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#4 dep t k 0) The rigorous winter did not deter, in the least, the steady prosecution of the work. â€" i C Excavations have been made, fillâ€"ing have been constructed, the roadâ€" grade has been made uniform, a tremendously heavy foundation of large stone has been laid down, smaller stone has been spread on top of it and for nine months the preparations have gone forward to build a. piece of perâ€" Very heavy foundation construction work has been going forward piece of road, for the past nine months. S CP Between Vineland and Beamsville The fool game that is being played on the highway between Vineland and Beamsville is a puzzle to me. h memimera Hmnura i ind in cdti p upon the to be a perpetual oneâ€"there does not seem the least as long as Biggs and McLean are in power. The facts being as stated the only conclusion we can draw from them is that the entire amount of money spent on this road. in reconstruction work | during May was thrown away and. wastedâ€"because the road repairer might just as well have patched up the old road as to commence patching the new road immediately upon its completion. C * There are portions of the road between Hamilton and the Niagara River that have never been touched since W. B. Russ was Road Superintefhdent â€"several years agoâ€"and yet those pieces of road, with a little patching could be put into just as good shape as the new road, constructed within the month, now is. But, alas and alack, although the road has only been open for traffic for less than four weeks, and although it was thoroughly oiled following its construction, the repair man was over it during the past week and reâ€" paired over five hundred holesâ€"in a distance of less than one and threeâ€" quarters miles. . Never in my experience, or the experience of any other man in Canada, has it been necessary to repair a new, wellâ€"built, macadam stone road within four weeks after its construction. ' + And there are five hundred additional holes waiting for him to operate on, during the coming week. 3 At the present rate of deterioration on this piece of road, I judge if the road-patcher\ keeps busy he will reconstruct the, entire stretch during the seasonâ€"and possibly reconstruct portions of i_t geyerél times over. f All this proves that the Minister of Public Works and Highways, Ontarioâ€" the Deputy Minister, all the engineers, the road superintendents, and the road foremen, along with their immense army of roadâ€"rollers, watering carts, road machines, stcne wagons, and army of laborers are simply engaged in aA gigantic swindle on the public, by which they are drawing enormous salaries for no other purpose than the wasting~ of money. | : 4 .tt.t‘###'t.t."t\ i Their conduct puts me in mind of the historical army that "march ed right up the hill and then marched right down again"â€"of the theatrical man who “wylkefi, ind and walked right out again. The fact that W. A. McLean, Deputy Minister of Public Works and High: ways, Ontario, and his staff of engineers, superintendents and foremen, do not know anything about roadâ€"building has been amply proven by the piece of road from GRIMSBY to GRIMSBY Beach, reconstructed within the past five or six weeks. Immediately following the completion of this piece of road, the public who use it were unanimous in the verdict that it was a very nice job and drivers of motor vehicles of all kinds were hopeful that it would prove to be a good piece of road for the entire season. ; : TWO THE PEOPLE‘S PAPER ESTABLISHED 1885 JAS. A. LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers. Issued every Wednesday from the Officeâ€"of Publishers, Main and Oak Streets, Grimsby. y f I think this takes the cake Industrial Dopartmeont Toronto and Wlnnls;; regarding land in Wostern Canada availabla fa T THE INDEPENDENT titd y‘ JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager ]. 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Toh seems losing it on this It is the sgport of kingsâ€"and is also the sport of the common peopleâ€" and it will always so remain in spite of the critigism of narrow minded cranks and faddists, and fakers. & n The people who formerly were willing to go and look at big pumpkins, fat hogs, well bred sheep and good, highâ€"stepping horses, rushed much more enthusiasti¢ally to see good orse racing. i The result was that a new track was built, and Simcoe went into horseâ€" racing, last yearâ€"and alredy, this yearâ€"on a more gigantic scale than most townsâ€"and with most unqualified success. ) And it went, without saying, that Simcoe fair‘would'always be a splendid fairâ€"but the time came when the promoters of that fair, and the business men of Simcoe realized that to keep on and attract the attention of the public enthusiastically to see good horse racing. 