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Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14

roads from this point out toward the
township and the county limits. These
roads have width of 40 feet for the
first two miles from the city limits and
beyond this point width of 36 feet.
They have maximum grade OF A feet
to 100.
For cross drains sewer pipes are used
in all cases where practicable, and
strong wooden bridges with stone piers
have been put in wherever needed. In
attaining the above grade in places
where it was impracticable to change
the location OF the road cuts through
the hills have been made to depth in
places of from 10 to 10 feet, and fills
have been made which in places have a
height above the ordinary ground sur
face of from 10 to 90 feet for distance
of a few hundred yards to half mile.
In macadamizing the following gen.
eral plan has been adopted: Upon the
graded and settled earth surface mao
adam road 10 feet wide and about nine
inches thick is constructed, usually in
the center, though in places on one side
of the road. An excavation from four
to six inches deep is made in the earth g
surface, and the bottom is then careful
ly rolled with steam roller. Upon
this exoavated surface is placed layer
of field stone about four inches thick,
and this is then thoroughly rolled.
Upon this surface isplaced a three inch
layer of stone crushed to from one to
two inches in size, and after this has
been thoroughly rolled there is placed a
third layer, about two inches thick, of
finely crushed stone, including screen
ings, and this latter is in turn thor
oughly rolled.
The average cost Of these roads, in
Guiding the macadamizing and grading,
is about SO, 900 per mile. Much the
larger part of the work for the perma-
nent Improvement of the roads in this
county is done by convict labor. The
average number Of oonvicts employed is
about 80, and the average. cost of this
labor per convict, including his food,
clothes, medical attention and guard
ing, is from 20 to 30 cents per day. In
charge of the work are one superintend- i
ent and one engineer during part Of
the tilne) and six guards. Usually the
oonvicts have worked in one squad. At
the present time they are divided into
two squads.
The rate of taxation in the county at |
the present time is Is cents on the 800
worth of property, and the entire
amount raised in this way for the sup
port of the convict force in road i'm
proyement work during the past year
was about $1S, 600. In addition to this,
each township levies tax varying from
2 to 10 cents on each $100 worth Of
property.
Mecklenburg, as stated above, re-
quires all ablebodied citizens along the
public roads either to labor four days of
each. year on the public roads or to pay
the sum of so cents per day in lieu
thereof. This class of labor is used
upon the roads independent of the con-
vict force and principally in the work
ing of grading or in the general repairs
OF those roads or portions of them upon
which the convict force is not engaged.
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HAULING FARM PRODUCE.
What Bad Roads Cost the Farmers
of Vermont.

What Bad Roads Cost the Farmers
of Vermont.
Governor Smith of Vermont, in his
message to the state legislature, laid
considerable stress on the road problem.
Statistics had been prepared by the
governor "to show the cost of transpor
tation of the products of Vermont from
various towns which lie away from the
line of the railroads to the railroads,
as compared with the cost of transport
ing the same articles from the railroad
to market. From these statistics it ap-
pears that on butter, lumber, granite,
lime, brick, cement and hay the rate is
from $3.50 to 81 per ton by team from
the point of production to the railroad,
while the rate to haul the same articles
from the railroad station to the point
of consumption is but from $3. 40 down
to $1.66 per ton. In none of these in
stances does the haul by team exceed 10
miles. In none of the instances is the
haul by railroad less than 140 miles.
"The rates by railroad," said the
governor, "will never in my judgment
be higher, SO that whatever can be
saved by improved roads out of the cost
of teaming these products ought to 60
into the pocket of the producer of the
hay or the butter or the lumber or gram
ite or whatever is teamed The standard
authorities give the saving in cost OF
teaming over good roads as compared
with ordinary dirt roads to be from 80 to
-75 per cent, SO that there is from 81. 20 to
$3 for every ton of freight teamed to go
into the pocket of the producer in Yer
mont if only good roads are made where
bad ones now exist. -
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The sure La Grippe Cure.

There is no use suffering from this dread.
ful malady, if you viii only get the right
remedy You are having pain all through
your body, your liver is out Of order. have
no appetite, no life or ambition. have bad
cold, in fact are completely used up. Elec-
trio Bittera Is the only remedy that will give
you prompt and sure relief They act
directly on your Liver, Stomach and
Kidneys, tone up the whole system and
make you feel like new being. They are
guaranteed to cure or price Refunded. Fol
Sale 1t DR.. III vaushan's Drug Store, onls
50 cents per bottle.
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ROADS OF THE SOUTH
WHAT NORTH CAROLINA IS DOING
FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS.

