The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, September 09, 1908, Image 5
BIG ROID PROBLEM, OIL III KUDU UUILUIIHi
Prevention of Damaging Hard
; Highways by Automobiles.
How Petroleum Is Used on Top
of a Macadam Bed.
THE EFFECT OF TWO TIRES. * FINE SURFACE OBTAINED.
0«ft Rubber Variety Injure* Where
, the Iren Imprevee — International
I Cenpreee of Highway Engineer*
) Will Diaeuaa the laeue.
• Few would think that the eoft poro
antic the ot the whlanlng automobile
cevid no ahorten the Ilfe of the mac-
•dnm roada as to absorb the anention
of highway engineers of every civilized
country of the globe, yet they are do- I
log uu Incredible amount of damage !
dally to rock surfaced highways, aad
France has called an International coo '
grant of highway engineers at Paris
on Oct 11 to dlscuat thla latest and
moat startling road problem.
To understand bow the broad, soft
ruhbar ttres of the modern gasoline
propelled juggernaut kills the roads
•which iron tired wagons improve one
jnnst have at least an Inkling of the
methods adopted by Trees uget of U-
megas aad Macadam of Ayrshire when
the so called modern first rock tur-
Oaced highways wars planned and put
down. Macadam figured that the con
stant passing of iron tired wagons
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Better Than Asphalt, Does Met Crack
and Lump- ■Rolling Must Net Be
Done In Wet Weather »r When
Ground le Soft.
The old system of “oiling roads and
stream” la clearly a fiat failure except
for a moderate Improvement of soma
of the wont thoroughfares. The new
vywtcm of “making roads with oil" le
proving « success whenever proper
methods are pursued.
The oil aud natural soil no longer
go where real results are wauted.
The use of the heavy ten to eleven
gravity petroleum bus l>ecou:e quite
general. Its superiority has been well
demonstrated, but there la a wide dif
ference between different oils of this
gravity and with the same amount of
asphaltum. Some of that sold is well
nigh useless, although It la unques
tionably of the specified gravity and
contains the required percentage of as
phalt The oil must possess the ad
hesive quality aad be able to bind the
rock and asphaltum together—In other
words, the necessary petrollne.
The best roada are undoubtedly the
macadamised highways found In older
sections. The building of auch thor
oughfares with the use of oil on the
■urface to form a top d rasa lug and
PAJCAODIO
op AtrroMOBxuaa
over a crushed atone highway would
grind dust particles from the atones,
that those particles would fill In all
Intaradces and that wettings and roll-
tags would a^ only give a hard,
smooth surface, but that the highway
•would improve as the yearn pass.
For a century and a quarter the wis
dom of the Scotch road builder was
'Justified. Every country that lays
claim to dvlliiatloo adopted It and
Ihoaaanda of miles of road were laid
aaaually in France, Germany, England.
Holland and the United States.
Then came the automobile, and a
few yearn after Its arrival the road
overseers began to notice the deteriora
tion of these highways. Broad and
level stretches became strewn with
•urface atones, ruts became frequent
and duet clouds were constantly set
tling on the adjacent property. The
trouble was quickly traced to the au
tomobile.
These machines through the tractive
and centrifugal forces exerted by their
boas hast vom oxuxa.
present a surface like asphalt pave
ment is just In Its Infancy In southern
California, says the Los Angeles
Times. In Pasadena there are a num
ber of streets of this kind, notably
Madison avenue, prepared at a coat of
12 cents per square foot and with a
depth of seven Inches of foundation.
Blocks of this street are scarcely dis
tinguishable from asphalt paving.
There are others similar, but some are
not equal to this. At the same time
they are superior to those prepared in
the old way.
The new method of macadamising
and oiling as laid down in a set of
specifications used for a number of
streets may be outlined substantially
ms follows: For the foundation grading
la done by the removal of all earth,
atone, looee rock, cement, shale, hard-
pan, etc., to a depth of seven inches
below the intended finished surface
and to a farther depth of two feet be
low the subgrade whenever mud, sand
er other aoU la encountered,
the apace to be refilled with good
earth or gravel. The whole Is rolled
with a taller of not Mas than twelve
tons la weight until the surface la am
yielding, all depressions made by the
(Oiler being Iliad ap aad rolled apata.
All portlaws that cannot he reached by
the roller must be tamped aad
to aotUag moat sot bs done la waft
roather or whoa the ground la soft
Winning
Independent
Politics.
Legalized Liquor Traffic Cannot
Resist United Prohibition
Foroee of Nation.
A FORTY YEARS’ CAMPAIGN.
Wkat Has Mad* tha Prohibition Party
a Powerful Factor?—“Clean -Polities
end Honest Officials” Its Successful
Battis Cry—Now Everywhere the le-
sue of the Hour.
Bp Dr. J. B. CB. AN FILL.
The national Prohibition party will
be forty years old Sept 1. 1900.
It h&a already lived a vigorous ca
reer of more than a single generation.
If the national Prohibition party had
bean born to die its Ufs would have
been snuffed out yean and yean ago.
Never In tbe history of any natton
has a minority party lived and grown
under such crucial and advene con
ditions.
Tbe liquor men have hated It from
tbe day of its birth.
Tbe old political bosses and politi
cians have denounced It
Many who have expressed their sym
pathy with Its purposes and policies
have looked askance and passed by on
the other aide.
But this young David among the po
litical parties of America, with his
ruddy face and golden locks, baa dem
onstrated his right to live and work
and grow and conquer.
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What la the secret of its vitality?
What has been Its Influence upon
other political parties?
