The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-24
ROAD CONGRESS
NEXT SEPTEMBER
Chamber Of Commerce Fixes
Date for Big Highway
Convention.
PRESIDENT TAFT MAY COME
Touring Club Of America Work
ing to Bring 500 Auto
mobile Parties.

Ihoush arrangements thus far are
tative the National Good Roads
congress, under the auspices of the
american Association for Highway I'm
proVement will be held in This city
oeptcmber 1915. inclusive The date
was agreed upon at meeting of the
chamber of Commerce convention COM
ihittee yesterday afternoon It is cx-
pccted that the congress will bring
mere tho largest crowd that ever at
.enucd convention in Richmond.
working along with the Association for
Highway Improvement. the Touring
CLUB OF America is arranging for n
great tour of its members to reach
mere from all parts of the country
an invitation Will be extended Pres
idcnt Taft to be present one night Of
| the convention and make an address
at the City Auditorium The President
is member of the association and has
taken much interest in its work
Machinery Exhibition.
In connection with the congress there
VIII be an exhibition of machinery,
materials and everything pc rtaining TO
the construction of good roads The
plan is TO secure the use OF the State
Fair Building, where there is room for
me exhibition and also for demonstra-
tons and tests. Sections of tho roads
leading into the grounds will be treat
cd with the various processes, so that
those driving to the grounds may be
able to Judge them in the most practi-
cal way
Secretary Frederick E. Elliott, of the
Touring Club of America, who was here
yesterday will arrange for the last day
OF the congress to be taken UP in part
with a discussion OF road laws, for
tourists. In tho effort TO have those of
different States conform. thus doing
away with the annoyances that contin-
ually confront automobiles passing
from one State to another.
Secretary j. E. Pennybacker, Jr., of
the American Association for Highway
Improvement, explained to the conven
ton committee the purposes of the as
sociation and its method OF organiza-
ton 1t is not designed TO supplant
any other legitimate organization or to
interfere with it's policies and activi-
ties. but to aid in working to COM
mon end 1t therefore includes asso-
Citations for the Improvement of roads
in nearly every State in the Union.
TO Come In Motor Cars.
Some OF the well-known associations
to be represented are the Southern APP
palachian Good Roads Association. DR..
Joseph Hyde Pratt, president; Capital
| Highway Association, Leonard Tufts.
president; Gulf Coast Good Roads AS
ISOLATION, John w. Gates, president;
| New Santa Fe Trail Association. r. Fl.
/ FaXofi. president; international League
for Highway Improvement. John A.
Stewart president. and numerous
State associations.
With Richmond as the centre, Mr..
Elliott Is arranging tours for his club.
passing through the larger cities, where
there Will be entertainments and where
the numbers Will be augmented. His
favorite scheme Will depend on the
| road from here TO Washington. The
plan is to have tourists from the North.
| East and West con-regate at the ma
tional capital and DIVE en- masse to the
! congress. OF course, none of these
plans Is now in definite shape, but Mr..
Elliott Is confident that there will be
| at least 500 cars in the tour.
| The local associations and the Cham
Der of Commerce Will arrange for the
| necessary buildings. parking facilities
| and entertainment features.