Progress Made In Many Counties.
General Plan OF Construction and
Average Cost-WorI<ins ont Taxes.
Convict Labor.
In North Carolina sS counties are
now working their roads wholly or in
part by taxation. In the work of mao
adamizing and general road improve
ment Mecklenburg county, the pioneer
IN that line in the state, still leads, and
has now nearly 20 miles of excellent
maoadam road. Wake, Durham, Rowan,
Cabarrus, GuiHord and Alamance conn
ties are also making good progress in
macadamizing, while number of other
counties are grading and relooating
roads under recent fairly satisfactory
legislation. These facts are obtained
from letter of Professor J. A. Holmes,
state geologist of North Carolina, to The
Southern Farm Magazine.
In Mecklenburg county the general
plan adopted, and which has been ad-
hered to, was to start at the city limits
of the county seat and to grade and
macadamize all of the important public
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
CARE OF ROADS.


Economy Demands That They Re-
ceive Proper Repairs.
The best roads are sometimes severely
injured by very heavy storms, but, as a
rule, they do not suffer nearly as much
as either roads which are neglected or
those which are worked" in the old
fashioned way, says L. A. W. Bulletin.
It is practically impossible to prevent
all injury in case Of storms Of extraor-
binary severity, but proper precautions
will reduce the danger to a minimum.
There are, however, many miles of
stone roads in this country which are
not fitted to resist heavy rainfalls be-
cause ~ the surfaces are allowed to get
rutty and to retain depressions which
will hold water; (2) they are left fat
or very nearly 20 and have insufficient
crown to- shed water; (S) grass and
weeds are allowed to grow along their
edges until water cannot run off freely,
and the side bitches are not kept clean
and open, and ~ in places the earth at
the sides is higher than the roadbed
and turns the water upon it.
These defects are mainly due to the
impression that a stone road once laid
needs no attention for year or two
and after that only an annual looking
over and perhaps scraping and few
repairs. The result is that the roads
deteriorate very rapidly and are as good
as they could and should be only for
few months when new.
This method is neither practical nor
economical 1t does not keep roads in
good shape and it costs much more in
the end. Proper road maintenance is as
important as correct construction. We
cannot do better than profit by the ex-
perience Of European countries and fol-
low. in principle if not in detail, the
thorough system Of constant care and re-
pair that has been SO highly developed
in France.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Beginning the Year

with pure, rich. healthy blood. which may
be had by taking Hoods sarsaparilla, you
will not need to fear attacks ofpneumonia.
bronchitis, fevers colds or the grip. A few
bottles Of this great tonic and blood puri-
fier, taken now, viii be your Best protection
against spring hulnors, boils, eruptions.
that tired feeling and serions illness. to
which a weak and debiliiated system Il e.
pecially fable In early spring. Hoods
Earsaparilla aradicases from the blood all
scrofuIa saints, tones and strengthens the
stomach cures dyspepsia, rheumatism.
caiarrh and every ailment caused Or pro-
NOTED BY impure or depleted blood.
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ENFORCE ROAD LAWS.
Much Good Can BE Done With Exist-
ing Inadequate Methods.

Much Good Can BE Done With Exist-
ing Inadequate Methods.
The increasing strength of the move
ment for good roads is bringing flight
many forgotten facts, and it is encour-
aging to find that roads need not per-
haps be quite SO bad as they are in most
places, even under the present inade-
quate and radically bad methods that
generally obtain, says L. A. W. Bulle-
tin. It ap pears that in some states at
least road officers can be held RESPONSE
BILE and compelled to get the best results
that are po-ible under the law.
Judge Monks Of the Indiana supreme
ctsurt has given his opinion that road
supervisors can be compelled to keep the
roads in their districts in good oondi-
tion, and may be fined for failure to do
SO Judge Woodward has instructed the
Luzerne county (Pa.) grand jury that
1t is their duty to make return of roads
known to be bad, and that the courts
will compel the supervisors to do their
part, and now Judge Wright, at the
opening of the session of the supreme
court at Rome, N. Y, called the atten-
tion of the grand jury to the road ques-
tion and the duties of road commission
ers and pathmasters His remarks were
as follows:
We are behind many of the states
in the matter of roads, and 1t is impor-
tant that the movement sweeping over
the state of New York in favor Of this
improvement should be fostered. Every
commissioner of highways and every
pathmaster is answerable If he fails to
perform bis duties properly, and all
who are guilty of criminal neglect
should be punished. 1t is your duty to
inquire into the conduct of public off,
GERS and bring bills against any guilty
of criminal neglect
.'The greater number of counties in
this state continue the management of
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Road Briefs.

