MORNING ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3l 1913.
LOS ANGELES TO
HAVE BEST ROADS
Estabiishsd Flans Gall For
Seven Hundred Miles.
TOTAL GOST $7,000,000.
Climatic Conditions In California En-
able Proper Maintenance at Small
Cost Four Hundred Miles Already
Completed.
Los Angeles county, Cal., Is deter
mined to have the very best roads in
the United States, according to F. H.
Joyner, chief engineer of the good
roads commission of that county.
Wonderful progress has recently been
made there, and the work Is being con
tinued on an enlarged scale.
In 1910 the road commission of Los
Angeles county was revised, an entirely-new
staff of officers being placed
In control. From the moment that the
new men entereu upon ineir auues
they immediately began the task of
improving the roads, which were in a
deplorable condition. Now, after two
vpnm and n hnlf nf hnrrl wnrlr rh
roads of Los Angeles county are with
out doubt the equal of any roads in
the United States, and, quoting Mr.
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EXCESIiENT MACADAM BOAD.
Joyner, "it will not be many years be
fore they will far outstrip those of any
other road system of any county in
America.
"One of the greatest reasons why
the roads of southern California can
"be brought up to and maintained in
such excellent condition," continued
Mr. Joyner. "is that the climate there,
unlike that of the north, particularly
in the northeast, where one half of the
year is extremely cold and the other
half hot, is fairly even throughout the
entire year. These extreme changes
of temperature have, of course, a tend
ency to break up the roadbed, partic
ularly in the spring, when the frost
is coming out of the ground, and a
road well made one spring Is often
entirely mined the next by the frosts.
"For these reasons quite often as
much money is required to keep the
road in repair each year as was the
Initial cost, vhile in southern Califor
nia little money is needed once the
mad In well marie, anil thp mnnpv the
northern counties use to repair the
roads can be used to Improve more
roads."
Already more than 400 miles of road
have been macadamized and are being
kept In perfect condition, and about
twenty miles are under construction.
About 300 miles have still to be con
structed before the great work will be
compietea. ah or tne smaller towns
lying In Los Angeles county have been
connected with Los Angeles city, and
now all that remains is to connect
these towns with one another and the
roads at intermediate points. Besides
the 400 miles of road comnleted. there
is a matter of fifty miles that has been
greatly improved, but not as yet mac
adamized. This is included in the 300
miles that are yet to be completed.
The cost of the work so far has been
$4,000,000. The average mile, of course,
has cost $10,000, although some miles
have run as low. as $7,000, while oth
ers have run as high as $15,000, where
it was necessary to do a large amount
of grading. The cost of the remaining
300 miles will average about the same.
$3,000,000.
How to Maintain a Road.
There is only one way to maintain a
road. The slightest injury to its sur
face or any defect likely to work an
Injury must be corrected the moment
It appears. Each little depression must
be filled in. Every obstruction to
drainage must be removed before It
has an opportunity to do its destructive
work. Such care involves a patrol
Bystein, which is nothing more or less
than a continuous Inspection of the
roads by persons capable of correcting
defects as they occur and fully equip
ped to do so. It will be more satisfac
tory and less expensive in the long run.
Co-operation Greatly Desired.
The nation can do a great deal of
good by showing the states what to do,
and the states can do a great deal of
good by showing the counties what to
do, and all can accomplish the desired
end by co-operation In the construc
tion and maintenance of public roads.
' " Obedience.
The famous Field family, Cyrus and
bis brothers and sisters, were brought
np to obey. The father was a clergy
man with $800 a year for nine chil
dren, and frugality and right living
vere absolutely necessary. Once a use
ful rat trap was missing. The father
ffave orders that when it was found It
should be brought directly to him. A
. f jw ,days afterward during service,
when the sermon was In full swing,
there was a clattering up the aisle, n It
was two of the Field boys, carrying
the lost rat trap. They gravely set
Ir down before the pulpit One of them
said simply, "Father, here's your rat
trap." Then they turned and went
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ROOM AT THE TOP.
f-T-HERE'S ever a crowd in the
I valley,
1 ' For .the lower a soul de
JL scends
The more it finds of the
smaller minds
That seek out their selfish ends.
There's companionship in the val
ley. With others your lot is thrown.
