Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-19
CYCLING NEWS
Matters OF Interests to Devotees q
Silent Stead

Matters OF Interest: to Devotees oil he
Silent Stead.
Arrangements have been mad1 by
which the League of American w eel
men is to take up the crusade for good
roads on a new and very extd siye
scale.
The National Committee for Hi Oh
way Improvement has submitted to the
Executive Committee proposition
which has just Been approved, to print
and distribute an edition OF a millisn
pamphlets devoted to the good roads
movement, and particularly to the su5-
ject of State aid to highways. Ctto
Dorner, chairman ct this committee, is
row preparing this book for the press,
n which he has the assistance of Gen.
Roy StoHa, the head of the United
States Bureau OF Road Inquiry, at
Washington. The National Commit
tee for Highway Improvement and the
officers and members Of the Leg zue
will collect the addresses OF tarners
and State and local oncials to whom
the pamphlets are to be Gent.
The Highway Improvement Commit
tee has had tAis project under consid-
Grafton Tor oyer 4 yesr, but it is only
wltnln the last few days that the plan
Ter i,0llEg and circulating the pamph-
1912 nss been finally perfected. At the
Go9d Roads Parliament, at Nashville,
.last September, Mr.. Dorner and Mr.. A.
B. Choatc, CO Minneapolis, members Of
the national comnittss, lsid the matter
before Gen. StoEo, who st once de-
clarcd that the undertaking would have
every possible support and encourage
ment FROM hls burcsu. Gen. Stone has
issued, since the establishment OF the
Good ResGs Bureau, Come fifty differ
ent bulletins relating to various phases
OF the good roads problem, and con-
tanning 8 great deal OF valuable inf0r-
nation, but the appropriations made
by congress for the support Of the bu-
reau being limited in amount, it has
been impossible to circulate them upon
4 large scale. It is partly for this rea-
son that this enormous edition Of pam
phlets is to be issued by the L. A. w.
and they will contain the CONDENSED
results Of all the many valuable lnqui-
ries r-ade by the Good Roards Bureau
both in this country and abroad.
They will explain the losses due to bad
roads, illustrate the different methods
Of constructing Macadam, Telford,
gravel and dirt roads, both in Europe
and in America, and discuss the vari-
M r>atknTr for raiGir Or
funds to pay for improved highways.
Special attention will be paid to the
plans successfully adopted in New Jer-
sey and Massachusetts,. Both, the L..
A. W. officials and Road Inquiry Blu
reau. have an extensive collection Of
photographs Of good and bad roads, ia
ken in this country and in Europe, and
will be employed in illustrating the
proposed book. Working drawings,
made by prominent engineers, will be
used to illustrate the various methods
of road construction.
1t may be safely stated that this pro-
ject is the most extensive plan ever
adopted for agitating any reform, and
is exceeded only by the elaborate eff
forts made by the great political par
ties during a presidential campaign.
The movement for improved highways,
which has made such remarkable pro-
gress during the last three or four
years, was inaugurated years ago by
the League Of American Wheelmen,
the most prominent good roads advo-
cate in it's ranks being Isaac B. Potter,
of New York, who is now its Presi-
dent. Years ago the League began the
publication of the monthly Good
Roads magazine, which YVES merged
into the present l.. A. ". Bulletin
when that organ was established two
years ago The l.. A. w. has been
closely connected with the introduce
ton of state aid to roads as now estab-
lished in New Jersey aid Connecticut,
and with the present Massachusetts
system Of state highway construction.
Vigorous campaigns for state aid were
carried on during the past year in
Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Connecticut, Illinois, Rhode
Island and elsewhere. The circula-
ton OF large edition of pamphlets
devoted to the good roads movement
viii tend greatly to increase public in
terest, and will pCpularize the valuable
work Of the U. S. Road Inquiry Blu
renu. by bringing the results of its
investigations directly home to thou
sands Of farmers in each state in the