New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
TO TALK ABOUT ROADS
National Highway Convention
Will Be Held at Richmond.
PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND
Formation of Organization Fol.
lowed Informal Meeting at
Touring Clubs Rooms.

A national convention in aid Of improved
highways VIII be held at Richmond Va,
BEGINNING on September L. II will be the
first annual congress under the auspices OF
the American Association for Highway Inn
p ovenent. which was organized In WASH
iaston In Novem5er. 1910 to stimulate pub
He interest in the good roads movement
along practical lines. The organization Of
this National Highway Association was rri-
marly due TO tho Informal meeting OF high
way commissioners and automobile officials
held by the Touring club of America soon
after the international Good Roads Con-
eress in Brussels. Tho Touring club
thought that tho time was ripe 10 form a
national association IN America which
would do for the roads Of this country
what the International Road Congress il
able to accomplish abroad. and the success
Of the American Association for Highway
Improvement has justified the wisdom. OF
tho movement
PRESIDENT Taft has been invited To attend
inc coming conference. ard his deep in
tereSt IL the aims Of tho asso,is'icn may
70 seen from thu following letter recently
sent by him 10 Logan Waller Page. direc-
tor CT the United States Office OF Public
ROADS and president OF the American AS
ISOLATION for Highway Improvement:
] ara much interested I'm tho work Of ths
I Amer lean Association for HIghvav Inn
prove ment. and am in fun accord with
rs aims and purposes. I consider the lines
, on which the aSSOcia ton Is working 10 he
thoroughly sound. and with such mon az
you have associated with YOU much should
! he done to better the condition Of public
roads.
This coming convention will mark tho
greatest assenblage in the interest OF road
/ Improvement ever held in the United States.
FARMERS, business men, highway officials.
| railroad men, engineers. automobile users,
manufacturers of read machinery and ma
! terials have signifed their intention to take
| part IN the congress. a number Of auto
/ mobile tours are being arranged. with
Richmond as the objective point. during the
week OF the convention, and trips will be
made to the Virginia capital from New
YORK, Boston. Chicago. Atlanta. New Or
leans. st. Louis and many other places
! one important feature OF the convention
/ VIII be that it will mark what is regarded
as the eliminating effort on the part or
| farmers. railroad mon and motorists work
| ing in harmony with the United States gov
eminent to give this country an adequate
! system CT improved highways. The In
nuence of the association has already been
felt IN this respect through It's affiliated
I organizations. which include: The Ohio
Good Roads Federation. the Capital High
way Association, embracing tho Atlantic
seahoard; the International League for
Highway Improvement. the Arkansas Good
Roads and Drainage Association the New
I To ..,,If b
/ Good Roads Association. Good Roads club
/ Of Georgia. Montana Society % Engineers.
the Southern Appalachian Good Roads As
sociation. tho South Carolina Good Roads
Association. the oregon Association for
, Highway Improvement Indiana Good
Roads Association and the Aroostook
County Good Roads Association Of Maine.
Tie American Association for Highway
Improvement was formed to act as clear
ing house for all existing organizations
working for road Improvement and main
tenance.
Among the organizers and those who are
now preparing the programme for the
! forthcoming congress are. besides President
Page. W. C. Brown. president OF the New
York Central lines: Lee McClung. Treas
urer of the United States Louis W. Hill.
president Of the Great Northern Railroad
Company; W. w. Finley. president OF the
Southern Railway; J. T. Pennybacker, Jr..
secretary of the association; b. +. foakum'
chairman of the Frisco lines: DIR. T.. j.
James. president Of the University oil
Illinois James McCrea, president Oh Tue
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company Bryan
Iathrop. Lincoln Park commission. Chi-
cago: Leonard Tufts. president of the cap
ital Highway Associations: James ;. hariai,
! Interstate Commerce COMMISSIONER anu
Lafayette Young. former United StateS
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