The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-08
ADVANCED VIEWS
ON ROAD BUILDING
President Taft to Discuss Subject
OF National Progress at Rich
mond Convention.

| Advanced views on the subject of
road Improvement and the relation OF
good roads to national progress and
prosperity will mark President Taft's
address at the first congress of the
American Association for Highway
Improvement to be held at Richmond
November 2o-23.
Inc foremost engineers. road OIL
| Gals. traffic experts. legislators, rail-
road officials, manufacturers. contrac.
tors and agriculturists, who have been
deVotins their attention to the prob
lems of road construction, mainto-
nance and administration, will be
brought together ut Richmond.
IN the Held OF road construction in
tricate problems have arisen to n,,,z,
farmers as well as automobiles.
especially with regard to the ADAM,
~ u construction to meet the de-
seructife effects of modern traflic
Director Logan Waller Page, of tho
n'teo state Office OF Public Roads,
, ii'aoe various experiments, which
. SHOWN the best types of road for
tue various kinds of traffic. but Tho
results of these experiments arc No.
seherally known throughout the vari-
Gus states. Mr. Page. who aside from
MS oficlat position at the head Of Tho
government ONCE of public roads is
me president of the American Asso-
citation for Highway Improvement. viii,
tel something OF these experiments
at the road congress.
announcements of equal Importance
VIII be made by road officials Of the
various states who expect to lind
proht In an exchange of views.
Every state In the Union is vitality
interested in the road building and
maintenance problem, and practicnllv
every State will be represented either
ny It's Governor or some other high
oincial Road officials of most all the
states likewise will be present
Road maintenance has been almost
entirely neglected in the United States,
with the result that deterioration of
The best constructed roads represents
preventablc loss aggrcgating mil
lions of dollars annually.
Want Uniform Legislation.
Just now there Is tendency to-
wards remedial action looking to the
adoption OF continuous and systema
tic maintenance, and the great road
congress at Richmond is expected to
coordinate this part of the road
movement and help TO bring about
better maintenance OF roads through
cut the country.
1t Is also expected that efforts Will
be made to develop more uniformity
in legislation passed by the various
state legislatures and to show the ad
vantages of bond issues for road build =
ing and maintenance.
The official program, just announced
President Taft will ne the principal
speaker. Among tho other speakers
on that day will be Governor Mann
of Virginia: DIR. Walter Page, editor
of Worlds Work; w. w. Finley, presi-
dent of the Southern Railway Com
pany; General Coleman Du Pont, who
is presenting to the state of Delaware
n $4,000, 900 boulevard extending across
the state, and Congressman ]. Hamp-
ton Moore, president of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association.
In addition to National Day" there
| Will be ali Engineers and Contrac-
! tors Day Manufacturers Section
Road Users Day" and Association
Day" The Governors of Virginia and
West Virginia have issued procla-
| nation for a Good Roads Week" &c
precede the congress. and the Cover
nors of other States would probably
| do likewise. BY concerted action the
| farmers of the various States viii
| show what can be accomplished ir
actual road building In one week,
| time