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ROAD COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.
: 7 $
{t Declares That (reat Work Is fiolng on
Ltireeers] pensions In BO
{ nder the Good Roads IawFarmers
Are Brought Much Nearer to Marketée.
Opposition Gives Way to Enthasinsm
New Jersey Leade in Tmproved Rosds,
Frrwion NY f8peaials ~The Now Jer.
sop Wate Road Dmprovessent foeeosigiinn
ag wi pert id noragta from $iy ie
iaminsen, Moorestown Blanwiog
wen. Riverside and bask
shia the Postoffise Degpati
vas experiment af nu frome danliy
teal Hytriots, The desiznation
it the raonest of tha 1
Jersey was galerind he
renawniea] ax In the
roads
Ths annnal
{Benen 1. Bud
&1, 1807, sh
here wire
mile in the State |
sate ibm & 3 SE
Property owners
: Kpeotfinati iE
shout 3 % om ¥
sampiate the pork the
must fas increaeed to 3
rave Ei
sands t tn the Lepisintars
i [RES and 188 over Td © vf néw
ds wers bullts in 1855 over # silow: in
IRE aver Bl: maging tha total anssth tf
the ronds built ander the law about 23
miles, for which the Btste spent $406 500
atid the somnties and property owners sion;
ihe Hines of roads oer 81 000 000
Buriingtan County leads in the extent of
improved roads, having 613 miles, or
more than one-fourth the total and it is
in this semnty that the meal mas! deiivery
sesteom is to be freind, Mostol the roadenre
vail of macadan, but in Sonth Jersey
Fravel has been geal,
Commissioner Had says tha averags
wast per rile has leon redased folly ond
ihipd some roads having been bail af from
RUG tn RI a mils if nwip Hosoi
whers they have hewn costing from $6600
ley 9000 rier mile and the wearing ability
wili be as great and in some cases renter
pposition to the law hag changed 34 en
ihasiasm in its favor the Coanrniesioner re
page, and mops ronda are being anpiiad
for thas ean be bull! {a many years ander
hie present State arpronriation, Thera is
s great demand for the reports of the New
Yorsey Road Commissioner, whisk & bows
‘hat the subisct of good ponds is being con
sidered in many othir States,
Nearly all the larger cfties and town:
ave ma adamized roads from their son.
ros te tha farming districts. Union, Es
wx. Morrie and Passale have ballt many
wsiiee of rand onder the county law, but are
aevw embracing the State sid iaw. Th
rariners have found by expoarienes that the
nerensed taxes sit lightly spon thew and
sre a small expensy aompared with the
saving made by the mores aaey transiarts
fom of their produce to markets and the
inducement {1 offers Lo city poopie ty dotats
Bthe somniry,
The Commissioner anv the Offon of Bond
inquiry at Washington fe nrg ng New Jer
sey farmers ta try steed tracks for rosds
Spek franks would save four Atha of 1h
swe now expendsd an os mecadanared |
! The nes of broad tise js recor
spended. and the report grees the Legisis
nro to pass 8 Iaw giving a relate in taxes
onl] owners of wagons whe uss tres nol
ings than three and a hall inches wide,
The wark of ateilshing toll roads hae |
ton began, and two tumpikes in Burling
ton and Camden rounties sre lo bs soy
med as soon 8&8 the County Boards of |
Preahoiders ratify the ssticn of the xp
raisers, This will cost the cocinties $43,
the property owners 34304 apd the
state £14,347.
