Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13
FIGHTING FOR A ROAD.
Penn Township Farmers Will Do
Battle for the Old State Pike
HELD BY THE VALLEY RAILWAY
They Form an Organization and Raise
Money to Push the War.
PROSPECTS OF A NEW TRACTION LINE

The objection to good roads in Allegheny
county seems insuperable. The Supervis-
ors, notwithstanding the agitation of sew
eral years in the press and in Legislative
halls, are, as rule, still cobbling up the
paths, (most of the roads are but little
more), as their fathers and grandfathers did
before them, and when they fill mud-hole
with rough sandstone, they make
two more holes, one on each side
of the one filed. This might
in time make continuous stone
road were it not that the material used only
wears short time before it is disintegrated,
SO that abominable patching goes on con-
tinuously.
The citizens Of Penn township, however,
have been awake to the importance of SEN
sible work for some time past, and now they
have under consideration the reopening Of
the State road from Verona to Brilliant, a
highway built under the supervision
of road architects who knew some
thing of their business. The agitation
may have another good effect. tits charged
by some people of the Eighteenth ward
that its streets have not gotten for
years the attention from the city authori-
ties that they should have had, and that
they are really in worse condition in wet
weather than most country roads. The
connection of the ward with good country
road, fine macadamized one, giving an ex-
cellent drive through beautiful country
may stimulate improvement within the
city limits.
WILL FIGHT THE VALLEY ROAD.
Supervisors Henry Kersten and Thomas
Sanderson last week called a meeting of the
citizens of Penn township to take action on
the reopening of the old State road, and the
meeting was held in the Mt Hope school
house, about three miles across the river
from Claremont, yesterday afternoon at
o'clock, Uriah Ryan presiding. Like
rural meetings generally, many of the
people didn't exactly agree as to
how they should go about the
search of a remedy, but there wasn't
any doubt that they all felt they had
a grievance against the Allegheny Valley
Railroad Company. Some favored forma-
tion of several organizations, a sort of fed
Grafton without any central authority, with
the, understanding that all having the same
object in view all would move harmonious
ly and as whole. This idea was success
fully combated by several present, includ-
ing William II. Dunn, of Wildwood, who
proposed the following, which was adopted:
WHEREAS, We, the citizens residing along
the Allegheny river, are, as we believe, to
be deprived Of our rights, insomuch as that
we have no wagon road enabling US to travel
from Verona to Butler street extension by a
direct route along the river and where the
State road once run, but which is now occu-
pied by the tracks Of the Allegheny Valley
Railroad, and having petitioned the Alle-
gheny Valley Railroad Company to restore
US our road, and they not deeming us
worthy of any notice, we have determined
and do hereby resolve to unite ourselves
into an organization to be known as the
"0ld State Road Reopening Organization,
having for its object the raising of funds for
the proceedings necessary for the opening
to the people the aforesaid road from We
roma to connect with Butler street extern