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Oct. 9,1902
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
have associated themselves together for the
purpose of forming and becoming a corporation
under the laws of the state of Nebraska for the
transaction of business as hereinafter set forth.
1. Name of the corporation shall be BANK
OF COMMERCE OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
2. Tha banking house and principal place of
transacting its business shall bain the citv of
Lincoln in the state of Nebraska.
3. The general nature of the business to be
transacted shall be a Keceral commercial bank
ing business, including the loaning of money,
rceivingdposits, buying and selling exchange,
coin, bullion, negotiable paper, securities of all
kinds, and United States bonds, making col
lections, and the buying, holding and selling of
real estate so far as not inconsistent with law.
. The capital stock of this corporation shall
be fifty thousand dollars ($T0,OUO fully paid in
before the commencement of business, divided
into shares of one hundred dollars each, which
hall be transferable only on the books of the
company. -
5. This corporation shall begin on the 12th
day of July, 1902, and terminate on the 12th
day of July, 1902, unless sooner dissolved ac
cording to law.
6. The highest amount of indebtednes or
liability to which this corporation shall at any
one time be subject, shall be the sum of - thirty
three thousand three hundred and thirty-three
dollars exclusive of deposits.
7. The affairs of this corporation shall be
conducted by a board of directors elected an
nually by the stock-holders from among their
number. The number of directors shall be
fixed by the by-laws, and shall not be more
than seven. The board of directors shall ap
point a president, a vice-president, and a cash
ier who shall' perform the duties usually in ci
dent of such respective offices, and such other
duties as may be imposed by the by-laws. The
board of directors shall have the power to
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' Missouri and Nebraska
The supreme court of Missouri has
Issued a writ of mandamus, ordering
the state board of equalization to re
convene and make a new assessment of
the railroad, telegraph and express
companies and other corporations
whose properties are subject to as
sessment and taxation by the state
board on the basis of their actual val
ue, which means the market value of
their stocks and bonds. This action of
the supreme court of Missouri stands
out in marked contrast with the re
cent refusal of the supreme court of
Nebraska to grant relief to the tax
payers of this state from flagrant dis
criminations. In Missouri the ses
sions of the state board of equaliza
tion are held in public, and not in star
chamber, as in Nebraska. The Mis
souri board designates days for hear
ings and publicly invites county and
city officials and all citizens Interested
in assessment of railroads, public
bridges and telegraph property to pre
sent their statements, testimony and
arguments, while the Nebraska board
allows its time to be monopolized be
hind closed doors by railroad tax
agents, attorneys and pass distributors.
The assessments by the Missouri
board are made on careful estimates
of the valuation of the tangible prop
erty, classilied into roadbed, super
structure, rolling stock, depot build
ings and other improvements on the
railroad right-of-way, whereas the Ne
braska board has dumped together all
railroad property regardless of better
ments or increased value and increased
volume of. traffic and earnings.
The striking contrast between Ne
braska and Missouri railroad assess
ments is presented by a comparison of
assessments in the two states the last
two years. The railroad mileage in
Nebraska for 1901 was 5.652 miles, as
sessed for $26,442,254, or $4,679 per
mile, while the total railroad assess
ment for 1902 is $26,589,592, with a
mileage of 5,704 miles, or an increase
of 52 miles, which at 4,661.57 per mile
shows an actual decrease of $17.43 per
mile or 397,918 less in 1902 than in
the year preceding.
The total mileage of railroads in
Missouri for 1901 was 7,427 miles, as
sessed for $112,63,986, or $14,605 per
mile. The total mileage of the Mis
souri railroads for 1902 is 7,552 miles,
or an increase of 125 miles, which,
figured at $14,605 per mile would have
added to the total value for 1902 $1,
825,625, making an aggregate of $114,
499,611. But the Missouri board raised
the assessment of 1902 from $112,673,
986 to $120,870,668, or an increase of
$8,197,682, making the average per
mile $16,005. According to the auditor
of Missouri all property in that state
is assessed at one-third of its actual
value, while the ratio in Nebraska is
about one-sixth. Assessed by the Mis
souri standard, Nebraska railroads
would average $8,002.50 per mile, in
stead of $4,661, and the total assess
ment of Nebraska railroads would be
$45,724,429, instead of $26,589,592.
