The Jennings daily record., 1902-06-25

God Roads R6tss
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system In Road Building.
HE EOVernOr III his meSSa

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wisely emphasizes the desir-
ability of system in road
building. He would have the
old state roads reopened and others
constructed, so that the improved
highways would form continuous
lines, travcrsing county after county
throughout the whole extent of the
State. Such roads would. of course.
connect the principal cities and large
towns of the various counties and cor
respond somewhat to trunk lines of
railroad, giving. good travelling from
town to town and from county TO
county. and each would greatly con-
duce TO the development of the COM
munities along its route and To the
founding of new ones. The Governor
seems to think it appropriate that the
State itself \should take the initiative
in the building of such roads. because
they will serve general and not merely
local interests, and it is probably de-
sira BILE that they should be constructed
| first of all
Such roads. however. will not. as the
! Governor makes plain. answer the
| whole need. There must De multi
| plicity of cross roads aDd side roads
| connecting different parts Of the same
| towns and villages, and these are no
less important that the others. All
| the people do not live on the main
| roads by any means. Many man
! will drive over a side road TO the viii
| lage. or from one part OF the town to
another. ahundred times for every sin
gle time when he will drive to the next
town or the next county on the main
highway. 1t would be most illogical
and unjust to say that while inter
county and intertown attic shall have
good roads iniracounty and intra-
town traffic shall continue to wallow
in dust and mud. This latter system
of local roads is therefore as essential
as the former. But, unlike the for
ner, it may properly. and indeed
should. be left to local initiative and di
| rection.
We should have. then. two distinct
yet connected and harmonious Sys
TENS of roads. one would comprise
such great highways as the old AL
bany Post Road. along the eastern
bank OF the Hudson River. and rh'
Boston Post Road. Skirting the Sound
The other would consist of intersect
ing roads, gridirouiDg each county
and town. The State roads might wei
be made of extra width ana be con
, Structed of trap rock. which is proba
, | bly, the best road metal in the world
after the most approved plan of Tel
ford and Macadam. There is enough
| trap in the taluS OF the Palisades ant
in the QuarrieS of kockland Count.
a to build such roads from Montaul
4 Point to Niagara Falls. and the dis
r., tributiun OF it to nearly all point
would be cheap ana easy. Granite
however, might also be used, espt
g ciaIly in combination with limestone.
It The local roads might largely b
constructed of local material at niue
less cost and yet bc practically as Sc
:, | viceable as the others LlmeSton
which is SO widely distributed through
out the State. makes an admirab
ii road if properly used. some preferrin
It it to trap or granite because 1t Is sof
10 er and therefore easier for the horse
hoofs. Some villages in "eStcheStt
: County have provided themselves wit
capital roads by using the refuse chill
and dust from the marble and linn
a stone quarrieS of that region. Agai
in deposits of powders and gravel are
40 be found in almost every county, ar
a road built of broken bowlderS Wi
W top-dressinG OF selected gravel com
st pretty close to the best standar
I'd But. whatever the material. all Il
n. roads OF both systems should be bu
rr according to well devised and consis
ent plans. so that we shall be spar
e' the sight, now TOO often visible. of
es tine bit of road mile or two long I'll
st ming from nowhere TO nowhere"
Iit from a slough to a slough.-New Yo
Tribune