Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-14
SECOND DAY or
GOOD ROADS MEETING
Number of Prominent People Deliver
Addresses Banquet To-
night

tion of the Oregon Good Roads Asso
citation was opened this morning al
about 9:15 o'clock by an address
"Wanted, Educated Road Builders, )
by H. B. Thielsen, secretary of the as
sociation. Mr.. Thielsen delivered an
able address, which will be printed IN
The Journal in tomorrow's issue. Mr.
Thielsen was followed by DIR. James
Withycombe, director of the United
States experiment station, Oregon Ag
ricultIrral College, at Corvallis, who
gave a pleasant talk on "Road Making
as Branch of instruction in Col.
leges' Prof. p. L. Campbell, presi-
dent of the University of Oregon, next
gave an address using the question,
HWhat Should the University of Ore.
gon do to Educate Road Builders?" as
his topic. This address was followed
by Rev. DIR. John Coleman, D. D., pres.
ident of Willamette University, who
had his hearers in an uproar of mirth
one minute, and solemnly considering
the road question the next. He gave
strong assurance of the sincerity of
Willamette University in their aid to
the good roads campaign.
The program to be taken up this af-
ternoon and evening is as follows:
Address-"A Needed State Road for
Oregon Hon. Lionel r. r. Webster,
county judge of Multnomah county,
Portland.
Address" Drainage of Highways" "
Hon. J. Il. Magers, ex-county judge of
Yamhill county, Portland.
Address = "Public Road Manage
ment," Prof. j. M. Hyde, Oregon State
University, Eugene.
Discussion
This Evenings Program.
Address-"Good Roads, Hon. T.. I.
Geer, ex-governor of Oregon.
Address Organization Tom
Richardson, manager Portland CONNER
cial Club.
Delegates will then adjourn to Hotel
Willamette, where a smoker and lunch
will be furnished through the courtesy
of Beall & Co., and the Buffalo Pitts
Co., of Portland.
Tuesday Afternoon.
The Good Roads Convention met IN
the city hall at 1;Se p. M, and there
was a large and enthusiastic audience
present. From Mayor Waters address
of welcome to Secretary Thielsen s
reading of letetrs, there was the closest
attention. Governor Chamberlain gave
a rousing off-hand speech; and rather
discouraged the idea that he was OPP
posed to a Good Roads Commission, but
favored it. Ex-Governor Geer took is.
sue with Mayor Waters on the question
of bonding the county for roads. The
mayor had championed the cooperative
plan as tried successfully by the farm.
ers of Liberty, in preference to bond
ing, while the governor favored long
time bonds, and this was endorsed by
Judge Scott little later. The papers
and speeches were all helpful, opti-
mistic, and hopeful of better results.
Governor Geer said he had reduced his
estimate of the possibilities of paving
in this city to single block, and in
that it is to be hoped that he may be
agreeably disappointed.
County Judge Scott, of Marion coun-
ty, in addressing the convention, said
in part:
"In the development of any new
country we have to work in what we
might term different stages of civiliza-
tion. When Lewis and Clark came here
100 years ago, they found this country
in wild, savage state. They caused to |
come here a sturdy people, who were
made up of the best bone and sinew of |
the land; a people who were willing to
undergo untold suffering and hardship,
that the Pacific Northwest might be |
civilized and settled with better peo-
pie. None with less sturdy manhood
would or could do the noble work these
people did in Transforming what was
at that time a vast waste of territory,
only by savage tribes of In
Ilians, who knew nothing of the bene-
fts of higher civilization, into homes
that are rich in agricultural products,
and taught its natives a life Of indus
Try, character and culture. They hewed
down the forests, titled the soil, and
made roads that answered the purposes
Of that day and age of civilization IL
was a great task for them in that early
beginning Of the history of this eoun-
try to make trails. through the forests,
and over the mountains, to say nothing
of making roads. After the country
became more thiekly settled they were
able to widen these trails into wagon |