And yet the Missouri supreme court
declares that the Missouri board has
been derelict in its duty in assessing
the property of the railroad, telephone
and telegraph companies away below
their true valuation as measured by
the price of their stocks and bonds.
In a nutshell the Missouri assessment
of railroads at double the value placed
upon them in Nebraska" is pronounced
intolerably unjust and the people of
Missouri are given relief by their su
preme court. Omaha Bee.
Without an examination of the Mis
souri law relative to the assessment of
railroads, especially as to the matters
which the board must consider, it is
not conclusive that because the Mis
souri court granted the writ, the Ne
braska court should have done so. A
supreme court decision is something
more than a mere adjudication of the
case at bar it establishes a precedent
which is followed as law until reversed
or modified. And it is essentially
wrong for a court to usurp the func
tions of other departments of govern
ment. The supreme court is not an assess
ing body, and it cannot correct errors
ty the writ of mandamus. Perhaps
the supreme court of Missouri found
that sufficient matters had been disre
garded by the board to constitute
fraud, and, hence, that legally no as
sessment had been made. In such a
case the writ was proper. Our court
did not so find. It could not read the
thoughts of Governor Savage, Treas
urer Stuefer and Auditor Weston and
know their secret bias in favor of
the railroads, and in the court's judg
ment the relators failed to prove that
fraud had been committed. There was
nothing to do but refuse the writ.
But the refusal to grant the writ did
not mean that the railroad assessment
was high enough. The people, having
elected these men to do this work,
must suffer for their folly if it is done
poorly. The ballot box is the forum
where the tax question can be decided.
York Precinct Bonds
As suggested by the Democrat some
time ago the good people of Lockridge
township gave their treasurer author
ity to correspond with the treasurers
of all other townships with a view of
coming to an understanding on the
C. & O. bond question. This is a
step in the right direction and we
congratulate Lockridge on her prog
ressiveness. WThen once the residents
of the county arouse themselves to ac
tion there will be a fair and square
test made as to whether the county
must submit to being robbed and the
fact that the K. C. & O. has paid taxes
like the Test of the railroads won't
affect the matter to the slightest de
gree. Dan T. Corcoran, in York Dem
ocrat. The associate editor of The Inde
pendent recently had an interesting
conversation with Attorney Kirkpat
rick of ork on this bond question. He
says that no effort will be made to
cancel the bonds, as they would un
doubtedly turn up in the hands of an
"innocent purchaser;" but he believes
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the precincts have a good cause of ac
tion for damages against the K. C. &
O. corporation and the Q as well. The
bonds were given in consideration of
the building and operation of a com
peting road; and now that the compe
tition is a thing of the past because the
road has been absorbed by and merged
into the very system with which it was
designed to compete, the consideration
for the giving of the bonds has failed,
and the precincts can bring an action
to recover damages. The matter should
be agitated thoroughly.
Came Home to Roost
. An Omaha correspondent comment
ing on E. Rose water's bitter complaint
in the Evening Bee of September 22,
concerning the tactics of the Dave
Mercer gang, suggests that "the filthy
fowls have come back to roost on
Rosewater's dunghill," and says:
"Think of a man like E. Rosewater
that joined the last presidential cor
ruption of 1900 to carry Nebraska
against Bryan, soliciting their corrup
tion funds from eastern millionaires
and trusts, joining in with Dave Mer
cer, Senator Millard, Mark Hanna,
John N. Baldwin, the Nebraska and
western railroads, to transport non
resident voters to vote for McKinley
and the state ticket. And then see
the gush and tears the little editor is
shedding when those "filthy fowls"
come back and roost on his own hen
house. It is truly amusing."
To Mr. Hardy
I read in your column in The Inde
pendent that the state government is
neglecting to protect the laborers who
want to work. You say if the state of
Pennsylvania cannot do it. the federal
government should use the standing
army with guns loaded with bullets.
