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ven careful and courteous attention. If you can send them along, we will see that they are Port Perry i | pepple are not always ready to take | | advantage of the ofier. plained, and the people educated so | building and maintaining good roads, . Now that the pickling : season is at hand you will be thinking of where you ill get the best spices and gar, If you want the best McCLINTOCK'S | public sentiment, Mr McLean told of |a Scottish crofter in an outlying district | where a httle travelled road was kept | the roads, the Government pays 407, ! | | of the sdlary of a Superintendent, and | tem that should not be overlooked is | 20% if he or any other official is re- that, if the County adopts it, the tained for maintaining the road. ll | every $100.00 spent in constructing it | good roads, the Government pays $40 [per cent of the trate, _ | County --i.e., about 1 or 1} miles mn 1 each of 17 municipalities. Ea . The assessment os the County is in ery the, round figures, $26,000,000. A rate 'of 2 mills on the dollar would give The good $50,000. An issue of $10,000 deben- : "| tures could be made(making $60,000) to which the Government would add hit there can be secured: $40,000, a total of, $100,000, 1 Public sentiment in'favor 'op 1 nou of this expenditure 0 the man with a $5000 farm would | be $10 per year, and his share of the $10,000 debentures - and interest-- totalling $12.50. This amount can readily be saved in wear and tear, and time. 4 Released statute labor would again reduce the cost. This released labor could be used on roads other than the County system. roads question required to be ex- 2 Proper classification of roads according to traffic. 3 Experienced management of roads g 4 Control of roads by central au: thority. To illustrate the need of developing Some Counties have taken advan- tage of the 20 per cent offered by the Government for maintenance, and have mapped out the roads to be placed on the County system. On this stretch they have placed a repair gang. and receive the 20 per cent. for maintenance given by the Province. Twenty-one Counties have adopted the Good Roads System, and not one of them has dropped out after having started. And we are paying our share of the grant to these 21 Coun- ties, while not receiving anything our- selves. : Mr Henry, M. P. P., Seeretary of the Ontario Good Roads Association, told of his experience in the matter in York County. There only the southern half of the County entered the system 5 years ago, and now the northern half has come in and are hustling to get their share. In that County, York Township has only one- fifth of the mileage but willingly. pays half the rate. * York County is building roads to in excellent condition because: , "It's the King's highway, sir." He con- teasted this attitude with that of many 'Canadians, who, when doing statute labor, treat the matter slightingly, and tell you, they're "working for the}. King" "God save the King," said Mr, McLean : 1f a Good Roads System is started it must be maintained, because if this} is not done, the roads are soon out of repair; the money is wasted; and pub- tic confidence is destroyed, This un- fortunate condition is induced because when a good road is built, taxpayers often insist that no more money be spent upon it until the other roads in, municipalty are brought up .to that standard. : To successfully build and maintain good roads, they should be under the control of an experienced road maker, but not an engineer, whose »usiness | is more particularly to draw plans,etc. In the older countries the road super- intendent spends his lifetime at this ll | work, and the son inherits his father's; join up with Ontario County--King® ston Rd, Locust Hill, east of Stouff- ville, and at Sutton. During the course of constructing A feature of the Good Roads Sys- Province at once contributes 40 per The Government Contribution to Cost cent 0 the building and upkeep of the ve of Road Construction' County bridges, now paid for wholly is $40.00 to every $60.00 spent by the|by the County. : County. That is to say, that out of Tar Bound Macadam ! Mr Henry was asked what style of road he would suggest for villages and Cost of Good Roads small towns. He said tar bound | ¢ There is a tendency to overestimate macadam, whicly costs from 75¢ to 90c per square yard, as compared mot understand the toads re-| With $1.00 to $1.25 per square yard ¢ differént kinds of traffic. | for cement. There was no time to In the first place the main high- | 80 into the relative cost of upkeep. { county carry from 75 to 80 Sharing the County Grant - The question was asked as to the cost of good roads, because peo- whether a municipality, sueh as Port Perry would be re-imbursed for road expenditure if permanent roads were | built by such municipality before the d Roads System was introduced ty. Mr McLean said 207 of the MEAD OFFICE - TORONTO : "A Genersl Banking Business Conducted. Accounts of Farmers, Merchants and Manu- TRUST FUNDS should be deposited in our SAVINGS - DEPARTMENT. Highest current rates of Interest are STD 1873 paid half yearly. Come "PORT PERRY BRANCH GensRRRSTEEEeTR REE RE 2nd V.P.--Mr Talbot, Beaverton "the officers. They are comfortable Sec'y-Treas.