The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-08-22


day, August %, Issued by
the County Commissioners
Of Allegany County.
The Department of Agriculture
suggests that the people should
see these sample roads in course
of construction in order to derive
the most practical benefit there
from. Accordingly August %,
1902, has been set apart as good
roads day, at which time all per.
sons interested III highway i'm
provement are invited to be pres
ent, not only to view the work,
but to participate in conven-
ton to be held in the Academy of
Music at Cumberland. The pro
gram of the convention will in +.
clude general discussion and
eXemplification of the science of
road construction and mainten-
ance. Addresses will be delivered
by prominent statesmen and off
Gals, competent engineers and
scientific road experts, including
Hon. George A. Pearre, NJ. c.;
Martin Dodge, Director of the
United States Office of Public
Road Inquiries, and his assistant,
NJ. o, Eldridge; Charles I. Har-
rison, United States road expert;
Harry Fielding Reid, Chief of the
Highway Division of the Mary
land Geological Survey, and Al
thur n. johnson, highway expert
of the same survey Special fea-
lures of the evening session will
be illustrated addresses by Messrs.
Johnson and Eldridge.
A section Of model road has been
constructed betreen Cumberland
md Frostburg as an object lesson,
the Government Furnishing the eG-
perts and machinery and the county
mdking an appropriation Of 81, 900
to co operate IN the 'cork.
We respectfully call the atten-
tion to our Board of County Com.
misSi0ners to the action of their
friends in Allegany county. Why
not invite the Director of Public
Roads of the United States in
company with Prof. Clark of the
Johns Hopkins University and
give our people a chance to see
something in the way Of making
better roads. Let an appropria-
ton be made and let us have a
mile or more of road made by this
new system. Let us awake i'm the
county, let public sentiment show
itself in the way of demanding
better roads. Our home system
is rotten from beginning to end
and each year our taxpayers
gently submits to the wasteful
expenditure of money in the same
old mud holes and receiving no
permanent improvement for the
money expended.
NEGLECTED ROADS IN THIS
COUNTY.
The taxpayers in jefferson dis
trict are indignant over the shame
full neglect of their public roads,
and so the cry goes on all over
the country.
Unusual complaint reaches us
from Urbaua district regarding
the shameful manner in which
the road supervisors so called neg
lect the public roads. This com.
plant is almost universal and
should receive the attention of
our Board Of County Commission.
ers. OF course there will be no
doubt about bills being promptly
submitted for work and yet the
taxpayers hesitate to protest
against the payment of such bills.
Something must be done about
the shameful neglect of our roads.
In other counties we find move
ments inaugurated for the i'm
provement of the roads, yet here
we are in one of the finest coun-
ties in the Union utterly indlffer
ent-to the great public question,
Reduced Rates to Denver, Col
orado Springs and Pueblo
via Pennsylvania Railroad,
Account National Fraternal
Congress.