anaheim-gazette 1908-04-23

DESTROYING GOOD ROADS Soft Rubber Tires Strip Hard Surface Highways of Rock Dust Blinder—France Calfs International Congress The Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture has recently been conducting a series of very interesting experiments to learn the amount of damage done to the rock surface thoroughfares by automobiles. The results prove that the modern fast moving motor car is the greatest menace to macadam roads that has ever made its appearance. On some stretches of thoroughfare, especially in New England, where many broad and smooth roads have been constructed, the retrogression is not less than 40 per cent and it has been forced upon the director of the office of public roads and upon many highway engineers that if some plan is not speedily devised for overcoming the bad effects of men's latest and most sensational mode of land transportation the monetary loss will be stupendous and the good work of many years will go for naught. It is not only in America that this condition prevails. The men of England, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium and other countries of the old world where hard surfaced highways are appreciated have also learned that the big soft rubber tires of the automobile are doing an almost incredible amount of harm. France has officially taken cognizance of the condition and has called an International Congress to meet at Paris on October 11 to discuss plans for saving the roads, while in no way interfering with the development of the automobile, for no scientist will centuries will have been so humanity will have gained the greatest blessings imaginable lately dust-proof thoroughfares add immeasurably to comfort human race; multiply the vast stretches of country; add millions of wealth to country urban property and do much disease, for dirt means disease 2,150,000 miles of highway United States make not less per cent of the dust which affeing people take into each year. To the time of this writing proof road surface material enough for use in country dis been found, and the experiment proceeding are therefore at the second line; the control dust by various methods of and by the use of binder mate some sections, especially the great fruit belts of California success in dust suppression attained by spraying the d with oils possessing asphaltic other portions of the country administering of coal tar pre has aided to a great extent, arings with calcium chloride that the dust can be kept at mum. Those methods how not perfect solutions of the lem of road maintenance and pression. They are merely po and while they are being added such sections of the country immediately benefitted, the problem of discovering an abtidote for the action of the air is occupying the attention of on both sides of the Atlantic solution of that problem may at the big Congress at fall, or it may be discovered possibly on this side of the ocean; possibly in the lands w roads were known when Am glum and other countries of the old world where hard surfaced highways are appreciated have also learned that the big soft rubber tires of the automobile are doing an almost incredible amount of harm. France has officially taken cognizance of the condition and has called an International Congress to meet at Paris on October 11 to discuss plans for saving the roads, while in no way interfering with the development of the automobile. For no scientist will condemn one worthy civilizing influence because it temporarily conflicts with another. He will merely admit that a new condition has arisen and then set on foot an investigation with the idea of mastering it. To many it may seem beyond belief that a pneumatic rubber tire can work any injury to a road composed of bits of crushed flint rock, but it becomes plain when the theory of such roads is explained. The macadam road, named after John Louden Macadam of Scotland, who was for years highway surveyor of Bristol, was first laid down by the eminent French road engineer Tresauget of Limoges, who wisely figured that slowly moving iron tired wagons would crush dust particles from the stones of the road's surface; that those particles would be constantly sifted between the interstices of the large stones; that every passing wagon would crush them firmer into all ruts and inequalities; that rains would aid and the ultimate result would be a smooth surface, water-shedding highway. Tresauget planned wisely; MacAdam came two decades later and made a slight change in the laying of the road foundation and gave to such thoroughfares his name. For a century and a quarter the wisdom of the road engineers of Limoges and Ayr was justified. Then arose a condition they had never figured on; a fast moving vehicle running on broad soft tires. The roads began to suffer at once for the following reasons: The rubber tire, being soft, creates no rock dust itself as does the iron tire of a wagon, and the very life of these roads demands a constant supply of that material. It is the surface binder that keeps the road smooth; cracks filled in; that maintains the evenness and binds the rubble stones into one impervious mass. Every iron tired wheel does its own equal quota of The Parting of the Wheel "To hold any office for this is an honor and a sacred trust this honor, this sacred trust birthright, has been stolen and is controlled by a man in Broadway, New York. going to stand for it?" asked S. Wheeler, au attorney of Francisco, in an address by Lincoln-Roosevelt republican of that city the other day needless to say that a united and vigorous "No" was the California has come this parting of the ways. She choose between the policemen riman and Roosevelt. She dominated by representative one policy or the other. No man can serve both men he is for Roosevelt, he cannot Harriman. They represent onistic forces in our government One stands for and the other the supremacy of the law impartial enforcement. Only before the nation as proceeded the other as defendant in forcement of law. Harriman has run the police through the political machine Southern Pacific railroad why Taft, the champion Roosevelt policies, was re-endorsement by the republic central committee. The rest of the state are lining up coming primaries. It is man of them to make