Identifier: countrylifecount00carn (find matches)
Title: Country life and the country school : a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, b. 1885
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago : Row, Peterson and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ges, one of the finest technical schools inthe world, maintained at the expense of the national government. From the graduates of this school are chosen the highway engineers who are entrusted with the building and maintenance of the roads.The course of study lasts three years and the instruction is free. At the head of the administrative organization is an Inspector-General of bridges and highways, under whom are Chief Engineers in 112 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL charge of the road work of single departments and communes. Single arrondissements are under the direction of ordinary engineers and under-engineers, the latter being equivalent in rank to non-commissioned officers in the army. The sub-divisions are under the direction of principal conductors and ordinary conductors. Next inline come the foremen of construction gangs, the clerk employed at headquarters, and finally the cantonniers or patrolmen, each having from four to seven kilometers of highway under his immediate super-
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A French Highway
France maintains enough highway to encircle the world fourteen times in a state of almost perfect repair vision.
This great administrative machine, working in complete harmony with definite lines of responsibility clearly established, accomplishes results with military precision and regularity. In this army of workers not the least important unit is the cantonnieror patrolman, who has charge of a single section of the road. He keeps the ditches open, carefully fills holes and ruts with broken stone, removes dust and deposits of sand and earth after heavy rains, trims the trees and bushes, and when ordinary work is impossible breaks stone and transports it to points where it is likely to be needed. He ROADS AND THE ROAD PROBLEM 113 brings all matters requiring attention to the notice of his chief. Each cantonnier carries a little book in which the chief cantonnier notes his instructions and checks up the work accomplished. The conductors go over the line at regular interva

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