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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

with wall around it and big palace
inside, all for themselves. with a
church strictly controlled by clergy,
and cottages with land doled out by
inches 70 peasants who did as they we're
told
Your villages also have big buildings
but they are schools, without sectarian
tests for teachers; also halls and
libraries and institutes and churches.
designed as Ruskin said churches
should be, in the same style IS the
homes around them. This means that
the older chapels are in white and
wood. with Corinthian pillars, and only
distinguished from the Colonial dwell
ing by a soaring spire, while the newer
sanctuaries, like the newer homes. are
rocA-hewn and buttressed, as if to show
that the community is now at last
firmly rooted on it's foundations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

Zach county was to pay per cent Of
the cost for each 81 900 of assessed val
uation per mile of highway within the
county, while the towns share was /
per cent. The state paid the differ
ence except that in no case should the
county pay more than 50 per cent. nor
the town more than 10 per cent of the
total assessed valuation. The total
amount paid by the state, according
to this act, was $3.50. 900 and the
amount raised locally amounted TO
s73,350
For maintenance and repair state aid
varied considerably. In towns having
an assessed valuation per mile of less
than $1,000 the state paid 100 per cent,
between $4,000 and $1,000, 90 per cent;
this percentage decreasing as valua-
ton increased until it reached so per
cent No town was to receive state
aid to exceed the average Of S25, 900
per mile for the total mileage of its
highways When the valuation eX-
cecdcd that sum the amount OF state
aid was limited to one tenth of one
per cent. The total amount expended
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

month the state began to acquire title
to the few survivors of this old system.
much to the delight and comfort of
motorists.
During the first century of state gov
eminent in New York, therefore the
care and maintenance of the public
road was left to the localities. The
commissioner Of roads in each county,
was boss, and every freeman over TWEEN
tyone was liable for duty, excepting
ministers OF the Gospel and county Of
hcials, who were exempted. In 1898
the first attempt was made to abandon
this system Of working out the road
tax. Under the new law the stat.
agreed to pay each town abandoning
it's road labor system % per cent Of the
tax.
Later "A new plan was adopted in
order to lessen the cost. Under this
plan the cost to the locality was to
be based upon the average assessed
valuation Of tho property per mile
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
HOW GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT HAS GROWN

The awakening on the part Of the
United States TO the Importance Of
good roads has been due in a great
measure to the principle Of state aid
extended 10 counties and other local
communities. New York began the
movement about twenty years ago,
when it passed law providing for the
construction Of limited number Of
costly macadam roads by the state au-
thorities, who were TO have sole charge
OF the work, the cost being appor-
toned among the state, counties and
towns upon the basis OF 30, 35 and Is
per cent.
century before. however, the state
rendered it's first aid TO the improve.
ment OF highways through the charters
Issued TO turnpike and bridge CON,
panics. These corporations were al
lowed 10 charge tolls nt rates which the
state approved. Whenever tho charter
expired the road or bridge became free
or was maintained by the state. Last
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

I Guiding such expenditures soon became
apparent. and after that time New
York decided upon the policy of pro-
vidlng the necessary moneys by the
creation of a state debt. 1t was
pointed out that this outlay is for the
benefit Of the people of the state and
in no sense TO be considered an ordi-
nay expenditure 1t was. therefore.
eminently proper that these costs
should be distributed over long pc
Rod Of years
Briefly described the issuance Of
these securities proved to be a device
whereby this commonwealth was en-
ahled 20 spread over series of years,
payments exceeding already over 1907
100000, which amount would otherwise
have to be met out of current taxes
III substance, such is the scheme
whereby New York has been enabled
to practically rebuild its highways.
practice justiiable because these i'm
rrovements will be inherited by COM
ing generations. and it is only Just and
reasonable, therefore. to ask them 10
share the burden Of expense
The benefits derived from the states
construction, maintenance and repair
OF our public highways seems to be Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Purans Appreciate Fighting Preserve What Thew
own instead OF What They Rent Remnants of Fa Raron
Wealth Pounds the Free School Instead of the Walled Park

