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CONTINUOUS HOADS.
VALUE OF UNITING SHORT STRETCHES
OF GOOD HIGHWAYS.
A Review of the Present Conditions
and a Demonstration of the Necer;-
sity For improvement us Stated b>
Colonel L. Dickinson.
i
At the recent annual meeting of lAe
Springfield (Mass.) Automobile club
Colonel W. L. Dickinson, chairman of
the executive con'iinitt e of the New
York and Chicago Road association,
spoke as follows on the movement for
continuous good roads, says the Munic
ipal Journal and Engineer:
“The movement for better roads is
$ . .uiuo lly spreading over the entire
country. Their value is so universally
understood that undoubtedly within a
few years nearly every state in the
Union will have taken some action
toward improving its highways. The
good example set by those eastern
statv s which have given state aid has
been followed until seventeen stated
of the Union have taken steps in imi- •
tat ion of these pioneers. 1 do not mean
to say that ail of the seventeen have
made large appropriations of money,
but they have all provided some state
authority to have jurisdiction in the
matter of road improvement.
“During the past few years we have
been building short stretches of good
roads to demonstrate the value of such
roads. Their value has been fully, es
tablished, and their cost cannot be
compared with the great benefits de
rived. The time has now arrived when
we should connect these short stretches
of roads to make continuous good
roads or trunk lines leading across the
country in various directions, giving
first class roads to the various centers
of trade, which will particularly bene
fit the rural districts.
“Hon. James H. MacDonald of Con
necticut is the first state highway com
missioner to recommend a state appro
priation for connecting these links to
make continuous good roads. An ap
propriation for this purpose has been
made by the Connecticut legislature.
“With a continuous good road farm
ers can haul their products to market
with a great saving of horses, vehicles
and time as compared with a poor road
or one which has sbort sections in good
repair with most of it in poor condi
tion. A perfectly good road enables
them to deliver their products at any
time and take advantage of a favora
ble market.
“The benefits derived from continu
ous good roads are of great commer
cial value to the country, affecting all
branches of trade. Reducing the cost
of transportation of our products to
market results in a reduction of the
cost of these products to the consumer.
A large percentage of the freight car
ried by the railroads and on our water
ways is first hauled over our common
roads. All transportation companies
should be greatly interested in the con
struction of well built roads, capable
of being used at all seasons and in all
weathers, as such roads would assist
In preventing congestion and in equal
ising their freight traffic.
“In large cities where roads are good
the motor truck is rapidly superseding
the dray horse. It is cheaper, more
convenient, more efficient, more hu
mane and more cleanly. Large motor
trucks are used for freighting purposes
and the delivery automobile is used by
merchants to deliver their goods. Ex
press companies use them to collect
and deliver express matter. Under fair
conditions they everywhere seem to
perform their work with convenience
and efficiency. In the west the farmer
uses the traction engine to plow, har
row and seed his land and cut his
grain. With the great improvements
that are constantly being made in the
manufacture of motor vehicles it is
fair to assume that the day is not far
distant when they will be used by the
to carry his products to mar
ket. The motor vehicle is certainly al
ready a success, and how long a list
of other important uses the future will
show no one can predict. The automo
bilist and the farmer should get to
gether and work for good roads.
“There is a growing sentiment
throughout the country that the federal
government should appropriate money
to assist in building trunk lines of
roads. Large sums of money have been
expended by the national government
to improve our waterways, to encour
age the building of trunk lines of rail
roads and to build roads in the Philip
pines. It would seem as if public con
venience and necessity demanded that
the same government should equally
assist in the internal development of
our country by improving the high
ways. It seems strange that a country
which leads the world in progressive
ness should allow its roads to get into
such a deplorable condition, ours be
ing the only civilized country that
tas neglected its highways. European
countries have national systems of
roads, the best features of which could
well be copied by this country to its
great advantage.
“The different elements favorable to
Improving our highways should unite
and urge favorable action by congress.
