The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1910-04-12
auto CLUB IS
DOING THINGS
Rouslhc MEETING HELD LAST
NIGHT--ExHAUsTIvE REPORTS
MADE AND MANY MATTERS or
IMPORTANCE TAKEN UP = TO
MEASURE ROUTES.

The newly organized Fargo Auto
mobile club held one of the best meet
ltngs of its existance last night In the
commercial club rooms and there was
a good attendance and much interest
shown. A great deal of business was
transacted that win in time prove to
be of interest and benefit to the gem
eraI public. The greater part OF the
evening was spent in listening to re-
ports from various committees. The
committee on the repair of the bridge
at the hospital known as the Broadway
bridge and which went down during
the high water this spring reported
that the bridge had been repaired and
yesterday was thrown open for travel
The N. r. Will Help.
The road committee reported that it
had arranged with the Northern Pa
Gifts to take care Of the road between
this city and Dilworth. This road has
been the cause OF great deal of
trouble not only to autoists, but to
those who travel by wagon or buggy
The committee also reported that 1t
had arranged to take care of the ap-
proaches to Fargo and would pay par
ticular attention to the roads by
Thirteenth street and the Agricultural
college.
To Distance Routes.
AS soon as possible the club viii
send cars north. south, east and west
on roads yet to be sci ected, and these
cars will be equipped with speedo-
meters. which will take the distance.
These routes will be as follows: One
from Fargo to Valley City; another
from Fargo to Grand Forks; another
from here to Detroits another from
here to Abercrombie. lit will be the
duty of the party who are in the cars
that are sent over these routes to take
notes of bad places in the roads, of the
condition of the roads i'm general. and
of any other information that might
be OF use to autoists, members of the
club. The best roads will be thus
selected and sign boards giving dis
tance and direction will be erected
along the route.
To Have Circulars.
Circulars will be printed giving the
directions and the road, as well as
showing an of the bad places and the
distance from Fargo where these
dangerous places in the road are To-
Gated, and these win be mailed to
members of the club, and will be found
to be most useful The Baker brothers
Of this city made such trip from Far
go and Detroit day or two ago and
they made full report of what they
found. Z
Want j Watchnlan.
At the meeting last nigh. d resolu-
ton was prepared and adopted and will
be presented to the next meeting OF
the city council, asking that body to
appoint and station r watchman at the
Broadway crossing of the Great North
ern between the hours of and 12
o'clock at night. The watchman sta
TONED there in the day time leaves his
duties at o'clock in tie evening which
leaves that very dan -erous crossing
ungaarded and there have been many
close calls from accidents.
The State Organization.
A full report was made by secre-
tary Richardson IN regard to this pro-
posed North Dakota State Automobile
Club, which is to be organized in this
city on Tuesday afternoon, April 26, at
the commercial club rooms. He stated
that 1t was expe~ted that a large num-
ber of visitors would ',e present from
all parts of the state AM he was most
enthusiastic in regard to the proposed
organization, and stated that he had
already received several letters In re-
gard to the project. After. his remarks
and remarks Of others 4he club decided
that it would take charge of the enter
tainment of the visitors.