Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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It makes me blush when I think of my motor rides over the ruts from my country place in Virginia, where there is a toll gate every five miles and no toll is less than 25 cents.
This is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, almost within sight of the Washington Monument.
I have ridden around Paris within a like radius of the Eiffel Tower, and no tolls are charged.
The roads are like stone floors evenly laid,
and one can go on high over the steepest of hills everywhere i go i see great piles of crushed stone laid up on the roadsides i say laid up for the stones or broken rocks are of even sizes and they are stacked in pyramids or wind rows each stone seeming to have its particular place stray bits of stone are not allowed to cumber the roadway which is kept as smooth as the paving on a street in the city
At intervals, one sees also piles of Belgian blocks hoarded up.
Each block is four times the size of an ordinary brick and is evenly cut.
These blocks are used for the coping, which walls each side of the road and keeps back the grass.
Most of the new roads are of macadam on the old roadbed, but there are also miles of these Belgian blocks laid together as on our brick roads in the States.
In some places, asphalt is used, but as a rule,
The highways are of stone or macadam.
So far I have seen none of concrete.
There are but few towns of the United States that have pavements as good as these country roads of the Republic of France.
As a result, one or two horses or yoke of oxen can haul in a two-wheeled cart twice the load of hay or grain drawn by a four-horse team in America.
France is issuing bonds for making these roads in the belief that it pays a nation better
to have debts and prosperous farmers rather than to have no debts while the farmers spend so much to get their goods to the markets that they are kept poor.
Indeed, as Tristram Shandy would say, they do these things better in France.
Another thing they do better is lining their highways with trees.
In our motor car rides, we go for miles between stately poplars, some of which are as big around as a flour barrel and as tall as a four-story house.
The branches of the trees meet above us, overshading the roadway, and we can look on and on between two walls of green to the patch of blue sky in the distance.
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