The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-11
MEETING OF |. A. W.
The Mayors Speech Of Welcome Was
Crowded Out.
TALK ABOUT GOOD ROADS
Kentucky Delegates say They
Have Secured the Next Con-
vention-Prominen Speak
ers and Many Friends.

Baltimore. Feb. 10.-League politics
absorbed the attention OF the delegates
10 the national convention Of the Amer
lean League OF Wheelmen to-day TO
the utter exclusion OF everything else
As a consequence the experimental
good roads" meeting was only n mod
crate success In point Of attendance.
although the mental pabulum served
10 those who attended was Of high or
der. Mayor Hooper was in consequence
the victim OF an unintentlonal affront
on the part ~ the delegates. as his
honor had been invited 70 make
speech, and was there at the appointed
time with nice little address of well
come which was never spoken because
there was no one thel- T. hear him
save few newspaper men. The mayor
waited while. and then went away to
attend 10 municipal affairs Ample
apology was made 10 him later In the
day. however. and fun official forgive
ness accorded.
After the mayors departure another
effort was made % get the delegates to-
gcthcr, which. after two hours - hara
work. was successful President Will
son called the meeting to order H.
said it was the first good roads day
ever given by the league. and ne as
serted that the decision 20 set aside
one day annually for the discussion of
good roads was one ot the best moves
ever made hy the league. lie regretted.
however. that the atteudance was not
better. Ho thought the delegates to
tho assembly should feel bound 10 at
t.nd this good roads convention and
ia, .tr
tho highways Improvement committee.
and not the leagu. proper. was in
charg" of affairs. he resigned the chair
tp the chairman of tho committee.
Isaac Il. Potter ,t New York. the au-
thor OF the good roads" day amend
mont
Potter was greeted with applause.
and after IL had subsidized ne addressed
the meeting briefly. lie said. "'rhe at
tendance is not as great as II should
be, but from my own experience l know
! Il is twice as great as was that at the
+ good roads congress called by the Unit
ed states government. and which was
more widely advertised than was this
convention. Delegates here. however.
represent 10000 wheelmen and what
transpires here viii be more farreach-
ing In It's effects than was the action OF
the good roads congress referred TO-"
He then read letters OF regret from
! Governor Levi p. Morton. Mayor Jewett
/ OF Buffalo. the mayor OF Albany, the
mayor OF Newark. y. J.. Mayor Taggert
/ OF indianapolis. Mayor Swift OF Chi
/ cago Mayor Pratt OF Minneapolis Gov
/ eruor Matthews OF Indiana and James
II. Dunno. ex-president OF the l.. A. w.
! Potter then introduced Mayor william
/ NJ Kennedy OF Alleg heny. Pa. one OF
/ the most prominent advocates of good
roads in the country. Mayor Kennedy
/ spoke OF what had been done In the
way OF improved streets and roads
4 I'm and around Allegheny City. and OF
/ many direct and indirect benefts
! Following Mayor Kennedy. Henry
W Williams. chairman OF the executivs
committee OF the Maryland Good Roads
league. was introduced williams gave
the history OF the birth OF the Good
Roads league OF Maryland and the ap-
/ pointment Of a legislative committee
4 OF which he was made chairman. ID. p.
Miller. chairman or the board OF COM
+ mlss!oners OF Allegheny county. deliv-
cred a short address telling Of the work
accomplished by his commission IN
Western Maryland.
The principal speakers in the after
2 noon We're 'fEflefdA stone OF tnE =
States bureau oc road inquiry: A. Gar
f. rison. secretary ot the New Jersey road
commission. and Consul j. p. Potter.
who illustrated hts lecture by stereop-
ticon views OF good foreign and bad
domestic roads.
The days exercises closed with
. banquet tonight at the home OF the
/ Maryland Bicycle club. at which almost
4 200 delegates and other guests were
I present. Speeches We're made IN re
I sponse u the following toasts: Presi-
. dent A. &. Williston. Greeting" Gov
/ eruor Lowndes. My Maryland and Her
. Wh.,lueu." Mayor Hooper. Ny Cy-
cling Constituents General Nelson A.
Miles. Cycling in the Army" Hon
John X. Cowen. w heels. Political.
Railroad. Cycle and Otherwise - George
c. stone "Paternalism in Cycling and
I'm Government General Felix Angus.
The Press and Its Mission IN the
Cause OF Good Roads" United states
$ uat0r Lindsay of Kentucky. In old
Kentucky" Isaac b. Potter OF New
York. How O. Make Wheels co Round
Faster" ex-Mayor Latrobe. What I
. know About Wheelmen and What
. They Want"
The real work OF the meeting viii be-
gin with ro-morrow's session. at which
+ IL IS probable "a amendments 10 the
. constitution. which have been proposed.
. will be- taken up. reports from various
officials and boards viii be considered.
/ and much other important business
transacted.