New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 2

RIAD | Four Lane Width on Boston Post Road in Orangé First Rider Usod Trail From New York Jan. 88, 1678 " Teday, January 21, marks the 286th birthday ef ene of America's “and Connecticut's greatest highways —The Boston Post Road. It was £55 | yours ago today, in 1673, that the first horseback post left New York City to blase the trail over a long and hazardous journey along a * ild and bleak coast to Boston, the first attempt ever made to link by a land route the two largest cities of co- lonial America. The first post rider, who seems to have gone nameless as far as history 1a concerned, was scheduled to leave New York City on the pioneer trip _to Boston on January 1, 1673, but a | delay in the delivery of some : st | ~packets from Albany necessitated his | delay until the twenty-second. Car- | rying measages from Governor Fran- | cis Lovelace of New York to Gov- | ernor Winthrop of Connecticut and the governor of rhe Massachusetts Bay colony, the rider left the fort at the lower end of Broadway at dawn, His progress was slow due to the necessity of conserving his mount and due to the lack of any definite route. The short winter day also served to limit his daily mileage. | QUESTIONS ANSWERED question of fact or information by | writing to the Queetion Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., enciosing two cents in stagips for yeply. Medical, legal and marital advice eannot be given, nor can ex- tended research be undertaken. Al} | other questious will receive a per- sonal reply. Unsigned requests can- { not be answered. All letters are con- ; fidential.—Editor, Two Days Leaviug New York | 5 Two days were required before the f that time, between 10,000 and 16,- rider could make his way out of | 000 vihicles were passing over the what 1s today New York City. Wa- | read each day, and the number was gon tralls and cow paths aided ! ‘Si progreas during those two days, but | the third day found him riding ‘through the sparse settlements along the Sound with only Indian trails to follow most of the time. He found ferries across the more im- portant rivers but the smaller streams had to be crossed on the ice. When the Connecticut settle- ments were reached wagon trails be- | came more frequent and could be followed confidently. From New | Haven to Hartford and thence ‘ol Springfield and Boston, the trail was | marked and progress was more rapid. The entire trip of the first ‘Boston Post required just two weeks The rider rested two days in Bos- ton and then began his return jour- ney with a packet of mail from Bos- ton. Progress was much easier on the return trip, for the rider knew ‘his way and knew at what stages of | his journey he might expect to find +tood and lodging. 3 Ohce the route was defined, the post hetween New York and Boston tecame regular. Other routes were developed from New Haven to Msssachusetts, one along the shore of the Bound through Providence, and one acroas the state of Connecti- cut through Putnam. Provisions for vellef horses at various points along the route enabled the Post to ride harder and to cut the time of the trip to one” week. Thirty to fifty miles became the average daily dis- tance, Chnnccticut Adonts Highway Act Realizing the necessity for pre- serving a right of way between the colonies, which might be free from eneroachments for all time, both | Connecticut and New York took legislative action to accomplish this purpose. Conn:cticut, in its first le- gal eode established in 1673 shortly after the post had completed fts maiden trip, included a highway act. In 1713, the New York Assombly provided forever a road four rods in .width between New York city and the Connecticut boundary. As time went on, the post routs was improved. The trail was unmls- takably defined, and eating and lodging places vecame part of the regular schedule. Bridges were erect- ed to save the necessity of fording small streama. The bridges, however, were narrow, trembling structures with railing provided on one side only. Ferries continued to be th= only means of crossing the rivers for many years to come. Almost one hundred years after the departure of the first post from New York, the first coach service Letween New Yark, Connecticut and Doston was inaugurated. The fir voach was operited by Jonathan -end Nicholas Brown. It started frem ew York on June 25, made the trip to Beston Haven and Hartford. That and many to foilow it were tours which demanded travel from sun-up to sun-down on hard, bac less seats. The iVerage daily st was 40 miles in summer and miles fn winter. Frequent stops taverns to “treat the driver” delayed the journcy. “Turmpiking” Finds Favor As years went on, attempt made to smooth the journey crude pavement process known then as “turnpiking.” The carliest raving eonsisted of a layer of rock covered with sani. This made travel excellent until rain washed v the sand, ani then with the coach tumping over bare rock, traveling ‘became wors> than ever. The ‘situation developed in the use of logs covered with gravel for crossing swamp land. The innovation crushed stone and planking for road foundations was o great improv ment and the first brick pavement was little short of a godsend In the gradual process of « tion, the Boston Post Road has to- day become one of the best examplos of modern highway construction. 