretion oft of-t SUpervisors has boon extended to th wUplc countyof Monroe In which liochier Is situated The same papers > paper-s t11t exp rlence has demonstrated that they have not only saved tho prvempnlH from deterioration but they liive positively improved the roadways or unimproved strectH I Sol These Ktr ots of which wo mill have mui yIn uomo of tho rcMldunt quarter of the town correspond in their ordl ji ry condition to fair country roads I > on them that tho value or wldo tires lias bn tem mOil obvious tq tho casual ob f rvcr Thou tires Inulead of creating ruts havo served to somo extent as roll IJI on the claw of streets numcd and Jue I made them smoother and plcagunler to travel on than ever they woro before rho p8iMig6 of half a dozen widetiro T ajroriK over sUch a roadway Instead of cutting up ami Injuring It Ug narrowtiro I vraffonn would IK a noultlvo benefit Moreover It jhauld considered that hrtt wfd tlroi vehicle are moro eaSIly iiuwn where tho roadway In at all pll t blo an they do n0t T sink na the norrow Tir < il Wheels do Into the ground and ElfiN itreitI fe IHo dllllcultx of iho haul for llm tram > drawing them Nearly or quite a hundred yearn ago the States of Now York and Pennsyl I T vania had turnpike roads running east and west they being the only open ways across those States There was heavy freighting carried on by live seven and ninehorse teams for most I of the teamsters wero Pennsylvania and New York Dutchmen they drove with a single rein and always wanted a slnglo leader The pikes were toll roads and the toll was regulated by the width of the tires AVe believe that a vehicle with a flvcinrh tire paid no toll The rcult was that all the heavy wagons had liveInch tires The old Ida has come back and especially In cities that have asphalt pavements and we believe that this city ought to pass an ordinance that after a certain time all vehicles to carry a ton or more of freight should have at least four I Inch tires That would Insure wide tires on all new wagons and there I would be no hardship In the change I The same rule would apply outsldu of I the city henevor It might become I I fashionable to ever Improve a country I road I |