doors, windows and shutters, as we
should call them. That is the last
touch IN dainty domesticity Our
homes have walls of brick or stone, a
severer material for the designer
more subtle, perhaps, in its appeal to
the eye-and we like our houses to be
covered with creepers
| am told that what interests YOUR
soldiers IN Old England is the way in
which hedgerows, walls or fences par
eel out the countryside into fields like
cnessboard. 1t looks complete and
tidy, as if the landscape were mapped
and finished, whereas even New Eng
land, though so thoroughly developed,
still presents panorama of forest.
trackless and often spreading into the
valleys. With US village starts sud
denly-frst fields, then cottages close
together. With you the dwellings are
we'll separated, each in an ample gar,
den; no walls or fences or gates, but
bordering trustfully on the state road
itself. You scarcely know when Won
pass from country TO town and back
again to country. There is the same
continuous avenue Of noble elms, shad
ing the grass, where children can ram
pie barefooted, finding that every door,
front and back, opens freely on to
playground. Trespassers are not
threatened, so nobody trespasses.
Thieves are trusted, so nobody steals.
NOBODY wants to trample on his neigh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
o Be Used for
Slightly Wounded

The "autochir" erected in twenty.
five days at this old race course, some
who're in France, is to be used prin.
cipally for those cases which can be
evacuated in ten days or two weeks
Many, on discharge. will go back tc
the nearby front, avoiding the long
journey which a distant hospital n-ces-
states. Those who need longer treat
ment or additional convalescence are
sent further south to the army or navy
hospitals with special facilities for
handling each type OF case. Sc salts
factory has this 60O-bed hospital
proved that he Red Cross expects to
build additional units which will
double its capacity.
Over the old track. meanwhile. the
sup still shines, or cooling rains lay
.he dust that flying hoofs once kicked
up as horse and jockey sped around
the course where men now lie con
valescent. he changes that war mas
brought to every phase of life have
touched this old scene Of holiday
pleasure. The betting booths still
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
What They Have
to Lose Is Their Own

Homework over, the mob-capped
women also realize their duty to the
landscape. Squalor cannot live in such
air; maid and matron hold up head
with fine independence. Every Amer
lean girl has liberty at the back of her
neck. Every American boy mas liberty
in the thrust Of his chin. And espe-
cially the police. (Which is the road
to Bridgeport" inquired our chauffeur
humbly. you've not got out of Siam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

poles support the huge structure, but
sturdy. solid framework. And every
tent has sure glass windows. which
open and shut to let in the breezes
cooling to parched faces. and screened
to keep away insects that will gather
here, as everywhere. Such structures
VIII last, with care, for three years or
more. and have the great advantage of
being easily and quickly put up close
to the front This makes it possible
TO move hospital with the troops it
serves, whether they make an advance
or are forced to fall back.
Along with "camouf'age," "boche, -"
''cootic," and others, a new war word
has been coined to describe these tent
hospitals. It's a jolly little gasolene-
medical word. French made and French
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

ford yet" retorted the officer as he eyed
US grimly, and it looked like twenty
years in Sing Sing. Yet we English. de-
spite the Norman Conquest and our
more recent subjugation by Scots.
Welsh, Irish and Jews, manage to SUR,
vive as hewers OF wood and drawers of
water for the free peoples of the world.
1t was, after all, the Old English who
made the New England, and. like King
Charles II, we are an unconscionable
time a-dying.
The genius of New England is hospi-
tality. Its danger IS an occasional fail
ure TO mediate on time and eternity.
AS you enter town you are requested
to drive slowly AS you leave it a
sign says Thank you" which is not al
ways deserved. Elsewhere it is wei
come to Someplace" when you arrive,
and as you depart Come Again" l am
not surprised that free citizens are pa
triotic. They have so much to lose and
it is their own.
Every city has its Roll of Honor in
some public square. with the Golden
Eagle spreading her wings over lists
Of names. From bough to bough hangs
the village service flag with stars for
the absent, and another beside it with
black stripes for the dead. From a
house where I stayed there was a stir
one early morning. A young man had
left for Europe. Only his portrait re-
mained-a face clear cut and knightlv.
with level. unfaltering eyes, framed BY
an airman's helmet--as chivalrous a
picture as the. Crusaders, for the ped
grees here go back to God. His bride.
a girl from, Vassar, tenderly sheltered
TIL yesterday, sent him away with a
smile. There was not one tremble Of
the lip, not tear in the eye. After all,
ancestry does count, and hers is the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
More Stable Than
Cloth Suggests

