Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-24

EetlC successor.
Trousers and walking skirts should
, hereafter be built with nickel pockets
for convenience in carrying street car
.shange. With the motorman trying 20
make change at the door and trav-
cling man and two grips on the rear
seat trying to make a train, the situa-
ton will often become critical when
the conductors are finally abolished
after the first of June.
&
There will not be much of any street
paving done this year, owing to the
fact that the city can only pay for
limited amount of street intersections
and corner lot assessments at one time,
and its funds are now pretty well APP
propriated for the paving done last
year and the year before. The only way
to get paving this year would be to
loan the city it's share of any project
just as many a citizen has done for
his sewer extensions.
&
Street missioner Hernia an. how
ever. is making a desperate effort to
put the unpaved streets in order by
dragging, altho the Gather has given
him the fight of his life. For the first
time in wears the streets inside the city
limits have been better for travel than
the country roads extending from
them. This fight to keep a smooth
road is always discoura sing in the
spring. and uses up funds very fast.
but there always comes an extended
dry spell in summer and fall which
gives the street or road fund chance
TO rest.
The advocates of the north road to
State Center insist that they are going
to appeal to the state highway COM
mission to have their road designated
as county road. and the committee
which visited the board of supervisors
requests that the merits Of their case
be published in the T.-R. They contend
that when the best engineers of the
country in the employ OF the c. & NJ
w railway projected route for
railroad they selected the north road
rather than the south road because or
the saving in expense OF. grading, and
that the county engineers should do
the same thing. They contend that the
POI man and-team daNs' work PROM
ised by the south road people amounts
only to $500. which would not cut down
to permanent grade more than one {.
the many big hills on the south road.
They contend that the north road COM
mittee's offer to haul all the gravel
which the county would furnish On
track at Lamoille or State Center. was
of far greater value than the south
road offer because the actual cost or
hauling gravel from the railroad an
extra miles distance to the south road
would cost for every single mile gray
eled more than the 201 man-and -team
days labor in excess OF the cost of
crawling the same mile on the north
road. which is near the railroad and
which has a large amount OF stone bal
last available on the abandoned right
of-way of the railroad They contend
that the county engineer should pre-
sent to the com msission a survey and
profile of the cuts and fills necessary
to permanently improve each road be-
fore the final designation OF county
road Is made. They contend that their
road will reduce to permanent grade
more nearly level than the other road.
In the meantime this committee says
that their road will be kept in such
superior condition that the auto route
will remain with them from choice. and
that If the county board designates the
other road 1t will be many years be-
fore money enough can be spent on the
south road to put 1t up to their road
as an avenue of travel.
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