--Mr Nolan, Uxbridge enough, and the grub is good, better This Executive will select repre- than at camp, We are as thick as sentative men from each municipality onions in a basket. to complete the County organization, Wednesday, July 26° sad » fom Loca organizations in paif.way across. Still foggy. Sea any. J rougher, but not too bad yet. We Te pducationa} Nork is be Car" were given the fire call and shown on now, so ty may ,,w to form up 'in case anything be able to adopt the Good Roads 4,14 happen. Some fellows shouted System afer the war iz ove, fire about 9.15. The bunch got ! dressed in short order, and then we found it was a false alarm. It is a good thing for the fellows that did the shouting that théy were not found out The following descriptive letter was 1am not sea sick yet. This is an received from Murray Watson, of the awfully sleepy job. A fellow could 109th Bn., son of Mr and Mrs T H sleep twelve hours and then some. The Watson formerly of Seagrave. The cabins are warm, as the portholes are letter was written as Murray travelled kept closed to keep out the water. from Canada to England. Hammocks are taken down in the * Monday, July 24, 1916 , morning and put up at night, and you We let down our tents in camp last have to be on the job at night or yon Thursday morning and were cleaning ™aY have to sleep on the table, but I things up for the rest of the day. haven't had to so far. Leaving about 6.30, we cared our | Thursday, July 27 heavy equipment--no small Weight: I had a fatigue duty this morning, At Kingston, we were marched down the first I have had so far--ten of us to the station--a couple of miles-- washed down two stairways--a twenty and then around town. The trip minute job, and then sweep at night, around town did up many of the boys We are off duty for the rest of the and they fell out of - the ranks and That's a good deal better than being some dropped right in the street. *a on guard. and B Companies went on the first I saw a porpoise to.day. It appears train. I amin B. We left Kingston to be only about two feet long when about 8.30, and received a glad wel- seen from the top of the ship. They come when we reached Brockville. go like the wind, swimming along in After that we went to sleep until we the warer and then shooting into the woke up next morning at Montreal. | air ten or twelve feet. You do not get much of a chance Last night we saw a ship on the to see the places as you go by. The porizon, apparently a passenger boat, next point of interest was Campbell: 1; came on sideways for a while, and ton, N.B. The stations through up, turned and disappeared. which we passed were French, and ; : fhe people took but little notice of us. | A00ther boat was: geen in the night Their farins are all long and narrow, ' coming towards the Olympic. We : :. ' gave the signal, but the other boat with houses fronting the road. You adit avewer out. call would think it was a village. The 3 and backed on 50 ve land is mostly flat, with mountains in o I and, bac ced up: ort know the bac d Covered with fofest. ik ow far we backed up, but we are go- The Se b Bonuses atc the same 3s 1 ing ahead all right this morning. in Ontario. The barns are low. The Our watches have been set back 90 chief crop is hay; very litle grain.The minutes. We caught a number of hauling is done in ope horse carts, or Pics at the time of the false fire else carts drawn by a single ox. There alarm, when they expected to get the are many oxen | men on the decks while the spies did After leaviog Campbellton we came | their work. But lhe plan failed. to English settlements, similar to On- Saturday, July 29 tario, except for a larger number of The day is fine. Very little fog. rivers. At Moncton we were paraded Feeling tip-top. Yesterday we met a briefly, and received a hearty welcome | freight steamer, and to-day we, passed In Nova Scotia the scenery is beauti- 3 sailing vessel. ful--high ridges, valleys, and rivers. Sunday, July 30 At Amherst we saw five wireless This is Sunday, but it is not any- stations, well guarded. I do not, thing like Sunday here. We are remember any other places uatil we sailing around the southern coast of reached Truro on Saturday night Ireland. It is the most beautiful pic- The Trip Across Here we had to pull down all the blinds on the train, and two guards were placed on each side of the car 10 keep the people back fifteen feet. was on guard in the officers' car atthe time. We arrived at Halifax about 1 o'clock, and slept in the train until Sunday morning, then paraded to the | We have about 7000 men on board the Olympic--103rd, 109th, 112th, 115th, 116th, the C.M.R.,, and a ture I think I have ever seen. The rocks rise for a hundred feet or more, and back of that you see the fields with their hedge fences. Looking through a telescope one can see that the crops are partly cut. We pass ships of all kinds, from fishing boats to cruisers. ; = : 'We went to the northern coast of Ireland before crossing the Insh Sea and reaching Liverpool. Altogether we went 500 miles out of the usual course, in order to avoid danger, It was a treat to be able to take off our 3 Tuesday, August 1 We have arrived safely. Had breakiast at five, cleaned up and