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Show OILED ROADS CAUSING TROUBLE FOR AUTOMOBILES Salt I-ike, An?. 24. Automolillo tourists who frequent the highways of Westchester county and Long Island Is-land are complaining bitterly of the method of oiling the roads 'by rhe hlghwoy omclals. It Is a well-known fact that antomoMUsts, as well as the residents along the highway, are anxious anx-ious to solve the dust' problem In the most feasible way, but this Is not accomplished by putting barrels of crude oil upon the highways In a most extravagant manner, expecting tbt this will lay the- dust and make a flno roadwav. Many complulnts have b"n received receiv-ed at the Tourlrg Club of America by automoblllsts who pevcroly condemn this reckless method of oiling tho roads by some of the hlchwtiv authorities. authori-ties. One mcnibfr who has experienced experienc-ed the misery of driving over theso oil-soaked nnd sticky ronds said. In discussing the subject: "Lea-Hug road experts, as well as Intelligent highway officials, asreo that crude oil, when poured in an ex- : truvagaut manner upon th roads. Is actually Injurious to th vehicle u;lng i the highway. This Is true not only of j automobiles, but also of horse-drawn i vehicles as the oil being thrown upon the vehicles will leave unsightly-stains ' unless speedily removed. Apart from j I his, too m'ich oil makes the road dan-I dan-I gerous to traffic, Increasing the liability liabil-ity of skidding, and this .practice of ' soaking the roads freely with oil hne I been abandoned by foremost engineers." |