The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03

| doun giving experiments in how to make i good roads. President w. H. Moore ana | Secretary R. w. Richardson or the
 National Good Roads Association and
 Martin Dodge Director of Punhc Foao | Inouiries of the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture at Washington are | among the many persons who accom-
 panied the good roads train to Montgom-
 cry. The above named gentlemen have | opened headauarters at Mabson's New | Hotel.
 The progi am for the State Convention | is complete. The sessions Will De neid in the hall of the House of Representa-
 tives at the State Capitol beginning at
 noon Wednesday and continuing through
 Thursday and Friday. It was learned
 yesterday that the entire body of college
 students and faculty of the University l of Alabama will attend the convention | arriving here on a special train over the
 Mobile and Ohio Railroad which has been | furnished free of charge. The Auburn bovs will also attend the convention in
 body Thursday.
 The convention will take recesses and
 view the work of road building on Sayre
 Street They also take a recess Thurs
 day afternoon and go by>special train to
 Showdown and view the work there. A | special train for Showdown will leave | Montgomery Thursday and Friday after moons at 2:30 o'clock and return at ' | p. m.
 MT. Richardson. the national secretary, | stated yesterday that the work of the
 good roads train is independent of the Good Roads Convention. but the work is
 open at all times for inspection by the
 delegates to the convention.
 One of the features of the convention
 will be the lecture Thursday evening in
 the hall of the House of Representatives.
 This lecture will be given by M. O..
 Eldridge.. Assistant Public Road In-
 quiries of the United States Department
 of Agriculture at Washington. The lecture
 will be profusely illustrated by the
 steriopticon and will last about nifty
 minutes. Mir. Eldridge has travelled all
 over the world and his lecture ''The
 Roads of the World has made a great
 hit every where he has delivered 1t. This
 feature of the convention was not had
 at Mobile because MT. Eldridge was call ed to Washington to attend to some busi-
 ness matter. He will return to Mont
 gomery in time for his lecture Thursday.
 The public is cordially invited to attend
 this lecture.
 Two experiments daily will be given : by the good roads train, one on Sayre [ Street in the city and the other on a , stretch of road near Showdown. It was the intention of MT. Moore to have the } outfits at work early yesterday morning, but on account of the bad weather, the work was delayed. MT. Moore says that
 if the weather is fair the men will be
 busy at work both on Sayre Street and
 at Showdown this morning. detach- ment of the machinery was sent the } latter place yesterday afternoon.
 A big elevating grader will start to l work on Sayre Street this morning. The I grader will be operated by twelve head l of horses. This elevating grader conveys the dirt from the street to wagons which are constantly waiting to be filled and i then hauled away. The work of prepar- ing the foundation will be completed r probably by Wednesday and then the , grader will be shipped to Showdown where in the meantime the proposed road { way to be graveled there will have been cleared by other machinery. Six or eight . teams were put to work at Showdown
 yesterday. Several graders were also Y put to work and by the time the large e elevating grader will have completed its l work in town and taken to Showdown x Wednesday, everything will be in readi- n ness for 1t.
 - The special train bearing the Good
 Roads outfit arrived in Montgomery over
 the Southern and the Mobile and Ohio
 Raiuroad at 7:30 o'clock Sunday night n from Mobile where the Good Roads train O had been giving experiments last week. | -- fifteen cars. Twelve cars of machinery a and two sleeping cars and one commis d sary car. The machinery carried by the e train consists of two elevated road grad ,- ing machines three road blade machines 1t one portable crushing plant with mount e able bin, portable engine, one 12-hors 5. power traction engine, one stationar m crushing plant with engine and equipmen n one buffalo ten tons steam roller, one si, l hoIf AuSti Ig sprinkler dump wagons, spreading wa m gons wheel scrapes, tools, blows and oth is CT paraphernalia and equipment.
 lt Those who arrived on the Good Road n- train yesterday were w. H. Moore, Presi a. dent National Good Roads Association an R. w Richardson, Secretary of the Ma it. tional Good Roads Associations; Marti is Dodge, Director Public Road Inquiries h. United States Department Agriculture a
 Washington; M. O. Eldridge Assistan
 Public Road Inquiries, United States De
 partment of Agriculture; NJ. A. Hayes TO representing the Southern Railway; W Id H. Irwin, special engner in charge 0 ad the work for the Good Roads Association ne J. B. Mclean, w. l.. Spoon, A. c. Taylor n- P. J. Dolan, N. T. Smith, road expert lg and machine operators; C. M. Scott, A. ( en Dodson special experts in charge of ma ne chinery; G. M. Gillis, stenographer; E. G a. Richardson, Secretary. Tn addition ther a are large number of laborers
 as The machinery used by the Good Road Ii- train is furnished by the Good Roads Ma ce chine Association, Kennett Square, Pa. It. F. c. Austin Company, Harvey. III. 1n Western Wheel Scraper Company, Auro il, ra, Ill.,; The Altman Company, Canton
 O.: Buffalo Pitts Company. Buffalo N. Y
 MT. w. H. Moore. President of tn
 National Good Roads Association, whei on seen yesterday by an Advertiser repre- in sentative appeared to be jubilant owe of the approaching convention to be hell g. in Montgomery. MT. Moore said h on thought it would be the best convention as held in the South. He stated that dele s- gates were coming here from the Bir ut mingham and Mobile convention and iron ey all parts of Alabama. He said if tn f- weather was fair the good roads outfit lg under the direction of the National Goot at Roads Association would certainly shov of in an up-to-date manner how to mak lg good roads
 he MT. Moore said he had driven abou nt Montgomery county Sunday afternoon e. and he declared that no where in hi lie travels in the South. not even barrin; of the blue grass region in Kentucky, ha od ne seen better roads than in Montgomer,
 county. The completeness of the work h.
 said, was practically manifested by tn
 fact that the committee were compelleC 1g to go ten miles away from the city tt 1n find a spot to be graveled. Mir Moore ap ifs peared to be elated over the prospect o sk having the students and faculty of tn n- University of Alabama and the Alaham; ed Polytechnic Institute at Auburn attenC ct the convention He said the future of tn