The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-02-04
PRESIDENT MOORE'S VISIT
Here Yesterday and is Well Pleased
With the Preparations.
TWELVE CARLOADS OF MACHINERY
Ex-senator Ransom Has Been Sent Special
Invitation Asking Him 10 be Present
and Speak at Good Roads
Congress-.

Congress.
Cpngress arc COINS to draw great crowds
&c Raleigh.
President W. H. Moore. the active and
genial head of the National Good Roads
Association, was here yesterday on his
way frcm Richmond to Columbia, and
stopped over to see what was being
done here for February 1918 when the
Good Roads people will be here.
L am greatly pleased with what l
have learned OF your preparations said
lie yesterday. I've kept an eye on the
rapers and I've talked with members Of
The committee here about what is going
on. and l find you are pushing right
ahead.
Richmond is getting ready tor US af-
ter we leave Raleigh" he continued, and
the Nirginians are following out the
plans you have SO Well in hand il Raj
t;2h. Ii the committee a~ccomplishes
what it has marked out to do, ii Will
see d wonderful success here"
Col. Moore expressed his regret that
the county of Wake had not yet taken
action TO help the meeting here imam
rally. If this is not done" he said,
it will be the only like case that we
have met with on the trip, and it seems
that Wake will aid. though it is croWding
time by postpOning its meeting till Feb
rEary third.
Speaking Of the equipment to be used
by the experts in road building, Col.
Moore said that there We're twelve car
loads OF machinery being carried with
the train, and that the mere inspection
Of the machinery used would be worth
Il visit to Raleigh.
Among the other articles en- a long list
o. the machinery there is one ten-ton
double engine, steam road roller, two disc
haIroWS. one sprinkler. two elevator
graders. a rotary pillow, a wing pillow, one
Western grader. \ number Of trap wheel
Els. wagons. cobb drags, and plows, a
No. Champion crusher, an Is foot ele-
vator and mounted bin, one - horse
rover ard one is horsepower portable
engine and boiler. three Champion foaG
machines two Champion distributing
carts. an Altman mounted crusher, with
elevator. chute and screen. 4 six and
cne-half ton horse DAD roller. d three
and one-half ION horse road roller. be
sIqes many other necessary articles.
There is no doubt but that the mere
sight of modern machinery fer road
building as we'll as their use by experts,
will attract great crowds along SANS
lurt street where the work is 10 be done
Speaking of this. Col. Moore said, Il
&nl not sure but that We VIII DO more
work here thaa has been mapped out, as
we want 10 keep our people at work.
There is a bad piece of road between
Raleigh and the State Hospital that We
NAV work on, and several other crooked
places that We may straighten out.
Speaking of the Invitations sent out
Col. Moore says that "a specia! one has
been sent to ex-senator Ransom, and
that it is hoped that he will be present
during the Congress to talk 10 the people
who will be here from all over the State.
1t is certain to be a great crowd here.
Invitations are being sent TO the parents
of all the students of the A. x NJ. Col
Ieue and the Presidents of the three fe-
male colleges in Raleigh are to be asked
TO invite the parents of their students,
The meeting will be a grand re-union OF
people from all points of North Carolina.
The railroads are doing their part.
One fare rates have been agreed upon
and the great Good Roads Congress
here is being advertised, the Southern
having already issued its posters telling
OF the event.
Tel the people," said Col. Moore be
fore boarding the train yesterday mot
TO depend alone on the newspapers to
advertise the Congress in Raleigh, nor
alone upon the committees. but that
every man who wants to see a great
gathering in Raleigh should urge upon
his friends and acquaintance to be pres
emit
That is the way that there came 10 be
a $500 barbecue in Augusta" said he
THE people got interested.' That's why
the South Carolina Legislature ad-
iourned to take part in the exercises
Just get the people walked up and The
meeting here will be the biggest thins
YOU have seen for man a day"
The people Of the State are beins
aroused. Mr.. +. L. Vernon. traveline
passenger agent of the Southern who wa:
here yesterday. said in an interview:
Il have never seen so much intereS
being taken in the western part of Nortl
Caroline over anything in my life. Tn,
people are very enthusiastic over III,
Good Roads Movement and intend to puSl
1t to success in North Carolina. Their
viii be large delegations from severa
western towns at the convention. TIL
people OF the western part OF the Stat
seem to have the matter at heart. an
| believe the Good Roads Congress to b
held mere next month will be a grea
factor in Improvement Of road building.