But the man who tries for the lar
ger prize
Must travel the heights alone.
lie must make for himself a path
way Where no other foot e'er trod
Till he grpws complete in content
ment sweet
As he learns to walk with Qod.
There is glory upon the mountain,
Though the summit is cold and
bleak.
Yet the radiant burst of the dawn
falls first.
Like a blowing rose on the peak.
Then dare the paths of the moun
tain. Oh, spirit with godlike fire,
Whose depths are Btirred by an In
ward word,
To struggle and to aspire.
Be not content, with the sluggard.
In the valley of life to stop.
But with purpose . bold heed the
adage old:
"There's always room at the top."
J.' A. Edgerton.
iveyv Boarder One thing I'll say for
these eggs there's nothing bold or im
pudent about them. Landlady Bold or
impudent! I don't understand. . New
Boarder Why, not a bit too fresh, you
know.
SENATOR THOMAS STERLING
New United States Senator from
South Dakota, succeeding Robert J.
Gamble. He is a Progressive Repu
lican. USES OF TULLE.
Fashion Approves of Wash Net In the
Dross World.
Now that the bodice of almost every
frock Is extremely low cut from the
chin down, the wide or narrow V
space thus formed must be partly filled
in one way or another. An easier fill
ing in method than the attached vest
or than the detached chemisette which
has an annoying fashion of drawing
out of position and lending the bodice
an askew look, is to have a tulle waist
coat which is separately put on. This
accessory is easily made and fitted If
cut after the body of a well fitting
shirt waist, as that will be a correct
ATTRACTIVE MEDICI COLLAR OP NET.
guide for the shoulders and' the arm
scyes. And to make the shoulders and
the armholes feel comfortable is all
that is necessary, as an elastic ribbon
run through n casing at the lower edge
of the waistcoat will draw it smoothly
over the bust and back and about the
waistline. If the lower . two-thirds of
the waistcoat's back is of batiste the
garment will be firmer and wear bet
ter, since that portion of it must stand
most of the strain. The fronts may be
solidly pin tucked and fastened blindly
with books and eyes or finely tucked
in groups at either side of a row of
tiny crystal buttons, while the neck
may be finished with either a standing
or a turned over collar ajour stitch
bordered. The Medici collar illustrated
is a dainty adjunct to wear with the
tulle waistcoat It is also made of tulle
or wash net trimmed with lace.
Americans Love Power.
The American, the average Ameri
can, I am sure, loves power, the ability
to do something far more earnestly
than he loves mere living. He wants
to be an officer or a director of some
thing, a poet anytbingyou please for
the sake of being it not for the sake
of living. Theodore Dreiser in Cen
tury. Pabst's Okay Specific
. Does the worx. You all
know It by reputation.
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URGE BILL TO CREATE ROADS :
ACROSS AMERICAN CONTINENT
Convention to Ask Congress For Cross
Country Military Roads.
Steps to lay before congress the ne
cessity, of building cross country mili
tary highways and the passage of such
bills, as well as to bring before the
state legislatures bills for the construc
tion of lateral roads connected with
the federal cross country highways.
J will be the purpose of a six days' con
vention of the United States Good
Roads association in St. Louis. The
association was formed at Birming
ham, Ala., and is a consolidation of
forty road building organizations that
will have headquarters in St. Louis.
The association wants the east and
west roads to be federal highways con
structed by United States engineers
and maintained by the government
An important feature of the conven
tion will be an exposition of road
building materials and machinery, un
der the auspices of the conventions bu
reau in Suburban Garden, where the
convention also will be held. It is be
lieved the entire eighty-six good roads
organizations in the United States will
be affiliated with the new association
by November.
AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC HARD
ON ALL MACADAM ROADS
Repairs, Needed Once a Year, Are Dif
ficult and Short Lived.
