The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-03
OUR MAIN HIGHWAYS
SYSTEM OF FOURTEEN TRUNK
 LINES

lions of s1,753 Out of Total of 9Os,42O
 fin state-Drain Trade From 1ss
 Towns.
 Hartford, June 3O.-Highway Com missioner James H. Macdonald, in his iennial report to Governor Roberts, for the two years. ending December 3l' 1904, makes special mention of the trunk-line system of highways throughout the state. The report on this system reads in part as follows:
 '.As a rule, the main highways lead ing out from our large cities have lbeen improved in so far as their territoial limits extend, but the adjoining towns have not extended the system, ,princi- pallIy by reason of lack of finances. Some system, other than the one now in vogue, will have to be inaugurated' If the st ate is to have, in a reasonable time, continuous trunk lines.
 .tTne system of trunk hnes,s under which the state is now operating and perfecting with the appropriations since the commencement of the state aid in 1895. is principally upon fourteen trunk lines. Part of this work has al ready been done under former appro- priations. It is, however, not general- ly known that the fourteen trunk lines on which we are now making improve ments run through districts carrying a population of 851,743 out of total pop ulation of 9OS,42O in the state, and that these trunk lines go into and out Of a total of 16S towns, thus very nearly the entire population of the state and a large amount of her business is practi- caliy controlled on a mileage of l,0S2 miles. This astonishing fact calls for in no uncertain tone, the improvement of these fourteen trunk lines just as rapidly as it. is possible. s.>|
 sThe amount of money appropriated every session by the legislature has been very liberal in the past and fully up to all that can be reasonably asked, but when this money Is divided or dis tribilted amongst so many towns it will not accomplish very many miles of continuous highways under the present system where the town has the selec- tion of the section to be improved.
 The old Boston turnpike, following the shore for a distance of nearly one hundred and twenty miles, crossing the towns of Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Bridge port, Stratford, Milfod, Orange, New Haven, East Haven, Branford, Gull ford, Madison, Clinton, Westbrook, Old Saybrook Old Lyme, East Lynne, Wa terford, New London, Groton, Ledyard and Stonington, is one of the longest trunk lines in the state, and very direct in it's course, and as it touches so many large business centers at the seaboard, the tray el is very heavy at all seasons of the year. ...s:..
 From this main trunk line start ten trunk lines extending across the state, from south to north. s $sslE '.sE9 first one of these trunk lines commences at Stamford, and extends through the state and into Massachu- setts, crossing the towns of salisbgury, sharon, ent, New Milford, Sherman, New Fairfield, Danbury, Ridefield, Will ton, New Canaan and Stamford.
 ''The next trunk line east commences at NorWalk, and also crosses the entire state and ends in Massachusetts, talk ing in the towns of North Canaan, Ca. naan, Cornwall, Warren, Washington, New Milford, Brookfeld, Dtnbury. Bethel, Redding.. Weston, Wilton and Norwalk.
 The third trunk line, extending from south to north, begins at Bridgepors and goes through the towns of Bridge port, Trumbull, Huntington, Ansonia, Seymour Beacon Falls, Naugatuck, Waterbury, Watertown, Thomaston, Idtchfeld, Harwinton, Torrington, Winchester and Colebrook, also ending in Massachusetts. ...",
 The fourth trunk line commences at New Havn extending up through Hamden, Cheshire, Southington, Plain vile, Pennington, West Hartford and ending at Hartford. @"1
 The fifth trunk line commences at New Haven, extending out through Hamden, North Haven, wallingford, Meriden, Berlin, New Britain, Newing- ton, Wethersfield, Hartford, Windsor, Windsor Locks, Suffield and on to Springfield
 The sixth trunk line commences also at New Haven. goes out through East Haven, North Branford, .Guilford, Durham, MiddIefeld, Middletown, Cromwell, Rocky Hill, Wethersfeld, Hartford, East Hartford, South Wind ssor, East Windsor, Enfield and out into Massachusetts.
 The seventh trunk line begins at Saybrook Point and extends through Old Saybrook, to Essex, to Saybrook, to Chester, to Haddam, to Middletown, to Cromwell, to Rocky Hill, to Weth- ersfeId and to Hartford ... t
 The eighth trunk line commences at New London and goes through Water ford, Montvilles Salem, Colchester, He bron, Marlborough, Glastonbury, East Hartford, Hartford, West Hatford, Bloomfield, Simsbury, Granby, Hart land and Colebrook, and into Massa- chusetts. %|
 The ninth commences at the inter- section of the New London and Water ford town line and extends up through Montyille to Norwich, to Sprague, to Lisbon, to Canterbury, to Plainf1eld, to Brooklyn, to Killingly, to Putnam, and through Thompson out into Massachu- setts.
 The tenth trunk line begins at Wes-