Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-07-04

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secnrtnq bctt,r roods fo,, tbo S+a+o M.
hill nrovidas fo, tho ar,,oirt,,o,,t 81 t,,roo
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with sclactma,, of top,,,s and oo,,,,t,, oor,,-
noisafonors to ,,,.1,o ,,ood ,oaae .b,.,.,,1o,,.
the state Tho Ctoto oo,,,t,. o,,1 .ho
town are each ia nav ono-tbird tl,is coet
of a noyy road and e. non ,,e,. ,,ao, is 10 h4
the limit Of cxucnditurcs bv tho State
Inasmlch as Rurlinptor1 alone is enend
ing the sum Of SEQ O0O annually in fine can
struction of permanent HIGHWAYS i'm adj
dition TO the eypendtturo of tho ,,rocoads
of the tax required Inv Stale law fo, tho
purpose Of keeping HIGHWAYS In renair II
can be seen that the people of the Nutr7e,,
State either expect to occupv a long ner-
iod in the work of making permanent
roads. or else they intend to be content
with highways which are only slipht-
~ improved over the present condition
The idea of dividing the expense of high
way improvements in the manner pro-
posed by the Connecticut Legislature is
one that will bear consideration, and it
may be that it will commend itself to the
public generally. when its merits become
known. The scheme involves questions of
equity as well as policy; for while it is
conceded that good roads arc desirable, it
becomes an important question just how
they should be paid for.
But while most people are considering
the question of improved highways there
are others who are seeking a solution of
ms problem in the electric road. A writer
III the North American Review for july
Tor instance, advocates the extension of
electric lines from our cities out into the
adjacent territory for a distance of thirty
or forty miles so that all territory be-
tween centres of population sixty or eighty
miles apart would be reached. He out
lines his plan as follows:
Let tracks be so made and laid that
wagons and carriages propelled by horses
may go upon them as well as cars pro-
PEELED by electricity or other inanimate
power. 1t is already demonstrated that
only one-cghteenth Of the power is re-
CURED to move vehicle over a smooth
steel track that would be required to move
it over a gravel road, or one-eighth of thar
which would be required to move if ovo,,
the best pavement. When this important
fact becomes generally known to the far
mers, they Will realize that 1t is n moor
policy to promote the building of macadam
roads when an equal outlay would pro-
vide good steel track. When the track
is once provided so that cars and carriapes
propelled by horses can also go upon the
same tracks with cars propelled nv cleo
tricity, the superiority of the inanimate
power will be so apparent that horse