Though known as tent hos pital, -
this one. erected in twenty five days
on the old racetrack Of France, was by
no means as temporary as its name i'm
plies. The wards were 2Ox6O feet in
size. each with twenty-four beds: each
ward connected with the one adjoining,
and with the operating rooms and diet
kitchens, by covered passages The
Boissoneau type of tent is double. with
a free air space between the two can
vases, which makes the wards cool in
summer and warm and dry in cold or
rainy weather. No small and weakline
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Ame-1cun Correspondent o.
DcIy Netcs
BY P. w. Wilson

Au<-lcun Correspondent OF The Londo-.
DcIy News
T%HROUGH the kind hospitality Of
Fleming Revell have had a
l. JOY ride OF five hundred miles
through some Of the loveliest regions
Of New England. We went forth over
tina Mohawk Trail and the Dcrkshires,
snd we returned by Long Island Sound
With the thermometer making records,
I am inclined to share this trip with
others. and, incidentally, to compare
this New England with the old, from
which historically it sprang.
In one sense, the new is Older than
the old Names like London" or
Boston. " or Plymouth" are of vester-
day, whereas the Mohegan is primeval.
What memories OF vanished chivalry
cling 10 the Mohawk Trail, with it's
summit over two thousand feet in alti-
tude and the long tunnel OF rumbling
railroad, far, far below, In other days
the redskins blazed the trees; we row
blaze the telegraph poles. and follow
the blue or the red at some miles per
hour
Your country includes tie Rockies.
and an eminence of three thousand feet
is merely a hill. With US that would
be a mountain; we have little. if any
thing, higher. And our mountains play
up to the illusion. Whereas the Berk
shires are wooded over the SUBMITS,
the crags of WestmoreIand, where Twas
born. break aloft into rocks and preci-
pices, often snow-clad, and so emulate
the Alps, as it were, in miniature. OF
our road passes. the highest, Kirkstone.
near Windermere. has scarcely half the
elevation OF the Mohawk Trail. But it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

ride IN the cool of the evening with
Mr.. Ford and the children. am fired
with revolution for my own country
and realize what long, score we have
as reckoning against the aristocracy
which for generations despoiled US OF
our common lands and all the rights Of
the countryside. Thank God our war
budgets have shattered the big estat.st
AS to Spending
The Spells
Let me give an illustration. The big
gest people in Hatfield are the Cecils.
The biggest people in Mortified are
the Moodys. When money came to the
Moodys, through royalties on sacred
songs and solos largely sold in Eng
land. they spent it on schools for the
children, grounds for the people and an
exquisite Elizabethan church, where
anybody may preach and nobody
touches his cap.
When Queen Elizabeth allotted
wealth to the Cecils they built park
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

stand; but are filled with bales of hos
pital supplies. The little matched roof
shelters have been transformed into
smoking pavilions where yarns are
snapped to-day as in that other yester
day. but the tellers are men recover
ing from the wounds of war ma
chlnery. and the tales are tales of war
of camp, or trench, shell-hole. or
air tight. And from off the betting
boards the names of proudly bred
horses have been scrubbed away; but
rever has the old course known such
tnoroughbreds IS those who walk
about 1t now, eager to get back to the
front
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
A Call for a 900
Bed Hospital

