Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — PATROL SYSTEM IS BEST METHOD [ARTICLE]

PATROL SYSTEM IS BEST METHOD

For Maintenance of Improved Highways Of the Country. Indianapolis, November 21.—Regardless of the type of highway, better methods of maintaining roads must be adopted iip-Indiana if the thoroughfares of the state are to be kept safe for traffic and in condition for comfortable travel. This is the conclusion of M. E. Noblet, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, who has just returned from a trip of 3,000 miles to investigate road conditions between Indianapolis, Washington, D. C., Philadelphia and New York City and vicinity. Mr. Noblet says he learned that good road men generally feel that evidence at hand is so overwhelmingly in favor of the patrol system of road maintenance which the next Indiana legislature will be asked to establish that he is confident the law will be enacted. With few exceptions' all roads traversed by Mr. Noblet fromOolumbHs east were of concrete, brick or some form of macadam-. The most difficult stretch to travel over, said Mr. Noblet, is the gravel road between Indianapolis and Richmond, and particularly in Henry county. It is full of small holes from the size of a saucer to as large as a good sized pan. It has become heavily crowned by the practice of dumping a full load of gravel in the middle of the track without spreading, being left to be packed by traffic. a