The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1915-09-10
WHY NOT?

AS has been about ten years since
tnere has been any work done on
Churd1h street, East Main, a part of
MounNtaln street and possibly few
hundAfed feet of some other streets
That Gwere> macadamized during L. l..
WagEnon's term as mayor of Union
why mot do Just very little bit some
tlmeH this fall before the bad weather
:. Why not scrape the accumulated
dirt off the R1acadam and haul few
ut Epuld take only a very few tons
OF fshed stone and fill up the holes
andt Pw places?
EIwould make the street better
thaHS Iwhen 1T was first macadamiZed
as pe pre- is now good solid eounda.
tioH-to start on.
Why not put few loads of stone
IN the low place on Church street in
frPnt of L. l.. Wagnon's residence so
thRt boats will not be needed there
again this winter?
we poor bicycle riders (and there
areNa goodly number of us taxpayers
that can not ride anything but BIZ
| cyclP) either have to walk around
TINS place or ride the sidewalk and
run the risk of getting arrested.
why not put four or five Joints of
drain pipe under South street at the
| lnfersectlon of South and Church
,speets and drain the mud hole there?
&Why not drain the lake at the in
tersection of Mountain and Main
streets?
Instead of scraping so much dir.
away from the curb to the center of
the street and making a ditch next to
the curb so deep that a wagon or
buggy can not be driven there with
out danger of being capsized, why
not use the scrap emore in the center
OF the street merely to level the mud
after each rain so that wagons can
pack it down smooth?
Last winter good up-to-date
scrape was actually used in a few
places In town to scrape mud up on
perfectly good macadam.
we all know that a Scrape is all
| right If used right, but when it comes
to using them in such a way as to
make our streets worse and to make
| deeper bitches at the sides so that
they can wash away faster, why not
call a halt and use a good split log
drag?
A writer for Progress last week
had the following pointed remarks to
make about our streets:
ff"Our roads are being improved
t.,
Mr.. Editor, our country roads are
going to be a whole lot better than
your town streets. Because when 7
go down Main street l joggle and |
joggle. 1t is surely a wholly street.
trenches galore.
Church street, we'll that ought to
be model street, but it is not by any
means / notice it is getting IN an
awful condition and recently in my
travel over your city I was greatly
disappointed. | do not see why some
of the main thoroughfares would not
be. good grazing grounds for YOUR
nelghbors' cows. 1t is wonder that
those fellows who have automobiles
don't make kick
You all wake up, get a hump on
yourselves, and don't let those Appa-
lachian Highway visitors from ad-
joining counties get the wrong i'm
preston of your city by its Streets
There is city ordinance to the eff
feet that plumbers or any one else
having occasion to dig up the surface
| of street for any purpose shall be
| required to put it back in as good re-
| pair as it was before being dug up
But. do they do it?
They pile the dirt in without pack
| ing it any and leave a high ridge,
then in few weeks it sinks down and
leaves a hole.
You don't need a searchlight to find
them, just ride over most any street
In town once and you will be able to
testify to the truth of this statement.
And now, why not vote dry?
T. B. Strange.