The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-12-19
PATROL COMMITTEES
PERMANENT OFFICERS
Enthusiastic Gathering Of Represents
tive vsrmoniers Effect Organization
al ~. Johnshury.

tive vermon,ers Effect organirsiio
at ~. Johnshury.
The first gc1cral meeting of tn
Patrol Committee Of Vermont Wa
held a, ST, Joh'.sbury on Thursd1y
December 18th. Fifty-nine delegate
vcre present, representing ii eounue
and I'll the larger cities md towns bu
Barre. The mectiAg decided that tn
Patrol Committee shall for the com
ing legislative session eonilne its ef
forts TO a state wide good roads move
men, for Vermont,
A Legislative committee Of Is. on,
from each county and one at large, wa.
elected to prepare highways bill tc
present TO the incoming legislature
The members of the committee are:
W. r. Austin. Burlington, Chitten.
den.
r. T.. Healy, Bennington, Benning'
ton.
Geo. T., Chalmers, Rutland, Rutland
John NJ Thomas, Middlebury, Addi-
son.
.hian Robinson, South Hero, Grand
Isle.
H. w. Ballard, St Adams, Franklin.
VIM. Lawson, Newport, Orleans
John S. Sweeney, Island Pond,
Essex.
Gilbert Campbell, Lyndonville, Cal
edonia.
Nelson Bailey, Wells River, Orange
Walter NJ White, Springfield. Wind
Chas, A. Harris. Brattleboro, Wind
ham.
II. f. Shaw, Stowe, Lamoille
j. NJ Boutwell,, Montpelier, Wash
ington.
John Rowen, Barre, Washington.
Other committees of the meeting
were:
Nominations: +. II. Babbitt, Bellows
Falls; JAS. T. Taylor, Burlington; A.
c. Mason, Rutland; II. w. Ballard, ST.
Albans, w. w. True, Neport.
Resolutions: Max L. Powell Bur
lington; p. +. Hazen, st. Johnsbury;
c. l.. Stictney, Brattleboro; L. A.
Hamilton, Newport; A. f. Martin,
Manchester
Vice Chairman Claude A. Rich, of
Manchester presided at both the after
noon and evening sessions, the latter
lasting until l0:45 p. m. The meeting
was adjourned to the call of the chair
man OF the legislative committee.
Resolutions adopted by the meeting |
in expression Of its stand for good |
roads, were:
Resolution
Whereas. We acknowledge with /
gratitude the great improvement in
our highways during the last decade
and congratulate ourselves that while
other states were experimenting at
great cost and with wasteful extrava-
gance we have been able to utilize the
abundant road material at our doors
at modicum Of expense, and
Whereas, the amazing increase in
the volume of traffic and especially
truck traffic forces upon our immedi
ate attention new and perplexing en-
gineering problems both as to high
ways and bridges, which require an
entire revision of our laws as TO high
ways and bridges, be it
Resolved by the Patrol Committee
of the State Of Vermont:
/. That the efforts and d-energies Of
the Patrol Committee be directed cx
clusively TO the improvement Of our
highways
9 That we favor the passage Of a
law establishing a state highway de-
partmcnt to exercise all the powers
now exercised by the State highway
commissioner with power to appoint
state highway engineer and assistant
and to provide for a proper audit Of
all highway accounts, to establish and
maintain a patrol repair system for
the proper and efficient maintenance
Of state highways and TO widen,
straighten and regrade any state high
way and to acquire any lands or
4
chase OF by condemnation. We fur
iher \
Resolve that Committee be ap-
pointed 10 employ counsel to prepare
bill to present to the next Legislature
IN the line Of this resolution (
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