Judge — April 6, 1901 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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at the hink?” ‘That arch advocate of good roads, Colonel Albert A. Pope, who for twenty years past could glxays be counted upon for staunch support to any movement calculated to improve the high- ‘eays, is still at it, His latest move is in offer- ing to the United States Postmaster - General gn idea that, if acted upon, will furnish an im- nense stimulus to highway improvement in oral districts. The desire for a free delivery gystem is very strong in the country precincts and it is Colonel Pope's idea to place a premi- n good highways by favoring the local- ities which have the best roadways, With good roads the postal delivery men could use bicycles and motor vehicles and cover their ter- ory much more quickly and cheaply than now, Colonel Pope has sent the following let- ter to the Capital, and it sufficiently outlines his plan: rit Honorable Charles Emery Smith, Postmaster. General, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: — The experiments of the Post vice Department in the matter of free delivery COLONEL POPE'S SUGGESTION TO POSTMASTER-GENERAL SMITH. for rural districts has from the outset interested me. and I am glad to know that the success of this undertaking has been sufficient to warrant a material increase in the appropriation for this service May I be permitted to suggest that, in my opinion, greater good can be accomplished by confining such delivery to regions having proper roads, of, in other words, make the appropria- tion depend upon the condition of the roads. This should act as an incentive for towns and counties to bid for free delivery by a material improvement in their highways, and result in a benefit to your department by the increased ease, and thereby lessened expense of these deliveries. The work already accomplished by the Massachusetts Highway Commission is of in- estimable value, not so much for the amount of highways constructed by them, as for the edu- cation thus given to towns and outlying districts in the proper building and maintenance of roads The importance of highway improvement was never more keenly emphasized than by your trial of free postal deliveries and by the use of motor vehicles for suburban and country service. Yours respectfully. (Signed) ALuerT A. Pore. Ln Jos Crim—"* Was that a high fever yer son Tom had 2” Well, I didn’t think so till I got ther doctor's bill.” Amos Hay— GOLF AND THE WHEEL. Golfers, in a majority of instances, are cy- here are indeed few sportsmen or sportswomen who are to a greater extent in- debted to the wheel. Hand in hand with golf, tution, goes the country club, and as ief desideratums in locating and h a club is that it be well removed car and railway tracks, the bicycle is by f € most convenient, economical and efficient vehicle that can be employed, Throughout New Jersey, Long Island and Westchever the utility of the bicycle among devotees of the links has, perforce, been long acknovle Iced, and whatever ground for rivalry '® public favor may have been anticipated be- ‘ween wiccling and golfing has been dissipated by the general use of the bicycle among wield- 13 of th golf club, The fact demonstrates ‘ot only is the wheel one of the ventions of the past century in the the Breatest “fe of icles for pleasure and practical pur- Poses, but that it is an almost indispensable aljunct t rulgence in nearly all other out- Pastimes, ark —in expensive writing- ladelphia Bulletin, = KING EDWARD VII. AS A CYCLIST. There need be no more conclusive evidence that the bicycle is again becoming fashionable than the fact that King Edward VIT. has taken to wheeling. For the past decade England's ruler has originated thousands of world-famous fads, but he has inaugurated nothing which is bound to be copied with more universal zest than bicycle-riding. For the past dozen years or more the Royal Edward has been gradually merging toward corpulency, and has tried as 2 preventative every conceivable form of outdoor exercise, but with little satisfaction. He de- voted a goodly spell each day to private indul- gence in fencing, driving, walking and riding, | but has derived’ greater benefit from cycling | than [rom all other kinded sports. Every day the King may be seen spinning along on his wheel in the private grounds sur- | rounding Marlborough House, and seems to be perfectly at ease on his bicycle. One of the most notable men in England to emulate the King is Lord Salisbury. 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