The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-02

condition as far as Putnam Park and poor condition from Bedding Ridge to Greenfield Hil1-rutty, stony and many guI1ies
 The road via Bethel to >Newtown is in good condition (via Stony Hill in town to Naugatuck and Waterbury, good.
 RideeheId to Darien via New Ca naan is poor Gas usualI)-
 Danbury to New Milford (avoidh7g White street, via Germantown, is fair dirt road to the White Turkey Inn, from which point it is poor via Huck- Ieberry Hill to Joyce's Corners, strik- ing state road through Brookfe1d Iron Works to the New Milford line.
 The road via Neversink lake. New Fairfield, Pembroke, back to Danbury, is in fair condition. except beyond the bridge at Neversink to the left turn to New Fairfield the road is torn up by state road contractor; from that point to New Fairfield road fair but very sandy.
 The road from Sugar Hollow road around the mountain to Long Ridge and back via. Mountain pond and Mountainvil1e, is in good condition, though very narrow.
 The road to Norwa1k through Sugar Hollow and BranchviIle is in most ex- ce1Ient condition, making beautiful as well as a short outlet to the Post road and thence to New York.
 The best way through Bridgeport is Newtown via. Bethel, which is in fair condition. and from Newtewn take new state road to Bridgeport
 Bedding station over Umpawaug hill to Georgetown is in poor condition, badly washed and rough, not having been worked this season The Ridgefe1d road after leaving | f road from Branchvi11e to RidgefeId is in good condition.
 Route to Bridgeport. via Bethel. Putnam Park. Easton and Jump Hill, Is in satisfactory condition. A long stretch of new state highway skirt excellent. This is the shortest route between Danbury and Bridgeport, the distance being twenty-four miles.
 GENERAL WHEEL TAX.
 Funds aggregatfng more than $780, | 000s0o a. year could be raised for the construction and repair of highways, l according to a statement issued by the National Automobile Chamber of Com I merce, provided all vehicles were 1i- .censed under state laws on a basis proportionate to the wear and teaT done to the roads, Of this total the l 1885, GOO motor vehicles registered al fees ranging from s10 to s25 would 1 be expected to produce nearly $19,- l l00o,0o0; the estimated total of 14,- 500. 900 horse-drawn vehicles, at s5 to I $2O each, would produce SOS. .000,- 900, and the estimated total of D. 800. .0eo bicycles and motorcycles at l and s3 respectively, would bring ir S3. 100000.
 The aggregate amount nearly, equals the total available funds provided by all the codnties, districts and town ships in the United States for road work this year, and is more than three times the available state funds fol I roadswork in 1914- Motorists are. op. posed in principle to a. tax on then alone for use of the roads, but if i were made to apply to all road we. hic1es the chamber feel, this opposf T ton would disappear
 PREPARE FOR TROUBLE Proper equipment is proper judg ment. The man whose tail light fl
 out has reason. and sometfme 1t f } his own fault that he is without an ex tra wick. a. little can of kerosene ol an extra electric light bulb. Knov what you are likely to need and carr, it and you will not have to ask for hell on the road.
 A driver who wishes to know wI1a he can expect of his car must look ti the future by taking care of his car il the present. By this it is not mean