The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 22, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 28 September 1922 — Page 3

NEW PAVEMENT OPEN FOR TRAFFIC SOON (Special to The Journal) Indianapolis, Sept. 22.—Twenty two miles of hard surface pavement of 28 miles contracted in three projects on the National road between Indianapolis and the Ohio state line, and 18-miles of 35-miles contracted on the same road between Indianapolis and Terre Haute, are completed, according to announcement today by John D. Williams, director of the state highway commission. Most of the new pavement will be opened to traffic in a short time, Mr. Williams said. Parts of it are now used by local traffic. There remains to be built this season six miles between Indianapolis and the Ohio line, and approximately 17 miles on the west end of the road. The Indian--. apolis-Terre Haute projects are divided into five contracts. Anticipating that weather conditions will permit the laying of concrete as late as November 15, it is reasonably certain all pavement . contracted on this road east of Indianapolis will be completed this year, highway officials believe. Gaps on the west and which will not be closed this year consist of three, one-half mile sections separating railroad grades, and 2.2 miles at Reelesville ivhere, by relocating the road, two exceedingly dangerous grade Crossings and the notorious Reelesville hill, known to motorists from coast to coast as a hazard, when completed, will be eleminated. The Deer Creek bridge in Putnam county, delayed account Os securing right-of-way, will not be built until next year. Relocation of the National road near Reelesville shortens the route about a mile in addition to making it safer to traffic. Highway officials explain that the delay in obtaining cement owing to the railroad tangle, together with the huge earth fills necessary to build for relocation near Reelesville which must settle before pavement can be safely laid, are responsible for not completing the entire road across Indiana this year. However, the old road near Reelesville has not been disturbed and will be used until the relocation is perfected. According to C. Gray, chief engineer of the highway department, concrete pavement laid this year is much superior in both finish and quality to that laid under 1919 contracts. At that time contractors were inexperienced, he says, on work requiring the refinement of finish demanded. The result was the finish is rough compared to concrete roads of this day. Again engineers to some extent, also were inexperienced on this class of work, he points out. The state highway department rigidly inspects all pavement before it is accepted. Inspectors first check the surface while concrete is green. The engineer in charge follows this with a check after the cement hardens. “We will insist that all high places and depressions be corrected before the final estimates are paid.” Mr. Gray says. The highway commission insists on perfect smoothness in pavement because such a road not only possesses added comfort to travel, but reduces the impact force which lengthens the life of the highway, according to Mr. Gray. Incidentally the smoother pavement means a longer period of usefulness, and a saving in upkeep costs on vehicles. The National road will be the

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I first hard surface highway cross- - 11 ing the state, and at either end connects with or is the extension of the same rigid type across adr joining states. On this trans- - continental thoroughfare after i Indiana completes her portion, 1 it will be possible to travel from 1 St. Louis, Mo., through Washing-, s ton, D. C. to Boston on hard surj face pavement. Completed the > road will cross the continent , from coast to coast. There are r several grade separations and [ bridges unbuilt at this time in . Illinois, which is slowing up the I linking up process in that state similar to the Indiana situation, > highway officials The National road crosses Indiana in almost an air line east ! and west from Terre Haute to the Ohio state line. Highway officials point out that the road in this state is eighteen feet -j wide with 5-foot shoulder on | either side. ,| o POLLUTION OF PUBLIC WATERS IN INDIANA (Special to The Journal) Indianapolis, Sept. 23. —Determined that pollution of public waters in Indiana shall be held down to a minimum in order that public health be protected and safeguarded, the state conservation department has started a campaign against firms and corporations which it is charged continue to discharge refuse matter into streams and rivers with the direct result a tremendous amount of aquatic life has been killed and health of our citizenship menaced. The courts are appealed to as a last resort in our campaign for improved conditions, says Richard Lieber, director of conservation in Indiana, and it is gratifying to note that in the hundreds of pollution cases coming to the department’s attention each year, only a few necessitate settlement in justice tribunals. Others have been disposed of satisfactorily by” the department and the firm or individual cooperating to a common end and to mutual benefit. Mr. Lieber announces that the Citizens Gas Company of Indianapolis charged with polluting Fall Creek because of a contaminating discharge of tar emulsion from the company’s Langsdale avenue plant, has been convicted in the Indianapolis City Court. The company annealed the case. Other suits filed to date are against the Princeton CanningCompany for pollution of Big Lick Creek at Brownstown; Snider Preserve Company, of North Vernon for polluting the Muscatatuck river; the Swine Breeders’ Pure Serum Company of Thorntown for pollution of Sugar Creek; the Paper Board Company and the Fort Wayne Corrugated Paper Company for pollution of the Mississinewa river at Marion. Affidavits are prepared and will be filed as soon as the various circuit courts convene in fall session, against firms at Ladoga, Franklin, Zionsville and Pierceton, and it appears at this time that the clean-up campaign of the conservation department will extend to the point of court action against firms at Elwood, Action, Shelbyville and Sharpsville. Mr. Lieber explained that polLOTS FOR SALE at Redmon Point, Dewart Lake see • Ike Klingaman Syracuse, Ind., Route 2.

