The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-22

The approximation for the fiscal scar end
The maximum grade Is 8 per cent, re-
duced from 10 per cent.
5000.
This commences at the Trenton and
Mercerville gravel pike and extends in q
northerly direction through a g~ravelly and
sandy loan deposit to the village of Edin-
burg. The principal part Of the old road
PED was a heavy sand. through which the
teams Of the ne ghboring farmers for
years passed without much difficulty,
carting to The Trenton market. The COM
pleted roadway is 14Nfeet wide and from
u to IA inches thick, of teiford and maca-
dam construction. Telford eight inches,
crushed stone four to six inches, bonded
together with loam and gravel, covered
with stone screenings rolled to a resistant
surface. This road is also an evidence of
costly construction, where the Freehold
ers rave allowed the contractor to exceed
the limit of the specifications In making
a deeper roadbed than 10 necessary for the
traffic.
The maximum grade is 2 per cent.
The cost of the road Is $49, TAI. 01.
It is four and tw~o-tenths miles long.
Greenwood avenue forms a connecting
link between the vitrifed brick pavement
and telford road Of Greenwood avenue
that was constructed last year, forming
a smooth, hard roadway from Clinton
street, Trenton, to the Interstate Fair
grounds. Chambers street extension COM
LiGHceS Ut EASt STATE street ana IuHS east
at right angles across the Greenwood
avenue road. This has also been an ex-
pensive road on account of the heavy fills
and deep. broad construction, In the con-
tract this was to be 16 feet wide and -
inches deep, of telford and macadam con-
~struction. but the Freeholders have all
lowed it to be built the whole width of the
street, 80 to 40 feet.
This is part of the road which leads to-
wards the White Horse, there to connect
with the Burlington County system, which
when completed, will give a rnacadam
roadway from the city of Trenton through
Bordentown, Columbus and Mount Holly
to the city of Camden, making a splen-
did driveway for bicycles and pleasure
carriages and an easy passage for the
heavy market teams that move to the mar
kets of Trenton from the rich agricultural
districts thai lie south n east Of the
city.
The maximum grade is 2 per cent.
The cost of this road is about $40,lue.
The road is two and a quarter miles
Road Commissioner Budd makes the
following on bicycles:-
Wore there no other reason for the
rapid improvement of our common roads,
the argument of the greatest good to the
largest number would apply to the bene-
men mem to which recruits from ali classes
added. They can be seen. during a large
h improVed d h d%gf sass, lyme means Of which
they are enabled o only to maintain
health, but to enjoy u beautiful and
varied scenery SO cheaply that travelling
is no longer only the province of the
the number of bicycle riders, it will only
be necessary to cite the ogre of the
cycle industry. Prior to 1885 the number
of domestic manufacturers of wheels was
only six; in that year 11,W0 machines
were turned out; in 1890 there were Il
factories with an output of 10000 wheels.
in 1894 the factories increased rapidly, and
Ii, 900 machines were turned out; IN
1886 the production was 600,0G O. and the
number OF factories more than 800, none
of which turned out less than 1,0la
wheels a year. The capital invested in
these large factories is $50, 900. 900, and the
estimate of the output for the present is
not less than 1,eoo.ooo wheels, valued at
$50, 900, 900. What better argument for the
speedy Improvement of our roads thar
the necessity of affording speedy passage
for his immense nuInbe of vehicles?
The cita alton of these facts easily de-
monstrate that our average legislator.
cannot more easily attain political sue
cess than by ministering to the desires
of this Immense constituency.
A full description is given in the report
of every road built during the past year
in New Jersey.