The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-01-17
TUESDAY, JANUARY&17, 1905.
Good Roads.

OF the DcSt lu1O14A4 SOo
in the country, pledges the support
Of the American Road Makers to any
feasible plan for improving tie roads
of the nation. In his address, read
before the recent convention, held
bv the New York and Chicago Road
association and the Erie chamber OF
commerce, at Erie, Pa, he said:
Perhaps there is no section OF
highways III the United States that IS
quite so much an important factor as
the road proposed from New York
citv ,.p to and through PoughkcepSle,
following the Hudson, with all It's
historic interests on through the
southern tier OF New York and out
through the Panhandle OF PennSyl-
vania thence through to Chlcago'
Ill Towns, cities and counties are
all traversed in very interesting
wav: the town and the county are
each passed through in their turn
Five states and thirtythree countess
with total population OF nearly
twelve million of people, are assist
ed into pleasant travel, thus making
a great moving panorama OF inter-
est when this road has been lmprov-
ed as it is proposed.
The great lakes of illinois ana
Michigan, this great necklace OF
near1s. the millions Of tons of freight
moving upon their broad and expan-
s;ve bosoms, represent in no uncer-
tain way the largest commercial IN
terests in the United States. With
the introduction and the building OF
this great s1oo,oooooo canal, which
has lust been successfully Inaugural
ted under the able direction OF r. A.
Bond, there will be an added impetus
to the question of waterways ana
highways.
For quite number of years tn
trend Of the popular mind has been
the Improvement of railroads, so that
it is quite possible today to find your
self comfortably seated in Pullman
vestibuled car carried along at the
rate Of a mile a minute. Indeed, we
find on the other side train recently
run at the rate of 14o miles an hour,
and it is quite frequent that we hear
of the 1oo-mile an hour train. Ihls
will satisfy, / think, the most active
business mind. We have our ocean
steamers crossing the Atlantic IN less
than six days. With the introduction
of this canal, which was superseded
originally by railroads, we are now,
turning our attention to this question
of improving the main arteries OF our
highways throughout the country.
1t seems to me that our country oc-
cupies one of the most prominent po-
sitions today OF any country IN the
word. and we only need improved
highways to stand first among the
nations OF the earth. In making an
analogy I have in mind the time
when | was quite a young man, that
grandma was not only herself very
busily engaged, but she had also the
children of the household busy, MAX
ing patches and putting those patches
into blocks and after she had got to-
gether a large number of blocks, then
she put in the strips which united and
made perfect whole or outside cov-
ering for the quilt. This country has
been sewing together for the last 2S4
years and making the blocks for all
lines of business enterprise. Now a
perfect connection of all our large
interests would be the putting in of
mans highway. We have the very
best public service in steam and elec-
trio roads and we have no pesr on the
, waters of lake, river or ocean, and l
think we are ready to take up this
question of the improvement of the
main arteries OF the land, the roads
Of our country.