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VOL. XVII, NO. 12
SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1914
FIVE CENTS
FROM RICHMOND TO ATLANTA
President Tufts Will Lead Good Roads
Maintenance Demonstration Tour
American lligrlivray Association and
United States Office of Public Itoada
lleliind Important Undertaking:
PRESIDENT Leonard
Tufts of the Capital
Highway Association
and Chairman of the
Maintenance Committee
of the American High
way Association, has
been appointed a com
mittee of one to demon
strate the maintenance of roads in the
South, and iu company with Capt. P. St. J.
Wilson, Assistant Director of the United
States Office of Public lloads ; George P.
Coleman, State Highway Commissioner
of Virginia ; Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State
Geologist of North Carolina; Preston
Uelvin, President of the State Automobile
Association of Virginia ; W. L. Spoon
and D. II. Winslow, highway engineers
of the United States Office of Public
Roads, and Secretary J. E. Pennybacker
of the American Highway Association
will inspect the roads from Richmond
to Atlanta, making the trip by auto
mobile iu the immediate future, f At
the South Carolina line the party will be
joined by E. J. Watson, Commissioner of
Agriculture of South Carolina, and at the
Georgia line by S. W. McCallie, State
Geologist of Georgia. In each county
the local authorities will proceed with
the government scouting party.
The itinerary has been fixed definitely
from Richmond, Virginia, as far south as
Cheraw, South Carolina. From that point
the arrangements are in the hands of
Commissioner Watson, while in Georgia
the preparations are being made by State
Geologist Doctor McCallie. Meetings
will be held en route, and the party hopes
to arrange with the different counties to
put on a large enough force of men and
teams to maintain the roads, these to be
under the direction of engineers from the
office of public roads who will travel back
and forth in automobiles, and the neces
sary expense of the trips will be borne
by the American Highway Association.
" Eventually we shall start from Wash
ington," says Mr. Tufts, "but at the
present time this road has not been com
pleted. It is our idea to induce the peo
ple to maintain the road from Washington
to Atlanta in exactly the same way as
the railroads maintain their roadbeds.
The engineers will be under the super
vision of the Office of Public Roads at
Washington and the American Highway
Association, and the different gangs will
be under the direction of the engineers.
It is our hope that every mile of the road
may eventually be put under this super
vision and that we shall have a thousand
miles of cheaply and well-maintained
roads as a demonstration to the different
states through which they pass.
"It has been truly said that it is a much
greater accomplishment to build a satis
factory road for $300.00 per mile that can
be well maintained for $300.00 a year,
than to build a road for $6000.00 per mile
that can be maintained for $200.00 a 3 ear.
In other words, almost any result may
be obtained if there are sufficient funds
to do it with, but this locking up of capi
tal is a great menace to the country, for
as a rule where the roads are paid for in
bonds, the roads wear out long before the
bonds mature. 1 Briefly, in maintenance
we combine anticipation which, rightly
interpreted, is past, present and future ! "
IU E DISSATISFIED II E A 11
An Ancient fairy legend With
Practical Modern Application
Oft I am reminded of the legend
of "The Dissatisfied Bear." f On the
Mountain Side he lived, grumbling and
growling at fair weather or foul ; cher
ishing shadow and disregarding sun
shine. If Berries were either too green
or too ripe; meat too tough or too
tender; water too cold or too warm.
Thus the days multiplied into weeks,
the weeks dragged into months, and the
months numbered into years.
Then "the other side of the Moun
tain" suggested itself to Bruin. Surely
there was a more comfortable den there,
more sunshine and less cloud, more de
licious berries, more toothsome quarry,
more palatable water. The dissatisfied
bear journeyed, "What'd you
find?" queried Reynard, as Bruin, gaunt,
tired and footsore, toiled homeward
weeks later. "The other side of the
Mountain ! " was Bruin's grim response.
Sunshine or cloud, fair weather or
foul, ripe berries or green, tough meat
or tender, warm water or cold, Bruin's
smile is now a benediction. High
up in the lone pine above his den he hears,
for the first time, a sparrow sing : "Hap-pi-ness
! Hap-pi-ness ! We-make-it ! We-make-it
! Our-selves ! " 1 And the mod
ern moral is: "The other side of the
Mountain" is the universal reward for
all who journey with dissatisfaction as a
companion. Justus Kendall
IN WASHINGTON'S HONOR
Annual Cotillion Anticipated as Early
Hidseason's Most Brilliant Affair
Decoration, figures and Fuvoro
Sug-g-estive of Day and Deplete
With Novelty and urprlne
dance,
issued
ANTICIPATED annu
ally as early midseason's
most brilliant affair is
tonight's Washington's
birthday Cotillion at The
Carolina ; the general
invitation, of necessity
confined outside the
hotel to those who will
conveyed in the following cards
Thursday :
G. W. won ioamortalitee
When he nicked that historic tree ;
Explanation's perfectly simple
Thus the cherry got its dimple !
In consequence we'll celebrate
G. Washington's birthday date.
This year's dance will be some party ;
You're invited Greeting's hearty!
Decorations, favors and figures will be
suggestive of the day from the opening
march to closing waltz, and the program
replete with novelty and surprise :
1. George Washington March
"Pinehurst Forever"
(Dedicated to Mr. Leonard Tufts)
2. Remember Me (Favors) One Step
"Down Home"
3. My Best To You (Favors) One Stei
"Le Gigot"
(Concluded on page three)
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