Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-26
LONG LIFE FOR
THE STATE ROADS
Additional Changes Are Mat
ters For the Legisla-
ture Nowadays

Highway Commissioner Lewis S.
Sadler informed delegations from
Clarion and Berks counties last
night that the State intends to build
long-lived roads and that while it
was not going to bear the whole
was interested in seeing that they
were in the best manner possible.
The Commissioner informed the
Clarion countians that the State now
planned to go ahead on State aid
propositions as they are recommend
ed by county commissioners. Con-
ditions have changed and we will
follow the ideas of county authori-
ties. not preferences or suggestions
made several years ago before con-
ditions changed" said he.
The Clarion people, headed by
Representative f. M. Sweitzer and
County Commissioner Jacob Stahl-
man, said shat the county had $780,
600 in sight for road building this
year and would put bond issue
for a million up to voters in the
late summer. They outlined sys-
tenn of construction including roads
from Clarion to East Brady by way
ieihAti Spui Nisiiioi " ANS"
Bethlehem through Greenville; from
Callensburg to Perryville and Ship
pensville to st. Petersburg by way
of Edenburg.
The Berks delegation said that a
million dollar bond issue was likely
in that county and asked whether
concrete foundations could not be
| used instead of broken stone and
bituminous mixture top. Mr.. Sad
rni nintF bat hn n r
ed to give the State the best roads
on the William Penn and other
highways and that the delegation
would condemn the department if it
would waste the funds.
In speaking to the Berks county
people the Commissioner outlined
what would be done where founda-
! tionS are good. THE State will
| reconstruct where needed and seal
with u liquid bituminous coating.
! On top of this a two inch bitumin n
Gus surface will be laid. The thor
oughfare will be eighteen feet wide
| plus extra side shoulders" said he.
| The completed highway will be one
| OF the best in the State and we shall
| do what we propose doing with all
| other completed highways-keep the
! first hole from appearing. l hope
! the county will put as much money
| as it can into good roads and avail
| itself of the $14S,000 to its credit
for State aid construction"
Senator George w. Sassaman
headed the delegation which in
| cluded County Commissioners J. G.
| Herbne, Daniel S. Gabel and Harry
ID. Matthews; Engineer Charles San
| ders and Controller Cyrus j. Rhode.
A Lackawanna delegation asked
for a new stretch of State highway
! from Jermyn to Tompkinsville by
| way of Heart Lake. The Commits
! sioner said it was a legislative mat
| ter. John 3. Griffith, j. ]. Jermyn,
II. d. Casey, Scranton; Harry War
rem, Scott township, and Paul NJ.
| Cure, Greenfield township, were in
! the delegation.
! Lancaster and Lebanon county
| people asked improvement of a
| secondary road from Mannheim to
! the Lebanon line and were told to
! have county commissioners recon-
| mend it. Representative A. B. Hess
was the speaker, the others present
| being Representatives S. r. thinner
man, Lebanon: G.. II. Diehm. LititZ;
| Rev. George Weaver, II. c. Trout, j.
! II. Nissley, John r. Cassell and A.
| b. Vigelsmith. Mannheim; C. c. Bur-
dan. S. r. Deepen and S. Hawes,
! Lebanon. Representative j. l.
Woodruff headed a Snyder county
! party which asked for new route
| from near Shamokin dam to North
/ cumberland, but were told that it was
a legislative matter. This party in
| cluded Robert Fiss. r. c. Burlington.
| G.. A. Kaufman, George A. Rhodes,
Shamokin Dam; Reuben Meiser, H.
j. Stammert, Charles Bolig, NJ A.
Hummel. L. j. Renner, A. c. Boust
and f. NJ Vandevender, of North
| nm herland