Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-11
WILL WORK HARD
FOR GOOD ROADS
BLANCHARD HALL MEETING
CALLED TODAY
Three Hundred and Fifty Delegates
and Many Distinguished Guests
Will Unite to Set tho
Ball Rolling
Formal steps to put the good roads

Formal steps to put the good roads
gressive basis will be taken at the big
assembly of the Good Roads associa-
ton in Blanchard hall this morning,
and It is certain that before the meet
ing adjourns not only will strong res
olutions be passed indorsing the bond
issue of $3,500,000 and urging their be-
ing voted July 30, but the several cam
paign committees desired will be
named and started out on their mis-
sionary work.
Today's meeting has been called for
10 o'clock. Besides the $50 delegates
in the organization the council or
board of trustees of every town in the
county and all the newspaper editors
have been invited, with number of
Others The mayor and council of Los
Angeles have accepted an invitation to
be present and the highway commits
sion and the board of supervisors will
be prominent guestst.
Either s. A. Butler or #. w. Blan-
chard will preside and the principal
addresses will be by T. 70. Gibbon and
w. D. Stephens, both Of whom VIII
talk on phases of the good roads situa-
ton. 2. j. Beveridge, chairman of the
campaign committee on outside work,
will have charge OF the organization
of the various booming committees or
flying squadron and will equip them
with ammunition In the shape of ample
copies of the road map showing the
proposed highways, folders for the
pledging of twenty-five voters whom
the signer will personally escort to the
polls, pamphlets explaining the road
plans in all their details, campaign
buttons, banners and so on. Full
stocks of these will be given to each
party of workers and they will be
directed as to the best methods of
distribution.
Arrangements also will be made for
speakers at mass meetings which each
subcommittee will be expected to or
ganize in its own district, so that
detail of the movement for highway
betterment. 1t is probable that the
session will last we'll through the day
and the gathering probably will be the
most notable held here in a long time
as we'll as one of the most momentous
in potentiality in the countys history
Speaking of the good roads campaign
yesterday, Chairman G. ID. Daggett
said: ''It has already cost nearly $4,000
to bring this matter of voting bonds
to its present status; in other words,
we nave Drought Tue IdSO NiSei UP W
the voting point. surveying each sep
arate road, estimating its individual
cost, arranging its topography and its
relation to the whole system. When
you realize this expenditure-to say
nothing of the months and months of
work not often thought about on the
part of the supervisors, the commits
sion and the campaign committee, you
can easily see that it will be many
years before the county will again go
to such lengths for a good roads sys-
tenn. 1t will have to be a most inn
perative call next time to attract the
slightest attention, and will venture
to say that ten years will see our roads
still dust trails in summer and muddy
chuckholes in winter, IL this bond issue
fails.
'Then think of the black eye their
defeat viii give us in the east, whence
we draw most of our visitors. They
will say that we are too poor, when
1t comes right down to it, to spend
money on roads. and that all we can
do Is put up hotels for tourists. 1t
will be a hard blow, indeed. On the
contrary, voting the bonds will release
$3,500.000 within two years here, more
than 80 per cent OF 1t going for labor
and that will start the wheels to going
in good shape l think 1t is another
Owens river crisis. and want to see
the bonds carried by as decisive a
majority"