1t was one of the first roads in the country to be :quipped with four lanes of traffic. It is believed to D the fongest stretch of four lane p: anent in the world time. It has been bringing highway enginecrs to Con- necticut from every part of Amer- ica and from many scctions of the world to learn the methods used in its construction. Tt is at once Con- nectieut’s pride and a symbol of its achievements in highway progress. Five years ago, it hecame obvious that with the vast increase in Post Road traffic soms means must be tound to relieve congestion. Truck traffic, able to proceed at 15 or 20 miles an hour at the best, was hold- ing passenger traffic to the rate.of speed. The dencity of 1 made ft ulmost Impossiblc senger vehicles to pass ¢ more slowly moving trucks. Even at o wers same olu- at linate T increasing at the rate of 10 per cent each year. Traffic was being affect- ed throughout Southern New Eng- land. A demand developed for the construction of a second road paral- lel to and somewhat north of the Post Road which would be limited solely to passenger cars. In analyzing the situation, High- way Commissioner John A. Macdon- ald, who Jad just taken office, de- cided that the amount of time which would be consumed 1in determining the proper location for a new route, in the acquisition of the necessary right of way, and in actual con- struction was so great that a new road would be of little assistance for sometime to come. Morcover, by the time it was built, truck traff would undoubtedly have increased to such an extent that it would be ne- cessary to permit truck travel on both reads, The country north of the Post Road was rough and hilly, and would have made construction work extrem:ly slow and difficult. The Post Toad pavement was worn out and had to be rebuilt anyway. It could he reeonstructed out of cur- rent funds, whereas the cost of a rew road would have undoubtedly required a legis! Consequently donald decid has been put into ct, doubling the width of the hi He allocated out of current depart- ment funds $1,000.000 a year to he used iIn reconstructing the post road. The work of widening was begun in 1924 with A. W. Bush- ell, Division Engincer, in charge of the reconstruction. Five miles of pavement we ilt to the double width In that vear, the new pave- mént being located in Greenwich, Darfen, and on Allingtown Hill in West Haven. Four miles more fn Darien and Westport were added in 1925, The longest streteh of road, the Milford Turn- pike, and oth in Fairficld and West 10 miles | more in miles of short st in 1927 in Fairfield, were rebuilt Nor- still_remains to be recon- ted on the Post Road one mile Armory Hill in Norwalk, two- tenths of a mile on Compo Hill in Westport, and 1 3-10 miles in De- all of this work have already been let and will be completed in 1928, There -is also contemaplated the construction of a cut-off one mil: in length to elim- Deadman’s Curve in Fairfield, and another of three miles traffie north of Milford. witness the compl 32 miles of trunkline which ics outside of the eity along the 50 mile ronte hetwoen New Hav- f and the New York State line. Total Cost May Be $6.000.000 The paverment used in doubling the width of the famous hizhway is mostly of reinforecd concrete, al- 1 1 there stretehes of asphalt, pavement itself res from 26 to 40 feet dn the raad including both nt and shoulders varies from § fect. The methods of con- struction used we most mod- crn available and been adorted by many other for similar tvpes of hizhway work. The cost of e new road affer it has been ecom- ploted this ye run hetween €5 000,000 £6,000 060 1 of r Macdonald as « through the lar sources of on entire states ar will which Com heen abla to partment’s re enue. ¢ Recanstrizction of the Post Roa tead of the s rev- corstruction of a ed the state a a2mount of money cost and lezal difficulties right of ¥ cutting a n rongh an? hilly count tate valn H n and Fair arts of New 11 connties from a i to o ) 1l to honor its e carrles an of 31 the road | LITHUANIA'S PLIGHT LAID T0 TRAITORS Priest Blames Renegade Coun- trymen for Polish Ascendancy Rev. Peter P. 8arusaitis, member who has been delivering a series of lectures at St. Andrey's church dur- ing the week, has expressed his opin- |ion on the cause of discord between | Lithuania and Poland. Father Saru- itis is a native of Lithuania but {has been In this country nearly 50 | | ycars and during that time, he has }smalod the diplomatic relations be- {tween his country and Poland. He | has prepared the following article on the question and it will be of in- terest, it is thought, to members of | both races: “I do not sec why truth should be kept sceret. All Lithuanians blame the Polish e for persccuting Lithuanians and for having deprived thera of their capital, Vilna, They should blame only the Poloniz:d Lithuanians who, having renounced pised their mother tongue, " | have assumed the Polish language and, trying to simulate the Polcs, are enying that they eare real Lithu- anians. “It is almost always the case that |all those who despise their mother | tongue are at the same time despis ing their parcnts as well as thel country. Tltey lose their faith and patriotism, “Warsaw, 1s full, at present, such Lithuanian renegades, claim to be Poles but are not. There | is no hope of concord between Lith- uania and Poland without removing from the Polish government the Lithuanian renegades. No one cun ! justly blame the Polish people for all the discords up to this time be- | cause in 1921 at Suvalki, Lithuanian