The morning call., 1895-02-04
10 MAKE GOOD ROADS.
The Third State Convention
for the Purpose.
TO MEET In SACRAMENTO.
Governor Budd Will Call 1t to Order
on Thursday.
DISCUSSIONS ON METHODS OF WORK.
Delegates Have Been Appointed to PrOmi.
nent Associations Throughout
the State.
TO MEET In SACRAMENTO.
DISCUSSIONS ON METHODS OF WORK.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.-The third good
roads convention of the State of California
will be called to order at the Art Gallery
Hall next Thursday afternoon by Governor
Budd. The call for the meeting was issued
by the Humane Society of Sacramento
County. Delegates will be present ap-
pointed by the farmers alliances, oranges,
commercial bodies, municipal authorities,
humane societies, colleges, universities,
technical societies and scientific and edu-
cational institutions. State officers, county
surveyors and supervisors are delegates,
but where they cannot attend are author
lied to appoint delegates.
The object of this convention is to confer
as to the best systems of road improvement
for the State of California. No definite
programme has been prepared.
1t is likely that a lively exchange of
opinions will take place between those adj
vocates of superyisorial control of road
management and work and those advanc-
ing the proposition of the construction of
roads upon scientific theories under the
direction of skilled road engineers, who
favor doing all such work bv contract and
oppose the work-out-tax" system.
The subject of road improvement is
being agitated in all the States of the
Union through the agency of the National
Good Roads League and the Department
of Road Inquiry established at Washing
ton under the direction of General Roy
Stone. This league is the outgrowth of
the Good Roads Parliament held at the
Chicago Columbian Exposition. 1t was
promoted by: Governor Levi K. Fuller,
Secretary J. M. Rusk, General Roy Stone,
Senator Manderson of Nebraska, Joseph
II. Medil, writer on the Chi
cago Tribune, Chairman Townsend of
the National Board of Trade, Chauneey
Ripley of the New Jersey Road Board,
Vice-P President Hackett of the Illinois
Highway Improvement Association and
many other equally prominent men. The
league assembled in Washington, D. c., in
January 1898. and had hearing before
the Committee on Agriculture of the
House of Representatives, when it was ad-
dressed by President of the Senate Man.
derson, Senator Chandler Major Powell,
Judge E. II. Thayer, Secretary Morton,
Philip Armour, August Belmont and
others.
The following were the delegates ap-
pointed by Governor Markham to the con-
VentlOn OF 1885, VINO are Stlll members, and
who are expected to attend the coming
meeting: A. P. Stanton, J. A. Filcher, a.
T. Lightner, W. S. Green, Jay Scott, J. w.
Surface, w. H. II. Hussey, S. S. Boynton,
A. B. Lennon, 1. N. Hoag, R. J. Brough-
ton, Ernest Mccullough, John Boggs, N.
P. Brown G. B. Clifford, A. G. Hinckson,
H. Weinstock, Jackson Epy, R. A. Thomp-
son, J. A. Woodson..
Delegates were also appointed by the
county supervisors, Oranges and Patrons
of Husbandry, Farmers Alliances and In
dustrial Unions and by the California
League of Wheelmen, California Museum
Association, Committee of Promotion,
Humboldt County, Grass Valley City, Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Oakland
Board of Trade, Placer County Board of
Trade, Redondo Railway, Sacramento City,
Santa Rosa City, State Board of Trade,
State Board of Horticulture, State Viticul-
tural Commission, Sacramento Board of
Trade, State Agricultural Society, Sacra-
mento County Humane Society, Santa
Barbara City, San Jose Board of Trade,
Santa Clara County Humane Society, Tech
nical Society of the Pacific Coast, Ukiah
Board of Trade and many others"