BACK az the base hospitals more men
we're being rushed in than could be &C
commodated. and the problem Of proper
housing daily grew more serious. A
hurry call came to the American Red
Nross for 600-bed hospital-an Urgent
and immediate need. There were suffi
Gent supplies and beds-even knock
ao"n shelters-if only a suitable place
s'ulu De found Tor setting them up.
Investigations we're made, and some one
- "hom the old racetrack was a pleas
ant memory suggested that it's location
between the front and the base hospi-
'ais made 1t peculiarly adaptable for
Emergency use. The suggestion was en-
'ausiasticalIy adopted, and il took the
American Red Cross and the enlisted
men o. the Army Medical Corps just
twenty-five days 10 transform the old
"e'a INTO fully equipped 500 bed hos
p''ai Tor the care Of slightly wounded
" gaSsed American soldiers
Inc spot Was no sooner decided upon
nan the headquarters of the Red Cross
Issued orders modifying it's "hospital
.''cus crews" a body Of picked men
"e'heo for the special job Of putting
'p neid hospitals, taking them down
'ne moving 10 new positions with
ne speed and efficiency with which the
"'eh OF Barnum & Bailey throw to-
7s'"er ne stakes and poles and can
10y o. me big top Long trains Of
'''''r trucks were dispatched by the
"' medical corps TO the various Red
WIS Warehouses, in each Of which
@'''nz Just such an emergency call,
az s'ored in knock down form eyery
lax needed 20 erect tent hospital
'"sS o. two hundred beds. Frame
W. nooring, canvas, windows, foun-
"''"h supports, all cut TO size, mum
reg and packed, with every screw,
w and nut needed 10 combine them
i PACKED in groups ready to be
-, .a IN proper order on the trucks.
."' loading was accom- piishcd With al.
. so's unbelievable speed and 80 eff
J managed that those parts which
% needed first At the field were
" Tho top Of the load.
operating Rooms
On Travelling Car
Ia truck in each train NJ eighteen
'ns carried complete operating
snd equipment, and IT, trailer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

NUMEN HERE halt way between the
- firing line and the base hospitals
the sun of France shone on a de-
serted racetrack, whose course was dry
and rutted and evidenced the neglect of
long disuse. The centre field had grown
to long grass, reseeded itself, and
sprung UP again to weed and hay. The
change of seasons had washed and
burned the paint from off the old bet
ting booths. where men had once gath
cred in all the reckless Joy of holiday
mood and gambled all or little on the
favorite of the day, whose name. dimIv
traceable on the boards. had withstood
wind and rain
Here and there a matched roof shell
ter bravely Haunted the worn and faded
end Of scme gallon banner which in
happier days, when the season was on.
had blown out above the eager bettors
gathered in the shelters friendly shade.
lie empty stalls, which had been wont
to resound with the cheers and mad
shouts Of social France gathered here
10 thrill with the inimitable JOY Of a
race well run. resounded now with the
distant rumble of battle. the boom of
cannon and the shrek Of bursting shell.
summer breezes stirred the grass or
lifted the feathers Of some bird who
orayed the lone desertion of the place
and enthusiastically peckcd here and
There IN the dirt Of the track-the only
lVing thing on a spot that had, few
years ago, resounded with the gayest
life of France.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Where Art Helps
A Little

At Deertield artists live, and the aged
wooden dwellings are reprinted only
with reluctance. Personality was un
impressed by this amiable concession to
an appearance of picturesque decay.
The wooden house, with its piazza or
old colonial portico, its gables and
varied caves, its angles and innumer-
able surprises, looks best in a new coat.
especially in spotless white, with green
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Building Done
With Army Precision

There was no wasted movement. no
doubling of one on another's job. Each
man was drilled for a special task, and
went ahead with his work with all the
automatic efficiency of military pre-
clsion. AS soon as the pole men had
their skeleton shacks bolted, canvas
men put over the double tenting, floor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
Station Between Front Line and Base To Be
Used for Slightly Wounded
Americans
Americans

given to these Hospitals that move on
motor trucks" to wit. "autochirs The
auto speaks for itself; the "chir"
IS the first syllable of the word
"chirurgical,' the old-fashioned spell
ing of surgical" The term is a par
tlcularly apt one, applied to the truck
and its trailer carrying operating and
sterilizing rooms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
The Wall That
kipling Built

