The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-17
h Zion of District Good Roads Convention
j. pus..eno Several Counties of South Texas.
.rrpEsTINd TALK BY GENERAL HARRISON.
- q. The Building of Section Of Good Road
Capitol Avenue.

] GOOD Roads association is purely a phi
anthropic move. The men at the head az
anxious to get out OF it. They have foun,
II more work than they expected an
there is nothing in 1t for them We hop
that congress will appropriate enough
money that instead of having one govern
ment expert We may have a number o
them. We might have government expery
! by the score, but we VIII never hav,
but one General Harrison. l hav,
been with him now about fourteen week.
in series of conventions and everywhere
! he has gone he has made friends not only
for himself but for the work. hope sumo
day to see him at the head of this move
| ment in the United States, where every.
thing in this work will be under his direc-
] ton and his guidance. / have never heard
Of but one man who presumed to say tha
he knew more of road building than GEN
sral Harrison, and he is Texas man
He lives at Austin, He got UP and said
that he had built six miles of road and
knew all about 1t; in fact, knew more than
the general 1 told him that if such was
the case 1t was his duty TO the country
and to the work to apply for the position,
because the people want the best man for
the place l told him this before as large
an audience as is here today, and / thought
his presumption was a remarkably funny
thing.
l understand you have several counties
represented here this morning, and
should like, If there is only one man pres
ent, to either become president OF that
county or give the name of some man who
will. We want a president in every coun-
ty, but the first thing we want is a district
president. We want a man elected as the
district president of all these counties and
any other counties that have no repre-
sentative here. What is this for? You
are going to have legislation. There will
be new and improved ideas come to you.
You want man to have the power of call.
ing these counties together and discuss
the legislation you want. You do not
wait until you get to Austin without know
ing what you want. Elect a district nres.
ident and discuss the various things con-
nected with roads. That man should be
elected either from Houston or some
place near the center. Then you want a
president elected for the county. The
president should call the meeting in the
court house and then organize a county
organization. Elec; vice president from
each road district In the county and a
secretary for the organization. These
men should be men who will give attention
to the work. find out the various things
that are to be learned and make reports
of what they have learned: in fact. do
everything towards helping the move nent.
From what I have seen of the people OF
Houston this meeting will be OF great eff
feet: thst people who arc here this morn
ing will not only reach this county, but all
the counties adjoining. We can say that
1T was large and enthusiastic meeting.
heard of a meeting once which was at
tended by only two persons that was de-
scribed in the papers as "large and en-
thusiastic." When the party who wrote
there tya5 hn 10
could say such thing he said that he was
large and the other fellow was enthus-
iastic. We want this meeting to be large
and enthusiastic. because all of you are
large, and we want you to be enthusiastic
In electing your president this morning
you are not going to give him any great
duties to perform. The name of this or
ganization will be filed In St. Louis and
Washington. This organization will be
kept in touch with the National organiza-
tion in Washington You will be entitled
to the bulletins OF the department at
Washington You may be getting the
agricultural bulletins, but we want you
to get road bulletins. All you have 10 do
to secure them is to give your name.
~
Judge Cavitt said he desired to return
thanks to Miss HARDER for her very in
teresting address and for the good work
she was doing in the good roads move
ment. He said in listening to the talk OF
Miss HARDER he had become more thor
oughly impressed with the Importance
of Industrial schools for women
In following out Miss Harber's sugges-
ton as to the plan of organization. Judge
10. II. Vasmer, county judge Of Harris
county was elected district chairman. IL.
thanked the convention for the honor. bur
said he felt very much discouraged at the
small attendance at this meeting. The
local committee had worked hard to get
up the convention and II no larger al
tendance could be secured than was pres
ent here he did not know what could be
expected in organizing the entire district,
but he would undertake the work and give
1t his best effort
1t was discovered that there we're ten
counties represented in the convention
outside OF Harris and the representatives
Of these counties named the following as
tive counties in the good roads movement
as outlined in the plan of organization |
suggested by Miss Harder:
Dickinson
Dewitt county. A. W. Eatman of Thorn
aston.
Wharton county, r. r. Hisby Of FL |
Campo.
tavaca county, Judge d. A. Paulus OF
Walker county, ]. G. Ashford of Hunts
Vile.
Nacogdoches county, V. f. Middlebrooh
Of Nacogdoches.
San Jacinto county, s. c. Clark of Cold
Springs.
With organization thus perfected. Gem |
sral Harrison was introduced and enter
aimed the convention with quite an inter-
ssting talk upon good roads He said |
We are very happy to appear before
'ou this morning, and want to tell you
hat we are not discouraged at the at
i have been through this so
much that when ! have a repres antatiye |
body OF men before me, am perfectly
atisfled and feel that way this morning,
md often say that | would rather ad- |
lress couple of dozen or even dozen
u good, active. bright progressive men
hat take an interest In the matter than
q 5000 people that only come as a matter
y curiosity 10 hear and probably to be /
unused. The roads bushes is not like
ONE things that start off with a hurrah
md then drops OFF all Of a sudden. The
In this matter gradually works