Well, what good would that do if
they did not use their guns? I think
they ought to shoot every man that
interferes with another. Shoot them
anyhow, if they won't work that is
what nature intended them for. They
haven't brains enough to do anything
but work; and if they refuse, shoot
them down. They voted to make
slaves of themselves and why should
they not have what they voted for?
I think slavery ought to be estab
lished by law, for if things go on as
they have been going of late, what
will we poor rich people do? We will
have to work ourselves to pay the
workers somewhere near the value of
their labor. That would never do. If
we did that it would not be long un
til we could not spend 20 to 50 thou
sand dollars for a blow-out like some
of our. friends in the east do, or take
a trip to Europe every summer, or
build yachts or fine palaces. All that
would soon be a thing of the past. I
just make these suggestions for your
consideration.
WILLIAM LAYTON.
Wilcox, Neb.
Kinkaid's Kink
Editor Independent: Kinkaid, can
didate for congress in this district on
the republican ticket, told in his speech
at Taylor, September 21, that Harring
ton of O'Neill said in a speech that
he was an expansionist. Also that
Senator Allen wants to annex Cuba.
All of which the good republicans took
in as gospel. G. W. NEWBECKER.
Sargent, Neb.
(The Independent has no means of
knowing what either Mr. Harrington
or Senator Allen may have said in a
speech, but the chances are ten to one
that Judge Kinkaid is mistaken in
both his assertions. Ed. Ind.)
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H. L. Hopkins has a communication
ia the last issue of the Red Cloud Na
tion relative to the stand taken by
Senator Pitney and Representative
Peisiger on the Ollis bill in the legisla
ture of 1901 a freight rate measure.
Inasmuch as both the democratic and
the populist state platforms declare
for a 15 per cent reduction in local
freight rates on certain commodities,
Mr. Hopkins' desire for a public state
ment of how these gentlemen stand on
the plank is not unreasonable. The
people have a right to know. He says
in conclusion:
"I want Mr. Pitney and Mr. Peisiger
and the float representative to public
ly define how they stand on these
matters after looking over what was
done at the last session. If they have
conviction, I can forgive, mistakes, but
to cover mistakes by cunning I ab
hor and so do nearly all who have any
business to tm?m. The republican
opponents to them are engaged, I
learn, in business that railroads can
annoy in many ways if they take an
independent stand, but unless our re
nominated brothers can show a bolder
and more significant stand we can ex
pect no relief as far as this section of
the country is concerned. I should be
h:ppy to see their signatures in print
in he Nation, showing how they stand
on this question for the future, but I
hope they nor their friends will make
a ihlanket of their record as it would
. Cuttle Fish Tactics
The latest effort of the tax-shirking
railroads to make - the people forget
about increasing railroad assessments
and reducing freight rates, is an or
ganization of republicans as an auxil
liary to the anti-saloon league. A
meeting was- held in the secretary of
state's office Monday and a committee
appointed to round up the prohibition
ists for Mickey and at the same time
to coerce the saloon men by threats of
dire vengeance if .they do not also vote
for him. Such staunch prohibitionists
as Capt. L. W Billingsley, Elmer
Stephenson, and.L. L. (Bud) Lindsey,
are members of the committee.
Unable to cope with the fusionists
on the live questions at issue, these
political cuttle fish adopt the usual
method of escape. No state platform,
except the prohibitionists', has a word
to say about the. saloons. The liquor
question is not a political one. There
are more republican saloon men in
Lincoln than there are democrats, and
they will doubtless vote for Mickey
without coercion: There are total ab
stainers in all parties, but their votes
cannot all be secured for Mickey be
cause he doesn't drink, and especially
through an organization of ex-saloon
keepers, bartenders, and hard drink
ers. It is ludicrous and ridiculous in
the extreme for such men to appeal
for the votes of abstainers. It is sim
ply the old trick of uniting church and
saloon and securing their combined
vote for one man. But it will not
work this year.
Last year the liquor dealers' asso
ciation openly pretended to support
Hollenbeck and secretly joined hands
with the anti-saloon league to elect
Sedgwick. The 'procedure is exactly
the same this year, except that the li
quor dealers have said nothing. With
Elmer Stephenson; the deputy revenue
collector, appealing for the votes of ab
stainers on the one hand, and on the
other holding a club over the heads of
every saloon man, it is simply folly
to suppose that there is any concerted
action pn the part of the saloon men
to support Thompson.