4 . Simcoe is a.big Town filled with energetic business men and is situated in the County of Norfolkâ€"one of the ‘best stock, grain, vegetable, and fruit producing countries in the Province. . The most prominent proof of this, that we have, is presented in the case of the Town of Simcoe, Ontario. R 5 j Up to a year or two ago, the Town of Simcoe had no raceâ€"trackâ€"and no horseâ€"racing at its fall fair. i 4 As a matter of fact there is no form of amusement which attracts the crowds, all over the countryâ€"even in he smallest ownts and villagesâ€"like horseâ€"racingâ€"and it is also a positive fact that our innumerable successful fall fairs would all go to smash were it not for the gate money paid in by people who are attracted for no other purpose than to see the horseâ€"racing. If ever a set of faddists and fakers got a bump in the eye, it was when the raceâ€"tracks opened and people flocked in" thousands to see the races, not only in Toronto, but in every other town and city where racing has been resumedâ€"showing these ultraâ€"good people that no matter what they thought about it, the general public like to see a good race. But, if one were to listen to the silly talk of people who are opposed to raceâ€"tracks and horseâ€"racingâ€"not that they care a fiveâ€"cent piece about it, except for the free advertising and notority it brings themselvesâ€"oue would think that the raceâ€"track interests were down at Ottawa, with barrels of money prepared to buy up the Government and the Members of Parliament, wholesale. 7 The raceâ€"track interests of the Province did not take half the interest in the matter of the resumption of racing as I, personally, thought they should have takenâ€"and they left, to a great extent, the whole matter in the hands of Parliament. # + Here again we have certain people imagiriing, or figi:ring out in their own minds, that everybody is crooked but themselves. About the same time, a minister of the Gospel, speaking at a public mecting, threw out the idea that the raceâ€"track men had spent money to influence Members of Parliament, at Ottawa; and this minister was forced to sideâ€"step‘his statement and to say that he did not mean what the people thought he meant. * \ Hicks conveyeh the idea that Certain interests were trying to bribe memâ€" bers of parliamentâ€"while as a matter of fact these interests were not botherâ€" ing their head about members Of Darliamentâ€"and the whole matter was imaginary. t The great fault with a jumped into politics lately, ulterior motives. y So we see that the thi big interests offering to. dividual offering to bribe Although he has de press, yet he admits he to mean that certain in of the House, to secure sation at a U. F. O. 7 " 7 ft1CIIEt and gever â€"and the president of the offered $1000 a year by a with securing this man a G Nobody has the faintes of â€"Public Works, and Hig ‘and from actions it would of its intentions, either., _ manent or supposedâ€"to4beâ€" made to cover the foundatic For nine months the foundation of large, broken time the destruction gof a mechanism of the motorâ€"ve Yet the public ‘are wit not seem the least prospe foundation.~ ... " Om Within the past few . scattered over the surface for traffc, but even thig hi pletion; and in some plac heavy stone foundationâ€"pl It has finally dawned the whole repair system cesspool into which large est hope that the Provin enormous expenditure. â€"___ Had the Department co when the Highway was ta or fifteen miles of permane spent on useless repair won The last quarterâ€"mile_ that the Department will. a surface on the road, or . As I stated, in these co on the Torontoâ€"Hamiltonâ€"E ting the weeds, and looki travelled portion. l Somebody has told meâ€" mentâ€"that Minister of Publ statement that he "wants t stone roads will not stand t this out they will then be. road construction. l If Biggs or any other m¢ noranceâ€"as he does not haV ized stone road will not staD years agoâ€"and Biggs has nOl The whole question ma statementâ€"that the amount of useless repair work wol sinking fund on the cost of The repair work on the has run into figures of feet in a place, is reasonal Torontoâ€"Hamilton Highwa "And, the lamentable f€ now got oneâ€"halfâ€"mile of . appearances we will not ha permanent surface on th Â¥ Many years ago I told tNI men, interested in our public that waterâ€"bound macadanMI7 automobile and truck traffic. . So, it will be seen that common stone road, no mati up under‘heavyy automobile . out long ago, then the Goven Several other gentlemen," Hearst and Minister of Publ 19183â€"two years agoâ€"that W carry automobile traffic and . in those districts where moto The Premier and THE INDEP xa¢t words ascribed to him| in the public aAn teferences that might be interpretated ‘¢ trÂ¥ing to exert influence upon members _ for gertain purposes. 1 iFO Government . tefce to the bri Mss Â¥~ ,ons move has been p.. ed, stone roads would not were absolutely necessary gly heavy. : over this tremendous ation to say that in that wear and tear on the housands of dollars. ts _ ent moment, there does a being placed on the : he made if through igâ€" at waterâ€"bound macadamâ€" the people knew this five himself. ncoln, and I told Premier ays, McDiarmid, early in ne material have been t a little more smooth is not carried to a comâ€" running over the raw, ons of the Department this section of roadâ€" is not the faintest idea om the public platforms, d not stand up under the truth ‘of the stateâ€" , Biggs has made the waterâ€"bound, macadam n the people have found ‘ expense of permanent being constructed, so ew days, to either put _ go to the junkheap. ing on the road that ra River is simply a find not one hundred s compared with the columns, and prominent y during 1919 and 1920 tenance cost, per mile, and this included cutâ€" road, as well as the ONTARIO nt, in the following wasted in two years id the interest and f is that we have not Ls, and from present inally decides to put a msville and Vineland. of a permanent road, would have been ten :1, without the slightâ€" htest return for the t less than has been _ created quite a sen. of Members of the = | long ago, that a d, would not stand t has not found it GRIMSBY, ONT. 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