Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1916 — POINT FOR ROAD BUILDERS [ARTICLE]

POINT FOR ROAD BUILDERS

Not Always Well to Deviate From Straight Line, Even in an Effort to Get Variety. ' ’if . —’ The guiding principle in designing the position of roads and walks is utility. Nature forms no roads. They are the work of n&n and animals, and would undoubtedly always proceed In nearly straight lines from point to point if obstructions of various kind? did not interfere and cause deviations. Necessity will therefore suggest where 1 and how they should be introduced. So far as regards approaches and walks to and from buildings, the object of their introduction is sufficiently apparent; but, in laying out pleasure grounds, it is a too common practice to introduce walks for the mere purpose of variety! This is a very questionable reason at best, and not always successfully accomi>T!§fifcflV but. even in cases of this kind, they should appear to aim for some definite object, or lead to points of sufficient importance to suggest their utility.