The Detroit times., 1910-06-13
GOOD ROADS GET
BOOST ON TRIP
Horatio 8. Earle Introduces His
$4,000, 900 Bonding Proposition To
Commerce Board Members.

Never did the good roads movement
In Michigan take such leap as the
one made during the Board of Com
merce trip. Friday night Horatio s..
Earle was introduced 10 talk on the
subject OF good roads and to illustrate
his talk with the stereopticon. Mr.
Earle spoke plainly and somewhat
severely of the lethargy OF the Detroit
people regarding the good roads move
ment, proving by the pictures on the
screen that Detroit should be ashamed
of the condition of the roads In Wayne
county. He struck a responsive chord
and never In his fifteen years OF good
roads work has he accomplished SO
much in an entire years work as he
did that night.
He closed his remarks by asking
whether he was to be backed by tho
Board Of Commerce and Detroit IN
the future or had he to fight the bat
tie alone. He further asked II tho
good roads sentiment expressed In the
Detroit papers of late was from the
mouth or had 1t connection with the
pocketbook.
Mr.. Earle declared the people must
decide whether they would build
roads by yearly installments and by
so doing have the roads blockaded
every year for the next ten years, or
build the leading roads of Wayne
county all in one year and pay for
them by yearly installments. He then
for the first time usprung his two mil
lion dollar bondi Opposition, and 1t
was received " hunderous ap-
plause. AS sod e was through
talking he was kded by scores
of influential ma wanted to sign
the petition to- Wayne county
board of supeY Basking them TO
submit to the b9E Wayne county
tho proposition = hg the county
for two million dlj(b for the pur-
pose OF building aHc5f. plete trunk line
system OF high class roads In the
county. X
Mr.. J. II. HIATT, personal friend OK
Mr.. Earle, took the petition around
the boat and at last reports over
three hundred Of Detroit's business
men had signed II. Jere c. Hutchins
said: II would be glad to pay my
share Of tax on a ten-million dollar
bond issue for the state"
i
sideration the matter Of appointing a
committee of thirty or more represent.
alive members OF the board to assist
In boosting the good roads movement
| A special session of the board oil
supervisors will be asked for. prob
ably In July, SO as to give plenty Of
time for the campaign throughout tbs
county before the date OF voting n
November. II the people endorse tho
plan, the board Of supervisors at the
January session can arrange for sell
ing the bonds, and work on Wayne
county's great trunk line road system
can begin In May, 1911, and before
the snow flies the following roads can
| be completed: Grand River-ave. ~
the Oakland county line toward Farm.
ington; Plymouth road. from Gren
| River-ave. to Washtenaw county line;
Michigan-ave. through Dearborn, Ink
ster, Wayne, to the Washtenaw coun.
ty line, almost TO Ypsilanti; River
road from the end OF the present i'm
provement south OF Wyandotte, to
lockwood the Monroe county line /;
Huron River road through the most
beautiful part Of Wayne county from
lockwood northwest along the river
through Flat Rock, New Boston, Belle.
vile, to the Michigan-ave. road: max
ing q hundred-mile triangle trip unex'
celled anywhere on earth; going down
the Detroit river, thence northwest
along the Huron, and into Detroit by
Michigan-ave., passing the Wayne
county asylum and home, Dearborn
Retreat and River Rouge; then road
west from Wyandotte to the Huron
river road another from Worthwhile
south to Sumpter, and another south
from Livonia through Nankin. Romu-
lus and Huron townships. With these
improvements made Wayne county
could challenge the world to show
a better road system in like sized
territory.