We had glimpse of Kipling's house.
overlooking the Connecticut, and sat in
his chair at his desk near the wall that
he built with his own hands. You could
see the bridge where years ago Moody
one day watched a goods train hurled
INTO the waters below. And we re-
turned by way OF Father Thames, jr.
The sun. simple circle of yelled red.
sank clean behind the trees which
fringe the volcanic Palisades of the
Hudson In the darkening piazza we
rocked our chairs and slowly swayed in
swinging seats.
Above the bushes hrefies spanked.
and there was music from the three
decked steamer gliding noiseless
toward Albany and Troy. Like an
awakened child. the singing owl still
sang and sang again his falling air.
while the tree toad suffered his sadden
croak to the endless adding of the
crickets. Night drew on and all was
silent save this unseen orchestra
browsing into dreams. until. with a
crash and roar black, unkcmpt
monster of an engine broke into the
foreground and challenged the tran
guilty, drawing toward the distant
maelstrom. with angry reverberations. q
mile of changing munitions It had not
passed when somebody brought in an
evening paper
I'VE are beginning now" said he. Ito
get the casualties" England, Old and
New together faces death and the
dawn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11

proud red blood of democracy, this
granddaughter Of Moody, who. if one
could tell all of the dram attic tale.
knows not how to finch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-11
operating Rooms
IN travelling Car

Sa' truck in each train NJ eighteen
,.. 'ns carried u complete operating
ana equipment, and IT, trailer
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-25
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
by Lee Pape

\ cstldday aitirnoon | went IN the shoe
place to get new heels put on my shoes,
wlch they scrtcnv needed it, aud wen |
took my shoes of to give them to the man
there was n hlg hole in one stuckinp. wich
my blg toe stuck rite thruo IT, me inolinps
at II and thinking, 6. never knew IT was
that hie before
And sat down on he bench to wait
Tor the man To get thrno. and all Of a sud
din who came IN but Mary Watkins with n
pair of ladva shoes to hc fixed and
quick stuck the foot utd the hole in IT,
under The bench. and she sod, Hello BEN
ncy, didcnt know YOU was IN hecr
I'm waiting for my shoes to get heels on.
| didcnt iNpcct you hrcr scd with my
loot still away underneath the bench.
And Mary Watkins gave the shoes Ia the
man and sal down alongside Of me. saying.
III SIT hccr and wait fnr you
II mute take n long vile. in case you're
IN hurry. ! Scd
mint scl Mary Watkins
II mtc take rrittv nrcr hour. almost,
| sod
Wat jos. for hceI~2 she ecl. my eood-
Mss wat YOU got vo'lr leg stuck away
under the bench like that ipr2
Sumthinpe the matter with II, | sod
How do you mccn. a crafup1 ~eI Mary
Watkins
Il must hr. ~od. aud she ~cd. We'll
thcn Won mus~cni stick il away under
like that that's bad for il wat Won must
do - kick 4 rite stratc ont ~ irrnt If 1ol
hard rs cuythiug pn ahcd. quict Ne
thinking 9 wei ! mito as well. cvprt-
bodve gut hie toe On, | didant and
Marv Watkins erd Well wv don't ,on
kic i ont
dnnt wini tn sol aud SIN sol
Don't hc foolish. hurry 81. klrl II stratr
ont ~ frunt 80 Won hard rs Won pnn
u mite make II Verse ! sol and eh,.
acd Rcnn, Potts that's insult, u vnu
dnnt kick vour lce sfrate ont ~ irrint ~
vou III never spotl tu vuu agrn
! dent vunt 10 | -rd Md Nar1
Watkins eoi M aud vavlsod tito nrf and
quick pulled my log out ar account If II
starting to get reel cramr ~ Il