Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-10

equipose, fairly between the two, was main
tanned. sss
at last we sighted Dinwiddie's. The
flash of light was hailed with joy by the
entire party. Preparations were at once
made to leave the wagon. And we were
not slow about disembarking.
But 1 can't keep you," said Mr.. Din
widdie.
Cant keep us?" said fairly rooted to
the spot.
Got the Cold Shoulder.
1t was then nearing o'clock, and we
were in bowling mountain wilderness.
Cant do it." said Mr.. Dinwiddie. ST
haven't the room. There is only this store
room and sleeping loft overhead. I
already have a man here and haven't ac-
commodations for your horses"
And sure enough Mr.. Qinwiddie's castle
was not what we had pictured 1t. We
begged for room to set up our cot but Mr..
Dinwiddie was inexorable. So, dlsheart-
ened and very hungry, We clamored back
into the wagon and continued our miserable
journey, with the encouraging knowledge
that at least we had our faces to the east
and might see the rising sun next morning
before anybody else. But we found lodging
at the next farm house beyond. 1t is occu-
pied by l. S. Kepple, and realizing our de-
moralized condition, he and his wife did
their best to make US comfortable.
In Indiana Hon. E. E. Allen, J, A,
Watson and I. Vencil headed a party of
seven who waited upon The DISPATCH ex-
plorers at the American Hotel, ''to show
their eagerness for good roads and to see a
wagon that had survived 600 miles of bad
roads,"
A Legislator on Road Improvement.
When they got through the investigation
they confessed that the horses were the
greater curiosity. Had they seen us late
that night at Farmer Kepple's they would
have owned up to seeing greater freaks than
the horses. Mr.. Allen represents Indiana
in the Legislature. He SAYS he thinks this
agitation, and the general sentiment for
some improvement of country roads, will
result in crystalizing legislative opinion
and result in an enactment of value to all
roadways
He admits that the question of cost will
have great deal to do with securing the
approval of the members of Legisla .ure
from country districts, but he thinks farm
ers have wrong idea about the movement
now on foot. As he understands it, the
proposition is to make municipalities and
corporations help share the expense by
using as much of the taxes which they pay
into the State Treasury as those which the
farmer pays.
Task of the State Commission.
Hannibal Z. Sloan, ESQ.,, of Indiana, is a
member of the State Road Commission. He
declares that he and his fellow commits
sioners have an enormous task on hand, and
as yet he has no idea how they will solve it
The commission has just succeeded in
Strengthening out the labyrinth of laws in
Pennsylvania on roads. A lawyer has been
engaged for three months in tabulating
them. There are nearly thousand differ
ent laws in the various counties. In In
diana county alone their are 30 separate
laws-special acts for different townships.
Mr.. Sloan has not yet committed himself
to any particular line of improvement. He
says that to undertake to transport to and
distribute limestone over counties where it
does not exist would entail an enormous ex-
pense. To even require macadamized road
ways of any kind OF stone all over the State
would be costly, for the reason that in the
counties OF the northwestern corner of the
State there is no stone OF any kind, and it
would have to be taken there.
DimcuIt Point.
Yet Mr.. Sloan admits that macadamized
roads are the only durable highways that
can be obtained. / asked him how he
would favor raising the money for any gen.
eral road improvement.
"That is great question" he replied. CT
have had an idea that by making the county
the unit instead of the township and then
by having all road taxes paid in money to
the State authorities, distribution of the
State funds could be made to counties Just
as school funds are now distributed. This