Note 122 — Chapter V · THE MODERN WAGON ROAD
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Code of 1851.
[123] “Highway Engineering,” by G. R. Chatburn, pp. 125-126.
[124] J. B. Dunlop, a surgeon of Dublin, invented the pneumatic tire in 1888.
[125] One of the early books was entitled “The Gospel of Good Roads,” by I. B. Potter, and appealed directly to the farming interests.
[126] New York Times, September 11, 1892.
[127] Adolphine Hingst, under the heading “Surprised at America. A European’s Shock on Seeing its Roads and Highways,” Boston Transcript, August 10, 1892.
[128] Good Roads, September, 1892.
[129] Engineering Record, August 27, 1892.
[130] New York Times, Sept. 11, 1892.
[131] Ibid.
[132] Printed as a Senate Document.
[133] Cong. Record, Vol. 24: Dec. 15, 1892, p. 157; Dec. 21, p. 261; Dec. 22, p. 300. Senate Documents.
[134] Congressional Record, Vol. 24, Jan. 26, 1893, p. 883.
[135] Ibid.
[136] Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1893, p. 36.
[137] Bulletin No. 1, Office of Road Inquiry, p. 5.
[138] Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries, p. 46.
[139] Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries.
[140] Address on the “History and Purposes of the Good Roads Movement,” by William H. Moore, president National Good Roads Association, Bulletin No. 26, Office of Public Road Inquiries, p. 10.
[141] The Morning Oregonian (Portland), June 22, 1905.
[142] “Goods Roads Year Book,” 1917, p. 29.
[143] “The Delivery of Rural Mails,” by Charles H. Greathouse. Department of Agriculture Year Book, 1890.
[144] Cong. Record, Dec. 3, 1900, p. 12.
[145] “The American Year Book,” 1919, p. 556.
[146] Dept. of Agri. Year Book, 1900, p. 522.
[147] Year Book, 1900. Department of Agriculture, Washington.
[148] “The Constitution of the United States,” Section 8.
[149] Public Law No. 156, 64th Congress.
[150] “State Aid to Road Building in New Jersey,” by Edward Burrough, Chairman of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, Office of Road Inquiry Bulletin No. 9, 1894.
[151] “Inside History of the State Aid Road Law,” by Clayton Conrow, President of the New Jersey State Road Improvement Association, Report of the New Jersey Commissioner of Public Roads, 1900, p. 81.
[152] “State Highways in Massachusetts,” by George A. Perkins, Chairman Massachusetts State Highway Commission, U. S. Department of Agriculture Year Book, 1894, p. 505.
[153] Office of Public Roads Bulletin No. 136.
[154] “The American Year Book,” D. Appleton Co., New York, 1919, 1920.
[155] House Document No. 1510, “Federal Aid to Good Roads,” being Vol. 99, of the House Documents.
[156] Vol. LIII, 1916. See page references at end of chapter.
[157] Circular No. 65, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Public Roads.
[158] “American Year Book,” 1920, p. 308. D. Appleton & Company, New York.