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able to do what very much needs to be done to our roads. Our 

 roadways are so rocky that we cannot work road machines to 

 much advantage. We pay our taxes to the State, and we feel that 

 the State should help us to have at least one road for a mail route 

 that is better than we are able to have ourselves. Our roads are 

 now travelled mostly where they were located when the country 

 was first settled, before the art of road making was known. 



Hoping that your meeting may lead to a betterment of our 

 country roads, I remain yours, Fowler T. Moore, 



Road Commissioner. 



The Chairman. Gentlemen, you have listened to a 

 very interesting lecture from the essayist of the after- 

 noon. The Board has invited every road surveyor in 

 every city and town in this Commonwealth to join with us 

 this afternoon in the discussion of the question. It has 

 also invited gentlemen connected with the carriage interest 

 and the horse interest to be here and take part with us. I 

 think some of them are here. The essayist has referred to 

 the roadsides in the country. That is a subject which 

 interests every community ; and it is our duty to consider 

 the State as a whole, the future of the State in all its 

 departments, the care of it not only for the present gener- 

 ation, but for all future generations, — to look after it, 

 protect it and promote its interests. We have a gentleman 

 here to-day who is extremely interested in the character of 

 the roadsides of the Commonwealth, and we should be very 

 glad to hear from him. He is a gentleman who is very much 

 interested in the preservation of all places of historical 

 interest, and all places of natural beauty and attractiveness. 

 We should be very glad to hear from Mr. Charles Elliot 

 of Boston. 



Mr. Elliot. I have very much enjoyed the talk which 

 the lecturer has given us. It is true that I feel a very deep 

 interest in the roads and roadsides of the State. I am 

 familiar with many townships where the beauty of the 

 roadsides is so much a source of attraction that one might 

 say they arc a part of the financial capital of the town- 

 ship, drawing people from tar and near on account of the 

 beaut} r of the scenery, and the roadsides are part of the 

 scenery. 



