The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-03

powers on the eliminating organs,
"Fruit-a -tives" tones up and invigor-
ates the whole system.
Soc. box, 6 for So SO, trial size, Csc.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit.
a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY.
increase of about 43 per cent. in 1916
over 1915. With like increase du-
ring the present year we shall have
more than $4,000 registered motor
vehicles and revenue therefrom of
at least a million dollars.
eve are having constantly increas-
ing number of automobile homicides
and casualties. Existing conditions re-
quire the enactment of stricter laws
relating to motor vehicle traffic, and
severer penalties for their violation,
with a vigorous enforcement Of both.
1.-THE administration of the motor
vehicle department was, and now is,
with the Secretary Of State, who is re-
quired to hold several hundred hear
ings each year, in cases Of casualties,
to determine whether the license Of
the owner or operator shall be sus-
pended or revoked.
The department of the Secretary of
State has no logical connection with
the administration of the motor We
hicle law, and am convinced that a
competent person should be. appoint.
ed to have sole charge of the Motor
Vehicle Department.
II further. suggest that alt receipts
connected with motor vehicle admin
istration should be paid into the State
Treasury. It is obvious that all mon
eys collected by State agencies, and
all moneys paid out for State purposes
should go through the State Treasur-
ers' department.
Improved Highways.
1--WE commenced to construct i'm
proved highways in this State, in 1895,
and their cost has caused the major
portion of our Funded Debt. We
now have what is known as the Trunk
Line system of highways with an ag-
gregate length of about 935 miles,
about equally divided between the east
and west and the north and south
routes as shown by the Trunk Line
Map.
These highways fairly we'll meet
public convenience, except the gaps
or sections therein which, have not
been improved ,aggregating about SO
miles in the north and south and 40
miles in the east and west routes II
am informed by the Highway Com
missioner that it will cost about ST.
100000 to improve these sections, and
they should be the first to be irnprov-
ed.
'sMacadam roads will not last with
modern motor vehicle traffic Any
new construction should be of more
material, and all sections OF
our Trunk Line highways should be
reconstructed of more durable mate
rial as speedily as is practicable, as
this will increase their usefulness and
decrease the cost OF their
But as they now are, and especially |
rs they will be when the gaps therein
to which have referred are improved. |
they do andawin reasonably serve such
users of them as are content to keep
within the limit of the reasonable |
and proper rate Of speed provided in |
our statutes.
In addition to our Trunk Line
system of highways we have about |
known as State Aid highways Il am
satisfied that those who have travel !
ed over the improved highways of this |
and adjoining States will concede that
our highways do not suffer by the |
AS rapidly as the f1nan-
ces of the State and towns will war !
rant, there should be an extension OF I
the State Aid highways, until every |
town in the State will have conven-
lent improved highway connection
with our Trunk Line system
It is possible, if not probable, that |
you will be urged by voluntary inter-
ested agents, financed by contributions
by corporations within and without |
this State who are pecuniarily inter-
ssted in the construction of improved
highways and in supplying materials
which enter into their construction, to /
make large appropriations for inn
proved highways. This General As
sembly needs no such assistance in
determining the needs Of the State and
trust that you will not make appro-
pr1ations for improved highways
which, added to appropriations you
may make for other purposes, will not
eave a substantial amount to be APP
piled in reduction of the Indebtedness
IF the State.
Motor Trucks.
"A reasonable limit should be placed
Upon the tonnage which motor trucks
should be allowed to carry over our
highways and bridges. I am inform
I'd that some motor trucks now carry /
upwards of twenty tons as single
Dad. Such loads are destructive of
highways constructed for passenger
rattle or reasonable freight traffic, and
impose an unreasonable burden upon
he taxpayers to keep the roads in re-
pair and to construct bridges which
IAN stand the strain Of such excessive
Dads.
I'm this connection I call your at
ention to remarks in the Highway
Commissioners report under the cap
ion Of weights and Speed of We
licles."
"An' amendment to the constitution
provides that each member of this
,ody shall be paid his transportation
~ public conveyance between his
home station and the place of meet
ng during your sessions. ~
Previous to the adoption of this
when such transporta-
ion was paid it tended to prolong the
session mad delay adjournment be-
,ause so many members failed to reg