Show the best road builders it has been said that the tile civil civilization and enterprise of a nation may be estimated by the character of its roads if this be true we are not only behind the romans those master road builders of antiquity but wo we must bow even to a people once on our own continent of whom scarcely a tradition is left in peru exist the remains of a highway grander and more durable titan than any that roman shill ever devised and which involved in its construction engineering difficulties unsurpassed if equalled equal led by any met with in the building of our great trans traus continental railway this road made of nicely jointed flags of freestone laid in cement and covered with a bituminous in inous mortar now harder than the stone itself was twenty feet in in width and stretched over mountainous and almost impassable regions 2000 miles running from quito to cuzco and thence southward to chili chill how many centuries it has ha s lain there no one knows the simple indians whom pizarro slaughtered had bad preserved no tradition of the titans that built it whatever was the condition of this ar ancient iclene people in point of material and social advancement this highway way was commensurate with t their I 1 r civilization our roads are certainly not equal to theirs it is true truo that the railway has to a certain extent don done 0 away with the necessity of wagon roads on so grand granda a scale as the thir applan way and the still more magnificent peruvian highway but the demands of the present ago require in certain localities a more enduring pavement than any laid by ancient engineers antl and this our civilization has not yet devised none of tho the avenues of our cities can boast of a roadbed road be bed d equal to the demands of modern transit arpie apple cons tons burnal journal 7 asa packard owns seven million of the bonds of the lehigh valley railroad which pay seven per cent seven hundred thousand dollars a year J cararo are made by the millionaire in this investment alone wilson the husband of ida lewis the tile heroine of lime mine rock has been guilty of the ineffable meanness of publishing a warn varn warning n to the public not to credit her on his account she has not yet got lier her divorce miss frances willard has lias been appointed professor of esthetics in the tho womans comans college of the north western university at evanston illin illinois OL ata at a salary of isoo 1800 which is is to b bo increased to 2000 in 1874 2 1 in 1875 aud and V 1870 1876 |