Good roads save money. time and la
bor; bad roads waste them.
The roads that have been subjected tc
the old methods Of piowing aud patch
ing will soon be subjected to the annual
embargo.
After May /, 1899, sll wagons in the
province of New Brunswick intended to
carry as much as ton and half will
be required TO use tires at least four
inches wide.
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TAxATIoN AND ROADS.
Cost of Public improvements Should
BE Fairly Divided.

Be Fairly Divided.
It is an exploded doctrine that high
ways should be built and maintained by
those who live alongside of them. In
sparsely settled districts where the
farm lands are of small value the bur-
den of taxation would be unbearable to
the farmers who lived along the line
who would pay for roads which every
body used. A. B. Choate, an authority
on the question of good roads and an
equitable system of taxation to raise
money to build them, in a recent leaflet
says:
Equality of taxation is familiar
principle, yet nothing could be more
unequal than to tax farm property alone
for the construction of roads which ul-
timately benefit the entire community.
In the newer states the taxable property
is more nearly equally divided between
town and country, but In the older
ones the preponderance is greatly in
towns and cities, in New York the pro-
portion being about six to one.
"The bearing which this fact has, !"
says Mr.. Choate, "upon the question Of
state aid for building country wagon
roads is very apparent, for if the farm
ers are required to pay taxes on their
proportionately very small amount of
property to improve the long stretches
Of country roads while the city people
pay only enough taxes on their great
wealth to improve the roads within the
city limits it will be necessary that the
road taxes levied upon the farm prop
erty shall be very much heavier in pro-
portion to the value of that property
than the road taxes upon city property,
and the principle of equal taxation will
be violated.
'The business men in the cities have
learned that it is to their interest to
haye better country roads. The whole
state is interested in the Improvement
Of all the roads, and since the city peo-
pie are insisting that they shall be i'm
proved it would be fair to levy tax on
city property as we'll as country prop
erty for the Improvement of country
roads. This is what is meant by state
aid"
Mr.. Choate then sums up the ques-
tion in the following brief yet mastery
manner:
First.-All taxes should be equal.
Second. Taxing farm property to
improve all country roads and city prop
erty to improve city roads only results
in unequal taxation.
Third.-Oity people desire to have
country roads improved. Equal and just
taxation requires that they contribute
toward the expense.
Fourth. aid simply requires
all benefited property owners to contrib
ute to the expense of road improvements
that benefit them.
Fifth.-State aid for road building
is the same in principle as state aid for
public schools.
Sixth. State aid is not new expert
ment in road building, but has proved
successful in New Jersey, Massachusetts
and elsewhere.
The above six points are clear, SIM
pie and convincing, and if the farmer
is once convinced that be will only have
to pay minor proportion Of the cost
there will be little opposition in any Of
our legislatures to bills for the purpose
Of constructing good roads.
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a Marrow Escape.

Thankful words written by Mrs. Ada e.
Hart, Of Groton, 3. D. WAS taken with a
bad cold which settled on my lungs; cough
set in and finally terminated in Consump.
ton. Four Doctors gave me up. saying /
could live but short time. gave myself
up to my Savior, determined If could not
stay with my friends on earth, would
meet my absent ones above NY husba nd
was advised To get DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds.
gave il q trial, took In all eight bottles. It
has cured me, and thank God am saved
and now I well and healthy womanH Trial
bottles free at Or. IF. Vaughan Drug Store.
Regular size soc and el.00. Guaranteed
or price refunded.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
a Loss of sfilliona.

It is estimated that bad roadscost this
country $500, 600, 900 annually. The gos-
pei Of good roads should be preached by
every newspaper in the state. Georgia
cannot afford to lag in this movement.
Other southern states are going forward,
and their progress toward good roads is
bringing them into public notice among
those in other sections who contemplate
moving TO the south. Atlanta Journal
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would Have saved Money.

