Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-20
re"-d trim involved nearly hundred
miles Of travel and including the stops
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miles of travel and including the stops
/ .l0..,l0..4t constituted a Gays wofk
impossible with livery teams or rail-
road travel. In another town the own
er of an automobile made good money
this year Inv ,aking passengers to the
county fair, several miles away charg-
ing so cents for the ride and making
several trips each way each day. Sew
eral towns now have garage, which
| is we'll patronized by travelling men
| for business purposes and the general
public for pleasure rides But all of
this automobile business is only pos
sible when we have good roads
| otherwise the liveryman and the pass
enger trains get the business.
Some of the rural free delivery car
riers at Council Bluffs now use an au
tomobile for their daily twcnty-five-
mile trips. This over hilly roads and
even when the roads are muddy. Fiji
teen cents a day for gasolene Is the
cost as against 80 cents day for horse
feed Another thing these carriers
make the round trip in two hours less
time. 1t is said that S375 represents
the price paid for these machines.
The state of Connecticut has now 8,
sentiment and a practical plan for maxi
ing gravel roads, that makes
an automobile worth something
| in the Nutmeg state. Not
to give the exact figures, the plan is
! for any town that wishes to make a
section of gravel road to vote a tax on
themselves for a certain amount. This
legally recorded allows this town to
| draw from the state funds an amount
say four times what they tax them
selves. In a Connecticut paper this
| item appeared the other day: "The
state highway commissioner Wednes-
day made contract with the town of
Hartland to grade four sections of
| highway in the town for $3,1S1. The
| following towns applied yesterday for
appropriations for good roads: Clin-
ton, Bristol, Stafford, Litchfield. $4,000
each; North Stonington $4,000" In
the same paper was another item that
Nextues had voted down a tax propo-
sition. And as the writer was raised"
! in an adjoining town and remembers
the fossilized inhabitants thereof it
| was no cause for wonder that they
voted 1t down. But it is a
continuous source of surprise
to many besides the writer
that the good roads sentiment
has so few behind it here in progress
sive Iowa. One of our Iowa towns to
stir up interest in the King road drag
and the consequent good roads, thru
it's commercial club offered prizes OF
$500 for the best kept roads of GER
tain distance, this for the period of one
year. said prizes open to country COM
petition. And to their disgust this
prize money was taken by some en-
terprising individuals, for good roads
leading into a little town ten miles
away. At home, in the big town, the
county seat no one took interest
enough to even try to secure the prize
money.
For many years the prize hog has
been supposed to ride in the smoking
car taking four seats for himself and
feet and the seat in front of him for
his oyercoat and grips. But the other
day. on the X. Y. z. railway he sat in
the smoker "speechless with envy" Or
a regular mail and passenger train on
this big railroad, the engine was un-
coupled, run back to the stock yards
patiently waiting while the shippe,
loaded a car of fat hogs, then they
were wet down" as the car passed
the water tank, and finally hitched or
in front on the baggage car The July
sun came down with 9S degrees in the
shade. said heat, said water and sale
hogs combined into an odor that woul6
49,, ,1o,rad tha nostrils of a denizen
of the stock yards district in Chicago
but our two legged hog occupying sf1
seats in the smoker actually kicked be-