Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-17

! sible for the sections in their charge.
| Patrolmen will keep all culverts. bitches
and waterways open and free from OBJ
structions; all loose stones removed from
the roads; keep guard rails safe; and re-
move promptly all glass bottles and
broken glass from the roadway.
Patrolmen are provided with weekly
report and monthly payroll blanks. The
weekly reports must be filled out and for
warded weekly to the Inspector. Payrolls
, must be filled out and sent to the In
| spector each month for his approval, and
must be received in the office not later
than the fifth day of the following month
| Patrolmen will attend to the work them
selves, and will not substitute any one in
their place, except, on account of sick
| ness or when it is actually necessary for
| them to be away. In such cases they
must notify the office at once.
! Patrolmen will DE regarded by the pub
lie representatives of the State High
way Commission, and the commission
will be largely judged by the work which
| they do and the manner in which the
work is handled.
| Patrolmen must be courteous at all
times and give respectful attention and
| courteous answers to any inquiry which
may be made of them by anyone travel
| ing on the highway. Patrolmen shall not
| attempt to give information relative to
the Commission; that is not a part of
| their duty. They shall refer any inquir-
| les direct to the commissions headquar-
/ tiers at Augusta.
| Remember that every portion Of the
road under your care demands your best
! attention. If anyone happens to live on
the section you patrol that you have had
past differences with, remember that the
road in front of his property demands the
/ same careful attention as every other
part Of the road does. in other words
| past differences Of opinion or jealousy
must have no influence on the work which
you do while employed by the State High
way Commission. Our sole object is to
give the public the best possible roads
under the conditions existing. If every
one Of the patrolmen will conscientiously
do his best. we feel positive that a very
| great Improvement in the general road
| conditions will be the result
The patrolmen will plan their work so
/ as to spend their time in doing actual
! maintenance work, not in travelling
/ around. DO not get the habit of simply
riding over your sections: you not only
loose valuable time. but it makes a bad
impression on the tax payer The work
must be planned in such a way that the
sections will be covered, at least, twice a
| week.
/ Patrolmen are requested not to stop
ana talk with those they meet as it is
easy 10 get into an argument in regard
70 the care of the road. Patrolmen have
I instructions to follow. The State High
way commission request patrolmen to be
/ interested in the sections assigned to
them for patrol, and expect the best pos
slple results from the money paid them
and that days work will be nine hours
on the road, not from the time of leaving
mono in the morning until returning
nome at night, but nine hours of actual
work on the road Dragging drainage
adding material, keeping loose stone
raked from the road are the most essen.
tial duties of the patrolmen.
Patrolmen are instructed as soon as IL
stops raining to go over their entire sec
ton with drag. starting on the right
hand side of the road and filling the right
hand wheel rut, and returning on the on.
poside side filling the left-hand wheel rut
then. going over the entire length of road
finishing dragging the sections that dry
out first. leaving the low. damp ones I'M
I'll the last. Patrolmen must ride the
drag in order to move the necessary ma.
terial TO fill the ruts and depressions al.
so to keep the drag at the proper angle.
) Patrolmen shall see that the surface
bitches at the side of the road are n,
suitable size to properly drain Off all sur.
mot nr th.x
clear, and that the intakes are large
enough and so shaped as to carry all the
water and that the outlets are kept clea,
and open. and suitable ditch provided
) SO as to carry the water away from the
i culverts as rapidly as possible.