If the money spent in repairing our
vehicles, in keeping up our horses and
the value Of the time lost in the south
during the last 90 years caused by eur
poor highways had been placed upon
the roads, the south would today have
highways that would rival those of Eu-
rope, and that, too, without one dol
lars expense more than she has already
had to bear. 20 Columbus lGa.) Enquirer
Snn
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Photographic.

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Prices SO.
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Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
wide Tire. In Kansas city.

It is now misdemeanor for any per-
son to drive a traffic wagon" Ion any
of the bpuleyards or parkways of Kansas
City unless such wagon if drawn by
one horse has tires three inches wide
and four inches wide if drawn by two
or more horses. In order to allow the
delivery Of goods, delivery wagons may
enter boulevard at the street nearest
their objective point, but must leave it
at the next street.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Expense a. ROAD Buildinr.

The cost Of building macadam reads
depends largely upon the amount of
grading necessary and the distance
which it is necessary to transport the
materials required in construction. As
a general proposition experts estimate
that the transportation of the stone is
the largest item Of expense and often
EQUALS all Of the remaining expenses
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Cost Of Hauling.

That farmers as class would be
greatly benefited by better roads no one
can doubt. Their surplus produce has
to be hanied over the roads, and this
work can be done at much less cost on
good roads than it can be on poor ones.
Practical Farmer.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Good Roads nt snntiago.

General Wood has authorized the con-
struction of military road around the
city, and the work will begin at once.
The road, which will be seven miles
long, will connect the wharfs, military
barracks and hospitals Another good
road will be built straight through the
town from the wharfs to the main fort
back of the city.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Grnvel Roaas

Experience has proved that the best
results are reached with gravel mix.
ture containing sten parts of pebbles
ranging from an eighth of an inch to
an inch in diameter, six parts Of sand
and four parts Of clay. This combina,
tion makes compact whole that will
neither s'run" nor crumble under the
wheel.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14

REAR VIEW OF snow ROLLER.
this roller, depending upon the grade of
the road and the depth of snow. It is
important that the use Of such a roller
commence with the first storm of the
season and be continued as often as NEG
essary through the winter. In case Of
very heavy storms the roller should be
sent over the roads at intervals during
the Storm
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
SNOW ROLLERS.

For Maintaining Highways Where
snow Is Heavy In Winter.
This roller is intended for use where
snow is heavy and continuous during
the winter months. Mr.. j. W. Votey Of
Burlington, VT, in communication to
The L. a. w. Bulletin, says they have
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14
Road Notes.

To get out of old ruts use wide tires.
As "cIeanliness is next to godliness''
so road maintenance is next to road con-
struction.
A road is not, strictly speaking
ssgood, " even though it have hard
surface, If it has excessive grades.
Since the Providence road from Ches-
ter to Media, Pa. has been improved 1t
has become possible to cover the dis
tancs between those places in about half
the time formerly required. and the
cost Of maintaining the highway has
been reduced one-half.
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A Good Decision

y was troubled with dry hacking cough
and was very weak. As I read of the cures
made by Hoods sarsaparilla I decided to
give ita trial. When I had taken one
bottle ] began to feel stronger and my
cough was better. took three bottles aud
was cured" George W. Benuum, Cool
spring, Delaware.
Hoods Pills cure all liver Ills. Mailed
Or 25e. by c. + Hood 4 Co.. Lowell, Mass.
THE TRANSCRIPT. 81. .oC peEyear.
Middletown transcript., 1899-01-14

THE TRANSCRIPT, $1.o0 per year.
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TIM TnANscnIFr, 81 peEyear.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1899-12-26
NOtiCias.

