Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-09-29
G0tb ROADS DUIlb|NG
Movement That Means Prog.
ress, Wider intercourse
and Pleasure.
The Spirit of the Time Is to Build
Roads on Intelligent Plan and
for the Generations That
Are to Come After Us.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept 21-1he crusade
for good roads that has stirred the
South SO ardently during the spring
into a cool-headed, systematic study
of precisely what constitutes good
road. Following the announcement
the Atlanta Journal-New ork Herald
contest, county after county blazed
with the impulse it kindled The peo-
pie awoke with a start to the momen-
tous need of better highways. And
now while that enthusiasm is still
hot, they are fashioning it to definite,
practical ends. The will is becoming
deed.
A striking and instructive illustra-
ton is to be found just ten miles from
Atlanta on Peachtree road where De-
Kalb county, aided by an expert road
engineer from the United States gov
| ernment, is carefully experimenting
to find a durable road "Dinder." A
binder" is to a roadway pretty much
what binding is to a book; or more
clearly still, what a hem is to g
sleeve. It protects the surface of the
road from the wear of the elements
| and the tear Of vehicles, particularly
bed beneath. It prevents the materia
Of the roadbed from unravelling, a.
the engineer says.
This is probably the biggest prob
lem that builders of macadam roads
have to face.
i This stretch of Peachtree road ex
tending across DeKalb from the Full
ton county line toward Chamb1ee i
!. being experimental upon to test tn
comparative values of materials nov
|, mostly in vogue for binders. 1t wa
hustling spot yesterday morning
= Along the roadside great pots of bit
luminous stuff were stea ming. Clan
steam rollers were crunching alon
the layer of granite, while short dis
tance away stood cars of granlate
!, stone ready for use. A detachmer
: of eDKa1b county's force Of convict
3 were bending to the task. R. F. Free
' man, the county's road con missioner
D J.. J. Vincet, superintendent of it
8 road construction; w. A. Neal and Y
v A. Neal, Jr., were busy supervisor
: things, and there was also clean-cu
alert young man watching every prt
=, cess of the work, answering question
and giving directions.
He was the governments road e,
! pert, Provost Hubbard, one of tt
most competent road engineers in tt
!, service of the United States Depar
ment of Agriculture. His speciality
bituminous road binders. He know
= his subject from rim to rim.
= Mr.. Hubbard spoke enthusiastical
of the widespread interest in bett,
roads which is now stirring the Sout
lanta Journal-New York Herald CO.
test has played in this awakening al
e declared that he had neter seen
y county begin it's road in1provemel
/, more intelligently or with finer equi
IS ment than has DeKalb county. The
Il he fell into a discussion Of road bin
t, ers.
y "There az two imperative problem
IS before the road engineer today"
It said. zone is to preserve old road
l. the other is to find a more satisfa
l. tory binder for roads now being CO
IS structed. 1t is generally agreed,
l. think, that for a macadam road son
bituminous material is essential as
binder. The oldest and simplest for
'e Of binder is water itself. That w
. keep the dust down and that, aft
all is the heart of the problem. 1t
'e the disintegration Of the skim of t
II road which starts destruction. B
- water is impracticable on any consi
le erable stretch Of road because of
le rapid evaporation. Solutions of de
IL quescent salts, that is to say, sal
IL that absorb and retain moisture we
u next tried. This helped to degrt
Is but still we needed some substan
Oh that would hold together the sto
ei particles and furnish surface th
Ut would be proof against the auton
s tile wheel with it's power of sucki
ne up the surface particles. That su
stance seems to have been found
bituminous products"
"On this stretch of ro.d," he &C