The people of this country are awaken
ing to the economic Importance of this
great reform, which in the near future i
will become our next national work for
Internal development. It calls for con-,
eentrated action, and all those interest-,
ed in this great problem should do every-!
thing in their power to aid the move- '
ment for better roads and to insure the)
construction of a system of highways !
which will meet the real needs of the •
country.”
j
A Paying; Investment.
Roadway improvement is by all odds i
the best paying investment a commu-i
Blty can make.
TEACHERS AND THE TEETH
Method Practiced on School Children
in Germany.
The city of Strassburg in ISO 2 open
ad a dental clinic for the care and
treatment of the teeth of the children
in the public schools and to make
such care and treatment compulsory.
The children are treated tree oi cost
and are given instruction in the care
of the teeth and keeping Liem clean.
Since the establishment of the Strass
burg clinic similar ones have been
opened in Darmstadt, Mu 1 hausen and
other cities in Germany, and much
interest is being aroused.
At the Strassburg clinic 5,343 chil
dren were examined the lirsu year
and 2,GOG received treatment. Dur
ing the second year G. 900 a ere exam
ined and 4.9G7 were treated, l'ne third
annual report, just published, stums
there were 12,691 visits to me. clinic
in 1904 and 6,328 children were treat
id, tor whom 7,065 teeth were HiU and
and 7,955 were extracted, and 4,212
:>thcr children had their teeth exam
ined.
Great advancement was made dur
ing the last year in the attention
given children between trie ages oi
th. ee and six years. Oi tue children
or' these ages examined only 3G2 oat
of 2,269 had sound teeth, or less than
1G per cent. Oi the children exam
ined between the ages oi six and
, -.,ht years IGO out of n total of 2,103
had sound teeth, or but 7 1-5 per cent
Ti.e school teacher enters tue name
oi each pupil 021 a card, u nich is tak
en to the clinic, where the dentist en
ters a detailed record 01 me condi
tion of the teeth alter maxing the ex
amination, returning the card to the
pupil and retaining a duplicate of it.
The children are taug.it to clean
the teeth three times daily, and espe
cially before retiring. The dentist
also instructs the chiidern ui the use
of the toothbrush, each cii Id receiv
ing a brush for home use. The den
tist also gives each child a piece of
rye bread, and instructs him how to
masticate the same with the least jn
jury to the teeth.
Do Books Spread Contagion?
The Public Library Board of Chi
cago became much agitated recently
over the possibility of books spread
ing contagious diseases, and so put
a special committee to work in the
subject. The chairman of this com
mittee was a celebrated scientist,
and when the committee re:>orted the
doctor had several glass tubes con
taining various germs obtained from
the books. Out of the fifty examined
not one was free from them. The
unanimous opinion was that books
undoubtedly spread contagion.
This is a fact which may well make
us serious, for though it is not neces
sary that we should allow our chil
dren to take books from a public
library, still in many states the use
of second hand school books is gen
eral. In Kentucky, for instance, sec
ond hand books have found their way
into every school and so have small
pox and other contagious disease:.
Scarcely a county in the stc te has es
caped the ravages of this disease, and
in most cases the manner of its ap
proach is mysteriously unknown.
Public spirited medical men in Cin
cinnati declare the indiscriminate use
of second hand school books is a con
stant menace to the public health. As
evidence they cite innumerable in
stances where contagion has resulted
from books exposed to infectious dis
eases, sometimes after a period of 5G
years. Books are considered one of
the best natural cultures known for
disease germs, and no mode of steril
ization will cleanse them. This fact
has long been lvzognized by health
experts. Where books have been ex
posed even to the atmosphere of
rooms in which there was contagion
present they have been promptly de
stroyed.
The dealers, to do them justice,
have all their books disinfected. But_
though the outside of be ox a may be
thoroughly disinfected, the germ may
be within between the leaves and re
main unharmed. To thoroughly fu
migate it would be necessary to sub
ject each leaf to the process, which
would naturally take so much time
and be so expensive that it would be
cheaper to buy new books than to
sterilize an old one.
