The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 23, 1909, Image 7
ROA~ fROVENENT.
. CountieifWhich are Prepared to
Spend ^Money for Road Bnildinf
' and Road Maintaining Should
First Learn What Types of
Highways are Best Suited to
f / \ m ? r>
irav \ana nimauc lonamons.
Logan Waller Page, Director
of the office of Public Roads of
(he U. S. Department of Agriculture,
has appeared before
State legislatures and county
boards in various sections of the
country during the past few
months in response to invitations
to tell What methods are best lor
obtaining funds for road con
struction and how the roads
should be maintained alter they
have once been secured.
At the present time thete are
two principal methods of raising
funds for these purposes, but
Director Page believes that before
plan9 are set on foot for
raising funds, much should be
Slid regarding the manuer in
which such funds should be expended.
If the voters of a county
show a readiness to spend a
generous sura in improving their
roads, it is of paramount importance
to them to first ascertain
what class of roads should be
constructed'.
It should not be assumed that
aimply because a county owns
quarries from which trap or
limestone rock can be secured
that the expensive macadam
road must necessarily be built.
The qualifications of any rock
cannot be definitely decided upon
until laboratory tests have been
held. Much money has been
almost thrown away in this
country, however, on the construction
of rock-surfaced roads,
those having the construction in
charge neglecting to call in the
services of exnert chemists, and
using rock totally unauited to
their traffic or climatic condi
tions. In many, many caaea,
the results were disastrous, the
roads quickly raveling and going
to pieces because the cementing
value was lacking.
A county which shows sufli
cienl progress to bond itself in
a liberal amount for the purpose
of securing improved roads
should keep its money intact
until its officers have learned ex.
actly what c'aas of roads will
best meet its requirements; what
type of road it ia best qualified
to construct and what it can beat
afford. Those facts can be secared
through the aid of the National
Government, the office of
public roads standing ready to
give gratuitous advice and to
supply skilled highway engineers
who are qualified to tell
what type ot highway would best
meet that county's requirements
and to demonstrate those deeis
ions by supervising the buildiug
of stretches of model highways,
atter which local officials may
take pattern.
Wide-awake State and county
officials are now showing the
liveliest appreciation ot theresuits
which follow a visit by
these skilful men, and the demands
for their services are so i
heavy that it is impossible for
Director Page to meet more than
20 per cent of the requests being
filed in bis office.
When county officers learn to
appreciate the fact that road
building is an art, they will rely
more and more upon expert advice
and scientific demonstration,
and when they have learned
what class ot roads is desirable,
Smv id ill nnnaf rnol f ham an;l
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a guard them,
erein lies one of the most
ant of all American highationa.
Americans build
ads as Englishmen or
Frenchmen, but baviog done so, '
they rest contented with their d
efforts and let each passing
breath of air, speeding automobile,
or drenching rain blow or
wash the road surface away.
In the countries of Europe,
where the well-nigh perfect roads
are the pride of the citizens and
the envy and admiration of vUiting
Americans, most jealous
care is constantly given ; a careful
day-by-day inspection is fc'
made and every depression is
quickly filled aud all inequalities
rolled or tamped.
Two requisites, therefore, con- ?
front the county supervisors at =
the outset?first to ascertain
what roads would be most suitable
to that particular secti n, w
and to provide for funds to ex- W1
peud in their maintenance alter
completion. 8U
ch
Those are vastly important ^
and the nation's very small percentage
of improved roads is due
largely to a failure to give confo
sideratiou to them. Millions of
w
money have been wasted in
building roads which local conditions
made impracticable and .
ID
out of all cost proportionate to
the county's revenue.
There are exceptions to all
rules, however, and Pike county,
CI
Alabama, stands as a glittering
exception to the usual construe- t
Hon blunder. There the county
officials had planned to expend ^
a large sum in the building of
gravel roads.
W. L. Spoon, United States
Superintendent of Road Construction,
being sent to make an ,
Sl
inspection of the county's road
c ^
possibilities, learned that 700 ^
miles of important routes needed
improvement. He figured that
the cost of gravel roads would be
ci
$3,000 a mile?plainly a sum ^
greater than the county could be
bonded for. Conditions, however,
were ideal for sand-clay ^
gg
construction and he strongly ^
urged its adoption. By a legal j
proviso the county c.uld be
It
bonded lor only 3 1-2 per centum
ot the assessed value of the real 01
and personal property. The plan ^
was decided upon and an issue
of $143,000 was voted. One ^
hundred thousand dollars worth
of the bonds were quickly sold, '
being disposed of in $50,0^0 a!- P'
lotment?. tl
The first allotment brought a ra
premium of $625 and llie sec md d
one of $825. Forty thousand *v
dollars was at once spec' for ?i
mules and road-building machin* P
ery and work was started. $
With tne sum remaining, 118
miles of the fiuest sand-clay roads O
in the South had been built re
within two years from the date tt
of the bond issue; a generous ol
sum was still on hand ; eight tf
gangs were at work, and the ir
people were so pleased that they ol
stood ready to take up the re- R
maining issue of $43,000 and T
expend it in the same way. no
It is the belief of the Director ai
of the Office of Public Roads
that such facts should be im- tfi
pressed upon the people of all i'i
counties desirous of extending of
and improving their highways tli
I .at rvrrt uot mtl ~ .. .. J - ~ ^
ntiuai wui'iv in UUUOr W?y.
When that has been done, he is 111
warm'y in lavor of the raising of w
lunds by issuing county bonds I
with the restrictions which the h<
Virginia Highway Law imposes, b*
viz : that all moneys so raised th
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As she is termed, will endure bravely and \
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The fact is women are more patient than tin
to be under such troubles.