Commissioner Budd's report says:
“It ensta B10 ovnts por tmshel to ship
wheat fram Chicago ta New York a» Ais
tance of 900 mile 31 dosts 8 rents a bushel
‘i han! wheat on a level road 8 distanas of
dve miles. and on a sandy road It would
anst at least 9 cents gor mile ta baw ft
rhe saving on a busied of whest with good
ronde for a distance of five miles would be
ilmt equivalent to that of 600 miles of
Iransporiation by stoner or canal boat or
Wf 875 miles by eaiirond. One mile of goo!
ronds would make a saving egpual to 3
niles of railroad Heasupuviat fan. Thus
wwery mile of good roads piases the pro
daesr 75 miles by rail nearer to the ruse.
asta. It in ssttmoated that the cost of
hagiing 500 000 00 tans of farm prodase ta
market fs #2 ver ton, or just aboat #1 006.
00.009; it is also estimated that atout £0
Jer pant, of this last wopount, or $608 000
oo, woald be saved vach yoar 3 Iarmers
were able to do this hagling over good
ronds,
“These statements gre startling, bat true
They show the imipartance of good rods,
The real cost of transportation that hardens
ir agricultural classes Jathe part of it be.
swoon the farm and the town or raliway
station rather thas between the raliway
station and the market, The joes due to
had roads 1s ons of The greatest wists of
merpy connected with farming, as ft bs
mrtied of tn this country. Hoad and sires
improvement through aut the United States
is becoming a sulpert of universal terest,
fis natinnal imporianes 8 suck that to-day
{1 absoris a Jars shareol pubis attentios
in every advsnoing oily and Blate in tee
Unlon, Itisnota Xo wiiar fad or 8 mo
mentary ontery of tha penile, It fs a deep
seated Sind Bibl Appealing 10 the Les
laments of Gar slvitipation, I faa lator
io pubile affairs of tnoreasing power
Saad rosds enlist the stteition of bush
noas men, bankefs, statesmen, farmers
manufacturers, enginiors, Pistioma shivers grad
every intelligent = i, however haalde
his station in life”
PRESIDENTS BROTHER CIVES UP.
Caban Rebel OMcers and Many Privates
Lay Down Their Armas,
The Spanish authorities report that the
Cuban insargent general Juan Masso Parra,
with the forces under his command; Lieu.
tenant-Colonels Augustine Feria and Jose
Carmon Hernandez, Majors Faliciane
Quesada Raturnino Leon and Vistorano
(iomesz, with six other officers and 110 pri-
vates, well armed and well supplied with
ammunition, have surrendered in Fomentc
to the Spanish General Aguirro and Senor
Marcos Garcia, Governor of Santa Clare
provinee,
The insurgents, it is said, delivered up
their arms according fo the ordinance
shouting, “Long live spain!” "Long live
the Guasen Regent!” “Long Hye Npanish
Cabs” “Long live autonomy!’ Generali
Tuau Masso Parra is a lrother of Senor
Bartolome Masso, President of the Cuban
Hepublie. .
Department Stores Surrender,
Fourteen large department stores (n
Denver, Col., combined and demanded that
the newspapers of that city reduce adver
tiging rates twenty per event. The news.
papers resisted the demand and an inter.
esting fight took place, dealers in single
jines of goods also combining against the
department stores, After a fight lasting
for ninedays the department stores made
an unconditional surrender,
[ UNITED STATES SENATE FOR SILVER.
| Vote ta Take Up the Teller Hesolntion
Ritesend 41 te 15,
The United Mates mennt:
403 98 tobk ap the Teller res
ne that fovernment bumpin
Alver. Benatar Mani cays the
# tn gokd men that sb ofl
peta ie be gtd standard
«pig? throng the Honate, A disnatel
the Row Yarkg FHaoesht in peered
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The iver Spam ties
Tarren egret
by ys crperw bpd
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fenifingrr. Gear
treigh. Howse
Nelonn, Fisgt 5
Apooner. Tharton snd Wet
Bonator Maruby of New } 57
tor Sevith of Now Jersey werd glaent Me
Smith wat urpaired Mr Moarihvs
neiticon eras only indirectly sussetad hoy
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Satin,
be RveE "wou
mun voted with fhe
all bat war gbaent
the second and mare
agen
WHITE ELECTED CHAIRMAN
Bailey's Friends Make Him Head of the
Democratic Congressional Cosnmittes,
The New Dierpoireatis Chmp roe boned Dom.
