Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — Says stone Roads Are Failures. [ARTICLE]

Says stone Roads Are Failures.

Editor Homer J. Carr of the Gary Tribune, hit the nail squarely on the head when lie penned the following editorial in reference to the stone roads of Lake county, which have long since been proven can not stand up under the heavy traffic of the automobiles. The Tribune says': "The time has arrived for the board of county commissioners to acknowledge the macadam road is a failure, and take steps to substitute some other kind of pavement suited for automobile traffic. The larger cities have done so. It is useless •waste of money to keep on putting down macadam pavements, which have been proved so utterly inadequate to carry the traffic of the present dayr Dozens of instances are ample proof of this fact. The macadam roads built to the westward of Gary go to pieces with a rapidity that is. startling. "For a while the macadam 10a d On,West Fifth avenue held up well. That was because the traffic upon it was small. The day the through route to Indiana Harbor and Chicago was opened, the road began to fail. By next spring it will ibe nearly impassable, if it lasts that long. The whole experience of Gary with macadam roads can be offered in proo' were it necessary. We. cannot see the use of continuing to build a certain kind of ro2d after it has proved a complete failure as in this case. The best interests of tlhe taxpayers will be conserved by passing up macadam altogether in this region, and giving us something else, which has been proved adapted to the kind of traffic we have.” —Lake County Star.