%. Han resultado electos para formar la
Junta Direotiva que ha de funcionar en- ell afo
1900, en- la Sociedad de Sooorros Mutuos clos
Amigos del Bien Pdb'ico., les se1ores al
guientes: Presidente Agustin Msrrero-Vice-
Presidente, Pedro G. Timothee -Vooales, Eu
genio A. Vera, Enrique Aquino, Enrique Flo
res, Francisco Soriano, Jastino S. Hernandez
jose Muriel. Bsnigno Lopez Castro, Inocencio
CArdenas jose Jesus Gonzalez.
30. Nos escriben de Tfujillo Alto:
<Es verdaderamente inoansab!e fecunda
la actlvidad .desplegsds por ell puesto de la Pc
ilcfa Iusu!ar de este pueblo que man Is don ia,
lilo Diaz Monge En- ell corto espaco de una
dos semanas han capturado & Elsdio Castro y
jose Diaz por lesiones; & Camio Hernandez
por estafs; a Msgin Lerdo, por alarmar al ve-
oindsrio del barrio de Carraizo, msndAndoles
cerrar s7s oasas dicendo que era poliofa eecre-
earce procesaR'ya offos uohoaan sd Sc nd
ia perpetracion de diferentes delitos. f'os on,Y.
dlas sehores Dias Julio) Gambia. han t7ah.
laoo SIN descanso para averiguar les antora,
ae Va1los robes de ganado, habi6ndolo siemnre
S;s;1 tgaaao Pof conocer pa'mo palmo esta jaris.
Jolo Diaz, fuese destinado otra psrte,
20. Don Aristides Diaz Dax est6 nro.
puesto como candidate para Jefe de Pol;ofs de
la ciudad de Ponce ''" W
90 Don jose Antonio Va1ouez. rennb1i
csno De Cabo Rojo ma ingresado en- cl partido
IeQerat.
.o* Drill PANAMA bl. moo snno,o.
20 oo centavos vars, drill panama en- coore.
oe ultima novedad, & 80 centavos yars. drill do
ooiores 20 25 centavos vara, corbatas, ona.
hos' punos, camisetss, oal.ono,llos y calce,; :
mes, escoler, tirantes desde 25 centavos n.r
nasta S2' clnturones de cuero con re.oieras
Poftamonedas, 81. SO con re)ciera & ports.
n'oneua soiamente. 81 oapas de gonna con
g e.oiaVinas. IS precicsos bastones de 50 4
S1o 9no Ests ganga solo Sc encueotrs en- al
ssn estsbeoimiento Ell NUEVo BAzAR &C
20. Dice Gel Imparcial, de Mayaoiiaz
que q IA CoRkEsPoNDENc1A = a la <Dsmo. !
oraclas se les ha engahado al decirle oua q, |
Agol'a Blanca fae preso en- aq1el pueblo, sien.
40 clerto que Sc hospedaba en- una cas-. de- !.
oal,e De Ia Marina Septentrionsl, donde no fu6
molestado. Nv Ao0
20. Don Ootavisno Herrera qne fud mali,
90 SC tltoiar de Ioa Alta ha renuncado' ell cargo
ae primer tenlente Alcalde del Ayontsmiento
De Goira de Me!ena (provinoia de la II ,ban.1
por hsbsr sldo nombrado medico municioaI da
mismo pueblo. wa
90 Unos rateros intentaron hacer un robo
1e arroz en- ell muelIe de Maysg1ez.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1899-12-26
Pt9Rs DIS Y 0'SPAa0S
Her ridos y contusos
LOS SUCESOS De ANOCHE,

Anoche las Sc promovi6 un escandaio
en- la calle del Sol entire soldados psisanos
amerioanos la llamada ~E.cu adra do la oalle
del Sol. I'm oil aoto bajo la ronda del Casti
lilo de San Crstobsl y al llegar al lugAr del gu
oeso, fu9 reoibida pedradas que les lanzaban
desde lss azoteas, por 10 quel Ia ronda tuvo ne
cesidsd de hscer fuego, disperssndose ell ta-
mu(to.
Fueron curados en- ell Cuarto de Socorros
Ramon Castro de una herida en- la region tai
siana del pie derecho; JESUS Astasio de una
idem entire Ia union de ambos parietale.; Ell
min, Jose Rcbles per fractura del c1bjto y
ra1io; Jose Dolores Ortiz de una herlda en- Ia
- f-,---' n-~f-e1 I---~~> -af-.~ra.h h~-;a. /.
l., 10y nan sldo oondenados por el tribunal
dc poilofa los sigaientes: Ana Mangusl Dor
emo'lagaez dia de arresto; Aniseto de Je-
s@s, M' por Ileyaf IN revolver, dfas de .rre.to;
Im!goei y Ayala por embrisguex dfas de ira
oaJos; M'gael fontsn Amalio Rivera Dor
eso noa,o olas de arresto; Severiano Vega
l;%r p1r es9anas.o; Ga J.: Antonio Negrdn por agre
G s,on 1emas ater, dfas de trabs 10; Juan
U Castro por aggression hurto dc un ouchi,lo. 4
80 dfas de trabsjos