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- lution investigation this summer I was in charge of John C. Diggs, i chief sanitary engineer, and that - he conducted experiments at the - i streams in question, taking fish •; from ’ above the places Where • contaminating were disII charged, and planting them be- ■• low points of contact. The result • in each case has been that all : aquatic life in the stream perished, Mr. Lieber says. The conservation department through its counsel, will prosecute all pollution cases under the statute making it a criminal i offense to kill or injure fish by polluting a public stream. The I penalty upon conviction is a fine of not less than SSO and not to exceed SI,OOO each day with court costs. Each day the offense continues constitutes a separate case, the law reads. Civic interests all over-Indiana are awarded over the matter of stream pollution, conservation | officials say, and have at last rel cognized that the time is here when' a halt must be called in this public nuisance so menacing to the health of the commonwealth. In most cases it is pointed out that firms and corporations responsible for stream pollution, have willingly aided and cooperated with the conservation department to remove the menace. For instance last year the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Refining Company of Decatur, at the instigation of the department, improved its plant by installing modern machinery at a cost of $250,000. The result w T as the company recovered an extra ten tons of sugar each operating day which formerly was discharged in St. Mary’s river as pure waste, and which polluted that stream for a dis- ■ tance of 25-miles. In addition the beet rootlets which constituted the source of contamination when they decayed, are now reclaimed at the rate of thirty wagon-loads a day and converted into stock food that brings financial returns to the company. St. Mary’s river is also free of pollution from this source, it is pointed out. In the opinion of conservation officials the public is determined that pollution of public waters cease, and already hundreds of letters to the departments lead officials to believe that more drastic legislation will be sought at the next General Assembly in order that the nauseating situation can be quickly and efficiently remedies. GEO. L. XANDERS Attorney-at-LaW Settlement of Estates, Opinions on Titles Fire and Other Insurance Phone 7 Syracuse, Ind.', People for Whom the Best Is None Too Good Are always the most enthusiastic concerning the excellence of our Dry Cleaning and Dyeing We have one of the most efficient Remodeling Departments in the country. Furs transformed into the mode very quickly. Men’s and women’s garments altered in any, way desired. We dye fur skins, and remodel in any way. We tailor make men’s or ladies’ suits, $50.00 up. Latest styles. We pay $2.50 railroad fare on every custommade suit ordered from us. Send goods parcel post. We have no agents. THE TEASDALE CO. 625-627 WALNUT STREET CINCINNATI, OHIO

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A STATEMENT Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has issued the following circular letter under date of Sept. 25: To Officers and Employes: During the past ten weeks, owing to the fact that a large number of the men employed in the shops were on strike, the Baltimore and Ohio Company has been obliged to curtail its service to a considerable extent. Much through freight, which customarily would move over the Baltimore and Ohio rails, has been diverted to other lines. The pressure for coal since the end of the strike of the bituminous coal miners has also added to our difficulties, and made it impossible to fully serve shippers located on the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio, and at some places dependent wholly upon this company for transportation. Nevertheless the shippers have shown great patience under trying circumstances. Now that the Baltimore and Ohio men have returned to work, the public will expect an immediate resumption of normal operation. This will, be impossible, no matter how hard we may try to meet the requirements of the situation. We cannot in a few days recover what was lost in a period of more than two months. However, by T united effort and with a determination on the part of everybody connected with the Baltimore and Ohio System to restore normal conditions at the earliest possible moment, in order that we may give to the public the service it has a right to expect, a remarkably quick recovery can, without doubt, be made. The officers and men upon whom an unusual burden has fallen during the strike have undergone a great strain. The management realizes this and appreciates the efforts and sacriset sum body cume along and preeches yure funeral for you. Get your FREIGHT via the SYRACUSE-FORT WAYNE TRUCK LINE J. E. Rippey Phone 103 Syracuse, Ind. “If I don’t haul your freight we both lose.”

fices they have made. The men I who have been idle, experienced [ a loss in wages equal relatively perhaps to the severe loss which the Company has sustained in consequence of the strike. To regain the business which naturally and normally belongs to the Baltimore and Ohio; to handle the business which has beeh held back but will now move; together with the increase which we must look for due to a lessened coal production during the past summer, is a task which we must now unitedly attempt to perform. It is a big task, but one which I believe we can accomplish and accomplish quickly if there is a genuine spirit -of cooperation among all connected with the Baltimore and Ohio service. For the reasons above mentioned, the Baltimore and Ohi</ Management appeals to all Baltimore and Ohio employes for a special effort; for a little additional .energy and enthusiasm, if possible, in order that we may come back quickly to a normal basis and be able to give to oiir patrons and to the public generally the kind of service which they are accustomed to expect and receive from this Company. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Daniel Willard, President. FUSE IS SAFETY VALVE One of the commonest causes of interruption of electric service ! is the blowing out of a fuse. ' Annoying as this is, it is a mat-1 ter for which the householder; should be grateful, in spite of ■ the interrupted service, for it I

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prevents a serious if not a dangerous accident. The fuse is an electric safetyvalve, inserted into the wiring circuit for the proper protection of the user of current. It is made of a soft or fusible metal, in-— tended to burn or blow out under any unusually strong load of electricity. In the ordinary house circuit there are several fuses—a master fuse, placed between the main supply wire and the meter, and smaller ones governing three or four outlets in the house circuit itself. All are safety valves. If lightning strikes outside the house, the master fuse blows out under the stroke, uid the lightning is not conducted along the wires into the house. o TRIAL BY ORDEAL Trial by ordeal still exists in some parts of Japan. If a theft takes place in a household, all the servants are required to write a certain word with the same brush. The conscience is supposed to betray its workings in the waves of the ideographs written. Tracing an ideograph involves such an\,effort of muscular directness and undivided attention that this device often leads to the discovery of the guilty party. The test is, at all events, more humane than the ordeal of boiling water, to which accused persons were formerly submitted in Japan. -—- o — At North Manchester, SaturI day. September 30, one of the : greatest auto races ever given here.