Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-24
START To RICHMOND
Auto Officials Off on Road In
spection Tour.
Mr.. SHERMAN GIVES WORD
Vice President, as Honorary Chair
man, Sends Of Cars.
FIRST AFFAIR OF IT'S KIND
Run Preliminary to Big Convention
at Virginia Capital Late
in October.
Mr.. SHERMAN GIVES WORD
FIRST AFFAIR OF ITS KIND

Three automobiles, containing officials Of
the American Association for Highway
Improvement. the Touring Club Of Ameri-
ca, representatives of the Office of public
roads, Department of Agriculture, and
the automobile editors of the Wash
ington newspapers were sent off at 10
o'clock this morning from the local
branch of the Touring Club Of America
at the Colorado building, by Vice Presi-
dent James S. Sherman, who is honorary
chairman of the southeastern branch of
the Touring Club. on a road inspection
tour from Washington, D. c.. to Rich
mond, Va.
This is the first tour ever held in this
country having FOR its direct object road
improvement methods in which an auto
mobile organization has had the active
aid of the government and state officials.
The route selected for the two-day run
is the final link In the popular line of
travel from New York, through Washing
ton and continuing through to the capt.
tai of Virginia. The road touring party
has received invitations from the various
civic organizations and boards of trade
along the route to make careful inspec-
ton of the local. road conditions, and
special request has been sent from the
News that the trip be extended from
Richmond to that place. The object of
the trip is to study highway conditions
between Washington and Richmond, and
secure data toward necessary road i'm
provement.
Reach Richmond Tomorrow Evening
According to present plans the party
expect to reach Richmond Tuesday even
In ref,1 rirc To UroS or Cd do
night over the road.
The county commissioners along the
route have been requested by P st.
Julian Wilson, state highway commits
sioner Of Virginia, who accompanied the
party. to be present at the scheduled time
in the various towns as the cars pass
through. Speeches will be made by the
are made in the towns en- route. the stops
to cover not more than an hour at each
place.
The schedule is as follows:
Monday-Leave Washington 10 am.
Arrive Fairfax II am. Arrive Middle
burg 2 pm. Arrive Warrenton $3.50 pm.
Arrive Culpeper pm.
Tuesday-Arrive Orange 8 am. Arrive
Gordonsville 1920 am. Arrive Louisa II
m. Arrive Richmond 4 pm.
First American Road Congress.
gress will be held in Richmond, Va. Oc-
tober 80. and 81 and November l. It is
planned to make this convention the
biggest affair of its kind ever held in
this country, and for that reason it Is
expected that the towns along the route
will have constructed a frst-class road
way between Washington and the south
ern capital by that time. About 500 au-
tomobiles are expected to gather in WASH
ington from all points. north, east and
west, and at a given time start for Rich
mond to attend the convention. The big
caravan will be represented not only by
members of the American Association
for Highway Improvement, but all OF the
allied road associations throughout the
country. The Ohio Good Roads Fedora
ton has recently Joined the American
Highway Association, which Is now rec
ognized as the clearing house for the
road improvement in America. The as
ISOLATION in Washington is to the United
States what the International Road Con-
gress is to the world. The big tour In
the fall is to be part OF the convention
ceremonies. and is but one OF the big
engineers from all over the country will
have a separate day for addresses, and
Harold Parker. chairman OF the state
highway commission Of Massachusetts,,
will preside over the meeting.
Road in Good Condition.
Lee r. Folger of Richmond. Va. rolled
in yesterday afternoon in his Packard
This car will carry the government engi-
neers on the run. Mr.. Folger reported
that the road was in excellent condition.
In Velie 40. to be driven by Charles
E. Miller, Harry E. Duckstien of the
Post. S. S. Grogan Of the Herald and F.
H. Elliott, secretary of the Touring Club
of America, will make the trip to Rich
mond In Buick. with r. H. Martin at
the wheel, will be Howard Fisk Of The
Star, j. E. Pennybacker and Paul D.
Sargent In Packard, with Lee F. Fol-
ger at the wheel, will be P. st. Julian
Wilson. Col. Henry McNeir and Harry
Ward Of the Times.
The party will be met outside of Rich
mond and escorted into the city by men,
bers of the Richmond Automobile Club.
The motorists will go over the middle
route to the southern capital, passing
through Annandale, Fairfax. Aide. Mid
dleburg Plains, Warrenton, Culpeper.
Orange, Gordonsville. Louisa, Cuckoo and
Montpelier.
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