DUNNSVILLE-ALTAMONT HIGHWAY TO BE BUILT
Bids Will Again Be Opened at Albany, Oct. 26 — Estimated Cost $37,000 — Original Contract Cancelled Because Contractor Failed to Begin Work

Edwin Duffey, State Commissioner of Highways, will open bids at Albany on Oct. 26, 1915, for the building of the Dunnsville-Altamont highway in Albany County. This road was advertised and bids opened on June 4, 2015. After the contract was awarded to the Curran Corporation and that company failed to show any indications of starting the job, the department cancelled the contract. The estimated cost of the improvement is $37,700, and the contract requires its completion by the 180th working day after the execution of the contract.

This road will begin at Dunnsville in the town of Guilderland and will follow generally the present town road, southerly and south-westerly with the exception of the new location on the property of Frank Van Wormer and Charles Beebe, and continue to the village of Altamont through Western Avenue and Maple Avenue to join the Altamont Village road at Main Street.

Waterbound macadam will be used for 2.84 miles, bituminous macadam, penetration method, for .24 miles, and a top course of the latter type for .33 miles additional. From the beginning of the contract to the Crounse property, at the edge of Altamont Village, 14 feet of waterbound macadam consisting of 6 inch foundation, 2 inch bottom and 3 inch top courses of approved local or imported stone will be used. From that point to the north side of the creek through the George Weaver property, 16 feet of bituminous will be laid. For the balance of the contract, there will be laid only a top course 3 inches deep of approved stone, to be laid on top of the present surface and to be followed by an application of two gallons of bituminous material for each square yard.

EQUAL SUFFRAGE RALLY HELD TUESDAY NIGHT

Hon. Rollin B. Sanford, Mrs. Ethel Vorce and Miss Leila Stott Presented Convincing Arguments in Favor of Enfranchisement of Women

A grand rally was held by the suffragists in Masonic hall Tuesday evening. A crowd which filled practically every seat in the hall was present. The meeting was preceded by an immense quantity of red fire and several heart-rendering selections on a Gabriel horn. It certainly looked like a “regular” time.

Hon. Rollin B. Sanford, Congressman of this district, presided. In his introductory remarks Mr. Sanford said he was in favor of equal suffrage because he believed that as a whole women were more for the good than men. He stated that there is no politics in this suffrage campaign, no great gain for any of the present parties, but that the women seek only to gain better results in government, to wipe away the stains of corruption, to banish the grafter and to make the state and nation what it should be. He further stated that because this nation is founded upon democracy and because our forefathers established the fact that “taxation without representation is tyranny,” the ballot should be extended to women as well as to men.

“Every citizen,” said Mrs. Ethel Vorce, “who obeys the law and is compelled to pay taxes should have a voice in the government. The women are not seeking offices, not attempting to oust the men, but only trying to better the country and establish a government of the greatest possible efficiency.”
The meeting ended with a plea for funds.