up on which side he is going to began to suffer at once for the following reasons: The rubber tire, being soft, creates no rock dust itself as does the iron tire of a wagon, and the very life of these roads demands a constant supply of that material. It is the surface binder that keeps the road smooth; cracks filled in; that maintains the evenness and binds the rubble stones into one impervious mass. Every iron tired wheel does its own equal quota of good by acting as a rock dust maker and a miniature road roller. The auto whirring along at dizzy speed simply flattened its tires against the ground as it sped and the tractive force so exerted hurled the precious rock dust into the air and from where it was into the adjacent farms and lawns in blinding clouds. So pronounced was the mere dust nuisance created in many portions of the country that real estate decreased in value to an appreciable extent and farmers complained that an ever increasing dust on their fields, vines and trees made it impossible for them to sell their harvests at as good prices as formerly. When these conditions had been established by scientifically gathered data the director of the office of public roads set on foot numerous investigations and ordered many experiments; the results of which it is believed will ultimately prove the automobile to be a great benefactor, for in the struggle to overcome the conditions created highway engineers must do one of two things—find a road surfacing material which makes no dust and needs no dust to maintain its integrity, or discover a method of controlling the dust on the roads already laid. When that is done one of the greatest problems of the Several years ago Gen. 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But lor, this sacred trust, this t, has been stolen from us attrolled by a man who sits away, New York. Are we stand for it?" asked Charles older, an attorney of San in an address before the Roosevelt republican league city the other day. It is to say that a unanimous no" was the answer. nia has come this year to a of the ways. She must between the policies of Hard Roosevelt. She will be by representatives of the or the other. can serve both masters. If Roosevelt, he cannot be for They represent antagorces in our government. ids for and the other against remacy of the law and its enforcement. One stands the nation as prosecutor and as defendant in the ent of law. has run the politics and government of California the political machine of the Pacific railroad. That is t, the champion of the policies, was refused an ent by the republican state committee. The republicans ate are lining up for the primaries. 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Select Some Town Lots At $60 Up Prices Advance April 24 Send for maps, price list and full information about our excursion rates to Beaumont. Beaumont Land and Water Co. 226 Mercantile Place, or 544 S. Broadway Los Angeles, Cal. Notice of Proving Will In the Superior Court of Orange county, State of California. In the matter of the Estate of James O. Stevens, Deceased. Notice is hereby given, that Friday, the 1st day of May, 1908, at ten o'clock A.M. of said day, at the court-room of said court, at the City of Santa Ana, in Orange County, State of California, has been appointed as the time and place for proving the Will of said James O. Stevens, deceased, and for hearing the application of Annie F. Stevens, for the issuance to her of Letters testamentary thereon. Dated April 15th, 1908. W. B. WILLIAMS, Clerk. F. C. Spencer and W. I. Wilson, Attorneys for petitioner. Notice to Creditors ESTATE OF MICHAEL NEIPP, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator of the estate of Michael Neipp, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 16th day of April, 1908.) to the said administrator at the office of Richard Melrose. 114½ W. Center Street, Anaheim Cal., the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the county of Orange. Dated this 15th day of April, A.D. 1908. EMIL E. NEIPP, Administrator, Enjoying the Cooling a Personally Conduit Routes without Phones, Home South If you are now is your time and see me. W routes and can you wish. East and About H April 29 an Kansas City Minneapolis St.Joseph Memphis Omaha St.Louis NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF MICHAEL NEIPP, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator of the estate of Michael Neipp, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 16th day of April, 1908) to the said administrator at the office of Richard Melrose, 114½ W. Center Street, Anaheim Cal., the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the county of Orange. Dated this 15th day of April, A.D. 1908. EMIL E. NEIPP, Administrator, of the Estate of Michael Neipp, Deceased. Richard Melrose, Attorney for Admidistrator. apr16-5t NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF HENRY N. BRAS, Deceased Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Executors of the last Will and Testament of Henry N. 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Four Routes East All information as to stopovers, etc., may be obtained at city ticket office. J. M. PICKERING, Agt. Southern Pacific, Anaheim, Cal. Southern Pacific Will Resist Alley Backs on Friday filed a petition before Judge West in the Superior Court requesting for an order restraining any from taking further action on an alley running from Los Anteet to Lemon, north of Center. The alley be opened Backs will have his residence, which stands around desired by the city for the day. Other persons whose properties been assessed to open the alley are N. H. Mitchell, Mrs. W. J. McCarthy, W. C. Warner and Fred Dyck Property owners protested against the opening of the alley during the proceedings and one of the points made in the complaint is that the city did not fix a time for hearing the objections. Backs refuses to pay the assessment of $490 levied against his property by the commissioners, and the street superintendent proposed to sell the property on Monday, April 20, to satisfy the assessment. It was to stop this that the suit has been begun in the Superior court. Joseph Scott and James L. Irwin of Los Angeles are Backs' attorneys. City Attorney Richard Melrose appears for the city.