Highway engineers long ago discov
ered that the ordinary macadam road
has no chance under automobile traf
fic. The best of them, well founded,
and crowned and surfaced, hardly last
a season. "Spotty" repairs are diffi
cult and short lived, and a highway
nine-tenths of whose surface is in good
condition soon has to be entirely made
over because of the ruined one-tenth,
says the New York Evening Post. The
various forms of surface bound mac
adamstarred, oiled, etc. have given
better service than the plain macad
ams, but they, too, are comparatively
short lived under heavy motor traffic
and similarly defective in requiring
complete renewal when but a small
part of the road is worn out
The result of this new situation is
that the macadam road, which fur
nished a comparatively cheap and sat
isfactory highway for horse traffic, has
become one of the most expensive
forms of road surface.. The fact that
MACADAM BOAD USED ONE TEAR.
but a small part of the road surface
Is needed for motor traffic (a highway
not much traveled could carry 99 per
cent- of its traffic on two strips six
inches wide; wjiere there was more
travel four strips would be necessary)
has led to the suggestion that the rail
way track principle be applied in
building automobile highways. Ap
parently a test of this plan has not
been made at least not on a scale suf
ficiently large to furnish conclusive In
formation as to its practical value.
Such strips have been used on bridges
and about factorieswhere heavy truck
loads have to be moved.
Recently, however, the subject has
been taken up in England, and there
appears some probability . that the
"hard road strip" will be given a thor
ough test in the near future. A Brit
ish engineer, discussing the problem,
suggests the following possible hard
strip materials: Asphalt wood pav
ing, metal plates, concrete blocks. The
most obvious difficulty to be overcome
in these strip roads, is that of main
taining the proper relation between the
strips and the rest of the road surface.
There will always be a tendency, for
the macadam to break along the edges
of any hard strip, and the problem of
keeping the surface in good condition
at these points will necessarily be a
difficult one.
Will Destroy Objectionable Billboards.
Advertisers who use objectionable
or disfiguring signs or billboards along
the highways on Long Island and in
Westchester county. N. Y., have been
warned that their ' advertisements
will be destroyed by the National
Highways Protective society of the
state and that the infringers, . persons
or firms will be prosecuted for vio
lating the law which makes such signs
a misdemeanor.
Roads Increase School Attendance.
Seven millions of the 25,000,000 school
Jhildrcn in the United States do not
regularly attend school, and one-half
of these live in the country, where bad
ronds. muddy roads, rutty roads and
Sangerons ronds not only prevent them,
from getting to school, but' their im
poverishment of the farm prevent the
existence of any good schools for them
to go to.
The First Candlestick.
The first candlestick was a boy. He
sat In the corner of a Scottish kitchen
holding a piece of fir candle In his
hands, from time to time cutting and
trimming- it to make it burn brightly.
The fir candle was a length of wood
cut from a kind of fir tree which is
found embedded in the peat This
kind of candle is still used in . some
parts of Scotland. It usually fell to
the lot of the "herd laddies" to act
the part of candlestick; but should a
beggar ask for a night's lodging he
was expected to relieve, the "herd lad
die" of bis duty. A candlestick is still
called in Aberdeenshire a "pulr man,"
or "poor man." Child's Hour.
Acting Governor of New York
At Home With His Pet Dogs
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Phutos copyright, 1913, by American Press Association.
THIS is a home picture of acting Governor Marrfw H. GlynD of New York.
It shows him playing with his pet dogs, apparently unconcerned over
the tangled affairs of state Mr. Glynn became acting governor through
the impeachment of Governor William Sulzer, although Mr. Sulxer re
fused to surrender the prerogatives of his office. The governor was Impeached
by the state legislature after it had been charged by the Frawley investigating
committee that Governor Sulzer had made fraudulent returns of his campaign
funds and had used some of the checks for speculating In Wall street The
impeachment was the culmination of Sulzers fight against Tammany Halt
The trial was set for Sept 18 at Albany, N. Y.
Judgment Day For Tongues.
We have often fancied, in penitential
tooments. a day of Judgment for us
who write, when we shall stand in
flushed array before the ultimate critic
and answer the awful question. "What
lave you done with you language?"
There shall be searchings of soul that
morning and searchings of forgotten
Vages of magazines and "best sellers"
und books of every sort, for the cad
ence that may bring salvation. But
many shall seek and few snail find,
and the goats shall be sorted out In
droves, condemned to an eternity of
torture, none other than the everlast
ing task of listening to their own
prose read aloud. Atlantic.
Miners and Suicide.
