The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-27
GOOD ROADS MEETING
STATE CONVENTION MAY BE
 HELD HERE.
W. H. Moore, Representative of the Special Train, Held Conference
 with Business Men-Will
 Meet Board of Revenue.

Montgomery is to have the State Good Roads Convention on December End. This was practically agreed upon last night at meeting of the directors of the Com- mercial and Industrial Association. The directors held meeting to confer with W. H. Moore of Chicago, who has charge of the itinerary of the goed roads train that is now attracting so much at- tention in the South and which is des- tined to do so much real genuine, lasting good to this entire section.
 MT. Moore met the board and gave a full description of the train, the purposes and desireS of the Southern Railway. the promoters, which have been heretofore printed at length several times in The Advertiser, and in Q very short while filled them with enthusiasm and assured them to the great importance of having the convention here. This they prac- tically unanimously decided to do, but the details are yet to be als anged.
 Montgomery Is situated in the very center of the prairie country. in the Black Belt where the roads naturally are so notoriouSly bad and where, for only few years past, they have received to any great extent any of the artistic touches which have become famous very recently and which the\ Southern Railway sends out this very train to demonstrate and get the people thoroughly aroused on the subject.
 Good roads are to be the salvation of the Southern country and this great artery of commerce realizes the fact that the building up of good roads and mak- ing all sections of the country easily &C., cesible will soon thickly populate 1t, and open up to 1t great avenues of trade and traffic which now lie dormant.
 Other great railroads in the West and Northwest have done this very thing, and it is no ex xperiment down here. for every where in the South and in Alabama and right here in Montgomery County good roads always have paid incidentally for the investment.
 Mir. Moore will appear before the Mont gomery Board of Revenue tomorrow and solicit it's earnest and active cooperation in the movement, for the State Good Roads Convention and the bringing of the train here. While he is a most en- tertaining talker and great enthusiast on the subject and while the Board will no doubt be glad to hear and listen to him with much pleasure, 1t can be said that he will no doubt find each member heart and soul with him and earnestly enlisted in the cause he represents. Montgom- cry County roads are the pride of it's people and the members of the Board will prove to be about as active and en- thusiastic set of good roads builders as MT. Moore has found in all his travels.
 MT. Moore said to an Advertiser repre- sentative last night that he was delight ed with the encouragement and splendid reception extended him wherever he had been along the proposed route of the good roads train and he did not hesitate to say that he had found as much enthu- siasm aTfd as much interest in the suh- ject as had been shown in the State of Illinois. This is saying great deal. for it is known that this great State of the Northwest will have first and foremost of everything else good roads over which to cafry its products to market.
 Mir. Moore Is sure to be cordially and warmly received by all the people of Montgomery and he will soon be con vinced that no mistake has ,been made in stopping his train at Montgomery.