Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1915 — A Disgraceful Piece of Road. [ARTICLE]

A Disgraceful Piece of Road.

How Rensselaer ever expects to attract automobile tourists through this city and permit such an abominable piece of road to go unrepaired as that on College avenue from Washington street south to the city limits—the Range Line, or Remington road—is beyond our comprehension. This piece of road at the present writing is one of the worst we ever saw, and is a disgrace to Rensselaer. The excuse feiven for leaving it in this beastly condition is that there is a prospect of having it paved. This is quite remote, as it is believed a sufficient number will remonstrate to defeat the project. But, even should the improvement go' thdough, it is two or three weeks yet before the remonstrators can be heard, then it would be several weeks more —should the remonstrators lose —before the contract could be let, and perhaps one to two months longer before the work was actually started.

Is it proposed to let this muchtraveled road go without any attention whatever during all of this time, when $25 would put it in reasonably good condition by filling up the numerous sink-holes?

With the hundreds of automobile .tourists who will pass through Rensselaer this week, can we afford to let this half mile of road go unrepaired? What sort of an opinion will these tourists form of Rensselaer and its “enthusiasm for the air line highway” with such an abominable piece of road right in our city limits? The city should take immediate action, today, and put this road in temporary repair at least.