Show lEED fED MANIA TWILL DESTROY I BEST ROADS Driving in Antonio Antonio- res 1 les es Ruins BumS Even Model French Highways f I NTY MILES AN HOUR COULDN'T HURT HURr MUCH Ragged ragged Dirt Roads Pos- Pos Solution of Vexing Vex- Vex 1 lug ing Problem BY BT FREDERIC FB DERIO J. J HASKIN HAKIN he be present nation wide movement f construction of good gool roads U largely grown ont out of the J. J me uIe of the automobile T The e farm farm- th country have haye Jon long been boon will mIl to tc put up with this this' extortionate ux tar but as ia so soon m as s he be autom Ff e b became became- am a practicable means of ofra ra tb b began n to tt Ae t th their ir efforts toward awakening interest terest on tho the part of the tho of better roads n good roads mo em movement nt t now covers iy ite a and d almost t every com corn j the tie country Wherever there eka to automobile is an anle feic l le ad advocate cate of f good roads and he Hilty h the t type po of man who is able i bis views ier upon those con edl n makin l the thO necessary tiou for lor road rOld building t the t the h s af awakened to the need of t pod roa roads s sa Mug likewise a been destructive c of the 1 reid reads that were built before his hist nt t t. t How serious serious' ha has been this dea de- de ri a may be he inferred from the sit- sit lof the French government It tin finest est sy system of ot macadam liln Iu In th world at a total cost of dot The In influx ux of l of the world into for i for lor the enjoyment of these rought Ol t t untold thousands n s of f Inas stis into th tb tho country and arid 1 ft r a t a Trench havoc wr wrought u ht upon tipon the roads roada z reat and t a tbt a national nati onal eOn congress lid a fp experts was e called t to consider iTne i of t f i road ad construction prevent their bC being n dei de de- i 3 by y Ii ge i ODB on n Heavy reful fu n has bas shown where an automobile runs run no more to twenty miles an hour it inflicts little damage upon a macadam Where this speed 1 is doubled the thc 4 ij I is much heavier than that done Ione Hh heaviest farm wagons where i tripled the road is literally burned burne ieca all of the fin fine finc dust which h enis erv enes as a binding mato mate being caught up and forced forcel out the the side Bide of the road L tret treL complaining of the tho iy vy olli which are char charged ed on man runny many dam adem toll roads Y Yet tt statistics JP prove that the avera average e auto auto- jile ne dOes doe ranch much more moro damage o to the ill than it pays i in the shape of e of ot the principal autom automobile tays of ot the country is the Valley Yane of Virginia In Tn a stretch of oft f ft t ninth miles tho the tolls amount to at l ly 5 Automobilists Automobiles all f Sr r r. r the country have havo declared this to ton n extortion The t turnpike officials officials' it III-it It that that- it would be extortion if i automobiles I s observed ed the spat speed ft I f. f ib the state stat of Vir Virginia nia But tl tt aunt that n a speed ed of thirty to ty tT uiles an aD hour hour bour is ill the rale rule and hJ e n exception eption and nd that under i condition oDA even eren the ht higher her prices ried do o not compensate tho the turn turn- f- f for the damage inflicted to th r ad to r Boidi Suffer Less tf i ifs ifs' been 3 n found fOUD in th Jt last t year jear ear t twp p that hat t the tho ordinary c dirt may b be jYe made into admirable au au- au's aus 1 s 's with a very small man r- r rj f j In fact when treat treated d dIt K It Proper methods p tb perhaps be be- tt f nor to the the macadam roads hi the e 11 e t of oC maintenance is is' al- al Bible Some time Urne ain since e J. 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W a Y writer of De Den nj Dt the u dragged ed fn Iowa lowi a He Hc took UP the thc cud cud- m In a newspaper way for tor a river 11 road the ft across S state One tt he lines ID D up the counties of the th I of th the governor and 0 ol 1 Jot Jo lot i of beribboned badges and J to which which the seal ecal of ot tho the was M attached The result was In an ordinary rural dirt road was waR termed into a magnificent high high- hll h. h ll aI mal maintained d for a year with loft l oUtlay of of on only Y 3 3 a ra mile c- c The was miles long lon S Seeing cin the theMI Cs II of dragging this MI on oZI tb remainder of the counties bet be hid t to t t e j i U the llie t example jue 01 of nf those inose Tin Tint e Dade a river to river road able ible I e Aral dragge eJ dirt road is made by b Jl ging over any O ordinary road rond a ary nor cr ot of be heavy Umbers timbers Bolted or at material d. d in buch a scraped up and nd above in the is discharged upon the On 8 SPEED MANIA MANrA WILL DESTROY BEST ROADS ROAD Continued from pa page pago 1 1 center of the Rep Repeated drat dra s Kings gings D S thus give e the tho road a proper properly convened con surface with the cents center hf higher h r than the sides idee Water drains drain off oft this a as off a ducks duck's back and con cot a few hours of sunshine after an an ordinary rain leaves the roa roain road in good condition conditi n instead of making makin it read ready to become a series Bories of mu mud puddles and chuck holes Bind Road With Molasses Automobile hi highways arc are now being built largely larrel with a top dressing of aj as' as asphalt or of some other bituminous ma tonal Tar is another favorite Ii In some borne cases tho roads are made practically liko a macadam road only that tha they the are top dressed ressel with nth finel finely crushed ed stono stone with some sort of hea heavy binding material poured over oer it Ii Iu In some om localities a low grade of molasses is used as a binding material Tar an another and other kindred materials arc are often pu put O over fer common dirt roads with most fa favorable results Perhaps the tho most remarkable road ii in tho United States is tho the one Gon T T. T Coleman man DuPont is undertaking