The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-28
FOR GOOD ROADS.
Interesting Account of the Meeting
Held in Bamberg.

the good roads meeting held here
Tuesday of last week, which was
published in the Columbia Record.
The article was written by Mr.. G. W.
Norman, who was in charge of the
good roads party sent out by the Co.
lumbia Record:
Bamberg, July 21.-Bamberg
county has the narrowest roads Of
any county in the United States ex-
cept the other counties in South
Carolina and those of some Of the
other States.
They have also some of the best
people in the country and a newspa-
per with an editor who is co-operat-
ing for good roads.
Organization Formed.
The Records Good Roads Cam
paign party know these things be-
cause they spoke Tuesday in the town
of Bamberg and held a good roads
meeting here in conjunction with the
Bamberg Herald and the Business
Mems League. The meeting was held
in the town hall. It was presided
over by Mr.. J. F. Carter, who is
president of the business organiza-
ton, and was productive Of results.
After speeches had been made by
Messrs. D. H. Winslow, J. F. Car
ter, S. G. Mayfeld, John F. Folk and
G. w. Norman, county good roads
organization was perfected which is
to become a branch Of the Good
Roads and Drainage League of South
Carolina, which was launched at the
rally in Charleston last Tuesday. Mr..
S. G. Mayfeld was elected president,
w. D. Rhoad vice president, Editor
A. w. knight secretary, and J. A.
Hunter treasurer. An advisory COM
mittee of five members was also ap-
pointed. The members are j. F.
Carter, S. G. Mayfield, ]. W. Hill,
A. W. knight, John F. Folk and H.
G.. Folk.
An Innovation.
Another meeting of the association
will be held within few weeks, at
which it is planned to have represen-
tatives from every part of the county
so that the membership will be made
to include every community in Bam-
berg county. 1t is probable, too, that
provisions will be made for the
league to have speakers at each meet
ings in the county campaign to advo-
cate good roads.
WinslOw at His Best.
Mr.. Winslow was at his best and
evidently put his hearers to thinking.
He spoke for the first time during the
good roads campaign on the subject
of drainage and opened his address
with the statement that the first es-
sential of any road is drainage and
without drainage you can neither
have a road nor maintain one." He
was careful to explain, however, that
drainage was of two kinds-surface
drainage and subsoil drainage, the
former being the water that falls on
the road and the latter the ground
water which may be present in the
soil. To shed the water as it falls the
road must be as compact as possible
and be we'll crowned and have wide,
faring bitches instead Of the deep,
narrow ones. The deep bitches are
not only a menace to travel, but &C
tually deprive the county and the
traveller of good part of the road.
This, he said, calls for the wider road
that will not only be safe for wo-
man driving a horse to meet an au-
tomobile, but will also tend to pre-
serve the road. Water is natural
enemy of the road and should be kept
as far from it as practicable. If it
is allowed to stand near the road it
will seep through and saturate the
road, keeping it wet and boggy.
When the water has. flowed from the
crown of the road into the fiaring
bitches it will be necessary to lead
it away from the road by means of
culverts. On this point Mr.. Winslow
stressed the fact that thousands of
dollars are being wasted in this
State through failure to put in per-
manent culverts. Miserable plank
affairs that have to be replaced every
five years, on the average, and are a
constant item of expense for mainte-
nance, will found on most of the
roads. 1t is not economy to build
culverts, he said, that have to be re-
newed every five years. The solution
is easy; for vitrifed clay pipe that
will last for generations can be put
in where sufficient material can be