mitten gt Washingto
Senator White of ©
friends
favarabin tn Fs 5 PY
next Howes in |
SE peap rial RR ES 20
ex prosessed 1p Kent
thumagh Mewary
siehsrdeny of
vomiting, srl Miers
srominent fn the
spekerahin inne,
Mr Bai bey frit t at ft wa hn pt
ie entirely we
An une ae
SEnAl aT
INCREASE IN TIN PRODUCTION.
Nearly 140,000 600 Mere Foonds Las:
bunr Than in 1506
The report of Mr Aver sapesial ages
the Recratary of the Tressury,
Austion of tin and ternun
Usted Staten during
Juns 530 189
Can vas $48,
Rn SA oat
ES te
elabty.pipht per cont,
wilgllng Hatter than
per coe panded sgoars
This ta wp ine
Hitie fems tang 140 009
forty-five per cont, ae compares
The total importation during
244.407 601 priands and the
the same paricd 155 540 1
Ing the net hinicorts 10 190471 t
production of
was more th
consumption,
The annanl ear
pleted and fo process of constr
50, 1897 ia Wald to bev ghaint
wounds. The report also states that
Anaary 4, , the prices of roke
fasten jer boy of fourteen by twenis
08 pounds, 112 sheets. was for As
srodust $1.1) and for the forelen
4. Nevertheless the American
is stated to ba in all respects ge goo
as satisfastary as the freien artiols.
The quantity of American shret iron an a}
and steel made ! ¥
manafacturing
wares tinned or
YEAT was Fah a Di
113 pounds of
The yp iu 1h
£36 435 835
of 102.4080
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Senalois Wad
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active,
[CUBANDAY IN THE HOUSE.
Futile Fight to Get the Belligerency
Resolution to a Vote.
Y
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Speaker Ford Fakes the Calan Eesndation
Oot of (reder and the Majority Sausalite
Mis PBaling—The FPreident's Policy
Toward Cunha Defended Ny Mr» Bitte
An Exiting Session of the Hames,
r entornd
! « Ei hair
Ezritomnnt and
Anger manors
duelgre §
aa tha Sowing er vest the
£0 8 TA iy
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an tha tabla Ths year an
manded sud sbaainat top dd
Shp grein ton
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Edward Da? Kills Wile sad Mother dn
Paw nn Naw Ilaven,
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PASAY (O- AR
Artis [norease,
THE NEWS £PITOWIZED.
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Washington Tieone.
Homer Mr
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:
, John W. Griggs , of New Jersey, Nom-
pated For Attarne y-Oenerdl,
TO RESIGN HIS GOV ERNORSHIP.
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ratdent MeRinley sent fo the Senne
the Nominatisn of Governor Sah W.
Oiviggs To Be Attarses; Geanersl, Viee
§ ipa Wy Mok snuna Flrvated to the
wigmrerey Pamela SE oteot of Wis Life.
JOHN W. GRICCS'S CAREER,
Wan Para iin New Sersiey and Hose fo
By Govermser of te Sate,
“lake
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WEDS AGAIN,
Fleasnsr WW. Collier. of Allegheny,
Pens. Hecomes Hin Bride.
Wa SLR
Hower aE 1408 Missna-
5%. Whare Dir
Presdvtoran
wid 0 Ra
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Tacmage sy third
was Wise Murs
Was Srowned «2
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Mise Susan (nrtiss Witte
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mgr several Tas lead gad
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dotting Kiosdiks travel. San Fras
watiie Taras asd Portland ad
haven pes of Te pond whose basiness 4 Ia
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$i wRiironcd fares and frezghits alone
cents? THES year Ba pecads whe Lave
Tapar Reed whe sre Seteraiined te
5 Kim ihe great Northern gold
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