Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-09-15
GOOD ROADS TRAIN.

roads train" 10 scheduled to leave
st. Louis about Oct. l for two or
three months tour of the states and
territories touched by the Frisco
railway system.
II will be a strenuous crusade
against bad highways, the incipi'
ency of a movement destined to
spread throughout the United
States. St. Louis is it's starting
point aud the new South is it's first
field of endeavor.
A dozen officials travelling in two
special Pullmans, with six carloads
of BODYBUILDING machinery and
the necessary force of workmen will
constitute this train. The intention
is to visit 81 important trading cen.
tiers in ten states and territories,
build sample macadam, telford,
gravel or dirt roads at some OF them
and to hold good roads conventions
and enlist the enthusiasm of dele
gates at all of them for the purpose
of procuring good roads legisla.
ton.
Back of this great educational
movement is the United States gov.
eminent, the National Good Roads
Association, the Frisco Railway
Co., dozen manufacturers of road
making machinery and the people
of the localities to be visited.
The train will be provided at the
expense of the Frisco Railway Co.
and will be fully equipped for the
sleeping and commissary accom-
mediation of it's crew and party for
trip of 800 miles. The party will
include official representatives of
the government. of the National
Good Roads Association aud OF the
ST. Louis and other newspapers.
with a changing list of speakers
and organizers. The flat cars in
the train will be loaded with such
road-making machinery as graders,
scrapers, horse and steam rollers,
rock crushers, plows, ditching ma.
chimes, elevator graders, traction
engines, etc.
At four or five of the towns where
the local authorities have taken
sufficient interest to provide horses,
labor and material, the machinery
will be unloaded, and under the gu
pervision of a United States engi-
neer a section of sample road, per-
haps mile in length, will be con-
structed for the instruction of the
assembled residents, brought to-
gether by the previous efforts OF
the National Good Roads Associa
ton, working through local COM
mercial and other organizations
President Moore, Secretary Rich
ardson and National Organizer A
S. Mann of Florida will attend to
the organization in advance and the
Frisco will give excursion rates to
the good roads convention towns.
At each of the other points good
roads convention, to be arranged in
advance, will be held on the date
fixed for the arrival of the good
roads train. A day and night will
be spent there, speakers will be pro
vided, literature distributed and a
local good roads association will be
organized.
The officers of the National Good
Roads Association and the officials
of the road department of the gov
eminent, who have given years OF
study 10 the subject and know every
phase of engineering and road con-
struction, will be on hand at each
convention. There will also be
prominent speakers. including gov
ernors. members of congress, presi
dents of universities and colleges
railroad officials. engineers and the
leading officials, including the may
ors and councils of cities, invited &c
attend and address the conventions
As Missouri, like some other
states, has adopted good roads