The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-24
PLAN 70 WORK Together.
GOVERNMENT BUREAU AND L. A. W.
TO p0PuLARIzE GOOD ROADS.
One Million Pamphlets TO he Issue"
and sent To Farmers and ROAD VI
acfais-stase Ala 10 t'e"d h"s"s
IN Re urxeA-Aa Extensive Plan.

.x~aru.rnns. have leey made by which
fh. League of American " faesifnfn Is 20
take up tie crusade fer good ROADS ca q
new and very extensive scale
The national committee for highway
Improvement has submitted 70 the s1eea-
- sann.lttA.. 4 proposition which mas
tt1st been approved. - prtat and distribute
an edition of million pamphlets cevo<e1
10 the good roads moyefasnf, afsa paEttcI-
larry To the subject OF state aid 20 aiga-
WAYS. Otto Dornsr. chairman Of this COM
rniftee. is now preparing this book ior 11s
presS, in which he has the assistance OF
Gen Roy Stone the head Of the United
States bureau OF road inquiry. al WASH
tngton. The national committee Tor nlsh-
way Improvement and the ofticerz ana
members OF tho league viii collect the
addresses OF farmers and state and local
officials TO whom the pamphlets are 10 Dc
sent.
The highway Improvement committee
has had this project under consideration
for over year. but 1t Is only within the
last few days that the plan Tor issuing
and circnI lting the pamphlets has been
finally perfected. At the good roads par
lament al Nashville last September. MR.
Dorner and Mr.. A. H. Choase, OF Ainneap-
oils, members of the national committee,
laid the matter before Gen. stone, Hno AT
once declared that the undertaking would
have every possible support and eneonr-
asement from mis- bureau. Gen. stone mas
issued. sinee the establishment OF the good
roads bureau, some City different bulletins
relating TO various phases Of the good
roads problem. and containing great deal
of valuable information, but the appropfi-
atoms made by congress for the support
of the bureau being limited In amount, 1t
has been Impossible TO circulate THEM
upon a large scale IL IL partly for shis
hat 1ait n
phlets is TO be Issued by the l.. a. w, ard
they will contain the condensed results OF
all the many valuable inquiries made by
the good roads bureau. both In this eoun-
try and abroad. They will explain the
losses due to bad roads, Illustrate the Diff
ferent methods Of constructing macadam.
Teiford. gravel ami dirt roads. both IN
Europe and in America. and discuss the
various means and methods for raising
funds 10 pay for improved highways. Spe-
ciai attention will be paid 10 the plans
successfully adopted In New Jersey and
Massach isetts. Both the l.. Il. w. off,
ciais and road inquiry bureau. have an
extensive collection Of photographs OF
good and bad roads taken In this country
and In Europe, which win be employed In
illustrating the proposed book. Working
drawings, made by prominent engineers,
viii be used 10 illustrate the various meth
DDS Of road construction.
II may be safely stated that this project
Is the most extensive plan ever adopted
for agitating any reform. and Is exceeded
only by the elaborate efforts made by the
great political parties during a presiden-
tis campaign. The movement for inn
proved highways. which has made such
remarkable progress during the last three
or four years. WAS in.1gurated years ago
by the League OF American Wheeimen.
the most prominent good roads advocate
In its ranks being Isaac II. Potter. OF New
York. who Is now Its president Years ago
the league began the publication OF the
monthly Good Roads maya zine which was
merged fntosthe present T.. A. w BulIe-
Tin when that organ was established two
years ago. The l.. A. W has been closely
connected with the Introduction Of stite
aid 10 roads as now established I'm New
Jersey and Connecticut, and with the pres
ent Massachusetts, system of state high
way construction. Vigorous campaigns for
state aid we're carried on during the past
year IN Pennsylvania. New York, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota. Connecticut, Illinois.
Rhode Island and elsewhere. The cireu-
iation of q large edition of pamphlets lie
voted TO the good roads movement win
tend greatly 10 Increase public interest
and will popuarize the valuable work Of
the United States road inquiry bureau by
bringing the results OF It's investigations
directly home 10 thousands OF farmers In
each state In the Union.
The League az American Wheelmen is
about eighteen years old. and today num-
hers among It's members some Of the most
prominent men Of the country, anoag
them being John Wanamaker. Of Philade,-
rhia: Gov. Hastings. OF Pennsyivania.
Rear Admiral Ghetardi, OF the United
states navy Mayer Carter II. Harrison
Of Chicago, and C. A PilIsbury. OF Mime
HnnfiS. The nFg4ntsa has hsa
growth until today Il numbers over jog -,
members.