and Polish delezates met and made |2 perfect agresment, signed and duly executed, that Vilna and Sinai would belong to Lithuania. A few cays after this, however, the Lithu- rian rencgades occupied Vilna and expelled the Lithuanian government., hout the Lithuanian ‘rene- . this would never have been or they have induced even the atholics to do what (is not right—what is evidently wrong, deprive & nation of its cap- | ital. “Recause of this, unless the Po- {lish people strive to rid themsclves of these Lithuanian renegades or cxelude them {rom participating in the Polish government, the peaceful | relations between th two nations ! will never return. It stands to rea- | son that will be 80 because all these Lithuanian renegades a attempt- ing to foree all Lithuanian people to imitate them, renounce their mother tongue and accept the Polish lan- guage as they “Times when thls was possible have long ago passed and they will never return. The number of Lithu- anian philologists and patriots s growing fast in spite of the men o are trying to persccute the na- tives of their own mother land. “Why is it that no othe | of des at- tempting to dostroy their own coun- try and language? Because the Lith- uvanian peopls for centuries have have a very poor chance for educn- on after the union hetween Lith- uania and Poiand through the inter- marriags of the Duke of Jagella of Lithuania and the Queen of Poland and later by the mutual consent of both countries. “Ever gince the 1 nix, sitting on ths Polish overning both countrie a word of the hut at rs of Lithu- Lithuanian 1 all times talked in Polish, xo ple folloved them and be- accustomed to meglect Under the Rus while Lith ind even th Russian cha huaniane, a transcribed books because that would have spoiled their languags altogether, Tor 40 15, Lithuaniang were deprived of their pri ver hooks. The Polish lan- much like the Ru; r this reason the speech sarrcd. Lithuanian, on hand, has no similarity of all extant languages, it is nearest to Sanserit “Of late, some Lithuanian patriots n to attraet the ntion of countrymen to the e did not was the and the i | of the Marian Order of Missionarles, | |antiquity and richness. | gades who | 'r nation | thron= | . never nsed | ger of this, “American people imagine that there must he a similarity between the Lithuanian and Polish languagea becapse almost all Lithuanians speak Polish. There is no similarity. The | reason why the people of Lithuania speak Polish is because their lead- ers induced them to spcak Polish and neglect their mother tongue. On | the other hand, the Poles do not | {epeak the Lithuanian language. *“A German philologist, Schleic er, travelled through Lithuania going from town to town gathering words and he compiled the first German- Lithuanian grammar. He did this Dbecause he wished to preserve the language for philology because of its | He puts to shame all those Lithuanian rene- who arve persecuting their vsing the eama countrymen for language.” MEMBRY OF BURNS Amniversry Banquet and Davce, {0 Be Hell Wednesday —_—— | tev, Warren S. Archibald of the | {South Congregational church, Hart- ford, will be the speaker of the evenitig at the 20th annual Burns | anniversary dinacr of the Burns | club of this city, which will be held jat the Burritt hotel Wednesday eve- ning, January subject of the address will be “Robert Burns,” |in keeping with the oc The organization p a gala affa s to make | the banau ir and the atmospher ate the ball room of the hotel. An | elaborate dinner will be scrved, fafter which the prozram will be | presented. Jone Sloan will act | toastmaster. The Tilliecootree quar- jtet will furnisn Scottish numbers. | An added feature will be an exhi- bition of Highland dancing and bag- | pipe dancing. An orchostra will for dancing which will follow. the program. Profossor M. J. Kenney will act as floor director. Dancing will continue until midnight. Henry E. C. Hill is chairman of the committee . charge of the ban- quet. He is a 4 by Edward It mage and John Pattison. The offi cers of the organization are: presi- dent, James Pattison; vice presl- dent, H. E. C. Hill; secretary, John tison: treasurer, Rdward Ra- The roeaption committee for the bananuet consist of Mr. and Mrs, Fred Stingle, Mr. and Mrs, W. G. Gibney, Mr. and Mrs, Alec Gordon. The table a t the han- quet will he rce MacA thur, Ruth Gibney, Elizabeth Gib- i ney, Jeannie Paitison, V 4 Gor- | don. Dorothy Totts, Potts, | Jessie Galbrai Alexan- {der and Jgs xander. | The following speakers have re- sponded to the annual world-wide 1910, Mr. William ident of the club; 1911, rens White, principal of [ the & Normal school; 1912, J. church; Holmes, or |achools: 1914, “Mr. Principal High Andrew Brown, vic the club; 1916, Re Maier, First Congreg | 1917, Rev. W | diet church; aker, no suzar, 1913, Mr. Stanley Lo ool; lis P 1915, -president 2. o' South Con- ' Rev. Wil- tev. S regatio; D H: Dunlop, Congregational Conn.; ian church 1 dames D. D, chureh, Hartford, Rev. Thos, P. Hai Conzrez 11 church, Rock Con tional church, 7, Tev. irk’s Episcopal LM CITY 1 (P —Frank A e of th r Co. of Rome, rday wiile W N nufact . fell dead o g from wor at the st. Arms plants here to 1. An onsibl ical examiner which aent {for hi & ree of Scotiand will perme- | as furnish music Gordon, see- | | B. Adams, D. D, Trinity Methodise | I | nt public | Fourth | herson, M. A. | re- | Q. 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