Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-10

New York Aug. 5.-(Special)-No city
in the United States is doing more LOT the
construction of good roads than Cleveiahu,
Ohio. Its advantages, therefore, as Sthe
headquarters OF the Second Annual Ma
tioi,al Good Roads Convention under the
ausrices of the American Automobiie
Association, the National Grange, the
U. S. Office of Public Roads, and the
American Road Makers Association, from
September 2lst to the 23rd are being
clearly recognized by motorists ana gooo
road engineers throughout the country
and the delegates preparing to attend the
sessions will be not only larger IN num-
Der but also more representative in CHAR
aoter than was the case year ago IN
Buffalo.
F. A. Pease, who has been selected by
the Cleveland, Automobile Club as the
Chairman of the Demonstration Commit
tee, completed the formation of his com
mittee last week and furnished George e.
D.ehl, Chairman of the National Commit
tee in charge of the Good Roads Conven-
ton. with tentative plan of the practi-
ca, features which will be SO prominent
during the convention. ut is probable
that at the time the Convention is held
in Cleveland" he says, lit will be the
privilege of the highway officials and
delegates to witness a larger amount of
road construction of various types than
would be possible in any other locality
within such limited time. as the city
of Cleveland and it's various suburbs
have let an unusually large amount Of
contracts for road improvement during
the present season..
Mr.. Pease is now preparing a map of
the city and it's suburbs on which will be
clearly outlined the road work under con-
struction with the localities selected for
special demonstration during the Conven-
ton Beside arranging to show the prac-
teal workings of asphalt paving within
the city limits the committee is planning
to give very thorough Illustration of
culvert work, and A. Folgate, the Coun-
ty Bridge Engineer of Cuyahoga County,
will read a paper dealing with the subject
of constructing permanent structures
across highways for water courses. mis-
information will range from thirty-six
inch box culverts to a magnificent con-
crete arch for single span of two hun
bred and eighty feet now being erected
at Rocky River west of Cleveland.
The committee will also take up the
question of testing material that enter
into road construction and emphasize the
necessity for careful inspection of such
materials while also Illustrating the
methods by which accurate tests may be
made.
The work now being done on roads in
and around Cleveland presents a number
of different constructive methods and on
this account will be particularly valuable
to the delegates in showing them on a
large scale the practical results of good
roads in the making for permanent use.
The Cuyohoga County Commissioners
are constructing a brick road east of
Cleveland Heights village, the brick be-
Ing four inches in depth laid upon four
inch concrete base between Portland ce-
ment curves that are moulded in place.
This construction extends about four
miles and during the convention the work
can be studied in all of it's stages from
the safeguarding to completing the fin
ished surface.
Through the village of Cleveland
Heights a new macadam road is being