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Show BOADS FOB AUTOMOBILES. Although, since the use of automobiles became be-came widespread in a considerable section of the country, a good deal of money baa been expended on the improvement of roads, very much more must be devoted to the purpose if long-distance traveling ia to be promoted. Under the auspicea of the Good Roads league a movement has been started for the construction con-struction of a highway suitable for automobiles automo-biles from the Schuylkill river to a provis-ionsl provis-ionsl terminus at Pittsburg. The distance is nearly 300 miles, and the computed cost of such a structure would be between thrc and three and a half million dollars. A more interesting and promising plan was mooted the other dsy by the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The scheme proposed by thai newspaper contemplates the restoration, improvement im-provement and extenaion of the old "National "Na-tional road," otherwise known as the "Cumberland "Cum-berland road," which waa built by the Federal Fed-eral Government during the thirty-three years preceding 1839. Made, as it waa, under the supervision of engineers of the regular army, this highwsy has been compared for solidity with the military thoroughfares created by the Romans, the remaina of which are still turned to account in many parte of Europe. Harper' a Weekly. |