The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-05-26
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!. GOOD ROADS NOTES
Highway Across the Continent.
T The first banquet OF the

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tomobile Club Of America in
~ the. Waldorf-Asto1ia, New
York City, the plan OF a na-
.tional highway from the Atlantic to
the Pacific was formally laurched and
definite route was announced.
Ooe OF the principal aims of the
club is to provide and encourage the
construction Of good roads, and it has
already awakened considerable public
sentiment IN favor OF improved high.
ways.
Isaac 3. Porter. ex-Preside-. Of the
League OF American Wheelmen, prom
isea the cooperation Of wheelmen
OF the country in the efforts Of the
Automobile Club.
Colonel Pope, after predicting that
within ten years the horse would be q
thing of the past as means OF trans
portation in the big cities, read the
following resolutions, which were
adopted unanimously:
That the route presenting the most
feasible line for q national highway
from the Atlantic to the Pacific seems
to your committee to be between the
fortietb and forty-second parallels OF
latitude. This embraces Boston, from
which the route could be stretched
east to Portland, Me-, then Albany,
reached by a great highway from New
York, PhiIadeip Baltimore, Wash.
ington, Richmond. Charleston, Savan-
nah and ST. Augustine. From Albany
running west through Syracuse,
Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls;
through Erie, Penn; Cleveland and
Toledo, Ohio; Adrian and Coldwater,
Mich. Elkhart and South Bend, Ind. !;
from Chicago, ILL.,, to Davenport. Des
Moines and Counc'. Bluffs, Iowa. ;
through Omaha, Lincoln and Hast
ings, Neb., starting across the Rocky
Mountains at Denver, reaching Salt
Lake, and thence southwestwardlY to
Sacramento and San Francisco, q
southern line reaching thence to Los
Angeles, auda northerIy one Portland,
Ore, and Seattle, Wash.
Resolved, That in view OF the Mill
tary Importance of such highway,
and of the advantages to those Sec
tons through which it would be built,
and, furthermore, in view Of the cx-
ample in good road building it would
give to the people of twenty-five States
and territories, through which it would
pass, the matter be brought promi-
nently to the attention of the people Of
the twenty-five States and territories
concerned, in order that Congress may
be petitioned to authorize the pre-
liminary surveys required for such ma
tional highway; providing, ifpossible,
for the completion of the survey of the
section between Boston and Chicago
the first year, that between Chicago
and Omaha the second year, that be-
tween New York and st. Augustine
the third year and the remaining Sec
tions within the following year.
Resolved, That it be suggested to
the petitioners to prepare the compile
ton of the national highway by an ap-
preparation for one-third the expendi-
ture required from the Congress of the
United States, one-third by the States
for those portions lying within their
respective boundaries, and one-third
by the counties, townships and cities
through which the road shall pass.
while. the owners Of all PROPERTY bene-
fted be asked to donate the right OF
way.\
II is the furtheropfnion of the COM
mittee that, n view of the rapidity OF
motion which science is substituting
for the slower forms Of roadway travel,
and in n I of conditions which many
Esss Supon the great highways
of France Nd England have already
made clear, two points should be kept
in mind with refer ence to construction
first, ample width, and! sec 9She
avoidance of curves. One hl 2
and twenty feet is shown in the boene-
ward which Massachusetts, has sbuilt
leading out of Boston, to be not too
great width. One-half this width
might be built in the first instance,
but by all means should the entire
right of way be secured. The impos-
sibility OF avoiding collisions between
carriages moving rapidly around
curves calls attention to the necessity
for long, straight lines in way that
did not present itself in the earlier
days of highway engineering.