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miners than among any other class of
London's Actors' Church. -Coyent
Garden is one of the sights of
London, but few visitors go to see St
Paul's. Covent Garden, which has been
called the "Actors' church," yet prob
ably next to Westminster abbey and
St. Paul's cathedral here is the church
of greatest interest to the historian,
for its famous dead number among
them not only actors and dramatists,
but famous ..people in every walk of
life, Butler of "Hudibras" fame;
Claude Duval, the highwayman; Lely,
the painter; Macklin, the actor; Arne,
the musician; Grinling Gibbons, the
sculptor, are but representative of the
celebrated folk buried in St Paul's.
London Cor. New York Sun.
Tnmtt. nximgMv fnnrl nf .not
. A lump hung In a tree will soon be
Unqualifiedly the Best
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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
Headquarters for
Loose Leaf Systems
REP. DAVID E. FINLEY
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COPVRIGHT HARRIS A EWIN& WASH
Of South Carolina. Vice-chairman
joint Postal Committee.
-Mrs. C. W. Smith and little daugh
ters who hav3 been visiting in Seat
tle have returned to Gladstone.-
CATTLE DEMAND IS '
POOR; HOGS WEAK
! Receipts for the week at Portland
: stock yars have been; Cattle 2064;
: Calves, 91; Hogs, 820; Sheep, 4096,
I and Horses 1. '
I The cattle market has suffered a
i decline since last Saturday and while
I not severe, it amounted to a quarter.
! Buyers could not be induced to bil
I over $8 for any quantity of choice
j steers. A few picked from the lot
! sold at higher prices but the bulk
was a $7.50 to $7.75 affair. Half fat
and poorly finished beef is a drug on
the market, unless of feeder quality.
Desirable feeders are selling freely at
$6 to $6.50. Butcher stock has been
uneven and prices ranged wide. Good
i cows at $7 and steers at $8. Bulls at
1 ?5 and calves at $3 are liberal quota
tions in the cattla market.
It was a difficult hog market to
judge. One short car sold" Thursday
for $9.60 and one car of contracted
stuff came into the yards Friday, but
these were the only two at the un
loading chutes on these days. Mon
day's top sales were $9.30 and one load
, Tuesday "off cars" at $9.70. What the
market would do In the event a rea
sonable liquidation occurred and buyer
I had a respectable hog spread is hard
' to conjecture. Monday had the only
j receipts of the eek and the total
j was extremely light. On the basis
j of majority of swine transactions the
j prices seem strong at $9.00 and $9.50
ana aemand nrm.
Mutton and lamb buyers furnish
ed the only interesting feature to the
otherwist draggy livestock market.
Wether scales at $4.25, ewes at $3.85,
and $4.00 and lambs at $5.25, created
an active trade. Killers are not short
on sheep house suplies, but they fancy
the prime stuff evidently, which is
but a small proportion of the total
receipts. Prices are considered
steady.
. Livestock, Meats.
BEEF iLJve weight) steers 7 and
8c; cows 6 and 7c, bulls 4 to Sc.
MUTTON Sheep 5 to 6 Hi lambs
6 to 6c. -
Poultry (buying) Hens 11 to 12c;
stags slow at 10c; old roosters 8c;
broilers 20 to 21c.
WEINIES loc lb; sauage, 15c lb.
PORK 9 and 10c.
VEAL alves 12c to lo dressed,
according, to grade. .
Fruits.
APPLES 50c and $1.
DRIED FRUITS (buyins: Prunes
on basis 4 for 35 to 40c
ONIONS $1.00 per Baos.
POTATOES Nothing d0ing.
BUTTER (buying) Ordinary
country butter 23 to 2uc.
EGGS Qregon ranch, case count
26c: Oregon ranch candled 27c.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are
as follows:
HIDES (buying) Green saled, 9c
MOHAIR 28c.
CORN Whole cGrn, $32.
to 10c; sheep pelts 75c to $1.50 each.
WOOL 15 to 16c.
FEED (Selling) Shortn $28; barn
$26; process barley, $30.50 r $31.o0
per ton.
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.
HAY (buying) Clover at $8 and
dairy feed $1.30 per hundred pounds.
OATS (buying) $28: wheat 93c:
oil meal selling $38; Shay Brook
$9; 0at kay best $11 and $12; mixed
to $11; Idaho and Eastern Oregm
timothy selling $20.50 to $23: vallev
timothy, $12 to $15.
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