Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1890-01-03
Macadamized Roads.

Mr.. Etttor "A few years have past since
you were kind enough to let me ventilate n
short article on good roads, i'll your widely
circulated columns And | am pleased TO
assure you that PRO Bono PuOlico" has
been well satisfi ID they did good, as our
roads improvements will testify. Now,
everybody wants gDol roads, no one wishes
TO be stuck in the mud, and all interest
seems 10 lean toward good "macadamizsd"
roads Aud the great interest is, how to
get them Very many fine suggestions have
already been made in other counties; why
not in ours? Must we be still ploJding in
old ruts throw away twenty-five to thirty
thousand dollars every year To be washed
away and the same yearly outlay 90 on
because We cannot get million dollars for
road fund? How would this work Get
our Legislators to pass an enabling act 70
our County Commissioners to buy a set of
the best, newest road Improvements to
grade, crush stone, roll and pack to proper
grade, &c All necessares for II perfect out
| fit What will that be? Then employ n
good aud intelligent, reliable civil engineer
To work all such machinery by con rdct
pay him u thousand dollars year salary ;
10 expend the twenty or thirty, or even forty
thousand per year making bad places good
| first and let him begin at our County Seat,
gradually stretching out till we could have
| all our county roads made good The only
| increase in outlay would be the cost of ma
chInery, keeping it in working order, and
| the salary of engineer, who would have to
| give good and reliable bond for faithful
| performance of his work To our Commits
sioners. This money could be realized at n
small additional assessment, Tor road taxes,
nobody would feel, nor possibly object TO.
| The regular yearly tax would Of course go
| tat Inv hn i'm
our roads made Prominently cool anu pass
able, and nobody hurt; and our roads final
ly made good to stay, and the money 50 ex-
| pended to show for itself; our county farms
Increased that much in value. 1t would
draw capital from our great cities 10 invest,
and build up where they knew they would
have good, reliable roads to get somewhere.
This suggestion would make beginning
for good until something better could be
adopted. The object is to go to work, quick
ly and at once, and see what can be accom-
plished; not to go to sleep and dream that
our great great grand children would event
ually build our roads with stone.
Have not our Democratic law makers, law
executors, county commissioners pluck, en-
ergy, intelligence to fill the bill this m Jdern
age of progress demands, or are they too
old -fsggy Rip Van Wnkleites and are
willing " delegate to our most noble, dis
Interested Republican friends. They say
they can do it, why not we? We have the
reputation abroad as highly cultivated
and intelligent class OF country people
with always large resources Of the best ed
vocational purposes and improvement, and
80 We have.
AS to material. | can hardly think any
man with half soul but would freely give
to the engineer the stone he could get on his
| Mace III improve the road bounding thereon
And that stone abounds lavishy in Mont
gomery county is hardly deniable, and thu
roads a good place to use it.
make these suggestions; let our matte
maticians go to work, digest, figure it up
have no axe to grind. Aud il any bette
or more economical plan can be suggested
in Heavens name let US have it, and at once
The great national show is TO be held il
Washington in few years; let us hav
roads to ride over so We can get there.
Pro BoNo PUBLIco.