The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-06


 # Address-Lewis Mayer. Demopolis. e % Address-Rev. A. F. Dix. Mont- s < gomery. &
 * Address-c. W. Buckley. Montgom-ls ls | % cry. @ Address J. Thomas Hefiin, Lafay- < | # cite. sS
 & Report of Committee on Plan for <
 % Permanent Organization State Good t % Roads Association. N Report of Committee on Resoiu- s | is tions.
 % General business and discussion. <
 ~ Adjournment.
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 "we want the ladies of Montgom- cry and those who are visiting the city to attend the meeting of the Good Roads Association in the hall
 of the House of Representatives to- morrow morning. They will ind
 much to interest them in the pro-
 cedings and we want their sympathy
 and interest in this great movement for the industrial advancement or
 Alabama."-Captain J. M. Falkner' in an interview last night. The second day of the State Good Hoaas Convention was marked by much larg"r I attendance of delegates and manifesta- lion of the deepest interest. There were morning and night sessions Of the con. yention and three hundred ruddy faced | college boys from the Alabama Poly- l technic Institute at Auburn representing l the future manhood of Alabama particle pated with keen interest In the exercises at the morning session. The college l men returned home yesterday evening. I nQrmAnent | organization was effected by the election of R.R, Poole, State Commissioner Of l Asriculture as President, J. Asa Roun- | tree of Birmingham Secretary and l.. L.. l Gilbert of Montgomery, Treasurer. Vice | Presidents were elected from the State | at-large and from the nine Congressional | Districts
 The feature of the night session was an | interesting address by Hon. M. 0. | EIdredge, Assistant Director of the gov ernment office of Road Enquiries on 'The ! Roads of the World" accompanied by 115 l stereopticon views of highways of Ameri- I ca and foreign countries.
 The hall of the House of Represen- tatives was comfortably heated yesterday | morning and the floor and the galleries | were packed with delegates when the convention assembled.
 Resolutions were adopted yesterday by | the State Association declaring for | Public Highway Commission in Alabama, | urging that county convicts be worked on | county roads, recommending that the I legislature appropriate money to aid road building and memorializing Congress | to appropriate money to assist in road building in the States of the Union The improved road machinery was at work yesterday at Showdown, but owing I to the heavy weather the delegates did | not go there on a special train as was
 contemplated in the program
 This morning the Convention will as- | sembIe at 10 o'clock It is expected that the work will be completed at the morn- | ing session and that the body will ad-
 journ sine die. The good roads train will leave Montgomery Saturday. The Convention began its second days | session at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Fully 800 delegates were present when l Chairman R. R. Poole called the body to | order.
 The students of the Alabama Polytech- | mic Institute attracted a, great deal of attention. The entire student body ac-
 companied. by Professor William Le Roy Broun, President of the institute, and | the faculty, reached Montgomery at Q o'clock on a special train from Auburn to attend the convention. The college
 party travelled in a special train of six ! coaches provided by the Western Rail- road.
 The cadet corps was in. command oe
 Colonel B. s. Patrick. commandant of the
 institute and the 300 cadets were seated in the train by companies. Arriving at
 Montgomery they marched directly to the capitol where the sessions of the con
 vention are being held.
 After the morning session of the con-
 vention the cadets disbanded. ate din-
 ner at the local hotels. and the Auburn nartU fn
 special train leaving the city at o'clock
 yesterday evening.
 When the convention was called to
 order yesterday morning the students
 and faculty of the Auburn institute went | forward and registered their names as delegates. They were cheered by the
 other visiting delegates as they did so. The convention was opened by an
 earnest and eloquent invocation by Rev, G. w. Patterson, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Montgom7 cry.
 The first business was the report of the Committee on Credentials which was sub mftted by the chairman of the commit tee, Captain Jefferson M FallSner of Montgomery. The committee reported l that nearly every county in Alabama was
 represented and that between 500 and 600 delegates were present.
 The Committee on Permanent Organi-
 zation and Officers through it's chairman, J. Asa Rountree of Birmingham. sub
 mitted the following report which was 1 unanimously adopted:
 We your. committee on Permanent | Organization and Officers recommend:
 "First-That a State organization be | perfected to be known as the Alabama
 State Good Roads Association. | "Second-The membership shall be l composed of all those whose names are
 enrolled here and hereafter, ten delegates | from the North Alabama Good Roads Association and ten from the South Ala. barna Good Roads Association and four | delegates from each county in the State
 to be appointed by the Probate Judges and County Commissioners of the res- pective counties.
 ''Third-The ofiicers of the Association
 shall consist of one president, five vice
 presidents from the State at-large and
 one from each Congressional District a secretary and 8 treasurer.
 "Fourth-That an executive committee | consisting of seven members, with the
 president, secretary and treasurer as ex- | oficio member be appointed. This com | rniffaa shall have charge and direction