The whole plan is to stop the discus
sion of tax reform and lower freight
rates and get the people to talking
about something that is not at issue.
William H. Thompson's standing as a
good citizen, as a man of sobriety and
good morals, cannot for a moment be
questioned. He is the peer of John H.
Mickey on any of these questions. But
no conference of railroad attorneys se
lected him as "our man," and they are
willing to do anything short of murder
or arson to beat him. However, it
can't be done this year with Billings
ley, Stephenson and Lindsey as prohibitionists.
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An Unique Card
Will M. Maupin of The Commoner
staff, who was nominated for state
senator by the democrats and popul
ists of Lancaster county a few weeks
ago, is handing out a campaign card
which deserves more than passing at
tention. He says: They say there
is no chance for democratic success
in Lancaster county. There is always
a chance for right to win." Under the
head of "My Platform" he informs the
people that "if elected to the state sen
ate I will not waste time trying to re
form the tariff; neither will I waste
time trying to reform the currency. I
will wait until I -am- elected to con
gress before striving officially for these
needed reforms. But if elected to the
senate I will work and vote for revi
sion of the state revenue laws to the
end that the big corporations pay taxes
in just proportion with the little home
owners; enlargement and perfection of
the initiative and referendum; liberal
appropriations for state institutions
based on economical management; an
amendment to the federal constitu
tion providing for the election' of sena
tors by direct vote of the people; for
equitable freight ' rates, and against
freight pools and railroad mergers.
"If elected I will do my best to rep
resent the people. If defeated I will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
the voters had an opportunity to vote
for a candidate who had no strings
attached to him. I don't need a sena
tor's salary half as much as Lancaster
county needs good democrats and pop
ulists in office."
Morgan Offended
Mr. John Ranch, 421 South 4th st.
Camden, N. J., encloses two clippings
from the Philadelphia Press, with the
comment that "Bryan was nominated
not to be elected, but to break up the
people's party; anybody with an ounce
of sense will see that. We in the east
knew it for the last two years."
One of the clippings is a Washing
ton dispatch stating that J. Pierpont
Morgan had said regarding President
Roosevelt:
"He must be defeated for renomina
tion and a safe man must be nominated
in his stead. If he cannot be defeated
for -nomination then we must see that
the democrats nominate a safe man
like Cleveland, whom the business in
terests can support and who can beat
Roosevelt at the .polls."
The Independent cannot agree with
Mr. Ranch. Mr. .Bryan's nomination
came as the result of the great growth
of populist ideas among the rank and
file of democracy. The party was com
pelled to adopt part of these ideas in
its platform or suffer great losses in
its ranks. There is no doubt that the
advanced step taken by the democratic
party in 1896 cut off one great source
of recruits for the people's party; but
tne educational campaigns conducted
since then will result In ten-fold more
additions to the populist ranks If dem
ocracy goes back to the idols of Cleve
land,
Judge Broad
. Judge J .H. Broady, the fusion candi
date for attorney general, retired from
the district bench in January ,1892. At
that time Judge Broady lived in Bea
trice, and it was announced in De
cember that he would remove to Lin
coln to begin the practice of law. The
Beatrice Express, a republican paper,
in an issue printed during the month
of December, 1891, paid to Judge
Broady this high, and yet, as will be
said by everyone who knows him well,
entirely deserved tribute:
"In his retirement to private life,
Judge J. H. Broady takes with him
the heartiest good will of those who
know xx-m best. An able and impar
tial judge, he held the confidence and
esteem of the bar; a good citizen, he
was honored by a wide circle of per
sonal acquaintances. Judge Broady
was a democrat,, but he was not a poli
tician in the ordinary sense of that
word. His personal views upon the
subject were forcibly expressed in a
speech made September 4 ,1890, at the
laying of the corner stone of the Gage
county cor t house, in the course of
which he said:
" 'It is a mistake to conclude that
politics is the best route to greatness.
