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SOME ROAD FIGURES.

Compiled by John pl. Stuhl, Editor
and Secretary or the Farm-
ers’ National Congress.

 

John M. Stahl, editor of the Farmers'
Call and secretary of the Farmers’ Na-
tionl congress, has investigated the cost
of wagon transportation in the United
States, and the savings that would be
efiected by good roads. His' 1nvestiga-
tions were made 1n the fail of 3391 and
were probably the first inquiries into
the subject ever conducted on a large
scale. As to the results of these inquir-
ies Mr. Stahl writes: >

“I could find no previous effort that
gave me any real aid; there were guess-
es in abundance, but'only guesses. The
reports of the interstate commerce com-
mission and of the department of ag-
riculture furnished a basis from which
I could work, as well as the bulletins
then being issued by the census office,
covering the railroad, lake and river
transportation of the United States,
and giving, in detail. the amount of
freight of each class. From the various
statistics contained in these reports,
and estimates based th'ereon, l was
forced to the conclusion that the annual
cost of wagon transportation of the
country was $900,000,000, and that if
all the road improvements were made

that could be made profitably, the art--

nual saving in wagon transportation
would be $500, 000, 000. These figures
were so large, so astounding, in fact,
that I held them for some months, verd-
fying them as best I could before 1
made them public. Convinced thatthey
were substantially correct, I used them
in an address at the meeting that Or-
ganized‘ the Illinois Highway Improve-
ment association, March 30,1892. That
address was published and widely cir-
culated by the League of American
Wheelmen. 1 used these figures in an
article in Current Topics for March,
1892, entitled, ‘How to Save Five Hun-
dred Millions a Year.’ The figures were
at once stoutly disputed, but they have
never been successfully assailed. They
have often been quoted in good roads
meetings and publications, and have
been frequently verified, notably by the
United States office of rbad inquiry. 1
made the same statements before the
Farmers‘ National congress in the fall
of 1892, at Lincoln, Nebraska. At that
meeting the good roads resolution in-
troduced by me was debated more than
all other resolutions put together, bgt
was finally adopted by a good majorit'y‘.
This was the first time such resolutions

were adopted by such a representative

agricultural body. The congress has
given its hearty support to the .good
roads movement ever since, and is fa-
vorably disposed to state aid—the only
way in which good roads can be equita—
bly paid for.”

WIDE TIRES BEST.
They Possess Many Advantages

\‘V‘hich Should Make Their In-
troduction Popular.

 

A few years ago a number of peo-
ple in this district, says a Canadian
writer in the Advocate. got their old
narrow-tired wagons cut down and
three-inch tires put on, making a very
"nice farm wagon, but now there is get-
ting to be a lot of 21/2-iucl1 tires, and
those make a track that the three-inch
tire just wedges into and in the spring
and fall when the roads are freezing
and thawing it makes the three-inch
wagons go very badly. I wish you
would point out the selfishness of get-
ting the 21/2—inch tires. I believe it is
to a great extent nothing but selfish-
ness and blind indifierence and in some
cases mulish ignorance. l have proven

_ by my own experience, conclusively to

my own satisfaction. that a three—inch
tire runs easier than a two-inch on our
roads most of the time and very much
better on the farm. We drew some
stone to town last summer in June.
My man who did‘ the teaming was in
favor of the narrow two inch tire
wagon, but we used the three— inch for

week and then he took a load on the
two-inch wagon. We loaded about
4,000 to 5,000 pounds, and he said he
could draw 5,000 pounds on the three-
inch tires as easily as 4,000 pounds on
the two-inch tire. I am in favor of
four-inch tires on our gravel roads, and
if we cannot get the wide tires any
other way, we vill have to try to edu-
cate the people to theni.

A GOOD FARM GATE.

Works Splendldly and Does Not Call
for u Burdensome Expendi-
ture of Money.

The gate shown in the accompanying
illustration is made of :th‘re‘e—fourth
inch gas pipe, 3 a. One inch might be
better. The _'gate 15 15 feet wide, which
gives su'flicient room for passing
through with binders or wide loads of
any kind. It is 41/, feet high. The

 

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BANDY'FABM GATE.
horizontal crosspleces of. the gate are
made of any wire which may be at
hand. Two wooden stays. o b. are
placed five feet from each end of the
gate. The method of hanging the gate
is shown in the sketch, the particular
feature being the weight, e. 'lhis must

:be just heavy enough to almost. but not.
.quite. balance.
' must be of wood with an iron p111 at the

The post at the rear

top for supporting the gate. or can be
of iron. The gate hangs from the top
pole, d, on which rests the weight and
from the lower cerner, g. The forward
end of the hanger or pole is attached to
the gate by means of strong wire. c.
which extends from the lower cross-
piece up through the gate. The latch is
I'I L—Orangc Judd Farms r.

THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY.

slr Richard Webster Argues In Be-
half of Great Britain.

