The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-12-23
ABOUT ROAD BUILDING.

ment OF road department., an III
stitute of road engineering, and a
permanent road exhibit at Wash
ington City; also comprehensive
exhibit of road construction and
maintenance at the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition at Chicago,
Together with the letter he en-
closes two blank petitions address,
ed to the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatives in askingthat
such department be established and
that such exhibit be made, and re-
quests that signatures be obtained
to the petitions. One of these Pc
titions can be found at the Office of
the Camden Bank and Trust Com
pany and the other at The CHRON-
IoLE Office, and parties wishing to
sign the petition are invited to call
at either place at once and sign it:
DEAR SIR-Permit me to invite your
attention to the enclosed copy of pc
tition which l have sent to college pres
idents, railroad presidents, postmasters,
and others, with the request that they
sign it and also aid in getting others to
sign.
The time has now come when the peo-
pie are thoroughly aroused to the i'm
portance of improving the highways.
Let US all together endeavor to do some
thing practical to secure better roads.
The establishment of aroad department,
an institute of road engineering, and
permanent road exhibit in the city of
Washington, and comprehensive ex-
hibit of road construction and mainte-
nance at the Worlds Columbian Expo
sition would accomplish much in the way
of practical results. This is subject of
both local and national interest.
Will you not earnestly request all to
favorably consider this petition, advise
people to sign it, and suggest that SUI
perintendents of factories, proprietors Of
hotels, merchants, and others place these
petitions in their establishments so that
they may be generally signed. Copies
of this petition will be sent to any per-
son interested in the subject.
The agitation for good roads is
now attracting a great deal Of at
tention in all parts of the country,
and it is encouraging to note that
public sentiment is rapidly crystal
lizing in favor Of good roads.
This is the first practical attempt
to make the subject a national one
on a plan which promises much fol
the future of road building in the
United States, and the probabilities
are that the next 10 years will wit.
ness new era in road building
which will have direct beneficial.
effect in all sections Of the country
Let the business men and farmers
of this county-where bad roadsare
the only drawback upon the pros.
perity Of our people-arouse them.
selves to a sense of the public de-
mand for better roads. Hearty CO.
operation all along this line and the
era of bad roads will give way to thu
establishment of a system of public
highways that will soon redeem thu
country from its annual blockade o
mud which always occurs at thu
season of year when the farmer il
using every means in his power t.
market his surplus products; anC
bad roads are not only a great dis
advantage to moving his crop bu
an enormous expense in the wea
and tear of wagons, gearing, etc.
which, it is stated, in Illinois alon,
| the loss to the people last year from
bad roads was as much as $4,000,
! 600. At the same ratio the loss t,
the whole country last year wa
about $3OO,OOO,OO0.
A national highway commission
will be long step toward the so
luton of this momentous question
and we should give tevery eneour
agement possible.