Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-14
GOOD ROADS.
This Matter Viii Be Brought Before The
Next Legislature.

This Matter Viii Be Brought Before The
Next Legislature.
/ Cne OF the questions that will be
brought before the next session of the
Legislature will be the matter of good
roi. u.s. committee of the State board of
traie, in conjunction with the State
Grange, is preparing petition that will
be presented to the incoming Legisla-
lure llnploring for better roads and advo-
eating that certain highways in Maine
be controlled and repaired by the State
= very prominent Augusta man, and a
member Of the State board of trade.
spoke in part to the journal, as follows
i 1t Is thet plan to endeavor to impress
upon the Legislature that better 70. dis
should G had throughout the State, and
that certain main highways should be
built up and kept in fine repairs by the
State. Why you drive out into the coun-
try today, and You will find that the roads
are not in as good condition as they
sho'ild be, nor as good as it is pos sible
TO make them. There is but little doubt
that this matter will be favorably con
sidered by the legislators and steps be
aiken to compel the building of better
highways in Maine.
:" The present state of the roads is as
good plea as can be advanced in behalf
Of better highways. The fact that more
bics clists visited Maine last summer than
any previous period is only one indica-
olon that more ould be done in tie
direction Of having substantial and easy
roads. People come from several of the
New England states to Maine on car
riage rides, and while they report some of
the roads as being good, yet in many
instances they said travel was rough and
tedious and improvement was necessary
on many Of the highways over which they
passed.
"This State being naturally of mellow
soil and granite being plenty there SENS
t. be no reason why excellent road beds
should not be established. 1t is my
opinion that State road should be main
tained from Bangor to Portland, and that
is should be run along the bank of the
Ken nebcc river as far as possible.
"This matter of good roads is being
rEestly considered by some of Names
most intelligent men,"
Perhaps in connection with this article
the following verses will be of interest.
Song of the Roads.
81 looked to the east, looked to the west,
EI saw man with a Jag on
A-whipping four horses, all pulling their best,
@And hauling an empty wagon.
CHORUS.
Pull off the road, boys;
Tear the fence down.
The road is too bad to travel.
Pull off your coat, boys,
All mired down.
Get out and pry out and walk into town.
1t rained in the North, it rained in the South
1t stalled every man with load
They ell were whipping and working their
mouths,
For the bottom was out of the road.
An old farmer started to cross a bridge
To fight the road tax levy.
The bridge broke down, and saw him drown,
His road tax was so heavy.
saw an old hat move along on the mud
1t made me watch and wonder.
NV pet pointer pup, he picked IL up
And found the owner under.
Five hundred farmers all go to town.
The time that each one loses
A-miring in mud and swimming Hood
Would fix up the road he uses.
stranger went out to buy him farm.
He slipped when walking rail
A shrek and a role in a big mudhole-
And the farmer he lost the sale.
The river is just as pure as the things
That live on the banks and throng1t 1t.
The road or the street is just as neat
As the people who live along It,
The "box of monkeys in f. f. Davis
81 Co.'S. window, draws great deal OF at
tcntion.
Land Agent Oak left for his nome al
Caribou, yesterday morning.
=, N.o &c F,irfie1d was in AupuSt1,