The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-21
WILL Be SHOWN.
Good Roads Congress to Witness
Road Building.
The Government Details Expert
Moore to Supervise Work.
A GREAT PROGRAMME.
Men of National Reputation to
Be Here.
One Fare Rate Made by the
Railroads.
A GREAT PROGRAMME.

The prospect for an instructive and
successful Good Roards Congress on
September % to %. are growing brighter.
Hardly a day passes but something is
added to the already good list of attrac
tons.
Major Anderson has just received a
letter announcing the consent of w. H
Moore to allow his name to appear Cd
the programme. Mr.. Moore is the presi-
dent of the State and Interstate Good
Roads association of St. Louis He viii
address the Good Roads Congress in To-
peka on the subject. Organization, its
object and it's effect
The name of T. P. RixeN labor com
missioner of Missouri. has also been al
lowed to appear on the programme. He
will deliver an address on The Relation
of Labor to Good Roads, Mr.. Rixey is
one of the orators of Missouri He will
show that good roads and kindred i'm
provements will utilize the surplus OF
unemployed labor of the country. Mr..
Rixey is also first vice president of the
labor commissioners of the United
States.
In addition to this the congress will be
addressed by the Hon. James Wilson,
secretary of agriculture; Hon.Chas EN-
DRY Smith, postmaster general, on Good
Roads and Rural Free Delivery" Hon.
Martin Dodge, director of the office of
public road inquiry, on Good Times and
Good Roads
The road which is to be built as an ex-
pertinent between Washburn college and
Seabrook will have a uniform bed of
sandstone. over this three different
kinds of surface covering viii be placed.
The company which controls the stone
quarry at the end of the VinewoOd rail-
way Will put in a crusher and a part of
the road will receive a surface covering
of limestone from their quarry.
Another portion of the road will be
covered with glacial boulders which are
so plentiful in this state. 1t is not known
whether the machinery of the VineWood
quarry company viii be strong enough
to crush the glacial boulders or not. If
it isn't stronger machinery will be
brought here for that purpose.
The other covering is flint from the
Joplin district mines. This flint is got
ten by running the ore as it is mined
through the crusher and afterwards sep
arating the lead and zinc from the flint
by putting it through a series of troughS
where the water is turned on and the
mineral is separated from the flint. BY
this process all the dirt is also washed
out and leaves the flint clean. This may
be shipped to Topeka at a cost of about
$1.4O per cubic yard. Samples were
shown at a meeting of the Shawnee
county good roads association recently
and every one had a favorable opinion OF
the plan for using the flint.
In the Joplin district this flint is
spread over the roads without roadbed
being made for it underneath.
The plan is to use each of the above
named kinds of stone for the surface
covering over a portion of the expert
mental road and watch the matter so as
to determine which of the materials
gives the best results.
This will not only be a benefit to the
county alone but will be an object lesson
for other counties in the state to study
Rnd profit by when working up the good
roads movement.
Major Anderson wrote to each of the
sixty-one automobile companies manu-
featuring horseless wagons in the Uni
ted States inviting them to participate
in an exhibition to be given during the
Good Roads Congress. He has not re-
cefved answers from all of them at
present. A few have dismissed the plan
by saying that they were too far be-
hind on their orders to take the time
for the exhibition. However; enough
more have signified their intention of
making an exhibit to insure a good
show.
sent out 5000 circular letters to ad-
dresses furnished by the Commercial
club. The circular which fully explains
the object of the meeting, is as fol-
lows:
The Office of public road inquiries
is in receipt of a call for a State Good
Roads Congress to be held at Topeka
Kan, September 25-2S, 1900. The call is
signed by w. E. Stanley, governor of
Kansas; j. K Wright. president of the
Commercial clubs Of Kansas: H. H
Wallace. president of the Shawnee
County Good Roads associat ton: J. B.
Doncyson, chief consul of the League
of American Wheelmen of Kansas; and
NJ. C. Holman, president of the Com
mercial club of Topeka, Kan. a
The objects of the meeting are to
awaken and promote a more general in
terest in the Improvement of the public
roads, to discuss the various ways and
means of securing the necessary funds
for this purpose, as well as the best
Methods of constructing and maintain
ing them.
The citizens of Shawnee county have
raised the necessary funds to build one
and one-half miles of macadamized
road. a section of which will be con-
structed under the supervision of E G.
Harrison. road expert of this Office. The
construction of this road will be in
operation during the convention, thus
affording a natural object lesson, and
Mr.. Harrison will be on the ground as