Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-26

ing to the principal hospitals, so that the ambulances might have easier go- ing, and upon some of the worst slum steps the board of health insisted.
 Every body knows what the bicycle is doing for the good roads problem. Of course the farmers have all along been the persons most interested in improving the country roads, and 1t seems little strange that they left the work to the wheelmen so long. But similar thing happened in photog- raphy. The professional photographers, working for their livelihood, haven't | developed their own business half so rapidly in some directions as the anna teurs, working for fun. Here's where the good citizenship comes in. The bicyclists and the good roads prophets are hand in glove. In many of the upon the construction of separate bi- cycle paths, partly hesitating to divert so much money from the common roads, partly fearing lest the construction of special paths may result in abridging the privileges of the wheel on the thor oughfares. This fear is probably ill- founded. Local authorities have always exercised the right to regulate and classify vehicles for the good of all classes, without pushing their rights where the classification ceases. Special speedways are in many cities construct ed for trotting horses. but the man in the sully uses the common roads in going and returning from his speed way; and so does the equestrian. for whom special paths have been laid out in most large parks.
 H@Veyer this may be, motives of the attitude of the more conservative con suls in this matter are most temphatieal- Iy those of good citizenship.
 Until recently New Jersey and Mas sachusetts were the two states which had done most for their highways. The most radical of recent legislation, how ever, is the new Connecticut law (stat- ues of 1S95) which pledges the state to pay one-third the cost of one mile of road in each town each year if the eoun- ty and town will each pay one-third. The cost of one mile of road is estimated at $3 ,000. A poor town is by this means enabled to get a mile Of good road at a direct cost to itself of but $1 ,o00, and the most of the general state and county cost falls on the richer towns and cities. A better device could hardly be imag- ined for encouraging road improvement in the poorer regions. Eighty-fve towns availed themselves of the law last year, and 75 more have already swung into line in 1896. These are about two thirds of all the towns in the little Nut meg state Before the year is over New York cyclist may ride on good roads nearly all the way to Boston, by way of New Haven, Hartford and Springfield.
 In New Jersey road building has been carried on upon scientific principles, not so much throughout the state, as in Connecticut, but rather concentrated in the more populous counties. Still, one may ride to Philadelphia, 90 miles, on good road all the way and the trip has been made in less than eight hours more than once.
 The bicycle movement showed dan ger at one time of being captured by hoodlums and road scorehers, but itis far from being in their hands now The great League of American Wheelmen stands again for good citizenship in for bidding road racing. Road races are held, but the ban of the league robs them of their regularity. This is point still in controversy and may be left for future settlement. It is possible that