The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-01
GOOD ROADS TRAIN
To Be IN RALEIGH
Exhibition Here at Two
O'clock Wednesday
Afternoon
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED

Southern halfway INodO Improvement
Train is Stimulating Interest in
Good Roads and With the Free Lee
lures and Demonstrations is Giving
Practical Aid IN Showing the Value
Of Good Roads and the Best Plans
Ey Which These May Be Con-
structed.
The special Road Improvement
Train being operated over the South
bv the Southern Railway and affiliated
zines in cooperation with The Uunied
States Office of Public Roads for the
advancement Of the movement for
better wagon roads, will be IN Raleigh
fer an exhibition on Wednesday, Aug
ust 2, at Z p. M. :
The train, which is a novel advo-
cate for good roads, started out on it's
lOng tour at Mobile May /, and has
been given a remarkable reception in
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and
points in north Georgia as we'll as in
North Carolina, Where the interest in
the movement is very high.
1t is the Of the Southern
Railway in conducting this train not
why " give II l ~ LIZ Soou odd
movement, but also to give practical
information to county road officials
and TO farmers as to the best and
most economical methods OF on
struCting good roads and keeping
them in repair with the materials to
be found in the various communities.
Lectures and Demonstrations.
Free lectures and demonstrations
as to the importance Of good roads
nsf lrr - 1911 $50 ~>e
them in repair will be conducted by
Messrs. L. E. Boykin and H. S. Fair
banks, superintendent of road con-
structiOn Of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, who are quail
he'd from wide experience to give the
most valuable instruction. w. j. Hurl-
but, representative of the Land and
industrial Department of the South
ern Railway, accompanies the train to
lend assistance in the work of spread
ing the gospel of good roads.
The train consists of three coaches,
two being equipped for demonstration
and the third for the accOmmOdG ton
OF the experts in charge. One car is
Ttted up as a lecture room and is
provided With a stereOpticon, slides
and screen, arranged SO as to be in
full view Of the seats. The second car
IS filled with exhibits, pictures, and
Working models.
Aside from its educational interest
the train will be an attraction to peo-
pie who are not actively Interested in
such movements, drawing them by
reason OF the novel exhibit and prob
ably sending them away with a
knowledge hat after all the good
reads problem is one that concerns
each individual, no matter in what
walk of life. ,
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De open to the public cannot fail to
interest the people of Raleigh. The
.ereoptlcOn views which will be
hnoWn in the lecture coach point out
All the advantages OF good roads and
some of the disadvantages Of bad
ones. There is shown for instance the
manner in which doctors are caught
III the ruts Of bad roads While on their
way TO patients; undertakers' wagons
"tldyed on the way to cemeteries;
a~utomobilists thrown on the road by
pouIders lying in the way.
How Bad Roads Are Costly. !
A view appealing especially to far
iheFs and all interested in the cotton
lh"uStry is that showing two loads Of
Notton, one from a bad roads territory
""o the other from a good roads ter
Ivory, the difference in the weights
~ me two loads showing the profits
Il losses that come from good and
bad roads.
IN the second car, which will be
lnlo"n open following the illustrated
totufes, are enlarged photographs
sno"lng some of the finest roads in
,1e world, including the we'll nigh
peIlect roads Of France. These photo
esaphs illustrate nearly every phase
= ne good roads movement. For the
i"llhers and experts there are work
ns models in this car showing ma
wa al"is mat make the best roads, the
hwy d Doggy road can be improved
@aam and other hard roads are built.
b ' practical suggestions which will
yiai peneht in the case Of each indi-
0'ah The miniature road machin-