Politicians and statesmen are the po
licemen and night watchmen of the
nation, standing guard over the citi
zen over the decrepit as well as the
strong, who are making advances in
art and science and in all other de
partments of knowledge. Greatness is
in the individual rather than in his
vocation. We are all builders. Each
buii..ing a structure of his own called
character. Each act is a stone, if car
ried on well day by day, a.t the close
it will be a work noble alike to God
and man. The builders of these noble
characters are the salt of the earth,
and they abound in every vocation and
in every land.'
"It was because those who knew him
have faith in the honesty of these
declarations that had he been a can
didate for re-election, he would have
received, many vptes from men not
members of the party with which he
affiliates. The Express speaks for all
its readers in Gage county when it
says that the decision of Judge Broady
to remove elsewhere to enter upon
the practice of his profession will be
sincerely regretted. His genial face
will be missed by the thousands jn
Beatrice and Gage county who class
him as friend, and who sincerely cher
ish that privilege." World-Herald.
Feels Surprised
. Editor Independent: I was some
what surprised to read in your last
week's paper on the editorial page un
der the heading of "Sold Out For
cash," as follows: "That the trusts
are slowly buying up democratic cau
cusses and conventions can be doubted
no longer. The democracy of Massa
chusetts has been sold as sheep in
the shambles and the cash was paid in
advance," and in closing you say:
"This makes the fifteenth democratic
state convention that has refused to
indorse the Plansas City platform and
gone over to plutocracy. The wisdom
of maintaining the populist organiza
tion is more apparent than ever."
You give evidence, sir, of getting
over some of your mullet-headedness,
although it has taken the double dis
tilled cussedness of fifteen democratic
state conventions to arouse you from
the somnambulistic condition into
which the siren songs of the other
half of the republican party, mis
named democracy, had lurfed you.
ou also quote from a Boston corre
spondent as saying: "Republicans are
already jeering the democrats for it,
and it is evident that Gaston's nomi
nation will mean a small democratic
vote. Yet it looks as if the democratic
leaders were preparing to advertise
themselves as just such foolish man
agers, and were deliberately taking a
course they know will forfeit their
claim to public confidence and strike
the democracy a blow from which it
cannot recover for years."
This is in conformity with the dem
ocratic party for the last thirty years,
no man nominated by them except the
stuffed prophet (and that was under
stood between the two wings of the
same body) did they desire or intend
to be elected. When they were so
closely crowded in 1876 they counted
out the electors in a state absolutely
democratic, and so ad infinitum.
Last December I sent an article to
The Independent in which I tried to
show up the democratic party to our
people (and I have no reference to
Bryan or Bryanism). The editor,
through what he calls mullet-headedness,
consigned it to the waste basket.
Fusion was the watchword then, but
now the eyes of the editor seem to
be opening and he thinks that the wis
dom of maintaining the populist organ
ization is more apparent than ever.
Our party leaders and editors have
become so enamored with democratic
coquetry that really it seems foolish
ness to keep up the two organizations,
just to divide the spoils of office.
The fact is, the populist party has
about filled its days of usefulness. In
the south they fused with the republi
cans, hence the democrats would not
join them in the north, and in the
west they fused with the democrats,
and so the republicans become afraid
of them and have no more confidence
in them than they do in the democrats,
so as a national power we might just
as well disband as to fuse with any
party. Therefore, let our leaders go
to the democratic party or wherever
they will and let the party reorgan
ize or go to the socialist party and
fight the two wings of the same pluto
cratic party. G. S. CURREY.
Orleans, Neb.
(It is Impossible for The Indepen
dent to print all the letters it re
ceives. The Independent has always
advocated the maintenance of the
populist organization, but is willing
to join hands with another party ad
vocating a part if not all the reforms
demanded. The democrats of Nebras
ka are true to the Kansas City plat
form. When they repudiate it, then
is the time for separate action. There
is no sympathy between the republi
cans and populists upon any of the
great fundamental questions and fu
sion with them could be on no other
basis than a scramble for office. This
is not the case in Nebraska. Many of
the leading democrats are just as good
tmnulists on every, essential point as
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Mr. Currey. Why fight men who
agit-c -.vUh ytou?
