Evening journal., 1902-12-27
LITERATURE
ON GOOD ROADS
Wilmington Institute Free
Library Has Books On
This Subject


have taken up the matter of road inn
provement there is % reasonable hope
that more rapid progress may be Sc
cured toward this end. Desiring 10
aid the mOvemmt in every way pos
sible the Wilmington Institute Free
Library has prepared a list OF the most
important literature on this subject to
be- found on It's shelves. This literature
consists OF books, magazine alrticles
and particularly the publications OF
the Office OF Pubic Road Inquiries OF
the Department of Agriculture
The most important books on this
subject are already on the library
shelves. They include the following
titles:
Byrne A. T.--Treatiso on Highway
CONSTRUCTION. 1897.
Gilmore, Q. O.-Pactical Treatise
op Roads, Streets and Pavements, ed,
8. 1896
Haupt, l.. MA Move fer Better
Roads; Essay on RcadmaMng and
Maintenance and Road laws. 1891.
Love y. C.-Pavsments and Roads;
Their Construction apd Maintenance;
reprinted from the Engineering and
Building Record 1890.
Rockwell. A. P.--Roads and Pave
ments in lhance 1896
Stone. Ray-Ncw Roads and Road
laws in the U s.. 1894.
SlialeT n S.--AncriCan Highways;
a Fopular Account of Their Conditions
and OF the Mems by Which They May
be Bettered. 1896
spaAding. r. P.-TaNt Book on
Roads and Payements. 1894.
IT, S. Bureau Of tatistics-sueets
and Highways in Foreign Countries;
Reports of Our Consuls to the Depart
ment Of State, 1891. Especial consular
reports. v3)
Magazine literature on this subject is
vOuminOus. The references given in
Pcoles Index are too numerous to be
mentioned in the scope of this article.
/ The more recent ones, however, may
be mentioned and are as follows:
A Good Rcad, a Good Investment, by
Earl Mayo, Worlds Work W, 12S5-S9.
(Oct, 190l).
Coed Roads fer the State of New
York. Harper's Weekly, v. As, 426-27,
(Ap. 9, 'O2).
The Good Roads Movement, by Mar
tin dodge. Director Of the Office Of
Public Road Inquiries, Dept. of Agri-
culture. Review CT Reviews, v. 25, 66-72,
/ Jan, 'O2).
The Government and Good Roads, by
Martin Dodge, Forum. 80, 292-97, NOV,
POD.
Civic Improvement in Street and
Highway, by Sylvester Baxter. Century
GA. 6S2-9O. (Sept. 1902.
Burnt Clay for Roads in the West,
by Charles r. Koyes, Review of Re
views 25. 72-74 (Jan., 1902.
The Library also has a file of the
Good Roads Magazine a manthly
journal. devoted exclusively TO the con-
lstruction and maintenance OF good
lroads and general promotion Of the
lgCcd Roads movement
In response to a request, the Direct
or of he office OF Public Road Inquiries
OF the Department of Agriculture has
| sent to the library as full q set as pos
silse Of the publications. OF his office
and of the department pertaining tC
this subject. An of these pamphlets
will be placed at the disposal Of any
inquirer for information on this sub
iect. Among the more interesting
may be mentioned the following:
Earth Road. by M. o. E.dridge, 1902
Good Road for Farmers, by NJ. o.
Eldridge. 1902.
Road Conventions in the Southern
States and Object Lesson Roads, 'O2.
Proceedings OF the Third Annual
Good Roads Convention OF the Board:
lof Supervisors OF the State OF New
York, 1902.
Road Building With Convict Labor
in the southern States, 1901.
The library has also received a copg
of a hill recently introduced in the
lfiouse Cf Representatives ito create in
the Department of Agriculture a bureau
to be known as the Bureau of Public
lRcads, and to provide for a system oi
national, state, and local co-operatior
in the permanent improvement OF tho
public highways"