Artists’ Inn in Capri.
Capri, beautiful in itself as a win
ter resort, offers an irrestible invita
tion to artists, since it has an inn
where any one by painting a picture
on the wall can get free board.
To the lo.'ely island of Capri, with
its perennial summer, its blue grotto,
and its lemon groves, came, some
fifty years ago, a ruined artist.
opened an inn, and died rich. In has
will, leaving the inn to his heirs, he
made these conditions:
“The charge per day, two bottles of
red Capri wine included, is never to
be more than six francs.
“If any artist is too poor to pay he
shall paint a picture upon some wall
space, receiving all the accommoda
tions accorded to those paying the
highest price.
“If any German artist shall come to
the inn he shall be acoommodate 1,
and shall receive the amount of his
fare to Germany upon his promise
never to return to Italy.’
The inn is conducted today on the*
conditions. Its walls are covered with
paintings. Now and then a Germaa
gets his fare home.
It is usually imagined that the i>
candescent electric light gives out
very little heat. Asa matter of fact,
only 6 per cent of its energy goes to
make light, while 94 per cent goes
Into heat.
She Was Worth a Gcod Dekl.
“When I was preaching in Walla
Walla, Wash., said the Kansas Clergy
man, “there was no negro preacher
in town, and I was often called upon
to perform a ceremony between ne
groes. One afternoon, after I had
married a young negro couple, the
groom asked the price of the service.
“Oh, well,” said I, “you can pay me
whatever you think it is worth to
you.
Th-s negro turned and silently look
ed his bride over from head to loot,
then slowly rolling up the whites of
his eyes to me, said:
*“ ‘Lawd, sah, you has done ruined
me for life; you has, for sural’ “—Chi
cago Inter-Ocean.
Slight Error.
“John,” said the devoted wife, “you
told me that there was a photograph
over at Midgelyt’s that reminded you
so much of me.”
“Did I?” asked John.
“Yes. Don’t you remember? It was
the day Mr. Midgely had you in to
see how he was having his stairway
remodeled. I was over there to-day
and I didn’t see any photograph any
where in the house that looked the
l,east like me. Was it in an album?”
“Photograph? My dear, I said phon
ograph.”—Judge.
Knew His Business.
He had been in bed for several
hours, when he heard his wife coming
home from the club, and from her
steps on the stairs he knew there
was something coming to him. He got
busy at once, and when she enter'd
the room he was tying down the bed
clothes.
“You idiot!” she exclaimed; “will
you please tell me what you are doing
that for?”
“I haven’t sailed boats for nothing,'
he replied; “when I know a squall
is coining I always tie down tne
sheets! ” —Yonkers Statesman.
Highly Charged.
Eh-yah!’ said Constable Slackput
ter, telling of the affair. “He was so
blamed drunk that he fell ov<u* his
own feet and nearly fractured his skull
by butting against a barber pole, au-t
when I nabbed him he said, says he,
‘Oshifer, what in shunder you sh’poso
zat lady wi’ zhe striped stockin’s has
got againsht me? Ponnoner nev’ saw
her beforsh ’nail m’ life.’ ” —Puck.
A Polite Freshman.
When young Meagles toc> the train
for Harvard his father said: “As
soon as you find out let me know if
you have passed your entrance ex
amination.”
Two days later, in the midst cf
making a heavy deal, he received the
following telegram: “Yes. J. Men
gles, Jr.”
Somewhat preoccupied and puzzled,
he telegraphed back; “Yes, what?”
The well-trained son wired back:
“Yes, sir.” —Judge.
Henpecked.
The prisoner had broken in on the
witnesses several times, and the judge
had reprimanded him repeatedly. Fi
nally tho judge exclaimed:
“Look here, my man, do you want
to keep us here all day?”
“Well, judge,” replied the man, re
signedly, “I might as well be here as
home, I suppose. I’m not allowed to
say anything at home, either!”
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