Southern good roads . nsible iK)n-deseripts ought tobe politically decapitated so quick as to make tlieir hcjids swim. It is precisely for such incomitetent andneuliuciit officials lliat we need the initiative and re-ferendum put iiit 1 lecal effect and speedy practice. 1 know a pike Imilt ;d great cost sonu eight yearsago by a conceded e\|iert in road making. So carefullyami sk-illfully and at such cost a mile had it been builtthat it was derisively termed a boulevard with thename of the buildei jirefixed. Its completion offereda practical and biantiful specimen id the road-makingart. Like a
Southern good roads . nsible iK)n-deseripts ought tobe politically decapitated so quick as to make tlieir hcjids swim. It is precisely for such incomitetent andneuliuciit officials lliat we need the initiative and re-ferendum put iiit 1 lecal effect and speedy practice. 1 know a pike Imilt ;d great cost sonu eight yearsago by a conceded e\|iert in road making. So carefullyami sk-illfully and at such cost a mile had it been builtthat it was derisively termed a boulevard with thename of the buildei jirefixed. Its completion offereda practical and biantiful specimen id the road-makingart. Like a great funned it pimred its daily traffic andtra\cl into the [irosper ms city. It was the crowningiiiory of Its ciiiistriiclor and the peculiar jiride of itsiiseis, Wheiher palatial homes tiv humble cottagesdotte(l Its cduise. their inmates looked out on a thor-oughfare that was a cmstant delight. The very beastsof burden that pidled their draughts along its wayseemed to mindC at thei]- loads, so easily were This is a photosraph of the first road built with Amiesitein New Jersey and was completed in October 1908. This road is locattd at Magnolia, N. J. and the more wear it gets apparently the better it is. The photograph was taken a year after the road was laid Today, how changed is its surface antl how unsightlyits borders! Driving along, one almost stops to wonderif he IS II it passing ovei the furrows of an afiandonedtiebl. or splashing over mud-holes of uncertain depth,or liaxing his wheels sink distressingly into the regionsof (hina. Long since there were ditches serving fordrainage; but. lo! these many years, they have beenrilled Irom the freezes and washings and have l.)ecomethe chosen abodes ,if rank weeds and nipping the rabbit may hide himself in safety, or defyhis pursuers. The winters Iains no longer fall to tiiidinstall reception in prepared ditches, but gather tlicm-sehes in a tnmnltuinis torrent and Iush down the cen-ter of tin roatl bed
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