The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-06-12
A NEEDED IMPROVEMENT.


If we have the correct idea of the
geography of the territory, the re-
cent ordinances calling for bond
election did not include in the dis
trict to be paved any part of the
street leading from where Elm street
intersects University avenue to Riden-
baugh hall, the street called Blake,
which runs north and south. This, it
seems to us, is a street which it is
extremely important to pave and the
omission of which from the proposed
paving district was grave error.
For many years to come, perhaps
always, Ridenbaugh hall will be the
chief place of public and official en-
tertainment for the entire university
Banquets are held there, distinguished
visitors are taken there to lunch or
dine; a great part of the social Life of
the whole student body centers in that
hall. Nearly every person who comes
to Moscow to the university wishes to
drive to Ridenbaugh hall to make
call. So that it is safe to say that
the road is constantly used for traffic
throughout the year by a very large
number of persons.
More than that it is, now that there
is an annual summer school, the home
of fifty persons during more than
eleven months of the year. All of the
food and other supplies for this large
household must be carried over that
strip of road. All of the trunks for
the fifty resident young women must
be carried in and out over that road
at the beginning and end of every |
term.
The road will be still more in serv
ice in years to come, for fraternity |
and a sorority have bought lots and |
expect to build chapter houses on the
knoll just opposite Ridenbaugh hall |
to the east. The thoroughfare will |
thus be constantly used for the daily |
accommodation of another hundred
persons.
This strip of road, Blake street, is
also the one that connects with the
main old driveway which makes so
splendid and appropriate an approach
to the campus. 1t also connects with
the new road which, however, will
never be much used and
which, although it may satisfy the re-
IF Ion c nn
garden effect as understood by artists J.,
and experts seems to the lay mind to
serve little or no other purpose. 1t !,
does not lead properly or convenient
~ either to Ridenbaugh hall or to
he engineering building and will new
er be, for either one of them, even
hough steps should be constructed, Z
| convenient or slightly approach.
Nevertheless the road has been built
md it is certainly necessary to con- =
lect it at the Blake street end, with :,
good paved highway.
The condition of the road from the
of Elm street and Univer IT
ity avenue to Ridenbaugh hall, that
5, the whole of Blake avenue, is so
ad during most of the year that an :,
xaggeration of it's deplorable state :,
we'll nigh impossible. 1t should | :,
ave been filled years ago and could
ave been filled cheaply and success
lily with the dirt taken out when
lie excavation was made for the base oe
tent of the new administration build pi
IL. Unfortunately the dirt removed y"
. that time was stupidity distributed IN
places where it was not needed Id
1T where much of it had afterwards us
be removed. No fill was made on ou
e road to Ridenbaugh hall until last pu
lmmer when some wretched work st'
as done by dumping bricks and other Oh
,bris there, the result being i'm co
ediately and now one of the toughest, ac
ost unsatisfactory roads in the whole
untry. Icy
The people decided the other day III
at they did not care to pave the dis LII
ct as outlined Would it not be I'll
IL to begin at once some grading on
d filling on the important road lead III
2 to Ridenbaugh hall and the SIN
nnus and 70 bau1 sncb ouantitv by
sand during the summer as would WI
the terrible holes which during
muddy season are such menaceI n