While It is true that tbe national
Prohibition party has not as yat elect
ed Its national ticket Its Influence
upon the life and destiny of tfw Amer
ican republic baa in many ways been
more potential than baa the influence
of those parties that have now and
then been able to boast a national vic
tory.
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* > What the immortal Frances E. * ’
) > Willard used to dsnominata < >
i > “tha arreat of thought” has < >
* | been accomplished by the na- ‘ *
\ * tional Prohibitien party, and It < >
i * is new an impoeeibility far any < >
* | district, state or national con- * ’
o vention of any party to meet o
<► end deliberate without reckon* * *
'' ing with the Prohibition aenti*
Z msnt. < >
•t to
What the immortal Frances E. Wil
lard used to denominate “tbe arrest
of thought” has been accomplished by
the national Prohibition party, and It
la now an Impossibility for any dis
trict state or national convention of
any party to meet and deliberate with
out reckoning with tbe Prohibition eon
timdnt Prohibition sentiment baa now
sprung up as if by magic everywhere
It exists in every section of tbo coun
try. It to active. It is afigraaolvi. It
to foartoss. It to militant It Am la Its
vary composition thorn laamortal oto-
that porta ad victory and will
um It soon to
to to -
TBs smooth and otly poWtetoM
•mad It easy to foal tito popalaco. aad.
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of utmost importrnce to every Man, Young Man and
Boy in Colleton County, viz: The approaching time
of arrival of the greatest line of ready-made “WEAR-
-TRLES” for t Mankind that has yet been shown in this
neighborhood.
REMEMBER
this is “The Store”—when you want to be fitted,
suited and satisfied, regardless of the size of your
body or pocket-book—be it large or small, your wants
will always be attended to in a way that has proven
satistactory to a large army of clothes buyers in
Colleton County.
Who, year after year come again, and again, to this
store to get their Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Furnish
ing Goods for Man and Boy.
F P S»r«eat Died Today
Washington, Sept. 4Frank
Pierce Sargent, commiaaiener-
neneral of th* huvean of inami-
gtat'ori. oepartrnent of Oom-
merre and labor, one of tha bast
known immigration experts in
the world, died at bis hesse,
i he Manor house, at 8 o’clock
this morning, as the result of a
paralytic stroke, which followed
a fall several weeks ago. In
spite of troke of paralysis which
Mr Sargent suffered after hia fall
down staira while eojouring rear
Shephardstown, W. Va.,in July
he had been recovering and his
cleae friends were taken entirely
by surprise when they learned
this morning of his doath.
Mr Sargent wrs 64 venrs of are
and came from Vermont. Ho
was formerly a locomotive fire
man and for 17 years was head of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen.
NOTICE.
Id pursuance of tbo provisions of tho
law governing tbe registration and re-
ennmmetft or the voters of Colleton
county, we will be at tbe following
plecee on the dstes nstned:
September 9 timosks
“ 10 Aehton
1 11 Bells
" 16 Hendersonville
“ 16 CottegeviUe
“ 17 Adams Hun
J A Koger Chairman
D C L Hiert 1
C A Walker Board of
Regletration
Si H. W. Cohen M
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Account 28th Annual Session, National Baptist Convention,
tie Southern Railway announces greatly reduced rates to
Lexington, Ky. t and return. Tickets to be sold September
13th, 14th and 15th, good to leave Lexington, returning
Seotember 2trd: looft
£he Southern Railway has been selected as the “Official
Route” from South Caiolma, and special high-class coaches
will be provided and leave Columbia 7.05 a. Tuesday,
September ijth, via Spartanburg, Asheville and Knoxville,
mving at Lexington the following morning.
For rates, tirirau, etc., apply to Southern Railway ticket
agents or address.
J L MEEK, I. C. LUSK,
Lsst Gen. Passenger Ag*nt, Division Passenger Ageni
Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C.
VERY LOW RATES TO
DENVER, COLORADO AND RETURN
VIA
A FRAGRANT, HEALING SALVE.
Thai's what tettkrinb le: and It to
more. It ie an ebooluie cure for ocasiaa.
tettor, ringworm, oryxipolaa and all
othsr Itching cutaneous diseases. In
aggravated oases of these afflictaona its
cures havo been phenomenal. It givea
Instant rallof and affacta permanent
cures. 60c. at druggtota or by mail
from J^T. SHumiNK. Dept. A, Savan
nah, Ga. For aale by John m. Klein.
NOTICE
Trustees ot the Public echoola for
Colleton county are hereby authbrlaed
to open their schools any time after tho
1st Monday in Soptomber, Schools
b Hike of Wal adoption can bo found
at office ol Tho Presa and Standard.
H W Black, Sr.,
Chairman County
Board of Education.
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Prohibitionists of Notion Plan
ning to Raiiy at Columbus, H
O, July 14, 15, 15.
Ovor 2,000 dslagatM aad al terns too
to tha national Prohibition convention
ot 1908 hero already ban chosen by,
of tha otatoa aud torrttoitM
tha country.
at FyohlMtioa aa-
9 dally adds to
tha eortatoty tlmt thto yo
oouvuutftMt at Oolumbti* O,
will uamtoato tha pNtodM
brnrara of thu
win bo tho
la tho htotory of tto
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
On account of the Annual Convention American Bankers
Association, the Soutnem Railway announces attractive low
rbund trip rates to Denver, Col Tickets to be sold daily un
til September 30, 1908, good to return leaving Denver not
later than October 31st 1908. v
For rates, details, schedules, etc, apply to Southern Rail
way ticket agents or,
L MEEK,
Asst Geo. Passenger Agent
Adtnta, Ga.
Orangeburg ffrifsnfff College^
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