PARIS, June 22. ——The Venezuelan
bound.11y commission reassembled at 11
o’clock yesterday morning, and Sir Rich-
ard \Vebster, the British attomey gen-
cral,1esumed his speech in behalf of the
case of Great Britain. Dealing with the
period f1 om 1500 to 1637, he said Great
Britain was unable to rely on the Span-

 

.1311 or Venezuelan control and was com-
.pelled to fall back upon the discovery

and circumnavigation, so called, of the
unit of Guiana, Venezuela arguing, that
Guiana was a defined men; that Spain
had discovered that defined area and had
taken part in the name of the whole,
taking such possession as to entitle them
to the whole.

In close detail Sir Richard Webster ex-'

amined the work of the various explorers
of the period, upon whom Venezuela re-
lied, claiming they were not relevant to
the territory of Guiana, adding that the
statements made before the United States
commission must not be used in argu-

ment against Great Britain, as frequent
deductions were made which were totally
unsupported, as Justice Brewer, a for-
mer membex of that commission, would
doubtless remember.

According to counsel for Great Britain
the first explorer who finally reached
Guiana was De Berrio, and his expedi-
tion was intended, Sir Richsrd added, to
apply to a difierent part ‘or the country
and for a different object than that al-
leged by Venezuela, who sought to apply
it to a small district. Counsel protested
against its being pieced on so as to es-
tablish this “so called Spanish title,”
turthei asseiting that “it had failed mis-
erably, as both the Dutch and Spanish
historians agxeed that there was only
one Spanish settlement on the Orinoco
befo1e 1720. ”

As to the Spanish coasting voyages Sir
Richard Webster said the Spaniards oc-
casionally traded, but the Dutch traded
and settled. By the t1uce of 1609 the
Dutch position was known and acknowl-
edged by Spain, and, as Motley, the his-
totian, had stated, “the O1ange flag of
the republic was to float over all Ameri-
ca from Manhattan island to the s'h01es
of Brazil and the sttaits of \Iagellan,
pr'oxided Philip had not had ships and
soldiers to vindicate with the sword that
sovc1eignty which Spanish swords and
gen: us had once acquited. ”

Si1 Richard Webster then detailed the
exploits of the Dutch in conjunction with
Sll Waltet Raleigh, bringing his argu-
ment up to the events of 1637.

 

MISTAKEN (IDENTITY.

Sixteen Witnesses Fasten Guilt Upon
an Innocent Mun.

CINGINNATI, June 22. -Edwa1d H.
Pittman, aged scion of a noble family,
languishing in prison at the Cincinnati
workhouse, is an innocent man. New s-
papers, detectives, the police department
and a police judge thought him guilty.
Sixteen witnesses identified him as a
man who had secured money from them
by practicing a trick game. Every eff01t
was made in the police court by excellent
attorneys and Acting Police Judge I‘1anks
to see if the 16 women who identified
Pittman could not be mistaken. They
were positive. Judge Franks reset the
case and heard it at length, to give the
plisoner every possible chance, but the
detect1ves seemed more witnesSes, and
Pittman’ s efforts to prove his innocence
were futile. Every witness insisted that
he could speak German. Pittman insist-
ed that he could not, and every artifice
was used to trip him into betraying a
knowledge of the German language. Pitt-
man always said that he could not under-
stand the language. He was set down as
a “smart crook," and his picture was
plflfl‘tl in the rogues’ gallery.

Yesterday two detectives were 011 a
sheet c"o1ne1, and one of them said,
" 'Ilcllo thmc goes Pittnu’sul twin blUth-
cr dov. 11 Central avenue, as sure as you’ re
alive,” and both detectives started down
the Humble stairway after the man. He
attempted to (scape, but was overtaken.
Under his arm the man carried a bundle.
It certained all of the paraphernalia of
11-1: flower man—muslin, tissue paper,
scissors and crash—and the man could
speak German; The detectives trapped
him into speaking.r the language the mo-
ment they overtook him- The man was
taken to police headquarters and to
Colonel Dcitsch acknowledged his guilt.

 

Prisoners Break Jail.

NORFOLK, J1me 22.—The prisoners
in jail at Halifax, N. C., assaulted the
jailer yesterday morning and made their
escape, taking'the jail keys with them.
A man came to the Jailer’s assistance,
but got the .worst of it. Neither the jail-
er 1101' his friend was seriously hurt.
Blondhouuds have been sent from the
state farm to hunt the prisoners down.

Dr. Depcw In Brussels.

BRUSSELS, June 22.—Dr. Chauncey
M. Dcp‘ew arrived here yesterday from
London. He found his son, Chauncey M.
Dcpcw. Jr., suffering from the efiects of
a severe attack of congestion of the liver,
but new convalescent, They will return
to London on June 25 and leave London
for the United States on July 1.

State Supervisors of Census.
WASHINGTON, June 22.—The fol-
lowing, have been appointed census su-
pervisors in charge of work in the states
named: Samuel A. Eddy of Hartford,
001111.; George ,H. Webb of Providence,

 

 

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