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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 624, 3 December 1913, Page 6

anniversary adam, the great road reformer of the nineteenth century. Macadam, who died on Novebmar 26th, 183G, rediscovered the principles of toad-making as they were known to the Romans, and he made possible the construction of the splendid highways used by the stage coaches in the period before the building of railways. Macadam said that no stone too large to be placed in a man's mouth should be put upon a road, and he objected to the use of clay or any other loose material for binding purposes contending that a thick layer of email, well brokenstones would form a smooth, durable surface under traffic. He demonstrated the soundness of his theory, which has been forgotten by a great many road builders since that time. Some of the American States, possessed of almost uniformly bad roads, ; and applying the teachings of Macadam.