Should the national democratic con
vention in 1904 repudiate the plat
forms of 1896 and 1900, there will be
hundreds of thousands of democrats
with no poiitical home except the peo
ple's party. The men who were pre
vented from becoming populists in 1896
because of the Chicago platform, will
become populists in 1904 if that plat
form is radically changed. Political
organizations are not built up in a
day, and the populist party is bound
to become a great factor in national
politics.
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an interesting and connected weekly
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Address, THE PUBLIC, 79 Dearborn
St., Chicago, 111.
Senator Pitney
O. R. Pitney of Inavale, who is ask
ing your support for the second time
for state senator, is an old settler of
Webster county and has always stood
by his party through its ups and
downs and was one of the farmers' al
liance members, was its president for
several years. Mr. Pitney is a good
neighbor and citizen. The editor of
tnis paper was a neighbor to Mr.
Pitney for a good many years and
knows him as well as any one in
Webster county, and we believe Mr.
Pitney will at all times work and vote
for the interest . of his party and
Webster county. Stay by Pitney.
J. P. Hale, in Red Cloud Nation.
sented the Burlington as land agent at
Ord, and Mr. Mickey represented th
Union Pacific in a similar capacity. In
the face of this, with a vague platform,
and with Baldwin's famous interview
undented, can the people hope for any
Increase in the railroad assessment if
these gentlemen are elected? As a
business proposition for the other tax
payers, their election would certainly
be a losing one.
W. H. Thompson's Appointments
The following appointments hav
been made for W. II. Thompson:
Edgar, October 13.
Hebron, October 14.
Beatrice afternoon, Wymore night,
October 15.
Nebraska City. October 16.
Plattsmouth, October 17."
Alfalfa Hogs Top the flarket
Mr. W. T. Barnes, of Bertrand. N?b.,
had a car of 189-lb. alfalfa hogs on the
South Omaha market Monday, which
sold for $7.50. the top price for that
day. Nye & Buchanan Co. sold them.
The Baldwin Candidates
The Independent has nothing to say
against Messrs. Mickey, Weston and
Mortensen as individuals. They are
pleasant gentlemen to meet, and have
warm personal friends who swear by
them. As a business proposition for
the railroads the election of these men
would be a good one. Mr. Weston's po
'sition on the railroad assessment is
well known. He was the moving
spirit to prevent any material increase.
Governor Savage had ideas of an in
crease, but Treasurer Stuefer who
really knew but little about the sul
ject was induced to hold with Wen
ton and the two outvoted Governor
Savage. ;
Mr. TVTnrtpnsfin has Tor ypars rflnrft-
A New flagazlne
A new illustrated magazine, with
the taking title of "The Reader," is
to be started in New York next month.
"The Reader" announces that it will
provide the reading public of the
United States with a literary maga
zine, at once entertaining, unpreju
diced and authoritative. Further than
this, it promises to be both good and
popular, and not only will it con
tain such literary departments as i
views, bibliography, libraries and the
drama, but its contents will also in
clude short stories, poems and sev
eral popular literary articles of gen
eral interest each month. It is to be
a 25-cent magazine and conducted on
a large scale.
The cover design, by Mr. Alfred
Brennan, is exceedingly attractive, and
represents two opposite types of read-"
ers an old bookman lovingly handl
ing an Aldus or an Elzevir, and a 20th
century lady unblushingly perusing
the latest popular novel.
The list of contributors already an
nounced includes such well-known
writers as:
Gelett Burgess, John D. Barry, Alice
Brown, Bliss Carman, "Mr. Dooley."
Caroline Duer, Edwin Emerson, jr.,
Charles Macomb Flandrau, Eliot Gre
gory, Aline Gorren, Oliver Herford,
Rollin Lynde Hartt. R. V. Risley.
Louis Evan Shipman, Henry Turrell
and John B. Tabb.
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The Catholic woman's union of
France Is appealing to capable young
women of that country to obtain cer
tificates and take the places of the
nuns recently expelled.
All lagoon and' watertn work for 7
the World's f-ir is to be completed this
fall. Macadam roads are being built
throughout the grounds, so that bad
