Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1908-06-19
COMMISSION NAMED.
To Represent U. S. at Internation-
al Coed Roads Congress.
IT WILL MEET AT PARIS IN OCTOBER.
R REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE THERE
FROM EVERY CIVILIZED NATION
IN The WORLD.

! REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE HERE
FROM EVERY CIVILIZED NATION
IN The WORLD.
| President Roosevelt has directed
that this Nation be strongly and
officially represented at the Good
Roads Congress, to be held at Paris
the week beginning October 18th,
and credentials have been issued
naming Logan Waller Page, Direct
! or of the Office of Public Roads OF
! the U. S. Department OF Agricul-
ture, Chairman of the Commission.
The other members named are Col.
Chas. S. Cromwell, of the U. s..
Corps of Engineers, now serving as
Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds of the District of Column
|bia, and Clifford Richardson, OF
New York, an eminent chemist and
one of the worlds acknowledged
authorities on bituminous road
building materials.
This coming Congress, which will
be attended by distinguished dele
gates from every country in the
world, is regarded by highway en-
gineers and experts as probably the
most important ever summoned for
the discussion of an economic ques-
ton. It's need is the direct out
growth of the advent of the auto
mobile, for, while thousands are
ignorant of the fact, the soft tires
of the modern motor car are the
greatest menance the hard surface
thoroughfares of the world have
ever been called upon to face. TO
understand how a pneumatic tire
made of rubber could possibly In
lure a road surfaced with particles
of crushed rock, one must have at
least a faint understanding of the
theories on which first Tresauget OF
Limoges and then MacAdam OF Ay1
built that class of highway. They
figured that road composed Of
crushed stone would not only en-
dure the constant traffic of iron
tired vehicles, but would improve
because the metal-bound wheels
would be constantly crushing TIT
stones and forming rock dust. Thai
dust would, they argued, not mere
lv sift itself into all cracks and in
terstices, but would fill all surface
| inequalities, and when wet woult
be rolled into a smooth, impervl
Gus, understanding, shell-like sur
face.
They reasoned well, built wisely
and for over a century and quar-
ter the so-called macadam road dlt
: everything that the famous French
t and Scotch highway engineer
claimed it capable of. 1t came t.
be the ideal road for suburban sec
t tions, and thousands of miles wer
j built. France to date has spen
$500, 100000 on her Incompatible
system of rock-surfaced Natlons
routes and the United States ma
! followed to a degree, possessing q
i the present time approximate
i 80 900 miles of this class of high
a way.
Prior to the advent of the autt
" mobile the roads improved, but tn
modern speed vehicle had not bee
traversing the suburban highwa.
long before pronounced retrogre
IT sion of the most generally traVele
y stretches was very notlceable.Con
= plants came from farmers andfro
> jewellers along suburban roads tn
it a great dust nuisance had all
IS sprung up and that emerald lawl
were taking on the hue of Londe
fog and that box hedge was do
grey rather than green. Fru
farmers noted their products b
looming gritty and prices fell OH.
q Investigation proved at ON
A that the new conditions had bee