The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-18

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TIC WORK TOGETHER.
Govtrnmtnt Bureau and the LEA. ". to
PopuiarIzs Good Ronds - A Million
Pamphlets to be IsSued-SInle Aid TO
npnI will liz Ury,d.

GOvfTnmtnt Bureau and the L. A. ". 10
PopuinrlZe Good RORds "A Million
Pamphlets to be IsSued-SIate Aid TO
RnniI viii be Urged.
Arrangements have been made By
which the League of American Wheel
men Is to take up the crusade for good
roads on new and very extensive
scale.
The nlN0nal committee for highway
improvement: has submitted 10 the ex-
ecutiye committee a proposition which
has just been approved, to print and
distribute an edition OF a million
pamphlets devoted TO the good roads
movement, and particularly TO the
subject OF state aid to Highways Otto
Dorner, chairman OF this committee Is
nov preparing this book Tor the press
IN which lie has the assistanc. OF Gen
Rog Stone, the head OF the United
States bureau OF road inquiry, At
Washington. The national committee
for highway Improvement and the OIL
GERS and members OF the league will
collect the addresses of farmers and
state aud local officials to whom the
pamphlets are to be sent.
The highway Improvement committee
has had this project under consideration
for over a year, but II Is only within
the last few days thar the plan for is
suing and circulating The pamphlets
has been finally perfected, At the good
roads parliament at Nashville last
September. Mr.. D0rner and MI A. Il.
Choatc, OF Minneapolis members Of
the national committees laid the mat
ter before General Stone who at once
DECLARED that the undertaking would
have every possible supper, and en-
couragcmen. from his bureau. General
Stone has issued, since the establish
ment OF tho good roads bureau, some
fifty different bullcntin5 relating to
various phases of the good roads prob
lem, anil containing great deal Of
valuable Information, but the apprO-
prlations made bv congress for the sup
port OF the bureau being limited in
amount, upon large scale. 1t Is part
~ for this reason that this enormous
edition OF pamphlets Is 10 be- issued by
the l.. A. W., and they VIII contain the
condensed results OF al the many valu-
able inquiries made by che good roads
bureau, both In this country and
abroad. They viii explain the losses
due to bad roads, Illustrate the different
methods OF constructing mncldlm tel.
ford, gravel and dirt roads, both ln Eu-
rope and IN America, and discuss the
various means and methods for raising
funds 10 p0y Tor improved highways.
Special attention win be paid TO the
plans successfullg adopted In New DER
roy ana Massachusetts. Both The l.. A..
W. officials ana road inquiry bureau,
have an extensive collection OF photo.
nraphs Of good nnd bad roads taken In
this country aud IN Europe which VIII
be employed In illustrating the proposed
book. Working drawings, made by
prominent engineers VIII br used tn
Illustrate the various methods OF road
construction
II mag safely bc stated that this
proIcct rs The most extensive plan ever
adopted Tor ngtatng Any reform, and
IA exceeded only bg the elaborate Of
forts made by the great political plr-
ties duriur presidential campaign,
The movement FOR improved hlghw0yH,
which has male such remarkable proc
rrogg during the last three or four
yp1f1 was lnnuguIntpl years ago 10y
ihn Ioauuc " American WhColmun, the
most prominent good roads advocate I'm
lta ranks being lflnc n Potter, Of New
york who w now li8 president Years
ppu Inc LEAGUE begun The publication
of Tho monthly O1Od Roads magazine,
which was merged Into tho pre1Ont j.
A w liullaiiu WUnn thli OIunN Wl1
orlohllHhud twu ycnr1 ago Nh0 l. A.
~ bnu boon closely connected Win Tue
Introduction wi state aId 10 toidh o.
NOW established ln Sow lrHaf lnl ln
Cunnocllnnt ana with tIo reHall .Nn'.
anrhuHrtta Hyllom of state highway
construction Vlg0rnur clmunlEnB lnr
ptalr nIl were carried pn duilnF Jl'
pngl volf In ponugrlynnln New YORK
Wlar1npin, Minnesota Connecticut u
lInoln, Rhode Island nnd elsewhere. TIT