Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-12-30
G0oD ROIDS.
Plans Of the League of American wheel
men Witch May Have Good Results

men Which May Have Good i;esuitK.
Arrangements have been made by
which the League nf American Wheel.
men is to take ~, the crusade for good
ronus on new and very extensive scale.
The national committee for highway
Improvement has submitted to the OK.
ocutive committee proposition which
has Just been approved, to print ana
distribute an edition OF million
pamphlets devoted to the good roads
movement, and particularly to the sub
icCt Of Stnte aid to highways. Otto
Dorner, chairman OF this Commitisn,
ia now preparing this book for the
press, in which he has the assistance of
Cen. 10y Stone, tho head OF the United
States Bureau of Road Inquiry, at
Washington. The national committee
far highway Improvement and the
officers and members of the league will
collect tho addresses OF farmers and
State and local officials to whom the
pamphlets are to DO sent.
The highway Improvement committee
bias had this project unter considern'
tion for over year, but ii is only
within the last few days that the rlan
for issuing and circulating tho pam
phleta has been finally perfected. At
the good roads parliament at Nashville
last September, MIR. Dorner and Mr..
q. u. Choate of Minneapolis, members
Of the national committee, laid the
matter before Gen. Stone, who at once
declared that the undertaking would
havs every possible support and en-.
enlargement from hin bureau. Gen.
Stone Las issued, since The establish,
ment OF the good roads bureau, some
30 different bulletins relating to various
phuses OF tho gnni rogIls problem, and
containing great lenl Of valuable in
formation. but the appropriations made
10y Congress- for the support of the
hureau being limited in amount. il has
been impossible tn circulate them upon
n large scale. Ii is partly for this
reason that this enormous edition of
pamphlets is TO he issued by the u. A.
W, aud they will contain tho con
densod results of Rll the many valuable
inquiries made by the good roahs
bureau, both in this country and
abroad. They will explain the losses
due to had roads, illustrate the different
methods oil constructing macadam.
telford. gravel and dirt roads, both in
Europe and in Amsrica, and discuss
the various means and methnns for
raising funds o. bay for improved high
ways. special attention will lo paid to
the plans successfully ailoptetl in New
Jersey md MHssach usetts. Both the
L.. A. W. officials and road inquiry
bureau have an extensive collection of
photographs of good and had roads,
taken in this country and in Europe,
which will be employed in illustrating
the proposed buck. Working drawings,
ma3o hy prominent engineers, will he
uHsd to illustrate the various methods
o road construction.
II may safely he stated that this
project is tie most extensive plan ever
adopted for agitating any reform, and
s exceeded only by the elaborate
efforts name hy tho great political
parties during a presidential campaign
Tho movement fur improved highways,
which has nadp such remarkabe pro.
gress during the last three or four
years, was inaugurated years ago by
tho League Of American Wheelnen,
the most prominent gond roans ndvo-
cate in its ranks being Isaac b. Potter
Of New York, who is now its president.
Years ago the League began thu publ
cation OF the monthly Good Roads
magazine, which was merged into the
present L. A. w. Bulletin when that
organ was established two years ago.
The l.. A. W. has been closely con
uecte1 with tho introduction of State
aid to roads as now established in New
Jersey and Connecticut, and with tina
present Massachusetts system of State
highway construction, Vigorous cam
paigns for State aid were carried on
during the pust year 10 Pennsylvania,
New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Con
ueGticut, Illinois, Rhode Island and
elsewhere. The circulation of large
edition of pamphlets devoted TO the
good ruads movement will tend greatly
to increase public interest, and will
populsrize tho valuable work of the
United States Road Inquiry Bureau,
by bringing the results of its investi-
cations directly home to thousands of
farmers in each State in the Union.
Tho League uf American Wheelmen
is about IS years old. and to-day num-
bors among its members some OF the
most prominent men of the country,
among them being John Wanamaker of
PHILADELPHIA, Gov. Hastings of Penn.
Bylrania, Rear Admiral Gherardi of
the United States Navy, Mayor Carter
II. Harrison of Chicago, and G. A.
Pillsbury Of Minneapolis. Tho organi-
zstion mas had a steady growth until
to-day it numbers over 1O2, O00 members.