The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-24
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
ENCOUNTERS HUMAN HOG

Editor Daily News:
For the purpose of saving others
from being caught in trap as the
writer was yesterday, / will ask you
to publish my experience.
While taking two women and two
young children in an automobile to
visit the ruins of the old sugar mill
west of Port Orange, we encountered
mudho1e on the road, about 300
yards west of the railroad. / found
that although the road was wide
enough to turn aside to avoid the
quagmire, there was barricade
erected some ten feet out into the
road, in the shape of pole some
six or seven inches in diameter, fas-
tened with wire to a tree standing
on the road. and to property fence.
thus closing one-half the road, or all
but the mudhole.
Ny car stuck fast. The folks
were compelled to get out of the
car and wade through the mud.
after which succeeded in pulling
the car out. We decided we could
take no more chances on mudholes
and barricaded roads, so concluded to
turn back to avoid repetition Of
| the experience.
! / attempted to remove the obstruc-
1
ton to one side. There is small
shack fronting directly on the mud
| hole and there was also.a being in
human shape sitting very complac-
emily on the porch, who seemed to
be enjoying our discontinue to the
: fullest extent When / attempted to
/ remove the obstruction he promptly
laroused himself and pre-emptorily
forbid the removal of the obstruction
Is 4 endeayored to explain that he
had no right to obstruct a public
road, while, he endeayored to con
vince the writer that 56-inch tread
car could easily straddle a hole 81
inches wide. l urged him to permit
isniC, 0CIHaoS vi tl4C NOAACb 1thN <sa1At
dren with me, to remove the pole
J and | would replace it in the same
position, but this monster, created il
! the form of a man, refused, notwith
standing his neighbor came over ans
p, explained it would be perfectly prope
? and l explained that l surely coul'
not run the car through the hol
5 with the people in the car.
n There was nothing doing SO tn
e people had to get out and wad
through the mud to the oppe
j site side, and the writer dragged tn
: car through, thus spelling what ha
IS promised to be pleasant trip.
l. l had always understood this to b
s. q public road, but If it is not, then
e humbly apologize to the good citizen
s there for trespassing. If it is
public road the good citizens of POI
e Orange owe every taxpayer in th
o county an apology for permitting tn
h half civilized individual to place o
a structions such as the one now ther
. compelling them to 90 into an in
g passable part of the road while
a. fences in such parts of the road /;
l. suits his fancy. Onehalf the lab
expended in putting this obstructiC
lie in the road would easily have mat
er that part of the road passable.
i'd This simply demonstrates t
10 ''hogishness" of his act and STAN
n him as a citizen of communi
Id which no right-minded person won
a. be pleased to have as such. 1t
he incomprehensible than any proper
d, balanced person could be guilty
Dr. such an act, and it would SEE
strange. indeed, if the good people
ID Port Orange, knowing of his hil
nc minded conduct, would tolerate it.
cd The writer is a taxpayer in Il
i'll county and imagines he has paid
ce- at least for every dollar this indiv
he ual has paid during his time, and,
'ty addition, has been liberal eontr
nd utor for the roads in this locality.
nd | may mention here that in my tr
ate els l have met many varieties
be hogs" but this last specimen
all others beaten to a FRAGILE.
l am greatly surprised, as I had ?