Show TIRES TO ROADS the ball balloon oon tire la is amyot as yet too new to tell tall its own st story ory bu but some of the reasons urged against it by lift its opponents do not seem warranted by facts misled perhaps by tho the undoubted fact that tho the pneumatic tire labod caused groat great destruction to the tha then common type of hard road the ermound aund macadam conservatives now state that thai the balloon tiro tire with its greatly increased size of wearing surface all wilk cause causa damage tto to roads or of other than cement or brick surface this thir Is not borne out by facts already 1 recorded of other wide tire bearing surfaces heavy trucks equipped with double wheels and aud flat solid tires do dono no damage to the surface of the highways they uso jano whether that surface outface bp bo oil treated cr tar impregnated stone atone sand clay shell concrete brick or comon road damage dono by such vehicles la Is from blows or pressure ure and not from surface wear it Is the bohock or the blow which damages the road and seldom or never the abr abrasion aslon ot of the surface according matthis to tat this the tire should shodo preserve vr rather jhan than injure incurs tho the roads since its lessened air pre pressure increases In creasea tho the elasticity of the cushion between the road and tho the weight fit and therefore debr decreases eases the force of any blow struck by the wheel |