Every woman ought to know that she ma
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The many and varied symptoms of woman'
forth in Plain English in the People s Medi<
revised and up-to-date Edition of which, clc
receipt of 31 one-cent stamps to pay cost of
all be speut under the watch- VIM
;1 supervision of a State Highay
Commissioner, because otherise
the money may be wasted,
Many farmers tear a bond ise
as they do the visit of the
linch bug or the Kansas grass>pper,
but the benefits they deve
from that method ot raising j
ouey for road improvement are R,ec
r-ieaching and immediate, 30 1
bile the individual tax on each a v
so small that it is scarcely cas(
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Hiucnuio. hi loamy, uurrow- L)ai
,g money through the sale wil
ad bonds is like buying a rj
mse, a larm, or a busioess on f0n
ie installment plan. The pur- wit
laser receives the object at arg
ice and derives the benefits yes
om it while paying tor it. As m0]
ie benefits derived from per-; the
icte.} highways cover long peri-' 8t^
1 ci time, fairness and equity p
jmand that the ribing genera- haN
on should bear a portion of the wit
ist and the increased citizen- dov
lip, always attracted to the lo- dre
ili'y by a system of good roads, bui
lould also aid in paying for the | thii
ided benefits. nee
Besides that, there is a fiuan- caa
al wisdom in floating county es 1
mds for road improvement. In We,
any cases those bonds sell a; a p.ui
remium, and everybody inter- istc
fled gains a benefit. In some ^
outhern States good road
b^6 wit
stve brought a price so high that leg
ie premium uas wiped out two | foil
r three } ears' interest on the Fel
riacipal. In Bradley county, her
enui9eee, but a few year9 ago r0a
le supervisors voted a bond is- vva
le ol $90,000. Those bonds wh
ore interest at the rate of five she
er cent. So enthusiastic were hid
ie citizens for road improve- 0al
tent, and so much confidence fev*
id they have in the locality in wh
hich they lived, that the prem it \
im was $20,000 ; the cash sales aln
lacing in the couutv treasury gra
110,000. ant
It has been ascertained by the got
flice of Public Roads, the Bu tha
?au of the Federal Census, and 2 >
ie land and industrial divisions did
r twelve great railroads, that arr
ie building of modern highways a s
nmediately enhances the value hac
i the property through which Da
tey run to a marked extent, tra;
his increase is esiimatad by the nes
lost conservative at $2 an acre, cro
^d by the more enthusiastic at (J.
). All concede, however, that the
ie increase is immediate and stoi
ievit?ble. L'lace tlie acreage Var
the rural portion of a counjy, had
terefore, at 200.000 acres and a w
?rt
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IDICATION OF FORMER CHES- I ^
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J of Chief of Police Darby H ^ ^
f Batesburg on Grave Charge H m f
Results in Officer's Ac- I ^ J
quittal. M
.exineton special in Columbia H 9 ^
lord, June 10: It took just H f 0
minutes for the jury to return
'erdict of not guilty in the
i ot Chief ot Police John G. *
by of Batesberg, charged li
h attempted criminal assault. I \
i'he case was begun day be- 1
3 yesterday and a numhar of I
nesaes were examined. The i
uments of counsel were made j
terday afternoon and this
rniug the case was given to :
jury with the' result just
ted.
dr. Darby was charged with
ring committed an assault
h intent to ravish upon a wi- 1 We
v,a boarding-house keeper and
ssmaker, in the town of Bates- s
g, on the night of February 7,
s year. f.Aore than 100 wiiises
were summoned in the I O 31
e, and besides these witness ! Cecl
many people from Batesburg
re in attendance, including a _ '
mber of ladies, and three rnin- VjOOt
srs of the Gospel.
['he prosecutrix was the first lm/1
ness. Her story of the al- 1 ? 1
ed assault is iu substance as |
ows: On the evening of 7 7 n
_ . , / - r
>ruary 7, in company with
' 6on, she walked down R :l
,d street from her residence 'r - 3.D
rd the power house; that I Ladi
en she came to a certain point j
i noticed the form of a man 5 ^^0
ing in the shadow of a large
i; when she arrived within a ?
r leet of the man, she asked
0 it was and he replied that |
ras "Policeman Darby," and s
lost at the same moment he s Ladi
,bbed her around the waist -a*
1 neck, exclaimiug "I have
; you at last." She claims I Men
t she was dragged for 15 or >-> - q
steps. and that the defendant I
not turn her loose until the I * OC
ival of her son, who was hut S
, . , A *-? r
uuri distance away, ana WHO XXJJLV
Ifceen attractedby her screams. Tc
rby warned the two"not to bey
him", she said. The wit- P(
8 was put through a grilling 5
ss-examination by the Hon.
M. Kfird, leading counsel for I* I I
defense, but she stuck to her "
ry in the main, although it '
ied somewhat from what she
1 sworn to at the preliminary ?
eek ago. the son of tl
'he defense contended that it He corrobc
cane growing out of the ar- of his moth
i of the woman's son. along other wi?nc
h tw other young men, for The dele
akinf into the store of Mr. allegation o
E l.utland, at Hatesburg. In denied hav
>port of this contention they night in <
?rt that, altliough the assault that he h?
llegad to have been commit woman in
on the 7tn of February, the that he wa
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h of May, more than three evening, tf
aths afterwards. The woman at the time
58 as her reason for not hav- is said to ha
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ley to withhold the warrant, and both tei
he first witness yesterday wa9 by was in t
to increased valuation Jue to ']
le construction of better high- is a
ays at but $4.50 an acre, and rest
will be seen that the property wit
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