The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-03-08
Various Parts
Of the County
Represented

Good Roads Convention held in the
opera house this morning.
TheFe would have been more in at.
tendanee were the roads not well nigh
impass sable atthis time. One man said
that he started yesterday in order to
be an attendant at the convention,
TEose Ii attendance are interested
ii tie movement and it looks as Il
something WIN be done to prepare the
highways q the State.
The meeting was called to order by
MI. i. II. showalter and was opened
BY mayer led by Rev. ]. g. Broom
held Nj. showalter called the repre-
sehtatiyes Of the West virginian and
the Times to act as secretaries.
mn showalter, In his opening
speech said that the Americans were
ol long endurance, but when once
aroused they moved with a telling
force. Aud one Of the long suRerings
Of tie people Of West Virginia has
been their need Of public roads. He
chen introduced Mayor Kinsey who
Welcomed the visitors at the conyen-
lion
M Ktnsey said that It had been
his honored privilege in the last two
years ID welcome many gatherings,
namely, the boys In blue and Of many
examinations, but none were more
Welcome than the visitors to this con-
xenaon
me mayor said that West Virginia
had everything, but way to get to
and from the State. he said that
Ne had the money and the place to
ptt the roads.
GOV. Fleming, who was to have ad-
dressed the meeting, had to leave the
towu yesterday and could not get back
IN time forsthe convention.
Col w Il. Moore. president Of the
Nahonal Good Roads Association, was
Introduced.
col. Moore paid high compliment
70 the press Of F'airmont and said that
our daiiyfpapers we're two lightning
roads of progress. He was pleased
with our city and said that people who
can build Court House, factories,
business houses and an opera house
iike We have, can build good roads,
ana the Good Roads Association is
mere % show. what is to be done and
then show how to do the work The
state ID to be organized for a cam
paisn 81 good roads; When the argan.
ization IS IN working order it will ap'
ply Is tie State for legislation favor
abie Tor the construction Of good roads
and ar appropriation to aid in the
building 6f the same will be asked,
The States to the north Of West Vir'
Gina have been organized and are
carrying out the plans TO their entire
sasisfsctlon the methods recommend
Ca 81 the men that are here. New
Yorh Ills bonded herself for $5o,oO0,'
ooo % be applied to the building of
Eood roads, Pennsylvania has set
alds s30,D0O,O0O to be used In q speci'
fed time Tor the same purpose; Ohio
Is aiding hef. townships in this move
ment and Maryland IS assisting her
districts along the same line. II these
States can DO It and they are, then
west Virgtnia can too. West virgipla
spends 81 rather suuandeFs about
100000 PER year on her roads. II is
the, object of tie National Good Roads
Association to educate the people Of
tlls state III such a; way that this
mount q money shall not be lost but
hat II may. be 50 applied to the form
tngald building Of roads that It Will
realiy be considered as an asset.
The States enumerated above and
osher States have schools in which
road construction is taught, and the
leglslatpEe Of West Virginia will De
askedS % appropriate $4,000 to have
IN engineering department established
nj the State University,
whereby our boys learn this important
Observation-Disclosures going to other States.
Not only are the commonwealths in.
terstsd Ia this movement, but the gen.
eai government as we'll President
Mckinley in his Message to the Fifty.
SIKH Congress- nended that the
federai government should give al
possible ma to tie building % ggool
ronds 5ss
These men are here intthe iiitetes Of
lhe people they aFe moi the represeii
lauves 81 any machine, automobile