The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-06-15
Officers of National
Association
Will Deliver Addresses
During the Day
PROMINENT MEN ARE COMING
President Moore and Party will Ar
rive In the Morning on
Special Train.

A good roads convention, under the
auspices Of the national association,
will be held at Hood River, Saturday,
June H. The official national Good
Roads st ecial. nov euroute to Port
land, where the Pacific coast national
good roads convention will be held
June -, % and 2i, in connection with
the Lewis and Clark exposition, will
reach this city Saturday morning, and
held three sessions here that day.
Methods and plans of constructing
good roads adapted to conditions in
tGis valley viii he discussed and ex-
! lined at this convention, and later In
Ire season construction train Of en-
gipeers and road builders will stop at
Hood River and construct model
uile of what the national association
cells good road, at a point in the val
ley TO be designated by the official
engineers.
Among the officers of the national
association who will be present are
the Hon. Martin Dodge, director of
the office of public roads inquiries,
United States government; Hon. W.
II. Moore, president of the national
association, leading engineers, lectur-
ers and experts, who will outline and
discuss practical methods Of road
building
Last Saturday afternoon, call
meeting of business men and farmers
in the rooms of the Commercial club
was addressed by Wellington f.
Loucks, organizer of the National
Good Roads association who explained
the good roads movement, and the
great worth it is to Hood River tC
cure this convention here.
Mr.. Loucks stated that the good
roads officials, who were making the
trip in special train to the Lewis
and Clark fair, where they will hold {
Pacific coast convention, we're the
guests during the trip of the Harri
. man railroad officials. Mr.. Loucks
+ had Just been to Portland, where, ii
' conferen with the officials of the
o. r. u n. in that city, he had beer
e directed to Hood River, as the besl
point between Pendleton and Portland
Y for the holding of a ood roads con
veution Here, the railway Officials
believed the people would cooperate
with the national association for Object
lessons in good road making, and thu
construction of half mile or NOR,
of experimental road bed. In ordel
to come to Hood River, the speaker
said the association would be forced tt
forego holding like convention a
Spokane, to which city the association
5 had been invited.
At tha conclusion Of Mr. Loucks
address, Leslie Butler moved that tn,
+ offer to come to Hood River be ac
r cepted, and that formal invitation
(. be extended to President W. II. Moor
Y and his assistants to hold the gooC
/ roads convention here, and that tn
e mass meeting Of citizens pledge $50
= to defray the expenses of the visit o
0 the national good roads officials.
The motion carried with enthusiasm
e and other motions for the appoint
" ment of the necessary committees a
| outlined by Mr.. Loucks went throug
II in due form. A motion then carrie
k that when the meeting adjourned,
T. meet again 8 O'Clock Tuesday even
ing, when the plans for the conventio
z would be further completed.
"The national good roads movemen
began at Chicago in 1900, "sa'd Nj
: Loucks, "when large convention ws
held by men from all parts Of th
United States, and the National Goo
Roads association was formally organ
lied, and campaign for good road
hogun In earnest.
"The subject of good roads receive
much attention from the early pres
dents, and shortly after the establish
ment of government, the constructio
of public highway was started frol
p Cumberland, Md, Westward Th
road reached Vgndalia, ILL.,, by 1873.
when the work was interrupted b
the rapid advancement of railroads
From that day until within the pa
year or two the national governmeI
aud the people of the country toe
but slight interest if any In goo
roads.
"Today the movement has acquire
such a momentum that nearly ever
state In the union has good roads o.
| ganizations The state Of New YOI
Las appropriated $50, 0O0 900 for Il
/ | consti auction Of roads in that stat
l The department of agriculture in Ne
York, under whose direction the roa
tnilding is proceeding, is today sent
, ing cot literature inviting homeseel
l ers to return to good old York, whe
it has been possible by means Of Il
good roads for farmers to acqui
) comfortable homes with all the adva
tages Of good schools, churches al
society.
| "New York has now under way
movement TO secure a state appropri
tion of 56, 800, 600 for six years (
g good roads. Think of it, will you, s
III and one half million dollars a year {
six years for the building of go,
gI roads Other states have made lar
appropriations for good roads, Lit
y Rhody coming to the front with 500
UO0
"This good roads convention viii
hope you will secure for this ct
will be the grandest event in the b
!. tory of the community. The railros
- have assured me they will grant