n t to mild build in in the state of Delaware H Hlas Ho He Hohas has bas las lately decided to hive give ive nearly al alof all allo o of his fortune fortuno to the good hood roads movement movement move move- ment in in tho United tinned States State lie says sayi ho he is convinced that he be can servo bu hu humanity manity better hetter by building goods roads road than in any other of the usual ways of spend spending in a liberal fort fortune uno for th the public good General DuPont already has bas arranged for a road through tb the state of Delaware feet foot wide wido In m th the country districts and feet wide wido n in towns owns Ho proposes to maintain this road for t the tho o state at a cost which wilbe will wil willbe willbe be le less ea than the tho interest on tho bonds bondt which would have been required to tc build the road He will undertake this work of maintenance for a period of twenty years carf or any part thereof He Ho intends to lay a foundation of five inches of concrete over which will b be put a coat of from two to three inches of track rock or local gravel using asphalt asphalt as as n a filler DuPonts DuPont's Road Plaus Plans The forty feet in the center of the highway General a DuPont proposes to tou road u use o as a high speed automobile Ho lie thinks think that a speed of miles an hour is one of t the tho ho probabilities of ol the future On either side of this automobile speedway there will bo be bea a space of nf fifteen feet which will be 1 used ed for trolley lines He will encourage en en- coura courage o the tho building of such lines by tendering them the ri right ht of way free under onder stipulations which will be f fair fairand fairand ir irand and just to the traveling public Outside Outside Outside Out- Out side side of these foot fifteen foot spaces will willbe willbe willbe be two thirty foot ma macadam adam roads for horse drawn vehicles and slow travel jug ing automobiles beyond these spaces s of fifteen feet for conduits etc an and beyond those cement walks and shrub shrub- ber bery In addition to all of of those ho he proposes to establish convenient landing landing land land- ing places for flying machines When this thia road is completed it will wiUf beyond question be the most nn nb to the he min minute min minute ute highway in the United States There are aro many improvements on foot for a national system of highways in inthe inthe inthe the United States The most moet ambitious of those these is the one proposed by the National Highways association It contemplates tho the construction of 50 50 miles pf national highways the would run rUIl into total outlay for which the tho hundreds of millions of dollars This plan contemplates three classes s of national t highways the tho first of these to tobe tobe tobe be known as the main national high high- ways waS Salt Lake on Trunk Road There would be throe three great transcontinental trans continental lines of these thee main highways high ways one crossing the country from Boston to Seattle by way of St. St t. t Paul Paulund Pauland Pauland and und Helena another would cro cross it il from Washington by way of St. St Louis and nd Salt Lake Lalee City to San Francisco oj the tho third would cross from Jackson Jacksonville vine ville Fla by way of New Orleans ElPaso El ElPaso Paso and Yun a a reaching tho the Pacific at San Dic Diego o There would be bc north and south stretches of these hi highways from northern Maine to Miami from Duluth to New Now Orleans and from Pu Puget et sound to tho the gulf lf of California These in turn would bo connected by a system jf of of trunk national bi highways scattered throughout hout the country Another movement which has boon been set act on foot for tho the construction of the highways is being by Ocean to Ocean Transcontinental highway a association recently or organ an zed red in New Mexico This contemplates contemplates' contemplates content content- plates slates a road practically paralleling the he Southern Pacific Tho The state of Pennsylvania has bas lately ne negotiated a aloan aloan loan oan for the t ho proceeds to tobe tobe be 38 used in tb the construction of public Highways Lighting of Highways Tl The e states of f Massachusetts and N Sew New w Jersey are arc the tho only ones in the country which now now require lights li on ill Ml ll vehicles chicles at night on all of the pubic pub pub- tic He ic highways This is a concession t to the he automobile traffic of those states New York which is extremely heavy is 8 considering a measure for the lighting light light- lighting ing ing of al all the state highways at night light It is proposed to appropriate 2 and with mth that to light a sec seo ion tion of one of pf tho the leading hi highways of ho tho state with a view to determining the he practicability of lighting all ll of the Toads oads of the state at night This This' also has bas as come about through th the advent ent of ofha the ha automobile On the whole the tho decade now tiow just begun promises to break all records in Ameri American n hi history in tho the construction and ind improvement emt t of public hi highways s hwa That such roads road a are arc e an an n excellent In in- in vc wherever the er they are arc built bunt i is di disclosed by b the increased cd taxable values alucs which hi h invariably follow fonow tb the theon construction on of such roads lI The department de- de of agriculture in Washing Washing- ton on maintains a Jt good od roads bur bureau und inder r the tho direction n of of Dr Lo Logan n Wal Wai- Waller ler or Pane Page and it is said that no country country coun- coun try TV in lu the world po possesses a 3 bureau so sowell well Toll equipped for affording instruction to t o H its road builders r as is possessed b by br th the he United States in its national go good goo d roads oads bureau bUTeau In this it h has s the sup up port Dort of 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