Feliciana sentinel., 1892-07-23

all wheelmen who did pot carry Tampa
after dark. It is one Of the queer in.
consistencies Of young municipality /
like Chicago that it requires innocent
machines like bicycles to carry lamps,
while carriages and wagons arc
not required to have any. ANY,
one who has been out much
at night riding along our streets
knows that it IS utterly impossible to
tell by the sound which way a carriage |
or wagon is travelling or how near it il ,
until it is right upon yon. IN the parks,
especially, under the npcertsin electric |
light, ono cannot tell anything about |
where buggy is until one feels tho
horses breath. In older comm unities
it Is q matter of course that ali We.
hicies carry lights. In Chicago only
the most innocent ones have to carry
them, because being compar ative1y
new invention they have to submit to 1
many restraints which such i0stitu-
tions AZ are backed by age and custom
need not suffer.
The bicycllsts al over the country sro
engaged in a movement il the interest
Of good roads, which means good conn
try roads chiefly. At first blush the in
terests of the cyclist and the farmer do
mot appear to be closely related, yet in
+ this point they come together. There
can scarcely be any serious discussion
as to the advantages of having good
roads. OF course the country road no
longer occupies that position which it
did before the advent Of railroads, but
it still retains much Importance. The
claims that good roads will save time.
labor and material and cheapen prod
ucts, whereas bad roads impose a
perennial tax upon the. entire people
can hardly be gainsaid.
The movement for good roads is bs-
! coming quite general A magazine
called Good Roads has beaa started.
An attempt was made som1 time ago
to secure q separate road exhibit at the
worlds fair, but failed for lack of space
and time.
The parties who starttss the good
roads movement are scattering litera-
ture broadcast over the country, evi.
dently with some effect. as there has
been considerable talk about the sub
ject lately. Some correspondence was
had with Director General Davis of the
worlds fair, and Chief Peabody OF
the department of liberal arts. It
was suggested to exhibit sections
of roads, together with road building
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rollers, street sweepers, watering carts,
| etc. Chicagoans are not particularly
anxious to. see an exhibition of street
;: sweepers, however. They see them
twice a year regularly, at the spring
and fall elections, when they parade
the streets as tin-pail brigades shout
ing for the workingman's friend what
, ever his name ;may happen to be; or as
7 unnaturalized voters at the polling
places voting for some one for alder
, man or president, whoever he may be-
E Between elections they are some
times driven by dire necessity ts
: work at their trade of cleaning streets
! for their children cannot, positively
t make quite enough, with bootblacSins
, and singing and begging, to keep w
the requisite supply y OF food and intoxi
cants, although the mother does whil
: them. every night they come hom'
e without enough cash.
met one of these children few
: evenings ago on Michigan avenue lean
: ing against a water plug and crying
loud enough to be heard for a blocl
l. around. He said that some boys hat
a taken his shine box" and seyenty-fiv'
f cents. and he did not dare 60 home, be
It cause his mother would whip him if h.
r came without enough money. l aslSe'
a him his name. 'Heorge Allegretto,
n he said; his father was a stree
i sweeper. but couldn't get jot
e I thought that was spreading it o
e a little thick. If he was bound to hav
), a name of technical musical terms h
is should have made it to fit his cryin
p capacity and said, as our modern nc
It mantle composers do when they wa q
?, you to exercise your muscle on tn
| II r,
lie as for a street sweeper not being abl
t. to get Job in Chicago, you might a
e we'll say a hog would have no chanc
! to get killed atthe stockyartts.
" But .spe sking Of good roads, there
of no doubt that our country roads are
y "a deplorable condition. especially afte
in a season. like the present one. Up
n Minnesota, not far from Duluth, l Sc
ld by a paper from that section. the roat
,e got SO bad lately that saloonkeepe
vi who ran out of beer and saw no wa
ly to get any by. land ordered a carload ;
lie a place twenty-five miles above, dumpe
If the kegs in the river and hired a ere
y of logGers to steer the novel raft dow
lie stream to his place of business Sue
r expedients may be all right at time
but they do not argue in favor. of lea
lie ing roads in bad condition. l do NJ
ut think it is necessary to argue in fave
II of good voads, the matter seems SO on
sided. The question seems to
no whether with the development of ra
ct roads it will pay to make good road
he for the original outlay will be enc
he nous. They will be used for loc
he traffic almost entirely. Can the natio
1t! al government be Interested? c;
of even state governments be intereste
n Is it not purely local affai
he Those are the first question
y. to be met. Comparison to the o
MS countries of Europe and the conclusi'
he that we are negligent because we ha
he no such system of perfect highways
rn France and Germany is hardly ia
g. Hundreds of years of development